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The Fourth International Conference on Language and Development

 

Contents

CONTENTS

 

A note on the proceedings

Aims and context

Acknowledgements

Previous conferences

Contributors

THE PAPERS

Language and Development

Alastair Pennycook
Development, culture and language: ethical concerns in a postcolonial world

Stephen Lim,  Anna Strutt, Basheba Beckmann and John Askwith
Teaching at the Mekong Institute: applying the AIM approach

Do Huy Thinh
Foreign language education policy in Vietnam: the emergence of English and its impact on higher education

James Tollefson
Language ideology and language education

Harvey Smith
Language, education and development

 

Project management

Hywel Coleman and Cyril Edirisinghe
Centres and peripheries: regional variation in children's competence in English in Sri Lanka

Martin Lamb and Syahrial
The "socializing" of a new university language centre in Indonesia

Richmond Stroupe, Saykham Thammanosouth and Yap Kioe Sheng
Integrating language with an institutional strengthening project in Lao PDR

Duong thi Nu
Forms of address in formal meetings in education development projects in Vietnam

Clyde Fowle
Stakeholder evaluation: giving everyone a voice in the feedback process

Jeremy Jones
Language learning, technology and development: the essential interaction between teachers and students

Nguyen Be and David Crabbe
The design and use of English language textbooks in Vietnamese
secondary schools

Tom Hunter
How much context is enough?

Psyche Kennett
Partnerships and the supermarket approach to project management

David Hayes
English language education, projects and power

 

Educational approaches

Pham Hoa Hiep
The key socio-cultural factors that work against success in tertiary English language training programs in Vietnam

Diane Larsen-Freeman
On the appropriateness of language teaching methods in language and development

Le Van Canh
Language and Vietnamese pedagogical contexts

Le Thanh Hoang
Research into language learning strategies of different groups of learners in Hue City

Shawn Golinowski and Robert Raab
Language learning at a distance: implications for trainers and learners - An IRRI Case Study

Gail Parr and Adrian Kelly
Developing information skills in adult EFL learners: the curriculum, the resource centre and the computer

Marion Myhill, Le Thao and Le Quynh
Development of Internet TESOL courseware

Guy Kellogg
Students’ reactions to reading electronic v. printed documents

Duong Thi Hoang Oanh
Child Language Acquisition and Adult Language Acquisition

Nguyen thi Thanh Ha and Vu thi Phuong Anh
Is there communicative language testing at the University of Economics?

 

Teacher education

Jane Jackson
Documenting the realities of local teaching practice: ensuring relevancy in teacher education programs

Fiona McCook
Dan Dan: responses to INSET from the Binh Dinh English language classroom

James Perren
Lifelong learning, reflective practice, and teacher development 

Nguyen Thai Ha and Martyn Brogan
The three R's of teacher training in Vietnam: revising, reviving and researching

Jackie Dyer and Nguyen thi Bong
Teachers as insiders: approaches to school-based mentor training

Angela Rogers
Training language teachers for development

 

Local languages and literacy

Yasuko Nagai
Vernacular education and development: dilemmas, struggles and innovations in Papua New Guinea

Thomas Perry and Jerold Edmondson
Complex language ecologies and effective language education

 

Facilitating change

Diana Lubelska and Lutfalla Turaev
Building capacity for educational reform

Nguyen Thu Huong
Some reflections on the introduction and application of the communicative approach in the process of developing the English language teaching on the Mekong Delta

Kao Sophal, Som Sophara and Chhun Sovanne
Teacher training in difficult circumstances

Liz Hunt
Perception and Change: the public relations approach

Alison Spice
Best practice in pre-departure training

Pham Van Hoa and Leigh Faulkner
Exploring change: a case study

 

Cross-cultural issues in language and development

Tran Hong Hanh
A retrospective study of the challenges for Vietnamese students living and studying in their first year in Australia

Nguyen Hanh
Application essays written by Vietnamese and American students: a contrastive genre-analysis

Karin Hawkins
The Hero’s journey: a practical approach to the understanding of human consciousness through myth, archetype and drama

 

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