Organized by the University of Macao, five
TESL staff and students at UIC were invited to attend the Pearl River Delta
Conference 2012: Culture and Identity in Times of Change through February
23-25.
Staff and students at the venue
The conference provided a platform for
young scholars to share research ideas in fields of humanities and social
sciences, including communications, cultural studies, translation, linguistics,
literature, and sociology.
Lu Lulu(above), the only undergraduate at the
conference to present her FYP project supervised by Dr. Dave Towey:
Narrow-Intensive Reading can Help Move New Data from STM to LTM.
An M.Phil student, Chen Zheng(above), presented her
working paper co-authored with Dr. Dave Towey and Dr. Gary Linebarger:
Interacting in a Pidgin Culture: Managing Rapport in Intercultural
Communication.
A TESL 07 graduate student, Alex Wang(top right),
presented his paper co-authored with Dr. Dave Towey: Education Change Beyond
Introducing “New Toys”
editor: Sze Ying Cheong
(from TESL)
