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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

​09:00-09:20   Registration

09:20 - 09:30   Opening

09:30 - 10:30   Plenary 1 - Prof. Laura Gurzynski-Weiss (Indiana University, USA)

Tasks from day one: Lessons from exposure-track elementary-level Spanish in the United States

​10:30 - 11:30   Plenary 2 - Prof. Natsuko Shintani (Kansai University, Japan)

Comparing task-based language teaching and traditional instruction for young learners: Methodological issues and solutions

​11:30 - 12:00   Coffee break

12:00 - 13:00   Plenary 3 - Prof. Masatoshi Sato (Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile)

Transforming L2 learners to "better" learners: Learner psychology and peer interaction among children

​13:00 - 14:00   Plenary 4 - Prof. Yuko Butler (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Using "paired-introspection" to enhance young learners' English learning

​14:00 - 15:30   Lunch break

​15:30 - 16:30   Plenary 5 - Dr. Rowena Kasprowicz (University of Reading, UK)

Gaming Grammar: Developing a digital game for explicit grammar learning in the foreign language classroom

16:30 - 17:30   Round Table

​17:30 - 17:45   Closing

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