ASEAN and East Asia: Using Sociolinguistic Competence to Share Your Culture

ASEAN and East Asia: Using Sociolinguistic Competence to Share Your Culture
Ms. Lieske will begin by discussing some of the results of a questionnaire that has been administered to over 7,000 university students in ASEAN and East Asian countries. This questionnaire explores how student perceive English and its uses in international communication. Ms. Lieske will explain how an understanding of these results can help you when you communicate with foreigners. As AEC2015 draws closer, it is increasingly important to be able to effectively communicate across cultures. As a result, building on Ms. Lieske’s presentation, Mr. Menking will give a brief example of how to share your Cambodian culture with the world.

Presenter Biographies
Carmella Lieske has been teaching in Japan for 20 years, where she is currently an Associate Professor in the Center for Foreign Language Education at Shimane University. Her research interests include materials development, study abroad, and English as an International Language, and in conjunction with her research, she has published chapters in three TESOL books and an article in the ELT Journal. She has given feedback on and written student books, workbooks and workbooks, teacher’s editions, and testing packages for 17 series with Cengage/National Geographic Learning, Thomson Learning, Oxford University Press, Macmillan, and Pearson Longman.

Scott Menking has been teaching in Japan for 20 years, and he is currently an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law and Literature at Shimane University. His research interests include technology in the classroom, sociolinguistics, and English as an International Language (EIL). As part of his research into EIL, he was awarded a five-year Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) grant which partially funds his research into Asian university students’ impressions of EIL.