8:30-9:25 REGISTRATION 9:25-9:30 CONFERENCE OPENING 9:30-10:30 ROOM 2.21 Dr Elaine Lopez, Newcastle “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 ROOM 2.21 ROOM 2.22 PYBUS ROOM Session 1 Language use in media regarding the Acoustically Identifying Plosives' The Disappearance of the Third The Relationship between 10:30-11:00 tragedy of MH370: A keyword Place of Articulation Distal Demonstrative in English Phonological Awareness and analysis between Malaysia and British Spelling Acquisition of Arabic- news reports Daniel McCarthy Vanja Vasiljevic English Speaking Children in the UK Theng Theng Ong Sahar Alkaab Northumbria University Newcastle University Session 2 Investigating multi-voicedness in the Fronting in the Toon? Evidence of Disappearing words: factors The role of working memory 11:00-11:30 gendered discourses of Twitter- /u/-fronting in North East affecting word obsolescence in capacity and type of instruction in hashtagged debates about Saudi- English the development of explicit and women’s issues Jasmine Warburton implicit knowledge of L2 English Newcastle University Alison Aspin articles Lubna Mohammed Bahammam Newcastle University Irina Tomak University of Session 3 A critical discourse analysis of the A quantitative analysis of intra CONVERSATION ANALYSIS Has your sense of humour 12:00-12:30 institutional psychiatric discourse: and inter-speaker variation of f- ROOM 2.22 changed? Humour appreciation Attention/Deficit Hyperactivity pattern, speaking rate, vowel Learning in a Self-Organised and communication among Chinese Disorder as case study length and aspects of consonant Learning Environment (SOLE): A users of L2 English production from soft to loud conversation analytic approach Sara Vilar Lluch speech in Italian Xuemei Chen The University of Yang Du Birkbeck, Massimiliano Canzi Newcastle University 12:30-13:00 POSTER SESSION

13:00-13:30 LUNCH BREAK

13:30-14:30 ROOM 2.21 Professor John Joseph, "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

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 corpus-based critical discourse year EFL university students in analysis Algeria

Maria Fotiadou Moustafa Amrate 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 16:30- 17:30 ROOM 2.21 Professor Paul Baker, “Beyond the checkbox: understanding what patients say in online feedback”

17:30–17:40 CONFERENCE CLOSING

18:00–19:45 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