Keynote | JAFAE56
Dr. James McLellan explored Brunei English and EMI from an ELF perspective, emphasizing intelligibility, attuning, and negotiation for meaning—and urging Inner Circle English users to accommodate rather than assume intelligibility.
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ELF-SIG Presentation & Workshop | JAFAE56
Stevenson explored ELF and translingual creativity in HK film dubbing, while Tanaka & Saito’s workshop invited participants to rethink ELT through multiple ontologies of English, foregrounding English as a flexible resource.
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JAFAE Paper Presentations | JAFAE56
Watanabe, Okamura, and Mori examined English across families, contact settings, and higher education policy in Asia—highlighting how English is differently valued, structured, and ideologized across social and institutional contexts.
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JAFAE Symposium | JAFAE56
IKE (Meijo U.) & SHIBATA (Hiroshima U.) explored Japanese learners’ attitudes toward English accents and showed how COIL-based pedagogical intervention can foster ELF awareness, confidence, and more positive views of one’s own English.
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Paper Presentation | JAFAE56
IINO (TUFS) presented an ongoing corpus-based study of noun phrase use in Japanese English. Initial results align with established register patterns, with future analyses expected to reveal more distinctive features.
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Paper Presentation | JAFAE56
CATAPANG (TUFS) presented a corpus-based study on Philippine English, showing how stance shapes register choice in media coverage of a national corruption scandal, which highlights clear variety-internal register diversity.
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JAFAE Invited Talk | JAFAE56
Prof. Ariane Borlongan (TUFS) discussed Japanese English in the Age of Migration, highlighting how global mobility, migrant diversity, and contact with Philippine English are shaping the emergence of Japanese English as an evolving variety.
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EMI Paper Session | JAFAE56
A longitudinal EMI study (using positioning theory) traced one student’s shift from a low-confidence, proficiency-based identity to fuller participation—highlighting the need for more inclusive EMI practices beyond English proficiency alone.
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EMI Paper Session | JAFAE56
Mizukura (ICU) & ITOI (Ritsumeikan): A case study of Japanese–German exchange students highlights identity negotiation in EMI and the benefits of translanguaging—calling for greater awareness and accommodation of multilingual practices.
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ELF/EMI-SIG Symposium | JAFAE56
Experience Diversity in EMI: Awareness of English Varieties
EMI students shared candid reflections on English use, accent, identity, and native-speakerism. Their genuine voices prompted thoughtful questions and lively discussion.
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Opening remarks by Professor Carolin Funck, Chair of the Dept. of Integrated Global Studies, Hiroshima U, illustrating the "double identities" of her dept., the university, and the city itself, bridging nicely to our philosophy of pluricentricty. #JAFAE56