NTUTAPPLINGX 2011
November 3-4, 2011
NTUTAPPLINGX 2011
NTUTAPPLINGX 2011 continued the success of the applied linguistics-oriented NTUTAPPLINGX 2009 conference and explorered the diversity and innovation of applied linguistics and language learning. It was held on November 3 and 4, 2011. The invited guests were Prof. Susan M. Gass of Michigan State University and Prof. Michael Hoey of the University of Liverpool. Prof. Gass's keynote speech was on “Applied Linguistics, Language Learning, and Language Teaching: Creating a Research Link” and Prof. Hoey's on “How a right knowledge of Chinese might be used to help in the learning of English (and how a wrong knowledge won’t help at all)”. The two-day event saw forty-four papers from Thailand, Iran, Australia, China, and Taiwan and had more than ninety participants. The presented papers were reviewed and later published in the special issue of Taiwan Journal of Linguistics.
