Event

　　Thailand TESOL/Pan-Asian Consortium International Conference: 2007

　　Dates

　　January 26 to 28, 2007

　　Venue

　　Bangkok, Thailand

　　Theme

　　Beyond Boundaries: Teaching English for Global Communication in Asia

　　Objectives

　　*To discuss the relationship between culture and English as a global language;

　　*To help learners develop language proficiency by making appropriate curriculum and syllabus designs;

　　*To bring models or standards of language to learning contexts

　　Participants

　　*ELT professionals from the many Asian countries in which English as a global language is significant, including Thailand, Japan, China, Korea, Far-Eastern Russia, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines;

　　*ELT professionals from many other parts of the globe to make this a truly global forum

　　Keynote speaker

　　Jun Liu, President of TESOL

　　Plenary and featured speakers

　　*Frederika Stoller, Associate Professor, English Department, Northern Arizona University, US;

　　*Dr Annamaria Pinter, the Centre for English Language Teacher Education, the University of Warwick, UK;

　　*Arunee Wiriyachitra, coordinator of the English language skills team for English majors at the Faculty of Humanities at Chiang Mai University, Thailand;

　　*Patrick Hafenstein,a veteran ELT teacher for 10 years in both Australia and Taiwan;

　　*Jerry G. Gebhard,director of Doctoral Studies in Composition & TESOL at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, US

　　Background Information

　　In 2007, the Pan-Asian Consortium of English Language Teaching Organizations (PAC) will hold its 6th international conference. The conference will be hosted by Thailand TESOL in Bangkok where, ten years earlier, PAC was inaugurated.

　　Since 1997, the consortium has continued to grow, and it is on the verge of becoming an even more significant group of ELT organizations with the addition of more new partners.

　　For more information, please visit www.conf2007.thaitesol.org/.