The goals of Asia TEFL are to promote scholarship, disseminate information, and facilitate cross-cultural understanding among persons concerned with the teaching and learning of English in Asia.
Organizer
The Asia TEFL International Conference Committee
Plenary and featured speakers
*Wen Qiufang, Professor of applied linguistics, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China
*Alastair Pennycook, Professor of linguistics, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
*Lee Wong-key, Professor of linguistics, Seoul National University of Education, Korea
Content areas
*Culture Awareness in the Classroom
*Language Acquisition
*TEFL Theory and Methodology
*Education Policy
*Curriculum/Materials Development
*International/Intercultural Communication
*Multimedia-Assisted Language Teaching
*CALL and Its Role in the Classroom
*Testing and Evaluation
*Curriculum Design
*Materials Writing and Design
*Music, Art, and Literature in the Classroom
Organizer information
The organizing committee of Asia TEFL was formally formed on December 6, 2002. It is a non-profit international organization, headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
So far, the Asia TEFL family has grown to more than 5,000 members from 34 different Asian countries and regions and 16 in the rest of the world. Asia TEFL has already organized three impressive and successful conferences, respectively in Seoul, Busan and Beijing, and published five issues of its Journal, The Journal of Asia TEFL.
For more information, please visit www.asiatefl.org.
