Day 1: 28th September 2016

Time
8.15 9.15 am
9.15 10.15 am Ballroom
10.15 10.45 am
10.45 11.45 pm Ballroom

Venue

Event

Registration
Opening Ceremony
Tea break
Keynote 1:
Professor Dr. Farzad Sharifian, Monash University
GLOCALISATION OF ENGLISH: A CULTURAL LINGUISTIC
PERSPECTIVE

11.45 1.15 am Ballroom and Function Rooms

1.15 2.30 pm
2.30 4.00 pm Ballroom and Function Rooms
4.00 5.00 pm Ballroom

Parallel Session 1
Lunch
Parallel Session 2
Keynote 2:
Professor Dr. Lily Rose Tope, University of the
Philippines
GLOCALIZING CULTURAL DESIRE: THE LITERATURE ON THE
OVERSEAS FILIPINA WORKER

5.00 5.30 pm

Tea break

Day 2: 29th September 2016

Time
Venue
9.00 10.30 am Ballroom and Function Rooms
10.30 11.00 am
11.00 12.30 pm Ballroom and Function Rooms
12.30 2.00 pm
2.00 3.00 pm Ballroom

Event

Parallel Session 3
Tea break
Parallel Session 4
Lunch
Keynote 3:
Professor Dr. Wan Zawawi Ibrahim, University Brunei
Darussalam
RUPTURING NATION-STATE NARRATIVES FROM THE MARGINS:
CELEBRATING THE LITERARY WORKS OF AKIYA, A
CONTEMPORARY ORANG ASLI STORYTELLER

3.00 3.30 pm Ballroom

3.30 4.00 pm

Closing Ceremony
Tea break

Parallel Session 1
11.45 1.15pm

Venue: Ballroom
Theme: Linguistics
THE INDIRECT
PARTICIPANT IN
CHINESE TOPICCOMMENT SENTENCES
FROM THE PERSPECTIVE
OF SFL

Venue: Room 1
Theme: Language
& Education
LANGUAGE LEARNER
AUTONOMY AND
MOTIVATIONAL
ORIENTATIONS OF
ENGLISH LEARNERS IN A
MALAYSIAN PUBLIC
UNIVERSITY

Zhu Lanhui & Sridevi

Sriniwass
Heng Wen Zhuo & Sarjit
Kaur
A COGNITIVE LINGUISTIC A STUDY ON ENGLISH
COMPARATIVE
PROFICIENCY AND
ANALYSIS OF THE
NEEDS FOR
CONCEPTS OF WEIGHT
TECHNICIANS AND
AND MASS IN ARABIC
OPERATORS
AND FRENCH
Jarena Bagam Hamid
Hamsah & Wan Khamsah
Hicham Lahlou & Hajar
Wan Mustaffa
Abdul Rahim
MODALS AS HEDGES
AND BOOSTERS IN
ACADEMIC AND
JOURNALISTIC
ARTICLES: A SEMANTIC
ANALYSIS
Siti Afifah Hashim &
Subramaniam
Govindasamy
EXPLORING IMPLICIT
META-DISCOURSE: A
COMPARATIVE
ANALYSIS OF THE
CONSTITUTIONS OF THE
PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF
CHINA AND THE UNITED
STATES
He Mengyu

Venue: Room 2
Theme: Language
& Culture
CONCEPT OF 'FACE' IN
MALAY LANGUAGE AND
CULTURE: A CORPUSBASED APPROACH

Venue: Room 3
Theme: Literary
Studies
THE POSITION OF
TRANSLATED
LITERATURE IN JAPAN
IN THE SHOWA PERIOD

Raja Rozina Raja

Suleiman & Marlyna
Maros

Yosuke Nimura

OBSERVING POLITENESS DULCE ET DECORUM

THEORY IN PRESERVING EST PRO PATRIA MORI:
SOLIDARITY
A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF
WILFRED OWEN'S
Nor Zainiyah Norita
PHILOSOPHY OF WAR IN
Mokhtar & Lilisuriani
HIS WAR POEMS
Abdul Latif
AGAINST DAVID HUME'S
MORAL PHILOSOPHY

Halimah Mohamed Ali

A COMPARATIVE STUDY ZAHMAT-ET MISHE (IT
ABSURDITY IN THE
OF HOW ACADEMIA
WOULD BE A TROUBLE
LITERARY WORKS OF
AND INDUSTRY RATE
FOR YOU): ANALYZING
ALBERT CAMUS &
STUDENTS PERSUASIVE OSTENSIBLE REFUSAL IN SAMUEL BECKETT
PRESENTATIONS
PERSIAN TEXTS
Ashkan Shobeiri
Lilisuriani Abdul Latif, Mojde Yaqubi , Wan
Nuraihan Mat Daud & Rose
Eliza
Abdul
Walaa Hassan
Rahman & Hasuria Che
Omar
ORTHOGRAPHIC
THE COMPARISON OF
CHINATOWN: A
ERRORS COMMITTED BY 'IN GROUP AND OUT
CONFLICTING SPACE OF
THE TAMIL STUDENTS
GROUP' JAPANESE UCHI- LOCALISM AND
OF UPSI
SOTO SYSTEM WITH
GLOBALISM IN THE
JAVANESE
CRIME NOVELS BY CHIN
Franklin Thambi Jose
SHUN SHIN
Ely Triasih Rahayu &
Hariati
Masumi Usui

Parallel Session 2
2.30 4.00pm

Venue: Ballroom
Theme: Language
& Culture
ZA'BA'S
TRANSLATIONAL
FRAMEWORK:
TOWARDS A
TRANSLATION MODEL
FOR MALAYSIAN
TEACHERS

Venue: Room 2
Theme: Discourse
Studies
CULTURAL
CONNOTATIONS AND
LEXIS: A CORPUS-BASED
ANALYSIS OF ISLAM IN
MALAYSIAN MALAY
AND ENGLISH
Selvarajah Tharmalingam NEWSPAPERS
& Nora Mohd Nasir
Nik Zaitun Nik
Siti Zubaidah Mohd
Mohamed, Suyansah
Hashim & Hajar Abdul
Swanto & Christina Peter
Rahim
Ligadu
EXPLORING THE LEVEL
ENGLISH IN MALAYSIA:
ISLAMIC ENGLISH IN DR.
OF INTERCULTURAL
A CHANGED MEDIUM
ZAKIR NAIKS
KNOWLEDGE OF
FOR EDUCATION
RELIGIOUS SPEECHES
MALAYSIAN
Paramjit Kaur
Anis Izzati & Khairiah
SECONDARY SCHOOL
Othman
STUDENTS THROUGH
THE INTERCULTURAL
READING PROGRAMME
(IRP)
Fatin Najwa Amelia
Marsani, Manjeet Kaur,
Parameswari
Jaganathan, Premalatha
Karupiah & Ahmad
Sofwan Nathan Abdullah
INVESTIGATING
THE INTERCULTURAL
COMPETENCE OF
INTERNATIONAL AND
LOCAL TEACHERS IN AN
INTERNATIONAL
SCHOOL IN TEHRAN,
IRAN
Sarvenaz Tabrizi
DO MALAYSIAN AND
SWEDISH SPEAKERS OF
ENGLISH UNDERSTAND

Venue: Room 1
Theme: Language
& Education
CONSTANT CHANGES IN
LANGUAGE POLICIES:
WHAT THE MALAYSIAN
NEWSPAPERS ARE NOT
SAYING?

EXPLORING STUDENTS
PERSPECTIVES AND
EXPERIENCE IN
EXERCISING DISCOURSE
COMPETENCE IN A
BLENDED LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT OF AN
EAP CLASS
Junaidah Januin & Wan
Hurani Osman
A COMPARATIVE STUDY
OF LEARNING
ACHIEVEMENT

THE COMMODIFICATION
OF ISLAM: A
MULTIMODAL CRITICAL
DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
OF HALAL COSMETIC
BRANDS
Manmeet
Kaur
Bharathi Mutty
A DISCOURSE
LINGUISTIC STUDY OF
THE SELF IN RELATION

Venue: Room 3
Theme: Literary
Studies
TRANSCULTURATION
AND IDENTITY
FORMATION IN ISABEL
ALLENDES DAUGHTER
OF FORTUNE
Tahereh Zamani
Behabadi

A CRITIQUE OF THE
SUBJECT AS A
CATACHRESIS IN AND
BETWEEN THE GLOBAL
AND LOCAL IN GAYATRI
CHAKRAVORTY
SPIVAK'S CAN THE
SUBALTERN SPEAK?
Johan Awang Othman &
Nurul Farhana Low
Abdullah

AMY ALLENS POWER

OF FEMINIST THEORY IN
JACQUELINE WILSONS
LOLA ROSE
Florence Toh

&

DISASSOCIATION AND
THE DETECTIVE:
SEARCHING FOR

EACH OTHER WELL?:

CROSS-LINGUISTIC
COMPARISON FOR
USING ENGLISH AS AN
INTERNATIONAL
LANGUAGE
Hyeseung Jeong, Bosse
Thorn & Juliana
Othman

BETWEEN A
CONVENTIONAL
APPROACH AND A
STUDENT CENTERED
APPROACH
Maleerat Ka-kan-Dee

TO TULASI OR SACRED
BASIL WORSHIP IN
GAUDIYA VAISHNAVISM
Sridevi Sriniwass

LINGUISTIC EVIDENCE
OF TRAUMA IN KAZUO
ISHIGURO'S WHEN WE
WERE ORPHANS
John Mark Storey

Parallel Session 3
9.00 10.30am

Venue: Ballroom
Theme: Language
& Culture
A STUDY ON
MALAYSIANS' SPOKEN
ENGLISH AND THEIR
ATTITUDES TOWARDS
MANGLISH

Venue: Room 1
Theme: Language
& Education
ANALYSING ESL
PERSUASIVE ESSAY
WRITING USING
TOULMINS MODEL OF
ARGUMENT

Venue: Room 2
Theme: Discourse
Studies
BORROWED CULTURAL
TERMS IN COMPUTER
MEDIATED
COMMUNICATION: THE
MALAYSIAN
EXPERIENCE

Cheng Siew May & Kuek Wan Hurani Osman &

Junaidah Januin
Nazirah Md Yusof & Rita
Chian Shiun
Abdul Rahman
Ramakrishna
A CORRELATIONAL
LOCAL KNOWLEDGE,
LANGUAGE USE IN
STUDY BETWEEN
GLOBAL CLASSROOM:
ONLINE
LANGUAGE ATTITUDES
TEACHING TECHNICAL
COMMUNICATION: A
AND LANGUAGE USE OF WRITING THROUGH
CASE STUDY OF
THAI
ORAL HISTORY IN
SELECTED ENGLISH
UNDERGRADUATES AT
QATAR
BLOGS BY MALAYSIAN
PRINCE OF SONGKLA
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
UNIVERSITY, THAILAND Michael Telafici
Nadzirah Hakim Md
Warinthip Kaenin
Yussof
Sisamouth & Salasiah
Che Lah
A LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF
NETSPEAK:
OF MENS GOSSIP IN
ANIMATED IMAGES IN
CHARACTERISTICS OF
IRANIAN SOCIETY
ENHANCING ESL
DIGITAL TEXTS BY
STUDENTS'
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
Leila Mohajer
VOCABULARY
LEARNING
Dean Yeo & Su Hie Ting
Wan Zulkifli Wan Kassim
CULTURE CODE AS THE
KEY TO
UNDERSTANDING
CULTURAL VALUES AND
DIFFERENCES IN SOME
WESTERN AND EASTERN
COUNTRIES
Tamara Kostyuchenko

THE BENEFITS AND

DRAWBACKS OF USING
DIGITAL STORYTELLING
APPLICATION TO LEARN
VOCABULARY AMONG
YOUNG ESL LEARNERS
Amelia Leong Chiew Har
& Mohamad Jafre Zainol
Abidin

LANGUAGE
EXPERIMENTATION VIA
WHATSAPP MESSAGES:
A CRITICAL DISCOURSE
ANALYSIS
Che Nooryohana Zulkifli
& Nur Afiqah Ab Latif

Venue: Room 3
Theme: Literary
Studies
NATIVISATION AND
STYLISATION IN RECENT
CHINESE FICTION IN
ENGLISH: HA JIN
Geoffrey Hall

MALAYSIAN
ECOCRITICISM:
BETWEEN GLOBAL AND
LOCAL
Noritah Omar

STEREOTYPING THE
UNDEAD: EXAMINING
THE CINEMATIC
IDENTITY AND ROLES OF
THE MALAYSIAN
PONTIANAK
Lee Yuen Beng,
Mahyuddin Ahmad &
Sarata Balaya
USING BOOKS AND
FILMS FOR CHARACTER
EDUCATION TO REACH
OUT TO 21ST CENTURY
BOYS
Norshiha Saidin

Parallel Session 4
11.00 12.30pm

Venue: Ballroom
Theme: Linguistics
RESCUING MALAYSIAS
LINGUISTIC HERITAGE:
BLAGDENS
VOCABULARY
REVEALED
Timothy Phillips

A CASE STUDY ON
AGRAMMATIC
PATIENT'S DUAL
CODING PROCESS IN
COMPREHENDING
ACTIVE AND PASSIVE
SENTENCES
Deepa Visvanathan &
Alias Abd Ghani
THE METRICAL
PARAMETERS OF WORD
STRESS PRODUCTION
AND PERCEPTION
AMONG IRAQI EFL
LEARNERS
Zainab A. Ali & Alias Abd
Ghani
AN INVESTIGATION ON
THE PRODUCTION OF
ENGLISH CONSONANT
CLUSTERS IN THE L2
PHONOLOGY OF
PERSIAN EFL LEARNERS

Venue: Room 1
Theme: Language
& Education
A STUDY ON THE
PERCEPTION OF
STUDENTS IN A HIGHER
LEARNING INSTITUTION
TOWARDS
COLLABORATIVE
LEARNING
Noor Aileen Ibrahim,
Mohamad Syafiq Ya Shak
& Siti Maryam Ali Yasin
CRITICAL INCIDENTS
WHICH OCCURRED
WHEN STUDENTS WITH
DIFFERENT
PERSONALITY PROFILES
COLLABORATED
Lin Siew Fong
BEHIND THE SCENES:
NON-PARTICIPATIVE ESL
LEARNERS IN THE ESL
CLASSROOM

Venue: Room 2
Theme: Discourse
Studies
CONCEPTUALIZATION
OF THE MALAYSIAN
GOVERNMENTS
ECONOMIC METAPHOR
Farrah Diebaa & Suad
Awab

A PUBLIC DISCOURSE OF
GRADUATE
EMPLOYABILITY ISSUE
IN MALAYSIA
Siti Noor Fazelah Mohd
Noor

IDEOLOGICAL
CONSTRUCTION OF THE
INDIGENOUS
COMMUNITY: THE
ORANG ASLI IN THE
Fidelia @ Esther Mathew STAR
Sipaun
Marlina Jamal & Shakila
Abdul Manan

Mahdieh Navehebrahim
& Alias Abd Ghani
1. Each presentation will last 20 minutes.

2. Q&A will be held at the end of a parallel session, after all presentations have been
delivered.