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Thursday
, March 9
11:15 GMT+04
English Course for Beginning Young Learners
Salon 4
Multimodal Literacy; student and teacher practice
Executive Suite 1
Online peer assessment to enhance writing skills
Sahab 1
Teaching Specialist Subjects Through English Language Immersion
Salon 8
Translanguaging Practices in a College Writing Course
Executive Suite 2
12:00 GMT+04
Examining Writers’ Intentions to Improve Instruction
Salon 6
Food translation and translation hunger in Lebanon
Salon 4
12:45 GMT+04
Advancing the ELT Profession:Revisiting Classroom Discussion
Samaya Ballroom B
Expat teacher, what’s your story?
Salon 7
Promoting ESL Learners’ Writing Using Short Movies
Salon 5
The Five Love Languages in Teaching Teens
Hospitality Suite
13:30 GMT+04
The role of podcasts in language teaching
Sahab 1
14:15 GMT+04
Answering top FAQs about the TOEFL® Test
Samaya Ballroom C
Enjenese in spase: Young ELLs’ Invented spellings
Salon 5
Listening Summary: A Challenging Skill
Sahab 1
15:00 GMT+04
An evaluation of Culture in Prospect Series
Salon 4
Competition model and ESP: Introducing an application
Junior Suite 1
Cook and Learn English
Salon 3
Declined Reading Habits amongst Pakistan Undergraduate Students
Junior Suite 2
Effectiveness of Iranian EFL teacher training courses
Executive Suite 4
Enhancing formative assessment through technology.
Sahab 2
Enhancing Young Learners With Positive Parental Motivation
Salon 2
IELTS and GPA in UAE Higher Education
Salon 7
Joint Projects in EFL Contexts.
Sahab 1
Male Beauty Cream Advertisements:A Critical Discourse Analysis
Executive Suite 3
Observing classes with a 'theme'
Salon 5
Planned/Incidental Focus on Form and Grammatical Accuracy
Executive Suite 2
Prospective ESL teachers’ writing strategies and difficulties
Hospitality Suite
Teaching English through Crafts to Young Learners
Salon 8
Teaching Vocabulary and Grammar with World Literature
Salon 6
The Native Speaker Fallacy: International Perspectives
Salon 1
UPP Efficacy from Students and Teachers Perspectives
Junior Suite 3
Using SNSs in Learning English language
Executive Suite 1
15:30 GMT+04
Analyzing data using thematic narrative analysis
Executive Suite 2
Contribution of learning style to language Performance
Junior Suite 3
Critical Aspects of Curriculum in the UAE
Sahab 2
Eclecticism in Foreign Language Teaching
Hospitality Suite
Effective strategies to empower EFL teacher motivation
Executive Suite 3
English-Arabic Code Switching in Instant Messaging
Salon 6
Evaluating language assessment courses in Iran
Junior Suite 2
Examining ‘vowel blindness’ among Arabic EFL learners
Junior Suite 1
Implementing Extensive Reading in ELC
Salon 3
IPad tasking on Facebook and Trip Advisor
Salon 1
Literature a Springboard, the World Argument’s Playground
Salon 5
Overcoming the Negativity Bias
Executive Suite 4
Ready, Set, Blend: Perspectives on Blended Classrooms
Salon 8
TESOL Motivation Keys for Middle Eastern Youth
Executive Suite 1
The National Archives: Treasury of Authentic Materials
Salon 7
Using Alternative Media in the CLIL Classroom
Salon 2
Working in partnership to achieve world-class education
Sahab 1
Friday
, March 10
09:00 GMT+04
Adapting Teaching Strategies to Arab Student Needs
Junior Suite 1
Do ‘linguistic habits’ affect ‘thinking’?
Junior Suite 2
Flipping the Classroom to Encourage Student Engagement
Samaya Ballroom C
Game-based apps in a non-game context
Salon 8
Indexicality in the Egyptian Movie: Assal Aswed
Junior Suite 3
Indexicality in the Egyptian Movie: Assal Aswed
Junior Suite 3
Indexicality in the Egyptian Movie: Assal Aswed
Junior Suite 3
Indexicality in the Egyptian Movie: Assal Aswed
Junior Suite 3
Metacognitive awareness of L1 &L2 reading strategies
Executive Suite 1
10:15 GMT+04
Teaching Literary Essays to EFL Students
Executive Suite 3
11:00 GMT+04
A Course of English through Citizenship
Junior Suite 1
Arab EFL Instructors’ Attitudes Towards Code Switching
Executive Suite 2
Attitudes and use of ICT
Hospitality Suite
Covert Processes Involved in Written Academic Genres
Salon 5
Creating Podcast for Beginning EFL Learners
Salon 8
Creative Grammar Teaching: Connecting the Seemingly Unconnected
Executive Suite 1
Critical pedagogy-opportunities for the ELT profession
Junior Suite 2
Global Literacy,Intercultural Communicative Competence and Using Facebook
Salon 3
Multimodal System: Boon or Bane?
Executive Suite 3
Supervisors: Friends or Foes?
Salon 4
Using Classroom Debates To Engage The Students
Salon 7
Using corpora to inform curriculum and teaching
Salon 6
Who Cares About Socio-Affective Language Learning Strategies?
Junior Suite 3
11:30 GMT+04
Acquisition of Arabic Relative Pronouns Gender Agreement
Executive Suite 3
Critical Thinking and Gamification: Mutual Impact
Hospitality Suite
Effects of Strategy Training on Vocabulary Knowledge
Executive Suite 4
EFL Virtual Learning Environment:Concerns and Challenges
Salon 3
ESP in police academies: Challenges and solutions
Junior Suite 3
Ethnolinguistic Digital Storytelling
Junior Suite 2
Exploring Novice Teachers’ Professional Development through Mentoring
Salon 8
Learning English Dhofari Style
Executive Suite 2
Mainstream vs. International English: voices from classrooms
Salon 6
Pragmatic competence among EFL teachers
Executive Suite 1
Recording Read Aloud to Develop Speaking Accuracy
Salon 4
Saudi Skills-mismatch: English and Professional Training Adaptations
Junior Suite 1
Turning Ideas into Action with MindMeister
Salon 5
14:00 GMT+04
A Valid Placement Test for RAKBank Employees
Junior Suite 3
Creative Vocabulary Learning through WhatsApp
Salon 7
Evaluating ELT Professionals' Research
Junior Suite 1
Experiential learning in writing a research proposal
Executive Suite 2
Flip! Just Make Sure You Assess Learning
Salon 3
intercultural connotations of Islamic terms in English
Salon 4
On our way to better listening
Junior Suite 2
Promoting collaboration in Middle Eastern classrooms
Salon 5
Students’ voices in exam results
Executive Suite 3
Task and Content Based ESP Vocabulary Teaching
Executive Suite 1
The Use of Music in ELT
Salon 8
Web Development for the EFL Classroom
Salon 6
“Apprenticeship of Observation”: Beliefs and Practices
Hospitality Suite
14:30 GMT+04
Another Step toward Independent Learners: Reading Circles
Junior Suite 3
Are English THE and Arabic AL equivalent?
Salon 5
Challenges and Strategies for Teaching Autistic Children
Salon 6
Enhancing Cognitive Skills for ESL Academic Writers
Executive Suite 4
Peer Feedback Made Interesting and Beneficial
Junior Suite 2
Reflective Teaching Diary
Executive Suite 1
Students 'Satisfication of English Remedial Course .
Executive Suite 3
Technology: Not a classroom's magic wand
Junior Suite 1
To correct or not to correct?
Executive Suite 2
Write to Right:Using Documentaries in ESL Classroom
Hospitality Suite
15:00 GMT+04
Games, Competition and Online Vocabulary Learning
Salon 6
Listening strategy Performance in Iranian EFL learners
Hospitality Suite
Test Anxiet and FCE Learners’ Speaking Performance
Salon 5
15:30 GMT+04
English corner: all you need to know
Salon 5
One minute presentation to reduce stage fright
Salon 6
Use of Interactional MDMs in NETs/NNETs’ Speech
Salon 8
Saturday
, March 11
10:15 GMT+04
Role of Rhymes in Oral language Development
Executive Suite 2
11:00 GMT+04
Advancing approaches to teach Grammar visually
Salon 4
Battling with evaluation in mobile learning
Hospitality Suite
Continuing Professional Development model for EFL Teachers
Executive Suite 2
Critical thinking and problem-solving in EFL
Salon 8
EL teachers’ use of ELT websites
Salon 6
Fostering teachers' critical awareness about questioning practices
Junior Suite 2
Implementing Translanguaging Pedagogy in English Composition Classes
Salon 5
Increasing Students’ Motivation Through Smartphone Presentation Apps
Executive Suite 1
Saudi Snappers and their Speaking Fluency
Junior Suite 3
Scaffolding EFL/ESL Writing Skills through Feedback
Junior Suite 1
Social Pressure and EFL Learners’ Beliefs
Executive Suite 3
Using online tools for elementary ESL learners
Salon 7
11:30 GMT+04
5000 Years of History in 30 Minutes
Salon 7
7 ways to combat increased contact hours
Salon 5
A TOEFL® MOOC to Explore in Class
Salon 8
Appropriateness of Requests in Students-Teachers Emails
Executive Suite 3
Consonant Gemination in Foreign Language Acquisition
Executive Suite 4
Flipquiz: a Game for Revising and Motivating
Salon 6
Omani trainee teacher perceptions of coeducational microteaching
Junior Suite 2
Reflective learning and low language proficiency
Executive Suite 1
Written corrective feedback in an EFL context
Salon 4
12:00 GMT+04
Learner autonomy: towards a new collaborative approach
Salon 5
Teachers Under Pressure
Samaya Ballroom D
Transfer of Learning in Digital Storytelling
Salon 6
12:30 GMT+04
CANCELLED - Education policies are not written in stone
Hospitality Suite
Curriculum Quality in TESOL: A Different Perspective.
Executive Suite 4
Facebook in EFL writing classroom
Salon 5
Professional Learning Community (PLC): EFL Context
Salon 6
14:00 GMT+04
An application of the general testlet model
Sahab 1
An Exploration of ELT Managers’ Professional Identity
Hospitality Suite
14:30 GMT+04
Influence of Syllabus on Retrievers’ Writing Performance
Sahab 1
Role Play in Early Childhood Second Language
Hospitality Suite
15:00 GMT+04
Teachers’ Backgrounds vs Learner Expectations in Japan.
Junior Suite 3
Teaching Vocabulary via Virtual Learning Environment
Junior Suite 2
The Benefits of ESP for Engineering Students
Junior Suite 1
Translanguaging: Students’ linguistic repertoire & academic language
Sahab 1
15:30 GMT+04
Harnessing Musical Intelligence: A Saudi Context
Executive Suite 1
Writing Attitudes of Bilingual Adult Students
Junior Suite 3
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