Shaw Foundation Alumni House, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Organizer
Center for Language Studies (CLS), National University of Singapore, Singapore
Theme
Media in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning
Sub-themes
* Media Theories and Pedagogy
* Typology of Educational Media
* “Traditional” vs “New” Media
* Media in Curriculum and Materials Development
* Managing Media in the Language Classroom
* Electronic Media and Multimedia in Language Learning
* The Internet and Computer-Mediated Communication in Language Learning
* Mass Media as Language Learning Content
* Media and Language Assessment
* Role of Media in Second Language Acquisition
* Language as a Medium of Communication and Instruction
Keynote speakers
* Erwin Tschirner, applied linguistics, University of Leipzig, Germany (YouTube in the Classroom: Video Clips, Input Processing, Culture Learning)
* Amy Tsui, professor of language and education, University of Hong Kong, China (EFL Classroom Discourse as a Re-Mediating Semiotic Resource for EFL Learning)
* Cornelius Kubler, professor of Asian studies, Williams College, US (Promises and Perils of Educational Technology in Curriculum and Materials Development)
Posters
* Investigating Lexical Relatedness in EFL Learners' Mental Lexicon: Focusing on the Syntactic Features of English Verbs
* Use of Films in E-Learning: Minimizing the Gap between the Artificial and the Real World
* Designing Documents to Enhance Learner Experience
Registration fee
SGD480 (about $324)
Contact
Tel: (65) 6516 5001
E-mail: esea2008@nie.edu.sg
For more information, go to www.fas.nus.edu.sg/cls/clasic2008
