Knowledge is Power

Our conference is where leaders and innovators meet to share, inspire and network. We’re proud to host some of the most well-known and influential voices in the field.

This year’s schedule is packed with exceptional lectures, and sessions. 

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DAY 1  -    Saturday 18 February 2023

9.15-9.50  Conference registration – Welcome Coffee

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9.50-10.00 Opening statements - Dr Paschalis Chliaras ( #SLER2023 Chair)

10.00-10.30  Raising learners’ awareness of deictic tools in the EFL classroom (Dr. Hejer Abidi, ISLAIB, Beja, Tunisia)

10.30-11.00 Visual deficits in Dyslexia: Examining stress patterns (Ioanna Vasilopoulou, PhD Candidate under examination and Assistant Lecturer,  Department of Language & Linguistics, University of Essex) 

11.00-11.30 Lexico-grammatical patterns of children’s language use (Boglárka Vermeki

University of Belgrade, Serbia (visiting lecturer), University of Pécs, Hungary)

11.30-12.00 Humanism and Schema Theory in Second Language Acquisition (Zenovia Michail, Freelance, Greece)

12.00-12.30 Humour in the classroom environment. How do teachers use it? (Natalie Emmanouil, Freelancer, Greece)

12.30-13.00  Coffee break

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13.00-13.30 ESP Course Construction Based on Need Analysis: Communicative English for OTOP Vendors (Dr Akkarapon Nuemaihom & Dr Kampeeraphab Intanoo, English Language Teaching Program, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Buriram Rajabhat University, Thailand)

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13.30-14.00 Business English in the post-pandemic context: empowering the students, changing the narrative (Dr Zoi Antonopoulou, University of Piraeus, Greece)

14.00-15.00 Lunch break

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15.00-15.45 WORKSHOP Designing Interactive Multimodal Materials with H5P (Dr Dolores Barbazán-Capeáns, Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University, NY, USA)

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15.45-16.15 Developing reflective languaculture learners through video-based e-Tandem in an online beginning language course: An action research study (Emmanuelle S. Chiocca, Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics and Culture Assistant Director for Additional Languages, Language and Culture Center, Co-Director, Duke Kunshan University, Jiangsu, China)

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16.15-16.45 Blended Learning to Optimise Second Language Learning (Ha Nguyen, Patronus English Classes, Vietnam)

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16.45-17.15 Media Literacy in the English Classroom (Oksana Sakhatska, Facilitator of the United States Regional English Language Office in Ukraine project "English for Media Literacy", Ukraine)

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17.15-17.45 Method, Post-method and Cybermethod (Chokri Smaoui, College of Education, Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman)

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17.45-18.15  Digital Communication Across Culture: A Case Study of The Linguistic features of WhatsApp Communication (Dr. Abdullah A. Khuwaileh, Jordan University of Language and Technology)

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18.15 Closing remarks

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DAY 2    -       Sunday 19 February 2023

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9.30-10.00  Conference registration – Welcome Coffee

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10.00-11.00 ALL-SKILLS approach: the new tool that will make your learners actively engaged participants

Plenary  Dr Paschalis Chliaras FHEA ( #SLER2023 Chair)

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11.00-11.30 Dogme ELT: A retrospective and reappraisal in a technocratic age (Edward Eustace, English Teacher at Kaplan International Languages College, Covent Garden, London)

11.30-12.00 Teachers Practices and Perceptions Regarding the Flipped Classroom Approach: The case of an English department (Mimoun Melliti, University of Kairouan, Tunisia)

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12.00-12.30  The power of social emotional learning in the EFL classroom. (Tanya Livarda (BA/MA in TESOL, CELTA), EFL teacher, Oral Examiner )

12.30-13.00 Triad Concepts for ELT Teachers’ Professional Self-Development (Dr Muhammed Fatih Gökmen, Siirt Üniversitesi, Turkey)

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13.00-13.30  Coffee break

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13.30-14.00  Advancing Academic Writing Skills: An Interventional Study with EFL Tertiary-Level Students (Yasamiyan Alolaywi, PhD in Applied Linguistics, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Translation, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia)

14.00-14.30 Writing Assessment Literacy in the 21st Century ELT Classroom (Dr. Lee McCallum, FHEA, Lecturer in Academic Writing, Centre for Academic Writing, Coventry University, UK)

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14.30-15.00 Examining L2 English University Engineering students’ uses of lexical bundles and their relationship to writing quality: A Corpus based study (Muhammad Afzaal, Institute of Corpus Studies and Applications, Shanghai International Studies University, China)

15.00-16.00  Lunch break

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16.00-16.30  The Relationship between Omani Grade 12 Students' Home-environment and their English Academic Achievement: A Pilot Study (Ayuob Yaqoob Saleh Al-Rashdi, University of Nizwa, Oman)

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16.30-17.00  The Russian relational adjective and its translation equivalents in German: A corpus based analysis (Lisa Marie Lang, PhD student, Universität Innsbruck, Austria)

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17.00-17.30  Two Second Languages at Once: Arabic and English Acquisition Method at Gontor, Indonesia (  Muhammad Zaki, Ahmad Gagah Gattuso, 1, 2, 3 Universitas Darussalam Gontor, Ponorogo, Indonesia)

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17.30-18.00 Developing linguistic resources to teach academic spoken Italian to foreign learners. The ASIC corpus. (Diana Peppoloni University of Perugia – Italy)

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18.00-18.30 A Comparison of Lexical Collocations amongst Native and Arab Learners of English – A Corpus-Based Study. (Reem Al-shammari, PhD Candidate, University of Leeds, UK)

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18.30 Closing remarks