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Confirmed invited international speakers are:
Suresh Canagarajah
Professor of English at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
His research interests span bilingualism, discourse analysis, academic writing, and critical pedagogy. He teaches undergraduate level courses in academic writing, globalization of English, and postcolonial literature, and graduate level seminars on the teaching of writing.
His book, Resisting Linguistic Imperialism in English Teaching (Oxford University Press, 1999), won the Mina P. Shaughnessy Award (2000) by the Modern Language Association for the best "research publication in the field of teaching English language, literature, rhetoric, and composition". His subsequent book, Geopolitics of Academic Literacy and Knowledge Construction (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002) won the 2003 Gary Olson Award by the Association of the Teachers of Advanced Composition for the best book in social and rhetorical theory.
Kees de Bot
Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Groningen, Holland
His research concerns a number of topics including foreign language attrition, language and dementia in multilingual settings, maintenance and shift of minority languages and the psycholinguistics of bilingual language processing, and more recently the application of Dynamic Systems Theory in SLA and multilingualism.
He is a trustee of the TESOL International Research Foundation and a member of the Program Committee of the Department of Modern Languages of Carnegie Mellon University. He is coeditor of a series, Studies in Bilingualism, from John Benjamins Publishing. He is Chair of the Board of the School of Behavioral and Cognitive Neurosciences in Groningen. He recently acted as guest editor of a special issue of the journal, Studies in Bilingualism, on language attrition.
Elana Shohamy
Professor and Head of the Language Education Program at the School of Education Tel Aviv University, Israel
Her research focuses primarily on topics related to critical language issues in multilingual societies: political/educational dimensions of language tests, language education policies, academic achievements of immigrants in schools, linguistic landscape and mechanisms used to impose policies. She is the author of numerous articles and books such as The Power of Tests (Longman, 2001) and Language Policy: Hidden Agendas and New Approaches (Routledge, 2006). At this conference she will address the issue of the connection (or lack of connection) of research in Applied Linguistics and Language Education Policies.
Anamaría Harvey
Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
She holds an MA and a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Birmingham, England. She has been guest lecturer in Chilean, Latin American and European universities, academic advisor for the Curriculum and Teaching Division of the Ministry of Education and guest editor of a special issue of the ESPJ. She is currently a member of the Language Group of the National Commission for Science and Technology (CONICYT) and of the editorial committee of Signos and President of the Latin American Association of Discourse Studies (ALED). She is the head of a research project on academic discourse and also the Chilean director of two international research projects on discourse analysis being jointly conducted with researchers from the University of La Plata, Argentina, and the University of Stockholm, Sweden. Her current research focuses primarily on English and Spanish academic discourse and on the Spanish of young adults from a socio-pragmatic perspective. Her most recent publications include the compilation of the book, En torno al discurso. Contribuciones de America Latina, and the articles "Manifestaciones evaluativas en la ciencia como discurso", "La evaluacin en informes escritos por estudiantes universitarios", all three published in Chile in 2005.