The changing face of language teaching Symposium
Creating job-ready graduates in Vietnamese and Australian university programs
4 August 2023 | 10:30am - 5pm | Forgan Smith Building (1), Room E215 & Online via Zoom
Program
All session will be held at Forgan Smith Building (1), Room E215 and online via Zoom unless stated otherwise. More detailed program will be available closer to the date.
10:30–10:45am
Wecome
10:45am–12:45pm
Professional Standards in CALL Teacher Training in Vietnam: Towards an Ecological Approach to CALL Integration - presented by Paul Moore (UQ), Hong Giang Nguyen (Hanoi) and Quang Vinh Nguyen (Hanoi) (LIVE)
English as a medium of instruction in Vietnamese universities: the perspective of language policy and planning - presented by Nguyen Van Huy (Hue) (ONLINE)
EFL teachers’ perceptions of interactional competence assessment via videoconferencing-based speaking tests at a Vietnamese university - presented by Giang Ngoc Huong Ng (Hanoi), Trung Quang Doan (Hanoi), & Noriko Iwashita (UQ) (HYBRID)
Exploring the sources of VSTEP test anxiety of Vietnamese EFL students - presented by Thuy Nguyen (Hue) (ONLINE)
12:45–2pm
Lunch at Gordon Greenwood Building (32), Level 4 foyer
2 – 4pm
Writing about different topics: Quantitative measures of lexical richness and Vietnamese EFL students’ experiences - presented by Nguyen Thi Bao Trang (Hue) (ONLINE)
Walking the walk? Misalignment between perceptions and practice for corpus literacy and corpus-based language pedagogy - presented by Peter Crosthwaite (UQ), Tieu-Thuy Chung (Tra Vinh) Cam Cao Thi Hong (Tra Vinh) & Carolina Tavares De Carvalho (UQ/Sao Paulo State) (LIVE)
Intercultural competence development in English language curricula at tertiary level in Vietnam - presented by Ngan Giang Dang (Hanoi) and Thuy-Anh Truong (Hanoi) (ONLINE)
University language education for job-ready graduates: Japanese language, curriculum reform and individual trajectories in Vietnam and Australia - presented by Kayoko Hashimoto (UQ), Nguyen Thi Huong Tra (Hue) and Van Nghiem Hong (Hanoi) (LIVE)
4 - 4.10pm
Break
4.10 – 4:40pm
Round table and wrap up
Paper presenters and Discussant Lourdes Ortega
4:45pm
5pm
Closing
Drinks at Saint Lucy (UQ campus)