ITMELT'99 Provisional Conference Overview

Schedule for the ITMELT '99 Conference

Information Technology & Multimedia in English Language Teaching

On this page: Conference Overview; Parallel Sessions.

On this site: Conference Home Page; Accepted Abstracts; Call for Papers; Hotel Accommodation.

ITMELT '99 Conference Overview
(@ 9 November, 1999)

	Saturday	Sunday
09.00 - 09.25	Opening speeches (Room ST111) Prof. Poon Chung-kwong, PhD, DSc, JP President Hong Kong Polytechnic University Ms Christine Loh Hong Kong Legislative Councillor Chair of the Citizens Party Hong Kong	(Nothing until 9:40 a.m.)
09.40 - 10.20	Keynote address (Room ST111) Strategies, Styles and Problem-Solving Processes in IT-mediated Language Learning Prof. Christopher Candlin Chair Professor, Department of English City University of Hong Kong	Keynote address (Room ST111) Living Lessons for university learners of English Dr. Gino Yu Associate Professor Head, Multimedia Innovation Centre Hong Kong Polytechnic University
10.20 - 10.45	Coffee	Coffee
10.45 - 11.30	Parallel sessions (Click here for Saturday's Sessions)	Parallel sessions (Click here for Sunday's Sessions)
11.45 - 12.30	Parallel sessions	Parallel sessions
12.30 - 14.00	Lunch	Lunch
14.00 - 14.45	Parallel sessions	Parallel sessions
14.45 - 15.15	Coffee	Coffee
15.15 - 16.00	Parallel sessions (workshops)	Parallel sessions (workshops)

Parallel sessions

Click on the title of the presentation to go to the abstract.

Saturday
Themes	Theme 1 IT in English language learning and teaching (Room PQ303)	Theme 2 The development and implementation of hypermedia and multimedia educational systems (Room PQ304)	Themes 3 & 4 3. Computer-mediated communication 4. The management of educational IT (Room PQ305)
10.45 - 1130	Lexicon driven learning on the internet: a design strategy for a World Wide Web "virtual language learning classroom" Chris Greaves	Putting individual writing tutorials on-line Geoff Millar	On-line learning communities: balancing the human and technical Philip Latham
11.45 - 12.30	The Mystery Photo Album: defining a CALL paradigm Ken Keobke	Exploiting an electronic alternative to the red pen Hilary Bower	Bridging the gulf between teachers & computers - a teacher-based action research project in CALL staff development Ian Brown
12:30 - 14:00	LUNCH
14.00 - 14.45	Multimedia movies David Gardner	An EAP module via the Merlin internet learning environment David Oakey	Evaluation of an on-line rater training & monitoring system Jan Hamilton & Sue Reddel
14:45 - 15:15	COFFEE
15.15 - 16.15 (Workshops)	Giving students something to do with concordance data Tom Cobb	Student centred frameworks for teaching IT Judy Gallian & Jeff Maggard	How can I stimulate my colleagues to use IT for teaching English? Some ideas for promoting the use of software on networks and the Web amongst less enthusiastic teachers Andrew Stokes

Sunday
Themes	Theme 1 IT in English language learning and teaching (Room PQ303)	Theme 2 The development and implementation of hypermedia and multimedia educational systems (Room PQ304)	Themes 3 & 4 3. Computer-mediated communication 4. The management of educational IT (Room PQ305)
10.45 - 1130	Using a corpus of student report writing to help students write a better report Linda Lin	CALL for oral skills in English: the development, implementation & operation of the Computer Assisted Voice Mail Oral Practice System at the Open University of Hong Kong Anita Poon, K.C.Tang & Thomas Tang	Using virtual communities to create real bonds Patrick Desloge & Lillian Wong
11.45 - 12.30	Encouraging creative writing through IT Grace Pow	The use of a bilingual corpus in the teaching of legal English XU Xun-feng & May Fan	A guide for evaluating ESL listening resources on the World Wide Web Howard Hao-jan Chen
12:30 - 14:00	LUNCH
14.00 - 14.45	The use of concordancing to assist with the writing of final-year projects Kate Mead	OACES: laying the foundations for adaptation of a teaching unit to IT-integrated practices Nigel Bruce and Patrick Desloge	An interactive multimedia package for developing English communication skills in job interview situations Richard Pemberton and Phil Milton
14:45 - 15:15	COFFEE
15.15 - 16.15 (Workshops)	Exploring the use of PowerPoint in the secondary English language classroom Sarah Rigby & Kitty Wong	Bringing the text closer John Milton	Production of web-based self-access materials Terri Leong

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