ITMELT 2001 Conference Schedule

ITMELT 2001 Conference
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ITMELT 2001 Conference Schedule

	Friday	Saturday
09.00 - 09.30	Opening speeches (Room M003) Prof. Yeung Kwok-wing, Vice-President (Academic Development), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Prof. Leung Tin-pui, Vice-President (Student & Staff Development) & Dean (COM), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
09.30 - 10.15	Keynote address (Room M003) Innovation and Synergy in IT and ELT Prof. Martha Pennington Powdrill Professor of English Language Acquisition Language Research Centre University of Luton, U.K.	Keynote address (Room M003)Maximizing the Potential of Computer-mediated Communications as a Collaborative Learning Environment for ESL Teachers Professor Amy B. M. Tsui Chair Professor and Head Department of Curriculum Studies Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
	Refreshments (Room M112)	Refreshments (Room M112)
10.45 - 11.30	Parallel sessions	Parallel sessions
11.45 - 12.30	Parallel sessions	Parallel sessions
	Lunch (Regal Kowloon Hotel – Versailles Room)	Lunch (Regal Kowloon Hotel – Versailles Room)
14.00 - 14.45	Parallel sessions	Parallel sessions
	Refreshments (Room M112)	Refreshments (Room M112)
15.15 - 16.15	Parallel sessions	Parallel sessions
16.15 – 17.00	Roundtable discussion

Friday
	Room M001	Room M002	Room M003	Room M115
10.45 – 11.30	Theme 1 presentation Brown "Muddled methodology – CALL in the classroom is not always communicative but it can be"	Theme 2 presentation Chen "Evaluating five speech recognition programs for ESL learners"	Theme 3 presentation Winkler "Students working with an English learners’ dictionary on CD-ROM"	Please sign up outside room – limited number of participants for sessions in this room
11.45 - 12.30		Theme 2 presentation Singhal "CALL for reading in English: an interactive Web program for college-level ESL students"	Theme 3 presentation Han "A subject-specific glossary-assisted model for open and distance learning"	Theme 2 workshop Beaton "Our dreams have lost some grandeur coming true " – producing web-based materials which are pedagogically valuable"
12:30 - 14:00	LUNCH – Regal Kowloon Hotel (Versailles Room I-II - 3/F)
14.00 - 14.45	Theme 1 presentation Sengupta "Community formation through partially web-based classrooms"	Theme 2 presentation Stokes (Clarity) "Practical ideas to make your ELT programs work hard for you!"	Theme 3 presentation Gao "A pattern retrieval program for exploring corpus-based English phraseology"
14:45 - 15:15	REFRESHMENTS – Room M112 and Tour of the ELC's IT and multimedia facilities - please sign up
15.15 - 16.00	Theme 1 presentation Lee, Lai, Chan & Jor "Autonomous learning with the support of a multimedia English learning website: design, application & some preliminary results"	Theme 2 presentation Borden & Cozens (Clarity) "Create your own computer-based lessons – incredibly fast!"		Theme 2 workshop Jasper "Creating and evaluating Web-based lessons"
16.15 – 17.00	Roundtable discussion Cobb, Pennington, Tsui, Greaves, Stokes
Saturday
	Room 001	Room 002	Room 003	Room 115
10.45 – 11.30	Theme 1 presentation Lee "Selecting & integrating CALL software programs into the EFL classroom"		Theme 3 presentation Cobb & Horst "Growing academic vocabulary with a collaborative online database"	Theme 3 workshop Morrall "Tools to help students' writing: are they educational or do they replace education?"
11.45 - 12.30	Theme 1 presentation Wong "From consumption to contribution: a change in roles for teachers and learners on the Web"	Theme 2 presentation Prescott "Developing evaluation frameworks for CALL software and English language websites with pre-service English language teachers"	Theme 3 presentation Ng & Burton "Developing language awareness through concordancing: action research and materials development for first-year university students in HK"
12:30 - 14:00	LUNCH – Regal Kowloon Hotel (Versailles Room I-II - 3/F)
14.00 - 14.45	Theme 1 presentation Pennington "Cycles of Innovation"	Theme 2 presentation Saunders "From "Sir, what's my grade?" to "Click here for extra practice.": The long road to student autonomy."		Theme 2 workshop Brown "News weather, movies and recipes: a workshop on Web activities to integrate into the classroom"
14:45 - 15:15	REFRESHMENTS - Room M112
15.15 - 16.00		Theme 2 presentation Greaves "Resources-assisted learning: a vocabulary on-demand model for WWW online learning"	Theme 2 presentation Corbel "Easynews: making online news even easier"	Theme 2 workshop Leong "Writing Assistance Program Online Service"