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Brunei's sole international airport is Brunei International Airport (BWN).
Royal Brunei Airlines (RBA) offers a reasonably comprehensive network, with daily flights to London via Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, and Kota Kinabalu. There are also frequent flights to Jakarta, Surabaya, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Manila, Melbourne and Shanghai.
In addition, these airlines fly there as well:
AirAsia Kuala Lumpur–International
Cebu Pacific Manila
Malaysia Airlines Kuala Lumpur–International
Singapore Airlines Singapore
Singapore Airlines
operated by SilkAir Singapore
Departing by plane from Brunei can involve paying a departure tax: B$5 for flights to Kuching and Kota Kinabalu and B$12 to other international destinations. This is included in the price of RBA tickets.
Getting there/away: A taxi to Bandar Seri Begawan takes 20 minutes and costs around B$25. A covered walk down to the end of the car park further away from the Terminal (turn right from Arrivals) leads to a bus stop for Purple buses to the city centre (B$1) along with other buses for tours & hotel shuttles.
The university is about 15 minutes in a taxi to the Bandar Seri Begawan district where many hotels are.
Alan Schwartz is CEO & Founder of EnglishCentral
Alan Schwartz is CEO & Founder of EnglishCentral. He started his journey towards a career in EdTech as an English teacher in China over 25 years ago. After that he spent over a decade in the speech recognition industry, including as head of Nuance’s Mobile & Consumer division where he worked with Sony to develop of one of the first mobile games using speech technology called "Talkman" Google Ventures, he founded EnglishCentral which has become one of the leading conversational platforms for learning English online. Alan has a B.A. from Princeton University and a J.D. from Harvard University.
Wise teachers often say that “95% of good teaching is just getting students engaged.” Online learning presents a new opportunity to both measure engagement and create learning methods that increase it. Facebook sets the high bar for online engagement: 65% of its billion plus users are on the platform for an average of 40 minutes per day. For online learning, the current stats are much less impressive. For example, the initial enthusiasm for Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) dampened when data showed that on average, completion rates were below 10%. The challenge for online platforms is to infuse themselves with some of the Facebook mojo to drive up engagement rates. This Plenary will showcase 5 of the best online English learning platforms and the techniques each uses to drive student engagement.
Dr. Thang Siew Ming has retired as a Professor from the School of Language Studies and Linguistics, the National University of Malaysia since 1 January 2017. However, she is still very active in the field of CALL, Language Studies and Language Education. She is President of PacCALL and Co-chair of GLoCALL series of conferences. Her key areas of interest are Learner Autonomy, CALL, Learning Styles and Strategies and Motivation Studies. She has published extensively and is on the editorial boards of numerous well-known CALL and Language Education journals. Her recent publications are available in highly reputable journals such as the CALL, TAPER, Language & Education, EAR, AJET, IRRODL, IJPL, 3L and GEMA.
Research studies have revealed that technologies can promote and enhance language learning in a variety of ways (such as promoting autonomy and engagement, cultivating problem-solving skills, building motivation and confidence, and developing language learning skills etc.). Technologies have also been described as having an impact on the development of pedagogy and promoting teacher professional development by enabling them to re-think their approaches to teaching. However, despite such promising results, technologies are still not used extensively in schools especially in the South-east Asia context. This paper will explore challenges faced in the implementation of technologies in various parts of Asia focusing primarily on Malaysia. It will also offer some possible solutions to address the issues raised. Finally it will describe some exciting new ways to create innovative language learning environments appropriate for the South-east Asian context.
Dr. Marta González-Lloret is a Full Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, United States, where she has been teaching for 25 years. She teaches courses on methodology for language teaching, pedagogy, pragmatics and uses of technology for language teaching. Her research focuses on the intersections between technology and task-based language teaching, technology and L2 pragmatic acquisition, Conversation Analysis, performance-based assessment and teacher education. She enjoys sharing her knowledge with students and teachers and has given talks and workshops all over the world, including Spain, Brazil, Canada, China, Japan, New Zealand, Mexico, and the United States. Her most recent publication is “A Practical Guide to Integrating Technology into Task-based Language Teaching” published in 2015 by Georgetown University Press.
This presentation will explore the idea that the integration of Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) and technological innovations is an excellent way to prepare our students to be citizens of a new global world in which digital and language skills are essential. The presentation will introduce main principles of TBLT and characteristics of tasks that have been demonstrated by Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research to be effective for language learning. It will then show examples of freely available technologies that can be used to bring those tasks to language classes with different levels of technology access, highlighting the reasons while they are effective for language learning and providing references to CALL research to support them. Finally, the presentation will point out some challenges of integrating tasks and technologies and will suggest how we can move forward to overcome them.
Gu, Yueguo, M.A., Ph.D., Dr. Lit. honoris causa (all from Lancaster University), is a research professor, the Head of the Corpus Linguistics Department, and Director of Corpus and Computational Linguistics Research Centre of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is also the holder of Special Titled Professor, and Director of China Multilingual Multimodal Corpora and Big Data Research Centre, Founding Dean of the Institute of Beiwai Online Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University. He is the President of ChinaCALL. His research interests include pragmatics, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, rhetoric and online education. He was the winner of five national top research prizes, and was awarded a K. C. Wong Fellow of the British Academy in 1997.
In 1993 BFSU, the top leading institution in foreign languages education in China, organized a computer-assisted language learning (CALL) workshop, perhaps the first of this kind in China. In 1999 BFSU launched the Institute of Beiwai Online Education under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, which presently by 2017 provides online learning for over 40,000 concurrent students. It has so happened that I have been the chief player, first as the School Dean, then as the Pro-VC of the University, who personally has been intricately involved in the overall design and first-hand management of the CALL programmes over the past 24 years.
This paper presents a critical review, by no means comprehensive one, but with a focus on the platform and courseware designs that have continuously been evolving. There are two platforms, viz. Educational Management Platform (EMP) and Content Management Platform (CMP), both being home designed and developed. There are several hundred courseware programmes forming what is known as a rainbow tower structure. In retrospection, there are ups and downs, pros and cons, pleasure and misery. Academically are the platforms and courseware programmes “things that make us smart” (Norman’s words) or things that make us dummy”? Such critical reflections, it is so hoped, will be helpful and beneficial to myself as designer and director, and to the field at large.
Eric Hagley teaches at Muroran Institute of Technology. His research interests are in virtual exchange, telecollaboration and extensive reading. He is the chair of the Asia Pacific Virtual Exchange Association (APVEA) and head of the International Virtual Exchange (IVE) Project. The IVE Project has had over 7000 students from 8 countries participate in online language and culture exchanges over the last 2 years. He will co-present with Thom Rawson.
Bringing the world to your classroom through online exchange
Virtual Exchange (VE) is beneficial for foreign language teachers and their students but is still not easily accessible to the mainstream. Students in EFL classrooms often have few opportunities to physically interact with students in other countries in English. VE gives them virtual mobility, enabling them to participate in a global community. In this presentation, the authors introduce the International Virtual Exchange Project (IVE Project) which has had over 7000 students from 8 countries participate for free in VE. Students interact online in English as a lingua franca. Exchanges are carried out over 8 week periods. Outcomes from the project, sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Education, are outlined using questionnaire data, text analysis and student feedback. Details of how this VE can become a part of any English communication class throughout the world will be outlined, in addition to ideas for incorporating it into classroom practice.
There are numerous hotels in and around the area of Bandar Seri Begawan district. These include:
4 star and above:
Radisson Hotel Brunei Darussalam
The Rizqun International Hotel
The Empire Hotel & Country Club, Brunei isn't in the Bandar Seri Begawan district but is close to the venue. It is a 5-star resorts style accommodation.
3 star hotels include:
Badi'ah Hotel (close to a 4-star hotel)
International Committee members for GLoCALL 2017 & PCBET Joint Conference
| Sub-Committees |
Names |
E-mail addresses |
| Executive Committee |
Siew Ming Thang (Co-Chair) Jeong-Bae Son (Co-Chair) Anil Laxman Pathak (Local Chair) |
tsm.2001uk at gmail.com jeong-bae.son at usq.edu.au anil.pathak at utb.edu.bn
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| Program Committee |
Thomas Robb (Head) Jonathan Harrison Siew Ming Thang Jeong-Bae Son
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trobb at cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp jon.harrison at nihon-u.ac.jp tsm.2001uk at gmail.com jeong-bae.son at usq.edu.au |
| Proposal Review Committee |
Eric Hagley (Head) David Campbell Jonathan Harrison Jung Tae Kim Long V. Nguyen Mitch Terhune Mohammed Mohsen Martin Meadows Penelope Coutas Tan Choon Keong Pramela Krishnasamy Noorizah Mohd. Noor
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hagley at mmm.muroran-it.ac.jp campbell at obihiro.ac.jp jon.harrison at nihon-u.ac.jp kim.jungtae at gmail.com nvlong at cfl.udn.vn.com Makimik at cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp nmterhune at gmail.com mmohsen1976 at gmail.com meadows at nayoro.ac.jp p.coutas at gmail.com cktanums at mail.com pramela at ukm.edu.my nmn at ukm.edu.my |
| Publicity Committee |
Najihah Mahmud (Head) Baizura Aziz Warid Mihat
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Najihahmhmd at gmail.com zura.aziz_155 at yahoo.com warid.mihat at gmail.com |
| Hospitality Committee |
Chau Meng Huat |
Chaumenghuat at yahoo.co.uk
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| Treasury
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Kean Wah Lee (Head) Siew Ming Thang |
Keanwah at gmail.com tsm.2001uk at gmail.com |
| Registration Committee |
Toshiko Koyama (Head) Azianura Hani Shaari Liz Ng Lay Shi
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mtkoyama at osaka-ohtani.ac.jp Azianura at ukm.edu.my liz_lsng at yahoo.com
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Local Committee members for GLoCALL 2017 & PCBET
Joint Conference
Conference Committee Advisor
Associate Professor Dr Hjh Zohrah binti Haji Sulaiman
Steering Committee
Pg Dr Haji Md Esa Al-Islam bin Pg Haji Md Yunus
Professor Dr. Nawaf Saeid
Dr Hjh Noor Maya Hj Md Salleh
Professor Dr Zuruzi Abu Samah
Dr Au Thien Wan
Dr Anil Laxman Pathak
Hamdani Haji Ibrahim
Organising Committee
Chairperson : Dr Anil Laxman Pathak
Deputy Chairperson : Muhammad Al-Qusyairi Hj Abd Kahar
Secretariat & Finance
Chairperson : Hjh Shanafizahwatty Hj Mat Salleh
Deputy Chairperson : Hjh Mariam Hj Abd Rahman
Deputy Chairperson (Finance) : Nurul Hafizah Hj Hassan
Technical Committee
Chairperson : Dr Lee Kok Yueh
Deputy Chairperson I: Dr David Hassell
Member: Dr Au Thien Wan
External Reviewers
Dr Chau Meng Huat (Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Dr Salmah Yaakub (University of Coventry, United Kingdom)
Dr Manal Makoshi (University of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
Dr Su Hang (Beihang University, China)
Dr Shuangling Li (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China)
Dr Lanfen Huang (Shih Chien University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
Dr Baramee Kheovichai (Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand)
Member (Photography) :
Dk Aida Pg Hj Ahmad
Awg Hj Abdul Hafidz bin Hj Ali Hassan
Logistics Committee
Chairperson of Ceremony : Muhammad Al-Qusyairi Hj Abd Kahar
Member :
Dk Raden Tutimuliawati Pg Hj Mahmud
Siti Hanisah Hj Md Salleh
Ceremony Committee
Chairperson of Logistics : Amat Hj Tinggal
Members:
Suzainah Hj Abdul Halim
Pg. Siti Awa Pg Hj Mahmud
Mohammad Zulfikri Hj Md Ali
Amirnuddin Hj Gilen
Invitation & Protocol Committee
Chairperson of Invitation & Protocol :
Dk Susidzaimah Pg Sulaiman
Member :
Dk. Hjh Siti Nashrah Pg Hj Md Yusof
Dk Siti Ariana Pg Hj yusof
Welfare Committee
Chairperson of Welfare :
Siti Nuratika Sri Mu’minnah Md Hadi Muslim
Member :
Sia Abdullah
Nurfarah Hannani Zafari
Accommodation Committee
Chairperson of Accommodation : Ibrahim Hj Mohd Tahir
Member : Mohd Saripuddin Abdullah
Zaiddin Sirul @ Muhammad Zaidin Abdul Qayyum Sirul
Traffic Committee
Chairperson of Traffic : Kamarudzaman Abu Bakar
Member:
Hasri Ibrahim
Kamarulzaman Abdullah
Refreshments Committee
Chairperson of Refreshments :
Norhuraizah Hj Md Jafaar
Member :
Hjh Norazillah Hj Abdullah
Mardiyah Hj Metussin
Transportations Committee
Chairperson of Transportation : Nizam Mahali
Member :
Rozaidi Hj Lamit
Muslim Hj Lakim
Health & Safety Committee
Chairperson Health & Safety : Zuliana Nayan
Member :
Noor Naadhirah Awg Mahmud
Ak. Rafiyuddin Pg Bakar
Publicity, Promotions, Printing & Sponsorship Committee
Chairperson :
Thulasimani Munohsamy
Deputy Chairperson (Promotion) :
Ak. Muhammad Rahimi Pg Hj Zahari
Deputy Chairperson (Publicity)
Muhammad Norfauzi bin POKDPDP Hj Dani
Deputy Chairperson (Sponsorship) :
Rozeanna Juani
The Workshop will focus on how teachers can use online English learning platforms to assess student’s vocabulary knowledge, recommend specific dynamic lists of vocabulary for them to study and use online vocabulary applications to build student’s vocabulary. The session will examine how the techniques of adaptive learning and time interval learning are deployed in various online vocabulary learning applications, the various sources of vocabulary lists and word corpora and how they are used in online learning applications. Specific data will be presented from case studies of online vocabulary learning in Japan & Turkey.
Formative assessment is essential for L2 learning because it provides teachers with the information necessary to make inferences about the students’ learning and areas of difficulty to help shape, guide and modify their teaching and their curriculum. This workshop will provide support for the importance that formative assessment has for L2 learning and will suggest best teaching practices to incorporate it in L2 lessons without taking too much time. A fast, free, easy-to-create mobile quiz game called Kahoot! will be presented since it is an excellent tool to bring formative assessment into the L2 classroom in a fun and engaging manner. The presenter will guide participants to create an account and explore the tool. Participants with Internet access and a computer or mobile tool will have the chance to create their own quiz game that they can take to their L2 classrooms as well as the possibility to consult with the presenter on best practices of how to implement it into their particular context.
The objective of this workshop is to equip early-stage CALL researchers with key pointers to aid them in writing for publication in reputable CALL journal. The presenter will also share with participants common pitfalls in academic writing by illustrating through examples of anonymous submissions. This will include a discussion on how writers succeed or fail to get their papers published and how to handle reviewers' comments and feedback. Based on what have been discussed participants are given one sample papers and ask to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the paper. This will be done in groups so that they can support each other as they work towards improving the papers. The presenter will be moving around to give feedback and support.
