Plenary Speakers

Dr. Zoya Proshina Zoya Proshina is Doctor of Philology, Professor, Chair of Translation and Interpretation, and Vice Director for Research, Institute of Foreign Languages, Far Eastern National University (Vladivostok, Russia). She teaches EFL, cross-cultural communication, translation and interpretation theory and practice. She has lectured on World Englishes at various Russian universities. Her books on translation, English grammar, English and Asian cultures are used at schools and universities in the Russian Far East. She is author of the English-Russian dictionary of Asian cultures. She works as an editor for Russian and international journals (World Englishes, the Journal of Asia TEFL, Humanities and Social Studies in the Far East, Culture and Language Contacts). She served as the first president of FEELTA.

Dr. Paul Kei Matsuda Paul Kei Matsuda is the Director of Composition at the University of New Hampshire, USA, where he teaches various writing courses as well as graduate courses in applied linguistics and composition studies. Founding co-chair of the Symposium on Second Language Writing (http://symposium.jslw.org/), Paul has published widely on second language writing, alternative discourses, contrastive rhetoric, language differences, professional development, and writing pedagogy. Paul has also co-edited five books and three special journal issues, and is a series editor of the Parlor Press Series on Second Language Writing. Born and raised in Japan, Paul’s native language is Japanese. URL: http://matsuda.jslw.org/

Dr. Edgar W. Schneider Edgar W. Schneider is Full Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Regensburg, Germany, after previous appointments in Bamberg, Georgia, and Berlin. He has written and edited several books (including American Earlier Black English, 1989; Introduction to Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Survey Data, 1996; Focus on the USA, 1996; Englishes Around the World, 1997; Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages, 2000; Handbook of Varieties of English, 2004) and published and lectured widely on the dialectology, sociolinguistics, history, semantics and varieties of English, and edits the scholarly journal English World-Wide and an associated book series.

Dr. Ayo Bamgbose Ayo Bamgbose is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. He took his Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh in 1963 and has taught at the University of Ibadan for upwards of thirty years. He has also been Visiting Professor at universities in the United States of America and Europe. His contributions to African linguistics include the phonology and grammar of the Yoruba language, the role and varieties of English in Africa, and the language question in Africa. Of particular importance is his preoccupation with how the language question affects education and nation-building, both from the theoretical perspective of sociolinguistics and language planning, and as an expert adviser to institutions, such as UNESCO, which are involved in language policy and planning on the national and international levels. Professor Bamgbose has published extensively and he is a recipient of several awards and distinctions.

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