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PAC5 at FEELTA 2004 Conference Proceedings:

Sharing Challenges, Sharing Solutions; Teaching Languages in Diverse Contexts

© Far East English Language Teachers' Association (Russia), 2005

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Table of Contents

Plenary papers
9
Perfect Partners: Teacher Development with Teaching Resources
     Simon Greenall
9
Free Voluntary Reading: New Research, Applications, and Controversies
     Stephen Krashen
16
Stereotypes as Stumbling Stones of Cross-Cultural Communication
     Maria Lebedko
19
Five Skills English
     John McRae
24
Presenting Culture to Students: Three Models
     Radislav Millrood
30
English Is an Asian Language
     Larry Smith
36
Linguistics 39
Gender Studies in Linguistics
     Victoria Akulicheva
39
Influences of Recent Loanwords from English into Japanese
     Atsushi Asai
42
Implicitness in Phatic Speech Acts
     Irina Balkovskaia
44
A History of East-Asian Loanwords in the English Language Fixed in the COED
     Nataliya Bogachenko
48
Global English: International vs. National
     Ludmila Bondarenko
51
Axiological Concepts of Time (Group of Anthropocentric Concepts)
     Evgenia Diamantidy
54
The Anglo-Saxon Worldview in the Mirror of Anglo-Saxon Epic Poetry
     Yulia Grigoryeva
56
Sound Symbolism and Etymology in Harry Potter
     Johanna Katchen
59
Varieties of Mass Literature Codes in The Crying of Lot 49, by Thomas Pynchon
     Natalia Kireeva
61
Metalanguage of Translation Studies in the Context of Intercultural Communication
     Larissa Koulchitskaya
64
What do They Protest against in the USA?
     Irina Lebedeva
67
Contaminated English Speech of the Chinese in the Novels of Amy Tan
     Tatyana Lupachyova
71
The Role of the Noun in the Neological Transpositional Processes
     Elena Lyovushkina
74
Phraseological Units in Political Discourse
     Janna Makusheva
77
Color Symbolism in Idiomatic Set Phrases in English and Chinese
     Elena Matvienko & Tatyana Morozova
80
Peculiarities of Japanese Company Names and Verbal Trade Marks in English
     Irina Panteleyeva
83
Prosodic Interference in Language Contact between Typologically Different Languages (English and Vietnamese)
     Marina Pivovarova
86
Diversity of Englishes as Objects of Study in Russia
     Zoya Proshina
88
Ethnicity Related Variability in Gender Metaphoric Nominations
     Elena Revenko
95
Locally-Marked Idioms as a Source of Socio-Cultural Information
     Elvira Ryzhova
97
Inversion for the Present and for the Future
     Alla Sheveleva
101
Linguistic Analysis of Russian-English Code-Switching
     Olga Sichyova
103
A Systemic Functional Approach to the Language of Restaurant Menus
     Natalya Spitsina
107
Pragmatic Corpus Analysis of Film and Other Related Media
     Donna Tatsuki & Yuriko Kite
110
Compliments in Television Interviews, Film and “Naturally Occurring Data”
     Donna Tatsuki & Midori Nishizawa
112
Cognitive Status of Synonymic Relationships in Adjectives Expressing Moral Qualities
     Victoria Timchenko
113
Anglo-Vietnamese Cultural and Language Contacts
     Olga Titova
116
Pragmatic Aspect of Public Political Speeches
     Natalya Zaychicova
119
Cultural Issues
123
The Reflection of Culture in the Names of Music Bands
     Maria Churusova
123
Intercultural Appropriacy-From Discourse Analysis to Macro-Level Pragmatic Strategies
     Donna Fujimoto
126
Let’s Have it Straight: Idioms in British and American English
     Larisa Krainik
128
Problematising the Teaching of Culture
     Kelly Peake
131
Intercultural Instruction and Identity
     Marina Rassokha
134
Linguistics vs. Popular Linguistics in Cultural Studies
     Alexandra Rivlina
137
An Effect of Positive Politeness Strategies in English Conversation Class
     Yuka Shigemitsu & Kazuyo Murata
140
British and American Communicative Behavior
     Iosif Sternin & Marina Sternina
142
Political Correctness: A Friend or an Enemy?
     Natalia Yuzefovich
145
Teaching Methods
149
Objective and Subjective Estimation of Text Readability for Reading Comprehension Tests
     Kazumi Aizawa
149
Proactive Evaluation and a Need for Change: Self-Directed Learning for Students at Tertiary Level
     Akara Akaranithi
151
Two-Step-Processing Strategy for Improvement in Reading Speed and Comprehension
     Atsushi Asai & Akinori Konishi
153
Considering Economic Issues in a Human Dimension
     Tatiana Baryshnikova
156
Some Recipes for Training the “Human Factor”: Ways to Improve the Maritime English Language Course
     Natalya Borodina
159
Key Factors in the Efficacy of Teacher Training Courses on Information Technology in Language Teaching
     Marina Bovtenko
162
Problem-solving in Pyongyang: Introducing Modern Methodology in a Traditional Context
     Zina Bowey
165
Motivation in a Global Education Classroom: A Pilot Study
     Christopher Bradley
167
Sharing Materials and Methods to Meet Challenges in EFL Contexts
     Philip Chan
169
Student Perceptions of Portfolio Assessment in an EFL Classroom
     Paul Dessoir
173
What Makes Literacy Critical?
     Anne Falkenstein
175
Pre-Departure Training in Asian EFL Classrooms
     Bradley Grindstaff
179
Bilingualism in Teaching the English and French Languages
     Tatiana Gudkina & Oksana Vasilenko
181
Language Ownership: A New Approach to Acquisition
     Michael Guest
184
ELT and the New World Order: Nation Building or Neocolonial Reconstruction?
     Gregory Hadley
187
Vocabulary: What To Do about It
     Eloise Hamatani
189
The Acquisition of Countable and Non-countable Structures by Sinhalese and Japanese Learners of English
     Ranjan Hettiarchchige & Toshiaki Ozasa
191
Challenges of Group Work Production in Japan: Solutions via Conversation Analysis
     Yuri Hosoda & David Aline
195
Examining Computers in Context to Increase Learner Interaction in English
     Nora Hussin
197
Integrating Information and Communication Technology (ICT) by Exploiting the Skills of Practitioners and Their Students
     Huw Jarvis
200
The Native Speaker in Language Education Today
     Patrick Kiernan
204
Reading Strategy Instruction to Non-English Majors in Taiwan College
     Mei-yun Ko
206
Teaching and Reteaching
     Charles Kowalski
210
National Geographic as a Means of Building Cross-cultural Competence
     Tatiana Kravchenko
212
What Causes Students’ Erroneous Translations?
     Tamara Leontyeva
215
Vocabulary Teaching: Old Ways and New
     Galina Lovtsevich, Elena Onoprienko & Julia Polshina
218
Towards a Cross-Cultural Dictionary of ELT Terms
     Galina Lovtsevich & Stephen M. Ryan
220
Vocabulary Acquisition Through Storytelling
     Beniko Mason
222
The Communicative Approach with Reference to Teaching Maritime English
     Valentina Mazur
224
Listening Skills for Teachers
     Kevin McCaughey
226
Contrasting ESL and EFL Environments, Materials, and Methods
     Charles McHugh
229
Constructing Interactive Cross-Cultural Contexts via Vygotskian Literacy Mediation
     Lawrence Metzger
231
Development of High-School Students’ Leadership Skills through an English Summer Camp Program
     Galina Mikhina, Tatyana Lupachyova & Galina Filippenko
234
Impact of Cooperative Learning and Negotiation of Meaning on Students’ Reading Comprehension Ability
     Khalil Motallebzadeh
236
Motivating First Year University Students by Making a Video
     Natalia Mysak
239
Web-based Automatic Error Finder for Learners of English
     Shinobu Nagashima, Mitsuaki Hayase & Etsuo Kobayashi
241
English Language Teaching Through Songs
     Ksenia Okatova
243
L’Approche Communicative en France et au Japon: Même Combat?
     Emilie Pommier
245
Teaching English as a Tool of Accomplishment of International Naval Missions Based on Profession Oriented Instruction System
     Natalia Proshjants
247
Testing the Reading Transfer Hypothesis: Using Measures of EFL and JSL Reading
     Michael Redfield
250
Teachers Helping Teachers Integrate CALL into their Everyday Teaching
     Christine Rosalia
252
Overview of Language Teaching Contexts in PAC Countries
     Stephen M. Ryan & Galina Lovtsevich
254
Tensogram: Use it to teach Writing to ESL Learners
     Abdul Hamid Samsiah
257
An Integrated Learning Space for Teachers of Foreign Languages
     Tatiana Shapovalova
259
ELT in Rural India
     Udaya Shastry
263
EFL Learners’ Strategies in Inferring Meaning for Unknown Words: A Case in Taiwan
     Ming-yueh Shen
266
Project Work: One of the Most Effective Methods to Motivate Students
     Natalia Somova
269
Application of Team-Teaching Techniques to Teacher Training Courses
     Hiromasa Tanaka & Yoshifumi Fukada
272
English-To-Go Lessons in Content-Based Conversation Course for Adult Professionals
     Galina Tarasova
274
Pathways for Teaching Translation: Theory and Practice
     Evgenia Terekhova
277
Learning Grammar Can Be Fun
     Tatyana Vlasova
279
A Comparative Study of L2 Motivations (with a focus on Chinese and Japanese learners of English)
     Shixia Zhang, Toshiaki Ozasa & Xiaojie Zhang
282
Index of Presenters
285



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