Awardees 2008

With special thanks to the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) for a generous contribution towards the Solidarity Award we are pleased to announce this year's awardees:

• Anita Pavic Pintaric – Croatia
  Research assistant, University of Zadar
  Paper: Modifications of Idioms in the German and Croatian language of fashion
• Pinky Makoe – South Africa
  Lecturer (on leave), University of the Witwatersrand
  Paper: Constructing Identities in Multilingual Classrooms in South Africa
• Ayu'nwi N. Neba – Cameroon
  Lecturer, University of Buea
  Paper: The English Language Teacher and the Falling Standards of English/Education in Cameroon
• Teresa Wlosowicz - Poland
  Doctoral student in the 'co-tutelle' system, University of Silesia and Marc Bloch University
  Paper: L2 and L3 Word Representations in the Multilingual Lexicon
• K. Kanthimathi – India
  Research Scholar, Indian Institute of Technology
  Paper: TANGLISH: A byproduct of Tamil and English language contact
• Dora Francisca Edu-Buandoh – Ghana
  Lecturer, University of Cape Coast
  Paper: Syntactic Structures Used In Educated Ghanaian English to Mark Politeness
• Hassan Belhiah – Morocco
  Assistant Professor, AlAkhawayn University
  Paper: The functional uses of gesture in the activity of definitions
• I-Hsin Liu – Taiwan
  Doctoral student, University of Leuven
  Paper: Acquiring L2 vocabulary from reading-and-writing tasks
• Kizitus Mpoche – Cameroon
  Senior Lecturer,University of Yaounde I ; Executive Secretary of the Cameroon Association of Applied Linguistics (CAMAAL)
  Paper: Second Language Learning in a Multilingual Setting: The Primary School Experience in Cameroon
• Hong Zhu – China
  Associate Professor, Northeast Normal University (NENU)
  Paper: The power of language: Chinese immigrants’ integration into Canadian society
• Simplice Simeu – Cameroon
  Doctoral student, University of Yaounde
  Paper: The Roles Of Cross-border Languages On The Africa’s Development 
• Katarzyna Papaja – Poland
  Doctoral student, University of Silesia
  Paper: Language development in CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Language)
• Fernando Ferreira-Junior – Brazil
  Assistant Lecturer, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Ouro Preto
  Paper: Form, function and frequency in the learning of constructions
• Han Han – China
  Doctoral student, Queen’s University
  Paper: College English Teachers’ Change in Beliefs and Conceptions: A Case Study
• Huynh Cong Minh Hung – Vietnam
  Lecturer, Hochiminh City University of Pedagogy
  Paper: Split attention in reading comprehension: a case of English as a second/foreign language (ESL/EFL)
• Dudu Jankie – Botswana
  Lecturer, University of Botswana
  Paper: Textbooks as representation of diversity issues: Analysis of language textbooks in Botswana schools 
• Shahabaddin Behtari – Iran
  Lecturer in ELT, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil Branch
  Paper: Task-elicited variability: What does text access have to offer?
• Razaul Karim Faquire – Bangladesh
  Associate Professor and Researcher, University of Dhaka
  Paper: Learner Variety of Modality in the Emergent Interlanguage of Japanese
• Carolina A. Nunez – Philippines
  Assistant Professor, Ateneo de Manila University
  Paper: Coherence Features of Compositions Written by Filipino College Freshmen
• Vanessa Borges de Almeida – Brazil
  Doctoral student, Universidade Estadual Paulista – UNESP
  Paper: The issue of pronunciation and events of language testing in a Brazilian teacher education context 
• Renata de Oliveira Razuk – Brazil
  Doctoral student, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
  Paper: Verb transitivity in Portuguese as a third language: prepositional transfer from English L1 and Spanish L2