The 10th Language and Language Teaching Conference (LLTC) 2023

Thursday and Friday, 9 and 10 November 2023

Keynote Speakers

Assoc. Prof. Loh Chin Ee

Loh Chin Ee is Associate Professor and Deputy Head (Research) at the English Language and Literature Academic Group at the National Institute of Education. Her research focuses on future-ready literacies, design of informal learning environments, place-based literature education, school libraries, reading and technology. She is the author of The Space and Practice of Reading: A Case Study of Reading and Social Class in Singapore (Routledge, 2017) and co-editor of Literature Education in the Asia-Pacific (Routledge, 2018), and various scholarly publications. Her co-edited poetry anthologies, Little Things and Poetry Moves, are widely used in Singapore secondary schools. A/P Loh is the Principal and Co-Principal investigator of various large-scale grants, including the Designing School Libraries of the Future study, which was shortlisted for the Singapore President’s Design Award 2023.

Nicholas Bremner

Nicholas Bremner is Lecturer in Language Education at the University of Exeter, UK, where he is Programme Director for the MEd Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. His main research focus is exploring the different ways in which learner-centred approaches are conceptualised, and implemented, in diverse teaching contexts. He is also interested in using visual methods such as timelines to enhance reflective practice in teacher education.

F.X. Ouda Teda Ena, M.Pd., Ed.D.

F.X. Ouda Teda Ena, M.Pd., Ed.D. is a senior lecturer at the English Education Study Program at Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia. He has a profound interest in critical pedagogy, English language teaching, sociolinguistics and ESL. He completed his undergraduate studies at Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Master's degree at Malang State University, East Java, and Doctor of Education in Curriculum and Instruction at Loyola University Chicago, the United States of America.

Plenary Speakers

Dr. Sudha Mishra

Dr. Sudha Mishra, of XIM University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, is a passionate and dedicated educator and a seasoned soft skills trainer with over 18 years of rich experience in teaching, training and research; sound understanding of needed traits for workplace success and a strong ability to train students in improving those characteristics. Accomplished in designing pedagogies apposite to students' diverse acquisition styles, with an innate aptitude to understand and inspire.

Dr. Willy Ardian Renandya

Dr Willy A Renandya is a language teacher educator with extensive teaching experience in Asia. He currently teaches applied linguistics courses at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has given more than 100 keynote presentations at international ELT conferences and has published extensively in the area of second language education. His publications include Language Teaching Methodology: An anthology of current practice (2002, Cambridge University Press) and Student-centred cooperative learning (2019, Springer International). He maintains a large teacher professional development forum called Teacher Voices: https://www.facebook.com/groups/teachervoices/.

Website:

Willy’s ELT Corner https://www.willyrenandya.com
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com.sg/citations?user=gHW1fVIAAAAJ