The 1st Waseda International Workshop
■ 1st Waseda ELF International Workshop
■ 30th August 2011 Special Lectures
Venue:Room 201, Building 22, Waseda Campus Map
14:30-16:00 Professor Barbara Seidlhofer, University of Vienna
ELF(Enlish as a Lingua Franca): New Perspectives on English
16:00-17:30 Professor Henry Widdowson, University of Vienna, University of London
Creative capacity: rethinking subject English
■ 31st August 2011 1st Waseda ELF International Workshop
Venue:Room 107, Building 16, Waseda University Map
Programme
1) 13:30 Opening & Introduction Kumiko Murata
2) 13:40 - 15:55 ELF Research in Progress
― Incorporating an ELF Perspective in the Existing Research ―
13:40 - 15:20 Individual Paper Presentations
Mayu Konakahara
'A preliminary study of ELF interaction:Analysis of an informal talk in a British higher education context'
Takuji Aso
'English-medium university education as discursive practice:
A practice-based perspective on SLA with implications for ELF'
Keiko Sato
'Acquisition of English pronunciation in an ELF setting'
Kaori Doi
'Conversation Styles in ELF Interaction: How ELF speakers communicate for successful communication'
Keiko Tsuchiya
'Not 'letting it pass' in an ELF business conversation in a South Asian country:A time-aligned corpus based approach '
15:20 Comments on the individual presentations
Commentators - Profs Seidlhofer & Widdowson
15: 35 Questions & Answers
15:55 - 16:15 Coffee/ Tea Break
3) 16:15 - 18:45 Panel―(Re)Interpreting Data from an ELF Perspective―
16:15 Murata Kumiko Introduction
16:20 Special Panel Contribution
Prof. Ryuko Kubota, University of British Columbia
'Questioning the assumption about English: ELF, English language teaching, and beyond'
16:50 Harada, Tetsuo 'ELF in CLIL'
17:10 Backhaus Peter 'Traces of ELF in Japan's linguistic landscape'
17:30 Sawaki Yasuyo 'Issues of consideration on developing ELF assessment criteria'
17:50 Discussants Profs. Barbara Seidlhofer & Henry Widdowson
18:10 Questions & Answers
4) 18:35 Round-up Kumiko Murata