Plenary Speakers
Ahmar Mahboob
Bio:
Ahmar Mahboob, also known as Prof Nomad and Sunny Boy Brumby, was born in Pakistan, a child of refugees from British India. Ahmar has lived and worked across several geographical and sociological regions. He is twice recipient President of Pakistan’s Programme for Highly Qualified Award for Overseas Pakistanis. In 2019, he was recognised as the field leader in English language and literature by the Australian Magazine. Prof Nomad’s poetry was inducted into the Australian Poetry Hall of Fame in 2021. Ahmar has been serving as the Director of the Post Graduate program in Crosscultural and Applied Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia, since 2004.
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Cem Balçıkanlı
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Cem Balçıkanlı works as a professor in the ELT Department of Gazi University. He has been the editor in chief of the Journal of Language Learning and Teaching (http://jltl.com.tr/index.php/) since 2011. His research interests include learner/teacher autonomy, the role of technology in language learning/teaching, and second language teacher education. In addition to the book chapters in the books published by Routledge (Space, place and autonomy in language learning), by Candlin and Mynard (Navigating foreign language learner autonomy) and by Peter Lang AG (Drama and CLIL: A new challenge for the teaching approaches in bilingual education), he is the author of 50 Soruda Dil Öğrenme, Çocuğum İngilizce Öğreniyor (co-written with Prof. Dr. Kemal Sinan Özmen) and Yabancı Dil Perisi.
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Gülşat Aygen
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Gulsat Aygen is a Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at Northern Illinois University. Aygen’s research agenda includes both theoretical and applied linguistics, focusing on many Turkic languages, Kurdish, and English. In theoretical linguistics, she has worked extensively on finiteness, case and agreement and clausal architecture of world’s languages. In applied linguistics and language education, she developed a new framework using bringing linguistic theory into the English classroom and the community. Her recent publications include English Grammar: A Descriptive Linguistics Approach (2016,2019), Word Choice Errors: A Descriptive Linguistics Approach (2019), “Bridging theoretical and applied linguistics: Morphosyntactic properties of English” (2019, 2022). Currently, she is working on Linguistic Human Rights and Linguistics for Social Justice.
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Kata Csizér
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Kata Csizér holds a PhD in Language Pedagogy and works as an associate professor at the Department of English and Applied Linguistics at Eötvös University, Budapest. Her main field of research interest is the social psychological aspects of L2 learning and teaching, as well as second and foreign language motivation. She is an expert of L2 motivation research. She has published over 50 academic papers and has co-authored several books on various topics related to social psychological issues in foreign language learning and teaching, including Dörnyei, Z., Csizér, K., & Nemeth, N. (2006). Motivation, Language Attitudes and Globalization: A Hungarian Perspective. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters and Csizer, K., & Magid, M. (Eds.). (2014). The impact of self-concept on language learning. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. She is one of the editors of Palgrave Macmillan handbook of motivation for language learning.
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Peter De Costa
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Peter De Costa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Languages and the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University. His primary areas of research are identity and ideology in SLA. He is the author of The Power of Identity and Ideology in Language Learning (Springer, 2016). He recently guest co-edited special journal issues on scalar approaches to language learning and teaching (Linguistics and Education, 2016), teacher identity (The Modern Language Journal, 2017), study abroad research methodologies (System, 2017), and World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition (World Englishes, 2018). He is the co-editor of TESOL Quarterly.
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Vera Lavrukhina
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PhD (Philology), Associate Professor at the Department of Practice of Oral and Written English, H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University, Faculty of Foreign Philology.
I teach the course of Practice of Oral and Written English and the course of Country Studies for students of the Faculty of Foreign Philology and I’m interested in different approaches and methods of teaching English.
I’m the author of scientific and educational-methodical works, in particular methodical recommendations on the practice of English oral and written speech for students of language specialties on several topics. I’m a co-author of text-books “Practical English language course” in the specialty “English as a second foreign language”.
Research interests: study of European experience in training future foreign language teachers; research and comparison of different methodological approaches to teaching a foreign language, in particular teaching aspects of English oral and written speech; lexical and phraseology semantics; cognitive linguistics; culturology. I have more than 30 scientific and educational works, including text books, scientific articles.
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