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This small international conference combines three perspectives:
Chemnitz students present their PhD projects to a wider audience,
international scholars present their experience through special funding from Alexander-von-Humboldt and DAAD - this year young scholars from Western Balkans through our project CompConTrustOO, and
international ERASMUS partners add their own specific approaches to widen the perspective
Together we would like to show that empirical studies in language variation are a fascinating topic when they emphasize cultural dimensions of (Digital) English around the world. We try to combine socio-, corpus- and cognitive-linguistic perspectives and stress multiple methodological approaches to current research and applications, especially in English language teaching and academic writing.
Welcome (Vice Dean Prof. Dr. Birgit Glorius)
Conference Opening (Prof. Dr. Georg Jahn)
Current Research Cooperation Projects (Chair: Georg Jahn/Josef Schmied)
13:15
Sven Albrecht, Stefan Taubert, Rewa Tamboli, Marina Ivanova (Chemnitz): Credibility Through Non-Native Language Varieties in Conversational Pedagogical Agents: Project Status Report
14:15
Chris Williams (Brno, Czech Republic): States of Complexity. Syntactic Complexity in the English Essays of Czech Gymnasium Students
14:45
Věra Sládková (Brno, Czech Republic): Typical Interlanguage Features of Czech Students Documented in the Written Part of School-Leaving Exams in English
15:15
Coffee Break
Current Research on Asian and African English Varieties (Chair: Federica Modafferi)
15:45
Ibukun Filani (Nigeria + Alexander-von-Humboldt Guest Professor Chemnitz): Play and Humour in African Online Skits
16:15
Zeenat Sumra (Chemnitz): Multilingual Discourse and Code-Switching in Tanzanian WhatsApp: Adapting Traditional Theories to Digital Communication
16:45
Daniel Ajayi (Nigeria + Chemnitz): Disclosing the Experience of Schizophrenia in Nigerian Mental Health Clinics
17:15
Saeid Hosseinimehr (Iran + Chemnitz):Enhancing Writing Proficiency by Formative Multimodal Screencast Feedback on Writing Samples of ESL Students with a Focus on Linguistic Complexity Features
18:00
Authentic Chinese Dinner
Saturday, 16 July
9:00
Comparing Confidence and Trust Online and Offline I
(Chair: Ibukun Filani)
Miloš Milisavljević & Ivana Šorgić (Niš, Serbia): Different Realities Surrounding the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian Conflict: The Cases of Russia Today and CNN
Izabela Celevska (Skopje, North Macedonia): What Happened on 24 February 2022? A Comparison of National News in the Republic of North Macedonia
Mila Vilarova (Skopje, North Macedonia): A Critical Discourse Analysis of Croatian and Macedonian headlines on the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict
11:00
Coffee Break
11:30
Comparing Confidence and Trust Online and Offline II (hybrid)
(Chair: Marina Ivanova)
Tijana Popovikj (Skopje, North Macedonia): Changes in the English Language and the Importance of Language Use During Pandemics
Federica Modafferi (Chemnitz): Vaccine Infodemic in English-written News: the case of Dr. Thomas Jendges
12:30
Syrian Buffet Lunch
14:00
Digital English World-Wide (online contributions via BBB)
(Chair: Josef Schmied)
Snježana Lepir (Bosnia and Herzegovina): The Covid-19 Pandemic Through the Lens of International Online News Outlets: A Corpus-Based Study
short online contributions by Alexander-von-Humboldt-Guest professors and PhD students:
Tunde Ope-Davies (Nigeria): Special video greeting,
Daniel Nkmleke (Cameroon),
Gua Ya (China), etc.
15:00
Coffee Break & Farewell
conference participants gathered in front of eniPROD Building
