A. Topic Areas, Plenary Speakers, Sessions, Date and Venue

LANGUAGE TEACHING AND CHARACTER BUILDING
58TH TEFLIN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
3rd - 5th November, 2011
Character building has become a heated issue in Indonesia lately due to the fact that it is closely related to the quality of education. Education can be considered successful when it can change the students' behavor and attitude towards life. The current trend towards anarchy, corruption, dishonesty, cheating and irresponsibility among students indicates a failure of education. Therefore, it is high time to rethink of its importance to design character building in language teaching.
The 58th TEFLIN international conference will explore approches, issues and questions related to the character building in language teaching. From this discussion, the result of the seminar can draw out implication for language teaching, learning, testing and translation.
 
THEME
Language Teaching and Character Building
 
DATE AND VENUE
November 3rd-5th 2011
IKIP PGRI Semarang
Semarang
 
 
Alamat:
Gedung Pusat (GP)
Jl. Sidodadi Timur No. 24, Dr. Cipto-Semarang 50125

Gedung Utama & Gedung Baru
Jl. Lontar No. 1, Semarang 50125
Indonesia
Indonesia
 
AIMS
The 58th TEFLIN International Conference has the following aims:
  • To look into the English language curriculum and its property to include character building.
  • To establish the consequences of the character building in language teaching methods, materials, and testing.
 
INVITED SPEAKERS
  • Prof. Beverly Derewianka. Ph. D (Australia)
    Associate Profesor, University of Wollongong. President Australian Systemic Linguistics Association.  Director, Centre for Research in Language and Literacy
  • Prof. Helen Borland, Ph. D (Australia)
    Helen Borland is Associate Professor in the School of Communication, Culture and Languages at Victoria University and currently, Principal Advisor International to the Pro Vice Chancellor, International. She has a background in Russian, Linguistics, and English as a Second Language and teaches sociolinguistics, cross-cultural communication and communication research methodology. She is well known for her research into language, identity and communication issues in migrant communities in Melbourne and, particularly, in Melbourne’s west. In 2006, with Dr Charles Mphande she completed a report for the then Victorian Office of Multicultural Affairs investigating the numbers of speakers of various African languages in Victoria. She and Dr Mphande are currently working for the Victorian Multicultural Commission on a second stage of this project which involves community consultations to gain a more in-depth understanding of patterns of language and literacy usage in some of the larger African language communities in Victoria.
  • Prof. Nobuyu Honna, Ph. D (Japan)
  • Prof. E. Sadtono, Ph. D (Indonesia)
  • Alexander Arguelles, Ph. D (RELC Singapore)
  • Helena I. R. Agustien, Ph. D (Indonesia)
  • Melchor Tatlonghari, Ph. D (Philippine)
  • Lance Knowles (USA)