12th English in South-East Asia Conference (12th ESEA)
"Trends and Directions"Dec 12, 2007 - Dec 14, 2007
School of Liberal Arts, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi Bangkok, Bangkok Thailand
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Highlights
The conference seeks to explore issues surrounding the roles and functions of English within the region of South-East Asia due to the ever-increasing demand to compete in global economics, educational and social events which require learners to be able to function at a more global level.
The issues addressed at the conference are:
- SE Asian varieties of English
- The role of English in education
- English in occupational genres
- English in the new technologies
- Language and culture
- Critical approaches in analysing English
- Lifelong learning of English
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Event Profiles
- Speakers: Vijay Bhatia (City University of Hong Kong),Teun van Dijk (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain), Patricia Duff (University of British Columbia), Edwin Thumboo (former SEA writer award winner)
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- Tag: english language linguistic
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