Excellence in Teaching and Knowledge Economy: Engage, Enhance, Activate

9.00 -9.20

Auditorium 117
Welcome

9.20 10.20

Ibn Khaldoon Hall

Plenary

10:30 - 10:50

11:00 - 11:20

11:30 - 11:50

Library 110

SATURDAY
Library 203
Library 204
Library 230
QU President, Dr. Hassan AlDerham
QU VPCAO, Dr. Mazen Hasna
QU FP Director, Dr. Maha AlHendawi
TESOL President-Elect, Dr. Dudley Reynolds

Library 303

Library 347

Justin Kernot

Hinemoa Xhori
Tips on
Teaching Task
One Academic
IELTS

Beth Wiens &

Linda Marshall

Dr. David Nunan

Issues and Challenges in Integrated Syllabus Design

Ibn Khaldoon Hall

L2 Writing
Colin Michell
Colloquium:
Fun ways to
Second
help students
language
learn
writing
vocabulary
development:
Research and
Ewa Toloczko
classroom
applications
Teach an
Attitude of
Dr. Dave Frear,
Mind, not
Dr. Jingjing Qin, Writing
Dr. Maimoonah
Al Khalil &
Dr. Dudley
Dhahab
Reynolds
Mohammad &
Saad Hubais

Jerry
Brewington
Basic
Discourse
Analysis for L2
Students
Dr. Rola Naeb
Does grammar
instruction
work in
Technology
Enhanced
environments?
Kristina
Bayburtsyan
Speed Reading

The Role of
Mind Mapping
inTeaching
Grammar and

Dr. Gwendolyn
B. Lavert

Jeri Ahern &

Karen Murray

Overcoming
Cognitive
Challenge in
Reading

Adapting
Presentation
Styles to Meet
Cultural Norms

Listen Up
Engaging and
Motivating
Listening
Activities

Caterina
Skiniotou

Lotfi Ahmed

Sarah Campion

Understanding
and Teaching
visually
impaired
students

Using Movie
Trailers in the
Classroom

Teaching
Literacy to
Adult ESL/EFL
Students
Effective

Translating an
EAP
Curriculum
into

12:00 - 12:20

12:30 - 13:20
13:30 - 14:30

14:45 - 15:05

15:15 - 15:35

Improving
Student
Performance
Mouna El Kahla

Strategies and
Techniques

Summative
Assessments

21st Century
Project Based
Learning
Library Exhibition Hall
Lunch
Plenary
Dr. Lillian Wong
Towards a globalized knowledge economy: Engaging, enhancing and empowering learners with information technology in
English language teaching
Ibn Khaldoon Hall
Featured: Dr. Ali Holi Ibrahim
Dr. Sabah
Andrew Imrie
Wendy
Tony
Anna Hasper
Shehadeh
Holi Ali
Sabbah
Brendzy &
Waterman
Introduction to Ryan Brendzy
Taking the
Task Based
Copying with
Jigsaw Reading Reading Circles
Making
drivers seat:
Language
Lecture
to Enhance
Multilingual
Learners
enhancing
Assessment:
Comprehension Learning
Digital
Successful at 3 learner
Components,
Difficulties in
Autonomy
Storybooks
minute
autonomy in
Development
an English
Integrated
Presentations
the classroom
and
Medium
Skills
Implementation Engineering
Program in
Oman
Peter Bekker
Mouhamad
Mouhanna
One hand
doesnt clap Teacher
using effective research in EFL
strategies to
beliefs and
develop
practices
academic

15:45 - 16:05

16:15 - 16:35

Featured:
Dr. Maha
Al-Hendawi
Critical Thinking
Skills in Higher
Education: A
Case Study at
Qatar
University
Featured: Noura
Alnouf
Engaging
Students in
Learning

16.35 -16.55
16:55 - 17:15

Asking
Questions
Developing
Gulf Arab
Students
Critical
Thinking Skills
through
Caterina
Tadlock and
Mastoor Al
Kaboody

Teaching Tips
for Diverse
Learning Styles
Library Exhibition Hall
Featured: John
Carmen
Rogers
Denekamp
Of course class
size matters,
but does it?

17:25 - 17:45

language for
ESL Learners
Ozgur Pala

Necla Arlic

Enhancers and
Activators for
Reading and
Vocabulary
Dr Okon Effiong

The Efficacy of
Written
Corrective
Feedback for

Bonding with
Language
Learners in the
Classroom

Kashif Raza

Jeff Maggard

Adapting
Teaching
Strategies to
Arab Student
Needs

Writing Fiction
to Develop
Knowledge
Economy Skills

Ali S. Ellafi

Snack Break
Hanaa Jalal

Unpacking
texts: from
grammar to
grammaring

How to be a
navigator in
the language
class

Naomi
Migliacci

Ahmed Raef

Alaeddin
Halwani

Strategies for
Helping
Students
Become Better
Writers

Gamification
in EFL
classroom:
Using Kahoot!
A gamelike
online student
response tool

Creating
Interactive
Exercises
Using Gerrys
Vocabulary
Database

Paul Tucker

Fasil Yitbarek

Zadjia Zahi

The Breadth
and Depth of
Advanced
Vocabulary

Effective
Reading
Strategies:
Ways to really
engage
students in
what they
read

Deciphering
English
Spelling Code
for Arab
Learners

17:55 - 18:15

Improving
Grammar in L2
Writing
Krystyna
Golkowska,
Rachid Bendriss
& Adam Larson
Demystifying
the teaching of
critical thinking
skills

8:00 - 18:15
9:00 - 9:20

9:30 - 9:50

Matthew Carey
Student
Perceptions of
Frequency
Based
Vocabulary
Curricula
Ahmad
Mojavezi
Working
memory
capacity and
task planning
under careful
online planning

10:00 - 10:20

Dr. Magdi
Kandil

Mohammed
Elsayed

Dr. Radi
Abouelhassan

Mansoor
Al-Surmi

Hashmi
Hamadi

Dr. Randa
Abdelmagid

The mechanics
of writing
(Writing as a
process)

Teaching with
Thematic Units
in College ESL
Classes

Group Work
Attitude and
L2
Collaborative
Writing

The 3 Es of
Education:
Enabled
Engaged
Empowered

Teaching
Vocabulary
Using a
BlendedLearning
Approach

SUNDAY
Registration and Check in Qatar University Library Main Entrance Foyer
Charles
Mohammed
Paul Argodale
Lyrma Ingels
Noureddine
Fullerton
Jahwari
Cherif
Touchstones
Testing Tools
Using the
Revitalizing
for Developing
New
Korean Wave
EAP Reading
Metacognitive
Aproaches for
to Teach
Classes with
Reading
Teaching
English?
Authentic
Strategies and
Grammar
Materials
Critical
Thinking
Mehdi Songhori Dr. Al Assad
Omar
The effect of
etymological
The
elaboration
Intercultural
and
Dynamics in
typographic
the Arab EFL
salience on
Classroom
learning English
idioms
Muhammad
Farzana Lone
Shaimaa
Marie Toriida
Syed
Shemeis

Alaa Alnajashi
Does a
teachers
motivation
really matter?

Fannie Daou
Teaching
Writing
Successfully

Kagan
Cihangiro lu

Applications of
Corpus
Linguistics in
the ESL/EFL
Classroom
10:30 - 10:50

Vhon Forester
Practical
Application of
Various
eLearning Tools

Padlet in
classroomUsing
technology to
engage,
collaborate and
teach
Roy Briones
Using Corpus to
Teach
Vocabulary

Interactive and
Fun Low Prep
Activities

Phillip Wren
Kahoot:
Webbased
Interactive
Presentation
Tool

Types of
Corrective
Feedback

Effective
Vocabulary
Teaching and
Learning
Strategies

Transforming
Authentic
Media to
Language
Learning
Material