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2009                2009   Featured Speaker International Conference on English   Language Teaching. Paper ‘New literacy’s cut and paste and how teachers can assist creativity’

             Workshop ‘Sending the message: simplifying d elaborating spoken and written text for classroom use’ Malacca November 10-12.  Symposium Participant November  13-14

 

             Presenter RELC 44th International Seminar April 20-22 Paper.' Lets Facebook it: Teachers losing the literacy battle as games gain.’

                                           

 

2008       Featured Speaker & Symposium participant MICELT 3rd International Conference on English Language Materials. Paper ‘Creative teacher in- service training: Rural research and everyday needs.

               Workshop “Managing lesson plans for best practices: questioning ourselves to stretch learner limits”.  Malacca Malaysia October 14-17

                Opening Forum Panel Speaker ‘Developments in the Pedagogy of International Languages:

               A gateway for practitioners. ’ IPBA Conference Kuala    Lumpur June 2-4

 

                           

 

2007     Presenter Asia TEFL 4th International Conference Paper ’Deconstructing reliance on ‘native speakerism’: a rural Kiwi empowering reflection.  Kuala Lumpur Malaysia June 8- 10

 

               Presenter RELC 42nd International Seminar Paper 'Exploring our teaching practices   through self questioning -during and after classroom interaction.' Singapore April 23-25

 

Workshop British Council Teachers Club Penang ‘Pairing up for talk getting groups going in large classes’ Penang Malaysia March 24

 

 

2006     Presenter RELC 41st International Seminar Paper 'In service or in servitude of native speaker myths: dilemmas of internationalizing pedagogy.'  April 24-26 Singapore

 

Invited Speaker MICELT Biennial Conference  Workshop’ In quest of effective teacher questioning: mirroring language acquisition.’  Malacca, Malaysia May 8-10

 

2005       Invited participant National Teacher Education Division/ELTC Colloquium on Developing Pedagogy Standards for English language Teaching in Malaysia Melaka September 26-28   Genting December 6-8   Kuala Lumpur  Jan 13-16 2006

 

Presenter Teachers Education Division/English Language Teaching Centre EteMS Conference `Fostering Schools That Learn.’ Workshop `Pair Work and Talking Maths in Action’ Subang Jaya, Malaysia  Nov 22-24

 

Presenter  Malaysian English Language Teachers Association  Conference Paper `Culturing Motivation for Language Learning within Oneself and Classrooms’ Subang Jaya, Malaysia  May 30-June 1

 

Invited Speaker MICELT 1st International Conference on English Language Materials

Paper `Turning textual terror into listening skill leaps: from the material to motivation.’ Melaka Malaysia April 28-29

 

Presenter RELC 40th International Seminar  Paper `Linking listening and spoken grammar to alleviating classroom literary lethargy.’ Singapore April 19-21

 

               Presenter IATEFL Annual Conference Paper ‘Motivating and Organising Rural Teacher   Empowerment’  Cardiff, Wales April 8

 

2004            Plenary speaker MICELT Second Regional Conference on Creative Writing and Literature. `Listening as a needed skill in understanding literature: The Cinderella Skill.’ Malacca Malaysia Oct 24

 

Invited presenter SEAMEO UNESCO Education Congress Paper `Beyond the roles of dispensing English Language teaching: creating interactive rural learning’ Bangkok May 27-29

 Plenary speaker MICELT Biennial Conference `Avoiding Motivation Alienation: Ama and Cigku’s Moves for Classroom Change’ Malacca , Malaysia May 10-12

 

Presenter RELC 39th International Seminar Workshop `Net Gain for Clear Communication- Effective Writing for E Mail’ Singapore April 19-21

 

2003         Co-Presenter RELC 38th International Seminar with Anita Dodson

                Paper `Evaluating Perceived Needs : An Analysis of Rural Malaysian Teaching Singapore November 3-5

 

               Presenter Sixth International Conference on Language and Development

                "Oh teacher oh source, ignore not the learner resource’ Tashkent, Uzbekistan October  17-19.

                       

               Presenter Malaysian English Language Teachers Association Conference Subang Jaya, Malaysia  May 18-20

                Paper `Surveying Progressive English Language Teaching and Creating Progressive English Language Teaching.”

 

                Invited Speaker; Post Graduate seminar series Assumption University Bangkok March 21 `Developing Cross- Cultural Awareness in Service English.’

                       

2002         Presenter Institut Perguruan Bahasa- Bahasa Antarabangsa Conference English Language and Development for Equity in the 21^st Century

                 Kuala Lumpur 24-26 September Paper

             `Building the Dynamics of Equity in an English Language Classroom.’

 

              Presenter MICELT Biennial Conference May 7-9 Seremban, Malaysia

              Workshop `English may be international mis-communication: a cultured view of hospitable English’.

 

                 Presenter. RELC 37th International Seminar, Singapore April 23-25. Paper `English is our Business Across Cultures.’

 

2001          Corporate training –telephone and speaking skills: HBO Asia, Visa International

 

                  Presenter. RELC 36^th  International Seminar, Singapore April 23-25.

                  Speaking Grammatically… Grammatically Speaking.’

 

 

2000        Presenter MICELT Biennial Conference May 15-17 Malacca, Malaysia

              `School ha, Gula or Hula? Steps towards accurate tourism English.’

 

              Plenary Discussant Singapore Teachers Union / Singapore Association of Applied Linguistics  Singapore May 26-27  `The Teaching and Use of Standard English’

 

              Workshop presenter. RELC 35th International Seminar, Singapore April 15-17

              `English for Specific purposes can be as culturally loaded as yoghurt.’

 

             Presenter 20^th Annual Thai TESOL Conference, Kong Khaen January 20-22

                 Walk the Talk –Integrating segments of sound and fluency’.

             Workshop -`The tourist lands in the breach: facing the tasks of English and international tourism.’

 

  1999       Workshop Presenter MELTA, Kuala Lumpur May 17-19

               Taking the Elevator - Tasks for more than Tourism’

 

1998         Presenter CLESOL, Palmerston North, New Zealand Sept 23-26

                 `The Practicalities of Implementing Greater Learner Autonomy’

                

Presenter MICELT, Penang May 18-20 Tourism: Text, Topics and Needs: A Case Study of Selected Thai Materials’                  

 

  1997         7^th International Conference on Thinking , Suntec City Singapore

                  3 June Paper `Teacher Thinking in Language Learning Strategies’

 

                  Workshop RELC  32^nd International Seminar, Singapore 21-24 April

`                 Multi-tasking Listening Activities’

                   

                  Presenter TESOL 31^st Annual Convention, Orlando Florida

                  March 13 `Integrating Pronunciation for Fluency  in Presentation Skills’

 

 

     1996     Presenter International Language in Education Conference University of Hong Kong, December 17 Output in Pairwork Tasks: Researching Talk and  Vocabulary Learning’

 

                Temasek Polytechnic EDR, 19 October `An Introduction to Using Group Activities in Tutorials and Lectures: Co-operative Learning’

 

                  Guest speaker Malaysian International Conference for English Language Teaching, Penang 20-23 May "Building Up to a Notable Speech: Presenting and Note taking.’

 

  Presenter Temasek Polytechnic Education Fair  Singapore  28- 29 June `Specifics and Tasks in English Language Teaching.’

   Course design Specialist Diploma in Editing and Publishing

 

 

1995        Language and Engineering Seminar, Temasek Polytechnic 10 Nov  `Engineering Meaning: Needs, Skills and the Specifics of Acquiring Language’

 

                Presenter  Chulalongkorn University Language Institute International Conference, Bangkok 27-29 Nov  `I'd like to present but how are you going to score me.’

                  Public Speaking - Two Day Intensive RELC-LTI

                 JWOS -SAFTI Course for 90 Junior Warrant Officers. 12-13 June

 

                Presenter Malaysian English Language Teachers Association Biennial Conference, Kuala Lumpur 22-24 May. Paper `Spoken English Skills for Specific Contexts.’

               Seminar -Workshop `A Framework for Developing Language Fluency’ for University of San Carlos Graduate School, Cebu, Philippines. 12 May

 

                Seminar- Workshop on `Teaching and Learning Strategies in `English Towards the Third Millennium’ 15-17 May    Davao City, Philippines University of Southeastern Philippines and DECS Region 11.

 

                Co-Presenter with Issy Yuliasri `Crossing Into EFL Culture: Teacher Development Though Learner Talk.’ RELC 33rd Regional Seminar `Language, Culture and Literature in Language Learning’ Singapore 17-19 April

                

 1994       `Pronunciation in Presentation Speaking Contexts’

                Workshop at STETS Seminar Workshop `Teaching    Spoken English: Should Our Students Sound Like Us.’ Singapore NIE  30 Nov- Dec 1

                `Effective Listening Tasks for Development.’ 

 

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