Awardees 2008 – AILA
With special thanks to the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) for a generous contribution towards the Solidarity Award we are pleased to announce this year's awardees:
Anita Pavic Pintaric – Croatia
Research assistant, University of Zadar
Paper: Modifications of Idioms in the German and Croatian language of fashion
Pinky Makoe – South Africa
Lecturer (on leave), University of the Witwatersrand
Paper: Constructing Identities in Multilingual Classrooms in South Africa
Ayu'nwi N. Neba – Cameroon
Lecturer, University of Buea
Paper: The English Language Teacher and the Falling Standards of English/Education in Cameroon
Teresa Wlosowicz - Poland
Doctoral student in the 'co-tutelle' system, University of Silesia and Marc Bloch University
Paper: L2 and L3 Word Representations in the Multilingual Lexicon
K. Kanthimathi – India
Research Scholar, Indian Institute of Technology
Paper: TANGLISH: A byproduct of Tamil and English language contact
Dora Francisca Edu-Buandoh – Ghana
Lecturer, University of Cape Coast
Paper: Syntactic Structures Used In Educated Ghanaian English to Mark Politeness
Hassan Belhiah – Morocco
Assistant Professor, AlAkhawayn University
Paper: The functional uses of gesture in the activity of definitions
I-Hsin Liu – Taiwan
Doctoral student, University of Leuven
Paper: Acquiring L2 vocabulary from reading-and-writing tasks
Kizitus Mpoche – Cameroon
Senior Lecturer,University of Yaounde I ; Executive Secretary of the Cameroon Association of Applied Linguistics (CAMAAL)
Paper: Second Language Learning in a Multilingual Setting: The Primary School Experience in Cameroon
Hong Zhu – China
Associate Professor, Northeast Normal University (NENU)
Paper: The power of language: Chinese immigrants’ integration into Canadian society
Simplice Simeu – Cameroon
Doctoral student, University of Yaounde
Paper: The Roles Of Cross-border Languages On The Africa’s Development
Katarzyna Papaja – Poland
Doctoral student, University of Silesia
Paper: Language development in CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Language)
Fernando Ferreira-Junior – Brazil
Assistant Lecturer, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Ouro Preto
Paper: Form, function and frequency in the learning of constructions
Han Han – China
Doctoral student, Queens University
Paper: College English Teachers Change in Beliefs and Conceptions: A Case Study
Huynh Cong Minh Hung – Vietnam
Lecturer, Hochiminh City University of Pedagogy
Paper: Split attention in reading comprehension: a case of English as a second/foreign language (ESL/EFL)
Dudu Jankie – Botswana
Lecturer, University of Botswana
Paper: Textbooks as representation of diversity issues: Analysis of language textbooks in Botswana schools
Shahabaddin Behtari – Iran
Lecturer in ELT, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil Branch
Paper: Task-elicited variability: What does text access have to offer?
Razaul Karim Faquire – Bangladesh
Associate Professor and Researcher, University of Dhaka
Paper: Learner Variety of Modality in the Emergent Interlanguage of Japanese
Carolina A. Nunez – Philippines
Assistant Professor, Ateneo de Manila University
Paper: Coherence Features of Compositions Written by Filipino College Freshmen
Vanessa Borges de Almeida – Brazil
Doctoral student, Universidade Estadual Paulista – UNESP
Paper: The issue of pronunciation and events of language testing in a Brazilian teacher education context
Renata de Oliveira Razuk – Brazil
Doctoral student, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Paper: Verb transitivity in Portuguese as a third language: prepositional transfer from English L1 and Spanish L2