LERC2023 PROGRAMME
Important Highlights
LERC2023 2-day event
October 21st and 22nd, 2023
Day 1 (Saturday 21 October 2023)
9.15-9.50 Conference registration - Wecome coffee
9.50 - 10.00 Opening Statements
10.00-11.00 Keynote speaker Dr Thomai Alexiou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.: Evidence from the EAN project
11.00-11.30 Dr. Sangeetha Puthiyedath, The English and Foreign Languages University Hyderabad, India | Indigenizing Materials: A Case for Decolonizing Materials for Teaching English
11.30-12.00 Dr Anne-Marie Barrault-Méthy, Université de Bordeaux, France | Language variation in action : the Ludibrilang action-research project
12.00-12.30 Dr. Αndroma(c)hi Koufogiorgou, Colegio-Ikastetxea Loiu (Bizkaia), Bilbao, Spain | /is ˈsou ˈdifikult for as/
12.30-13.00 COFFEE BREAK
13.00-13.30 Maolin Wang, China | An analysis on the production of Chinese triphthongs by Philippine learners
13.30-14.00 Edward Eustace, UK | Review of the state of English as the Lingua Franca (ELF), the pedagogy of lexical collocations and the harbinger of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
14.00-14.30 Dr. Lizeta Demetriou, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Wales | Investigating Greek Cypriot learners’ knowledge of phrasal verbs and the factors affecting acquisition
14.30-15.30 LUNCH BREAK
15.30-16.00 dr. Laura Furcsa, Budapest Business University, Hungary & dr. Renáta Bernhardt Eszterházy Károly Catholic University, Hungary | Metaphor analysis regarding conceptual changes of communication
16.00-16.30 Dr Muhammad Afzaal, Shanghai International Studies University, China & Xiao Shanshan, Shanghai International Studies University, China | Grammatical Complexity in L2 Writing at Higher Educational Institutions: A Corpus-Based Study
16.30-17.00 Dr Elisavet Apostolou, University of Athens, Greece | Investigating B2 Listening Comprehension Difficulty from the FL listener’s perspective
17.00-17.30 Raquel Serrano, University of Barcelona & Elsa Tragant, University of Barcelona, Spain | Enhancing Incidental L2 Vocabulary Acquisition through Reading: Investigating the Impact of Word Frequency and Distribution Patterns
17.30-18.00 Amber Qureshi, All in One Learning Centre, Manchester, UK | Is it mission impossible to start a conversation in a classroom?
18.00-18.30 Lilit Sargsyan, Yerevan State University, Armenia | Student-Centeredness as an Enabler of Reform in the Higher Education of Armenia
18.30-19.00 Anupama Sujatha, IIT-Madras, India | Significance of Corpus Building in Effective Machine Translation
19.00-19.10 Closing remarks DAY 1
Day 2 (Sunday 22 October 2023)
9.15-9.50 Wecome coffee
9.50 - 10.00 Opening Statements
10.00-11.00 Keynote speaker Dr Paschalis Chliaras FHEA, Head of Applied Language Studies House, Greece & UK | Error Analysis through Error Mapping
11.00-11.30 Roxanne H. Padley University of Bergamo & University of Salerno, Italy | New Trends in Language Assessment and Second Language Learning
11.30-12.00 Dr Krisztina Babos , Budapest Business University, Dr Magdolna Lehmann, University of Pécs and Dr Zoltán Lukácsi, Euroexam International | Challenges and responses: State-accredited language examinations in Hungary post-Covid
12.00-12.30 Dr Aleksandra Łuczak, Kozminski University, Poland | How Can AI Help You Prepare Students for ESP Exams
12.30-13.00 COFFEE BREAK
13.00-13.30 Maria Chatzikonstantinou, DISCOVERY PATH, Greece | Virtual Reality in Basic Education
13.30-14.00 Prof Kirti Kapur & Dr Anandana Kapur, India | Exploring the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Language Education: Challenges and Opportunities
14.00-14.30 Dr Christine Savvidou, University of Nicosia, Cyprus | Who wrote this essay? Detecting AI-generated writing in ESL writing classes in higher education
14.30-15.30 LUNCH BREAK
15.30-16.00 Maria Andria, University of Barcelona, Spain & Elsa Tragant, University of Barcelona, Spain | Mobile-Assisted Language Learning: The use of WhatsApp in the foreign language classroom
16.00-16.30 Ms. Elli Kyrmanidou (PhD candidate, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich), Vocational High School of Glafki, Greece & Dr. Giannis Moysidis, (EdD, King’s College London), 1st Model High School of Thessaloniki, “Manolis Andronikos", Greece | EAP in Greece. Comparative examples from relevant practices in higher education abroad (Munich, Germany, and Sheffield, UK) and the current situation in Greece. Benefits in students’ skills development from teaching EAP in Greek secondary education
16.30-17.00 Diana Peppoloni, University of Perugia, Italy | Diaphasic variety in the classroom of Italian as a second language. Teaching the language of fashion through a specialized corpus
17.00-17.30 Dr. Rita Szaszkó PhD, Eszterházy Károly Catholic University, Hungary | University students’ intercultural encounter patterns: findings of a focus-group interview study
17.30-18.00 Anna Karapanou, PhD Student, Adjunct Faculty at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus | Learning to teach 21st century skills: TESOL teachers’ participation in a virtual community of practice as a framework for professional development
18.00-18.30 Zarminae Ansari, Joy of Urdu, Pakistan | The Success of Folly: Joy of Urdu’s “HIMAQATEIN”, and Innovation in Language Promotion and Preservation- A Case Study
18.30-19.00 Alberto Regagliolo, UKSW University, Poland | Work on that myth! (referring to the linguistic-cultural adaptation of the myth for children)
19.00-19.15 Closing remarks Day 2
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