Daniel Dusza
University of Southern Queensland
About
Daniel is a teacher/researcher specializing in Word-formation in psycholinguistics and studying the neurocognitive processes that form healthy learners, memories, and fluent recall. The study and treatment of fluent recall in early child development and youth and adult disfunction in English as an additional language is his specialty. Daniel is an award winning writer and presenter.Sessions
Online Flipped Learning Approach for Improving Communicative Competence, Collaboration and Student Engagement more
Sun, May 1, 16:00-Tue, May 31, 23:55 Asia/Seoul
This workshop presents Helaine Marshal’s (2017) Synchronous Online Flipped Learning Approach (SOFLA), developed specifically for online and hybrid classes. The presenters have adapted the SOFLA framework in Online F2F school and hybrid college curriculums and online Business Managers’ Courses. SOFLA has been beneficial in improving student autonomy, participation, and independent communication. The workshop will first discuss what kind of activities should be moved out of class and what should be practised during class to maximize comprehension, retention, collaboration, and communicative competence. Participants will then be encouraged to share their curriculum limitations and discuss solutions. Finally, examples of using technology to monitor student participation and interaction covertly and provide formative assessment are presented. This workshop demonstrates the benefits of the SOFLA framework, how lesson time can be more effectively used for communication and how the roles of teachers and students change throughout the SOFLA process.
Learning From Teachers’ Perceptions About Moving to Online Education During COVID-19 more
Sun, May 1, 12:00-Tue, May 31, 23:55 Asia/Seoul
This workshop is based on the perceived strengths, weaknesses, and challenges of English teachers in Japan, who were compelled to conduct lessons online during the pandemic in 2020. Throughout Asia, educators believed they were prepared for teaching online. However, the situation in Japan revealed that experience, training, and attitudes towards teaching with technology can affect learning. This workshop first presents a comprehensive literature review of how teaching online influences pedagogy, working with technology, learning, participation, and communication. Then, problems and recommendations reported by Japanese teachers will be presented, and participants will be invited to discuss solutions based on their personal experiences with online education and from the theories presented earlier. Examples include a) recognizing the influence of synchronous and asynchronous activities on communicative competence, and b) how to monitor students’ participation in virtual synchronous classrooms. This workshop provides professional development for solving technical and pedagogical challenges to teaching online worldwide.
The Role of World English Homophones in Accidents, Incidents, and Incidence more
Sat, Apr 30, 13:00-Tue, May 31, 23:55 Asia/Seoul
This research investigates the influence of non-standard English homophones on airline safety. The English language has more than 6000 homophones and almost two thirds of the world’s 1.5 billion English speakers use English as a Second Language, thereby increasing the list of possible homophones tremendously. Contributions of similar words or word parts to disasters (Tenerife, 1997), accidents (Gimli Glider, 1983) and human suffering (Avianca Flight-052, 1990), and the effect of introducing homophones from non-standard Englishes on safety will be presented (e.g., Charkhi Dadri, 1996) together with examples of how homophones contribute to miscommunications, particularly in stressful emergency situations (e.g., Garuda Flight-152, 1997). Furthermore, examples of dangerous homophone conflicts (e.g., numbers ending in -teen and -ty) derived from aircraft investigations and voice recordings from Thai, Japanese, and Korean participants will be presented. Finally, implications for teaching English for academic and general education will also be discussed.
