Professor Andrew P. Lian

Professor of Foreign Language Studies, Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand; Ho Chi Minh City Open University, Vietnam; Professor Emeritus, University of Canberra, Australia; President of AsiaCALL, the Asia Association of Computer-Assisted Language-Learning, a research and professional association focusing on the uses of technology to enhance second/foreign language learning in Asian contexts. Previous to this appointment, he was Professor and Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Western Illinois University in the United States. Prior to that, he had been Professor of Humanities and Director of the Center for the Study of Languages at Rice University, Houston, TX, USA, and Professor and Head of the School of Languages and International Education at the University of Canberra in Australia. He has held further Professorial appointments and been Head of Department in two other universities in Australia (James Cook University and Bond University).
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Prof. dr. Jozef COLPAERT, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium

Professor Jozef Colpaert teaches Instructional Design, Educational Technology and Computer Assisted Language Learning at the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Antwerp School of Education of the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is editor of Computer Assisted Language Learning (Taylor and Francis), and organizer of the International CALL Research Conferences (http://www.call2022.org). He is currently working on the empirical and theoretical validation of Educational Engineering, a novel instructional design and research method. (https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/staff/jozef-colpaert/my-website/)
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Presentation Title: Motivational task design for language learning in multimodal environments 

Dr. Nguyen Thi Thuy Loan, Kalasin University, Thailand

She specializes in teacher education, reflective practice, written corrective feedback, genre analysis, English written discourse, second language writing instruction and research, academic writing, ESL, ESP, professional writing with genre-based approach, citations, and reporting verbs. Among her several international publications, 23 research articles were published in Scopus/ISI- indexed journals.
She serves as a reviewer, editor and editor-in-Chief for Heliyon, Studies of Educational Evaluations, ESP Today Journal, and others. She has so far handled 35 manuscripts as an editor and reviewed 124 manuscripts submitted to several Elsevier and Scopus-indexed journals. Dr. Nguyen has also served as a chair and a committee member of thesis defenses in Thailand, a thesis examiner for Ph.D. theses from Vietnamese and Australian universities, a supervisor for TESOL Master’s students in Vietnam, and a co-supervisor for a Ph.D. candidate in Iran.
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Dr. Bao Dat, Monash University, Australia

He is the author of Understanding Silence and Reticence: Nonverbal participation in Second Language Acquisition (Bloomsbury, 2014), Poetry for Education. Classroom Ideas that Inspire Creativity (Xlibris, 2017), Creativity and Innovations in ELT Material Development: Looking beyond the Current Design (Multilingual Matters, 2018), Transforming Pedagogies through Engagement with Learners, Teachers & Communities (Springer, 2021), Silence in English Language Pedagogy: From Theory to Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
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Presentation Title: Rethinking silence: research in East-Asian contexts

Plenary Speaker

Dr. Thuy Thi Ngoc Bui, a Deputy Head of the External Affairs Office at Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST), graduated from the Master’s and Doctoral programs in Language Policy in the U.S. under the Ford Foundation and the East-West Center scholarships. In 2015, she was awarded the Australian Executive Fellowship to work as a visiting scholar at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on multilingualism, critical literacy, teacher agency, and the relationship between language and education policies and socio-economic equity. Besides her academic positions, Thuy actively works as a community project manager for projects funded by the U.S and Australian embassies and other international organizations. Her projects focus on pedagogy training for teachers and enhancing academic and personal development skills for disadvantaged minority people, community leaders, and local activists. (Scopus ID)
Presentation title: ViVEXELT: a UK-Vietnam Community of Practice to Develop E-competencies During the COVID Pandemic

Dr. Ania Lian, Charles Darwin University, Australia

Senior Lecturer in Education (Teaching and Learning), Charles Darwin University, Australia, Vice-President for Research & Innovation and Chief Editor of the AsiaCALL Online Journal.
She has worked at the National Policy Office of the Council on the Ageing in Canberra and has a history of working on a voluntary basis with the wider community on sustainability projects within the framework of the Queanbeyan Business Council, NSW. Ania has been a keynote speaker at a number of academic conferences both in Australia and in Asia, where she engages in building collaborative networks between CDU and other universities, with the aim of expanding the international focus of all involved. The leading objective of her teaching and research is to explore the concept of inclusive learning environments, with a specific focus on learner-centredness.
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Dr. Phan The Hung, Dean of Faculty of Foreign Languages, Van Lang University

Dr. Phan The Hung is Dean of Faculty of Foreign Languages, Van Lang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He is also the Director of the National Center of English Language Testing of VLU. He earned his M.A. degree in Applied Linguistics at Northern Iowa, USA, and his Ph.D. Degree in Linguistics at Queensland University, Australia. He has another Ph.D. degree in Language Studies at HCMC University of Education, Vietnam. In terms of management, Dr. Phan The Hung used to be Dean of Faculty of Foreign Languages & International Studies from 2005 to 2012 at Da Lat University, Vietnam. From 1991-1999, He the Director of the Center of Foreign Languages, and later from 2005-2012, the Vice-Director of the Center for Korean-Vietnamese Culture. In terms of publications, Dr. Phan The Hung has published a number of books and research articles in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. His main interests are Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Culture, and Language. Biodata.