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Prof Patricia Duff
University of British Columbia
Canada

Patricia Duff is Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia. Her areas of interest include language socialization in multilingual settings, issues in the teaching and learning of English and other international languages, integration of ESL students in high school, university, and society and sociocultural and sociopolitical aspects of language(s) in education. She has just published two new books: Case Study Research in Applied Linguistics (Erlbaum/Taylor & Francis), and Language Socialization (Vol. 8, Encyclopedia of Language and Education, co-edited by Nancy Hornberger, Springer).

Speech Title: New Directions in Research on Classroom Interaction
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Prof Oryang Kwon
Seoul National University
Korea

Oryang Kwon is the chair of the Department of English Education, Seoul National University, and the director of the university’s Foreign Language Education Research Institute. His interest areas are language education policies and testing. He received his Ph. D degree in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) from the University of Texas at Austin. His teaching career includes two years in a middle school and 30 years in universities. He developed English textbooks and participated in developing the 6th and 7th national curricula of English education in Korea. He served as the president of Korea TESOL (1995-1996), the Korea Association of Teachers of English (KATE) (2002-2004), and the Korea English Language Testing Association (KELTA) (2000-2007). He has been and is on several advisory committees for the Ministry of Education and Human Resources, including the Committee for the Improvement of English Education, the Committee for the Korean College Scholastic Ability Test, and the Committee for the Innovation of English Language Teaching. He is on the editorial board of Language Testing, the international journal of ILTA.

Speech Title: Classroom Instruction and Assessment in an EFL Context: A Compromise between Theory and Practice
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Prof Amy B M Tsui
University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Amy B M Tsui is Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Chair Professor in the Faculty of Education of The University of Hong Kong. She has published widely in the areas of discourse analysis, language policy, classroom discourse and teacher education. She serves on the Advisory and Editorial Boards of a number of international refereed journals. Her most recent publications include Understanding Expertise in Teaching: Case studies of ESL Teachers , (2003, Cambridge University Press); Medium of Instruction Policies: Whose Agenda? Which Agenda? (2004), Culture and Identity in Asian Contexts (2007), both published by LEA and co-edited with James Tollefson, Classroom Discourse and the Space of Learning, (2004, LEA, co-authored with Ference Marton), Learning in Communities of Practice in School-University Partnership (forthcoming, LEA, co-authored with Gwyn Edwards and Francis Lopez-Real).

Speech Title: Boundary-Crossing in Classroom Discourse Research
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