ILAC 2009 - Programme Schedule

Themes:   Assessment in self-directed learning E-learning initiatives   Autonomy and teacher education Learner and teacher experiences   Autonomy in the classroom Managing independent learning centres   Developing life-long learners Self-directed and self-access learning

Paper presentations and workshops:

Day 1, Wednesday, 3 June 2009

Registration starts outside TU201 between 8:30 - 10:30; in Y podium after 11:30.

Time	TU201	A302	Y301	Y302	Y303	Y304	Y305	Y306	Y402	Y403	Y408
09:45 - 10:20	Opening
10:30 - 11:30	Keynote 1 David Little - Learner autonomy, self-assessment and language tests: Towards a new assessment culture
12:00 - 12:40			Lucy Cooker - The assessment of learner autonomy: Where is the autonomy?	Chuk Joanne Yim Ping - A theoretical model of student-teachers' autonomous development	John Milton - Our Words or their Words? Soothing the Hoarse and Giving Voice to the Voiceless	Janchai Wongphothisarn - "One is one's own refuge": Learner Autonomy in Thai context	Damian J Rivers - From knowing and remembering to analyzing and researching	Chiu-Yueh Lai - An Innovative English e-Learning Program	Hebe Mei Ha Wong - Enhancing self-access learning in an on-line editing programme	Christine O'Leary - Developing a pedagogy for autonomy in partnership with learners
12:40 - 14:20	Lunch
Time	TU201	A302	Y301	Y302	Y303	Y304	Y305	Y306	Y402	Y403	Y408
14:20 - 15:00		Hebe Mei Ha Wong, Crusher Wong - A Bank with ever-growing return		Irina E. Averianova - Attention: Electronic Discourse!			Garold Murray - Language, Learning, Life: Mature Learners' Stories	Heath Rose - An investigation of student use of the English-only speaking area			Jodie Stephenson Sakaguchi - Reflection: What? Why? How?
15:20 - 16:00			James C Chan - Optimizing Learning Achievement in Virtual Worlds	Supyan B. Hussin - Designing web-based language learning: A 'must' in teacher education?	Susan Anderson - Building bridges to a cross-cultural business world	Jane Louise Kehrwald - A Social- Ecological Exploration of Learner Beliefs: Toward Learner Autonomy	Stella Hurd - Investigating emotion in independent language learning: Issues and research methods	Sarah Toogood, Peter Voller - Bamboo Scaffolding and Rigging: Approaches to support language learner autonomy	Tony Cripps - Building the ARC: Creating an Autonomy Resource Center	Junya Hirano, Tomoko Matsumoto - From Passive Autonomy to Active Autonomy: A Case Study in Japan
16:20 - 17:00			Jean Young, Christoph Alexander Hafner - Reflection assessed: Supporting a process or modeling a product?	Barbara Sinclair - Autonomy and autonomies in TESOL Teacher Education: Fantasy and reality	Joseph Falout - Development of life-long motivation			Heyoung Kim, Keum Sun Kim - Are Korean students ready for self-directed L2 learning?
17:20 - 18:00			Invited 1 Philip Benson - Language learning and autonomy in the age of 'new literacies'	Heath Rose - Reconceptualizing Strategic Learning: Throwing Learning Strategies out with the Bathwater		Chiharu Nakanishi - How Important is it to be Autonomous Learner?: The Case Study of Japanese EFL Teachers' Methods of Learning English in Their School Days		Tanya McCarthy - Achieving your G.O.A.L.	Alice N Lee - E-learning Affordances: A practical example from an EFL university classroom

Welcome party starts at 18:30 in Staff Club.

Day 2, Thursday, 4 June 2009

Registration starts at 9:00 in Y podium.

Time	ST111	Y301	Y302	Y303	Y304	Y305	Y306	Y402	Y403	Y408
09:30 - 10:30	Keynote 2 Claire Ellen Weinstein - Strategic and self-regulated learning for the 21st Century: The merging of skill, will and self-regulation
11:00 - 11:40		Hsueh Chu Chen - The Assessment of On-line Pronunciation Tutoring Programs on Stress Acquisition		Suparuthai Sumonwiriya - Out-of-Class Language Learning of Thai Students in Different Context	Jodie Stephenson Sakaguchi - Autonomous Learning Journals	KWAN Siu Fong, Anna - Helping pre-service teachers to be independent learners	Jo Mynard - Benefits and challenges of computer-based resources for self-access	Damian J Rivers - The borderless classroom : QR codes and mobile tagging
12:00 - 12:40		Huibin Zheng - Evaluating ESL independent learning resources in a Chinese university		Sripathum Noom-ura - Can a Self Access Learning Center Really Help Language Learners?	Sara Cotterall - Border Crossings: Identity and Learner Autonomy in an Australian University	Alice Chik - Exploring spaces of learning through language learning histories	E. Desiree Castillo Zaragoza - Building plurilingualism: Mexican learners in a self-access center
12:40 - 14:20	Lunch
Time	ST111	Y301	Y302	Y303	Y304	Y305	Y306	Y402	Y403	Y408
14:20 - 15:00		Midori Sasaki, Gerald Williams, Jonathan Aliponga - Activities at the Self-Access Center Connected to the Curriculum		Izumi Kanzaka - Publishing worldwide: Developing presentation skills in English	Xiaoli Jiang - Autonomy in a high-stakes exam context: Perceptions and implications	Ulrike Bavendiek - Motivation and Independence: The Case of First-Year University Language Students	Yukiko Ishikawa, Daniel H. Sasaki - What is the Role of an Advisor for Independent Learning?	Juliana Chau - ePortfolios for independent language learning: Episodic innovation or lasting reform?	Lee Atkinson - Promoting dialogue, reflection and learner responsibility in the classroom	Xuesong Gao - Chinese netizens debating the best ways to learn English in China
15:20 - 16:00		Nan Nan Zou - Deficiencies of Multi-media Resources in Independent Learning Centres and Countermeasures	Peter Collins, Hiroko Suzuki - Teacher perspective shifts on learner autonomy: An analysis		Shu-Hua Kao - Developing Learner Autonomy through Peer Teaching Experiences	Christina Wielgolawski - On the road to SDL: A language coaching case study	Ann Mayeda, Yoshiyuki Fujisawa, Michihiko Komori - Low Proficiency, High Proficiency Students and the Role of Self-access	Dean Fisher - Integrating ePortfolios into English Language Courses to Support Independent Learning	Mehmet Boyno - Promoting Learner Autonomy: Influence Of Some Parental And Personal Factors
16:20 - 17:00		Invited 2 Cynthia White - Inside independent learning: Old and new perspectives		Fiona Henderson - Academic Literacy: Modelling and empowering students for independent learning					Zexuan Chen - The Effects of Self-access Language Centres on Independent Learning
17:20 - 18:00				Eva Lui - Developing responsible language learners by providing learner-friendly diagnostic guidance		C Craig Bartlett - Profiles in Autonomous Behaviour: A Comparative Case Study	Kerstin Dofs - Embedded self-study time in English as an Additional Language (EAL) programmes	Mingming Yuan - Using web resources to encourage learner autonomy and foster accuracy		Linda Murphy - I'm not giving up! Motivation maintenance in independent language learning

Video Conference
16:20-17:00, Room Y402 - Jean-Paul Lafayette DuQuette - Second Life in EFL: Fostering Learner Autonomy in a Japanese University

Day 3, Friday, 5 June 2009

Registration starts at 9:30 in Y podium.

Time	A302	Y301	Y302	Y303	Y304	Y305	Y306	Y402	Y403	Y408
10:00 - 10:40	Andrew Morrall - A program for developing students' critical thinking skills online	Marina Chávez Sánchez, David Gardner - The Validation of Self-Access Centres	Richard Pemberton - Video for self-awareness: An ongoing teacher development project	Maria Lorna L. Garnace, Reynaldo Badiongan Garnace - Students' Language Proficiency, Academic Performance Assessment: Improved English Language Program	M.E. Llaven-Nucamendi - Autonomy in learning languages: What students and teachers in an institution of higher education understand by autonomy in language learning		Antonie Alm - Learning to think in an L2 through blogging		Gene Thompson, Lee Atkinson - Integrating self-access into the curriculum: Our experience
11:00 - 11:40	Juliana Chau, Peggy Lui - The 'what' and 'how' of using ePortfolios for language learning			Nae-Dong Yang - The Language Learning Project for Developing Autonomous Learners		Maija Tammelin, Berit Peltonen, Pasi Puranen - The Role of the Ubiquitous Tutor in Fostering Independent Learning	Yuh-show Cheng - Motivation, Strategy Use, and L2 Vocabulary Learning	Invited 3 Marina Mozzon-McPherson - Advising in Practice	Leena Karlsson - A Narrative of Learning and Teaching EFL
12:00 - 12:40		Chien-Yu Lin, Rebecca L. Oxford - Developing autonomous learners in the digital realm:Exploring digital language learning strategies from macro and micro perspectives	Claudia Kunschak - Autonomous teachers for autonomous learners	Veronica Morgade Cuna, Franziska Bard Cordero - Listening to the "silent language": Assessing intercultural communicative competence	Nalini Chavali - Learner and Teacher Experiences: A Toolkit for Evaluating Autonomous Learning Schemes	Lis Auvinen, Berit Peltonen - Pedagogy, ICT, Language And Working Life - Perspectives On Independent Learning			Felicity Kjisik, Leena Karlsson - Whose story is it, anyway? Sharing histories of language learning
12:40 - 14:20	Lunch
Time	A302	Y301	Y302	Y303	Y304	Y305	Y306	Y402	Y403	Y408
14:20 - 15:00		Pauline Lee, Vivian Chan - The exploration of ways for enhancing the independent learning of English and Putonghua at the Chinese University self-access centre	Andy Barfield - Problematizing learning learner development			Ashley Russell Moore - SLA, (Sexual) Identity and Autonomy		Alex Poole - The Online Reading Strategies Used by Six Taiwanese ESL Students	Lee Atkinson - Promoting learner responsibility for revision in the second language classroom
15:20 - 16:00		Lindsay Miller, David Gardner - Uncovering SAC managers' attitudes and approaches to autonomous language learning	Elke Stracke - Teacher Education in Vietnam and China: The need for personal experience						Lily Guo - Developing autonomy and oral English proficiency through cooperative learning groups
16:20 - 17:00		Roundtable - David Little, Claire Weinstein, Phil Benson, Marina Mozzon-McPherson and Cynthia White