Plenary Speakers

David Graddol
“How Globalisation is Changing TESOL”

David Graddol is Managing Director of The English Company (UK) Ltd which provides consultancy and publishing services in applied language studies. He is well known as a writer, broadcaster and lecturer on issues related to global English. David's publications include The Future of English?, a seminal research document commissioned by the British Council in 1997, and English Next published by the British Council in 2006. David is the managing editor for linguistics books and journals for Equinox Publishing, is joint editor of the journal English Today, and is a member of the editorial boards of  Language Planning and Language Problems and the Journal of Visual Communication. David worked for 25 years in the Faculty of Education and Language Studies at the UK Open University and has acted as a consultant in English language projects in the Middle East, India, China and Latin America.

Dr. Robert Phillipson
“English, a Necessary Lingua Franca or an Uncontrollable Lingua Frankensteinia?”

Robert Phillipson is a graduate of Cambridge and Leeds Universities, UK, and has a doctorate from the University of Amsterdam. He worked for the British Council in Spain, Algeria, Yugoslavia and London before settling in Denmark. He is a Professor at Copenhagen Business School. His main publications include Learner Language and Language Learning (with Claus Færch and Kirsten Haastrup, Multilingual Matters, 1984), Linguistic Imperialism (Oxford University Press, 1992, also published in China and India, and currently being translated into Arabic), Linguistic Human Rights: Overcoming Linguistic Discrimination, edited with Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (Mouton de Gruyter, 1994); Language: A Right and a Resource, edited with Miklós Kontra, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Tibor Várady (Central European University Press, 1999); and Rights to Language: Equity, Power and Education (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2000). His most recent book is English-only Europe? Challenging Language Policy (Routledge, 2003). His main research areas are the role of English worldwide, and implications for language policy and language pedagogy. For details, see http://www.cbs.dk/staff/phillipson

Dr. Julie A. Belz
"The Role of Computer Mediation in the Instruction and Development of Second Language Pragmatic Competence"

Julie A. Belz (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley) is Associate Professor of English/Applied Linguistics and Adjunct Associate Professor of World Languages and Cultures in the Indiana University School of Liberal Arts, Director of the TESOL Certificate Program, and Faculty Research Fellow at the Indiana Center for Intercultural Communication. She specializes in Internet-mediated language learning, intercultural communication, second language acquisition, pragmatics, learner corpus research, discourse analysis, learner identity, multilingual writing, and health discourse. She is the co-editor of Internet-Mediated Intercultural Foreign Language Education (Heinle & Heinle, 2006), guest editor of a special issue of Language Learning & Technology on telecollaboration, and author of numerous articles in such refereed outlets as The Modern Language Journal, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Language and Intercultural Communication, Intercultural Pragmatics, and Language Learning. Julie A. Belz has been a project director at the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency and Education Research, a national foreign language resource center, and she has participated in a number of externally funded grants from the US Department of Education and the Lilly Foundation. She serves on the editorial boards of Applied Linguistics and the American Association for University Supervisors and Coordinators of Foreign Language Programs (AAUSC).