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Poster 19<br />
Monday<br />
1130-1200<br />
RES<br />
Poster 20<br />
Saturday<br />
1710-1740<br />
ESP<br />
Poster presentations<br />
What makes UFRO students succeed and fail at learning English?<br />
Oriana Onate (Universidad de La Frontera)<br />
I'll present findings from a two-year research project on factors that students think<br />
have determined their success and failure at learning English. The project findings are<br />
from over 100 students at Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, South of Chile, a college<br />
where 10 per cent of new students demonstrate an intermediate level of English in<br />
placement tests.<br />
Knowing ME - a non-profit<br />
profit-making project on Maritime English<br />
Alexia Piaggio (University of Genoa, Italy)<br />
The newly-devised, non-profit-making set of multimedia pages, called Knowing<br />
Maritime English, (Knowing ME for short), is inspired by currently enforced<br />
international maritime standards and available online at www.scmncamogli.org. These<br />
pages present a series of practical on-board situations, requiring users to interact with<br />
the software by solving audio, visual or logical quizzes in English.<br />
POSTER PRESENTATIONS<br />
Poster 21<br />
Sunday<br />
1145-1215<br />
LT<br />
Poster 22<br />
Monday<br />
1130-1200<br />
EAP, MD<br />
Exploring EFL learners’ communication strategies via computer-mediated mediated oral<br />
communication<br />
Sumanee Pinweha (Chulalongkorn University)<br />
This presentation reports on EFL students’ communication strategies, while engaged in<br />
asynchronous and synchronous computer-mediated oral communication (CMOC),<br />
through the analyses of transcripts of audioblogs and voice chats. Teaching materials<br />
and excerpts of student transcripts will be presented. Benefits of CMOC, categories and<br />
patterns of communication strategy emerging from CMOC, as well as pedagogical<br />
implications, will be discussed.<br />
English for academics<br />
Marija Popova (British Council Russia)<br />
English is the de facto global language of research. Optimising communication among<br />
members of the international academic community depends on the elimination of<br />
obstacles faced by speakers of other languages. The poster introduces the coursebook<br />
English for Academics (British Council, CUP, 2014), aimed at enabling university<br />
academics and researchers to participate in international conferences and projects and<br />
to publish internationally.<br />
AL = Applied Linguistics<br />
BE = Business English<br />
EAP = English for Academic Purposes<br />
ESAP = English for Specific Academic<br />
Purposes<br />
ES(O)L=English for Speakers of Other<br />
Languages<br />
ESP = English for Specific Purposes<br />
GEN = General<br />
GI = Global Issues<br />
LA = Learner Autonomy<br />
LAM = Leadership & Management<br />
LMCS = Literature, Media & Cultural<br />
Studies<br />
LT = Learning Technologies<br />
MaW = Materials Writing<br />
MD = Materials Development<br />
PRON = Pronunciation<br />
RES = Research<br />
TD = Teacher Development<br />
TEA = Testing, Evaluation &<br />
Assessment<br />
TTEd = Teacher Training & Education<br />
YLT = Young Learners & Teenagers<br />
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