8:30-9:25 REGISTRATION

9:25-9:30 CONFERENCE OPENING

9:30-10:30 ROOM 2.21
Dr Elaine Lopez, Newcastle University Linguistic Theory and the Second Language Classroom

10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK

DISCOURSE PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

ROOM 2.20
Session 1 Language use in media regarding the
10:30-11:00 tragedy of MH370: A keyword
analysis between Malaysia and British
news reports
Theng Theng Ong
Northumbria University
Session 2 Investigating multi-voicedness in the
11:00-11:30 gendered discourses of Twitter-
hashtagged debates about Saudi-
womens issues
Lubna Mohammed Bahammam
University of Reading
Session 3 A critical discourse analysis of the
12:00-12:30 institutional psychiatric discourse:
Attention/Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder as case study
Sara Vilar Lluch
The University of East Anglia
12:30-13:00
ROOM 2.21
Acoustically Identifying Plosives'
Place of Articulation
Daniel McCarthy
Newcastle University
Fronting in the Toon? Evidence of
/u/-fronting in North East England
Jasmine Warburton
Newcastle University
A quantitative analysis of intra
and inter-speaker variation of f-
pattern, speaking rate, vowel
length and aspects of consonant
production from soft to loud
speech in Italian
Massimiliano Canzi
University of York
POSTER SESSION
ROOM 2.22 PYBUS ROOM
The Disappearance of the Third The Relationship between
Distal Demonstrative in English Phonological Awareness and
Spelling Acquisition of Arabic-
Vanja Vasiljevic English Speaking Children in the UK
Northumbria University
Sahar Alkaab
Newcastle University
Disappearing words: factors The role of working memory
affecting word obsolescence in capacity and type of instruction in
English the development of explicit and
implicit knowledge of L2 English
Alison Aspin articles
Newcastle University
Irina Tomak
University of Essex
CONVERSATION ANALYSIS Has your sense of humour
ROOM 2.22 changed? Humour appreciation
Learning in a Self-Organised and communication among Chinese
Learning Environment (SOLE): A users of L2 English
conversation analytic approach
Xuemei Chen
Yang Du Birkbeck, University of London
Newcastle University

13:00-13:30 LUNCH BREAK

 13:30-14:30 ROOM 2.21
Professor John Joseph, University of Edinburgh "How Languages Get (and Lose) their Mojo"

SOCIOLINGUISTICS SYNTAX CONVERSATION ANALYSIS EFL TEACHING

ROOM 2.20 ROOM 2.21 ROOM 2.22 PYBUS ROOM
Session 4 The Conservation of Wenzhou Dialect Intervention effects in embedded Advice in supervising Variability and Stability in EFL
14:30 under the Influence of Mandarin clauses in Jordanian Arabic undergraduates: a conversation Learners Willingness to
15:00 analytic study Communicate
Qi Dai Marwan Jarrah
Beijing Forestry University/ Birkbeck, Newcastle University Marion West Jiayi Zhang
University of London University of Wolverhampton Durham University

Session 5 Lexis-Oriented Sociolinguistics: Rejecting Optional Wh-movement DISCOURSES IN EDUCATION Exploring the pedagogy of
15:30-16:00 Methodological, Theoretical, and in Colloquial Singapore English ROOM 2.22 pronunciation training using CAPT
Analytical Foundations The Discourse of Careers Experts technology in the EFL classroom
Yingjie Lan in UK University Websites: A environment: Case study of first
Rhys Sandow University of Cambridge corpus-based critical discourse year EFL university students in
University of Sussex analysis Algeria

Maria Fotiadou Moustafa Amrate

University of Sunderland University of York
Session 6 Syrian refugees in the UK: the journey A Variational Model of Root Mixed Messages for Teachers? A An analysis of L2 pragmatic
16:00-16:30 of linguistic and socio-cultural identity Infinitives During Language Discourse Analysis of Government competence development: The
construction Acquisition Secondary English Documentation case of Saudi and Chinese EFL
Using Corpus Linguistics Methods learners
Amina Al-Dhaif Callum Hackett
Northumbria University Newcastle University Babette Verhoeven Marzouq Alsulayyi
University of Huddersfield Anglia Ruskin University
16:30- 17:30 ROOM 2.21
Professor Paul Baker, Lancaster University Beyond the checkbox: understanding what patients say in online feedback

17:3017:40 CONFERENCE CLOSING

18:0019:45 OPTIONAL DINNER AT OTTOMAN TURKISH RESTAURANT

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Pybus Room OLB 3.14: please ask the volunteers to guide you to the room