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SESSION 1 10:30-12:00
1A Business Communication
A Comparison Between Japanese and US Business Communication Strategies: Focusing on Dependence vs. Independence
Fuyuko Takita Ruetenik, Hiroshima City University, Japan
Empowering Japanese and American Coworkers: Testing the Interactive Acculturation Model in Japan
Adam Komisarof, Reitaku University, Japan
Effective Teaching Strategies for Diverse Learners of Business Communication: A Case Study from INTI University College, Malaysia
Arezou Zalipour, INTI University College,Malaysia Dilani Sampath, INTI University College, Malaysia
1B Collaboration Across Cultures
Intercultural collaboration: Field forces, hibernation intervals and their interplay
Asim Satpathy, Infosys Leadership Institute, India
Internationalization as an Approach to Social Transition and Globalization through Educational Communication across Cultures
Xin-Ping Guan, Shenzhen Polytechnic, China
SME representatives’ and intermediaries’ perceptions of collaborative relationships in SME internationalization
Pipsa Purhonen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Engaging a Diverse Community by the Kumiai Way
Carolyn Kyyhkynen Lee, Rollins College, USA
1C Communication Skills and Strategies
Acculturation Strategies among Chinese College Students from the North in the South
Yi-An Wang, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China
Cultivating Students’ Cultural Empathy Competence through Text-based Teaching
Peng Jinding, Central South University, China Fu Ping, Hunan No.1 Normal College, China
Communication Strategies Across Religious Culture: Taking Christianity and Buddhism in Taiwan as an example
Wei-wei Vivian Huang, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Presenting Across the Cultural Divide
Jane Harland, Fukuoka University, Japan
1D Conflict Education, Communication and Management
Bringing Cultural Background Knowledge to the Surface to Better Understand Cross-Cultural Conflict in Specific Contexts
Stephen B. Ryan, Yamagata University, Japan
Examining the Applicability of Situational Crisis Communication Theory in the Patterns between Crisis Situations and Strategies: A Meta-Analysis of Taiwan’s Crisis Rhetorical Studies
Yi-Chen Debbie Wu, Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taiwan
Dialogicality in the Cultural Conflict：An Analysis of the Dispute over Homosexuals in Contemporary China
Jiu-quan Han, Hebei Agricultural University, China Ning Sun, Hebei University、China
Friendships after Break-Ups: Relational Maintenance Strategies in Cross-Sex Post-Dating Relationships in Taiwan
Pei-Wen Lee, Shih Hsin University, Taiwan
1E Culture and Language
A Study of the Similarities of Idiomatic Expressions in Both Chinese and English Languages
Qiao Mengduo, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Such a unique relationship… it must be Yuan Fen; Chinese cultural meanings of relations and actions in daily social settings
Sunny Lie, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA
How English Idioms Stumble Chinese University Learners
Li Huijie, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Understanding Culture Through Language: The Japanese Concept of ‘Self’
Nerida Jarkey, University of Sydney, Australia
1F Culture in Education
A Critical and Comparative Study of the Curriculum Development of CFL Offered by Overseas Confucius Institute and EFL Curriculum in China
Hongqin Zhao, Zhejiang University, China Jieping Fan, Zhejiang University, China
A Survey of the Deficiency in Conveying Chinese Culture in College English Teaching and Learning
Shi Bingyan, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Wang Xuesong, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Linguaculture: Uniting language and culture through literacy
Stephen Mackerras, Griffith University, Australia
Introduction of the Intercultural Development Inventory to a Long-term Study of Student Journals in an Undergraduate Intercultural Communication Course
Sherry Jett Barnes, Trinity Christian College, USA
1G Health Communication
Communicating Reiki communication in Singapore: An innovation-decision process
Trisha Tsui-Chuan Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Chiann Huey Ow, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Shu Jing Mok, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Shu Wan Wong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Assessing the Relationship between Patients’ Ethnocentric Views and Patients’ Perceptions of Physicians’ Cultural Competence in Health Care Interactions
Rukhsana Ahmed, University of Ottawa, Canada Benjamin R. Bates, Ohio University, USA
Basic Medical English Communication
Suzy Connor, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan
News Representation of HIV/AIDS and Drugs in Taiwan: How the Harm Reduction Program Changed the IDU Profile
Mei-Ling Hsu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Pei-Ling Hsiung, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Jo-Han Lai, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Tzu-Hsien Wu,National Chengchi University, Taiwan Sin-Yao Shih, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
1H
SESSION 2 14:30-16:00
2A English Language Teaching and Culture 1
Effects of oral communication courses on thinking and listening skills of Japanese learners: A case study of university students in debate and presentation classes
Hirofumi Kamada, Kyushu University, Japan
The Role of the Mother Language in English Language Teaching --- Talked by the Parties of Ethnic Minority Schools in Inner Mongolia
Gaoyouhan, Ochanomizu University, Japan
An analysis of a Japanese school district’s primary and secondary EFL program
Ron Martin, Rikkyo University, Japan
English Education in Finland: Their successful strategies and methods
Satoshi Yamamoto, Kumamoto Gakuen University, Japan
2B Computers in English Language Education
Video and the Collaborative ESL Classroom
Patrick Rates, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Computer-and-classroom Based Multimedia College English Teaching Model
Wang Lixin, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Qiao Mengduo, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
A Study of Multidimensional Interaction in Network-based Language Teaching (NBLT)
Liu-Xuemei, Shanghai Business School, China
2C Writing in ELT
A Study of Contrastive Rhetoric between English and Farsi as Demonstrated Through EFL Students’ Essays with Regard to Writing Ability and L2 Proficiency in the Comparison and Contrast Mode of Writing
Habib Soleimani, Islamic Azad University, Iran Abbass Eslami Rasekh, University of Isfahan, Iran
A Contrastive Study of Textual Cohesion and Coherence Problems in Chinese EFL Abstract Writing in Engineering Discourse
Liu Li-da, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Theory of Textual Patterns and Discourse Coherence in EFL Learners’ Writing
Xiukun Qi, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
2D Englishes, Linguistics and Language Choice 1
“Japanese English”: A Descriptive Grammar of the Educated Written English in Japan
Kola Olagboyega, Akita International University, Japan
Language Attitudes of East Asian English Speakers towards Each Others’ English
Mariko Kitazawa, University of Southampton, UK
A Preliminary Observation of Semantic Duplets in Thai: their Relation to the Northern Thai Dialect
Sorabud Rungrojsuwan, Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand
2E Media: Speech and Humor
Freedom of Speech and Democracy of Speech: Meaning, Context & Problem
Li Man, Tsinghua University, China
Cultural Values Reflected in Leaders’ Speeches--a comparative analysis of Hu Jintao’s speech after Sichuan earthquake and Bush’s speech after Hurricane Katrina
Cai Yi, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Zhao Yuqin, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Culture, Creativity, Censorship: Social Construction of Singapore’s Humor Industry
Trisha Tsui-Chuan Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Phoebe Shu Wei Tan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Development in English of Japanese Rakugo (Sit-Down Comedy) Performers
Kimie Oshima, Bunkyo Gakuin University, Japan
2F Gender Issues in Intercultural Communication
The Portrayal of Young Women in Music Videos: An Exploratory Study of the Perception of Women in Rap Music Videos by Young Men in Trinidad
Prahalad Sooknanan, University of Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies
Marriage Practices and Intercultural Communication: the case in African Languages
Munzhedzi James Mafela, University of South Africa, South Africa
An Investigation of Females’ Reading on Homosexual Manga and Novels: A Yaoi Phenomenon in Taiwan
Dienfang Chou, Tzu Chi University, Taiwan
Marital Conflict and Cultural Adaption of Immigrant Women in Korea
Khisu Beom, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea Hye-Jin Jung, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
2G Language and Culture
Speaker-responsibility and hearer-responsibility-A comparison of the speaker’s contribution to understanding in a conversation in Japanese and Korean
Sumi Yoon, Kanazawa University, Japan
Change of Language and Development of Society
Xiao-ling Jin, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Language Expectations from Parents and the Language Growth of Chinese Primary and Secondary School Students
Wang Li, Jianghan University, China
A Cross-cultural Study on Face and Favor (mianzi and renqing)
Yi-Hui Christine Huang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
2H PANEL Issues on Intercultural Communication
Chair, Dienfang Chou, Tzu Chi University, Taiwan Panelists:
The Development and Validation of the Intercultural Effectiveness Scale
Tamra Portalla, University of Rhode Island, USA Guo-Ming Chen, South China University of Technology, China/University of Rhode Island, USA
Intersubjectivity and Interculturality
Xiaodong Dai, Shanghai Normal University, China
Cultural Avoidance and Cultural Communication in the Context of Globalization: A Comparative Study of Television Culture in East Asia
Liu Chen, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China
SESSION 3 16:15-17:45
3A Health Literacy and Communication 1
Media Action in Health Literacy: A Teaching Case on Energy Drinks Advertising
Cheng-yu Lin, National Chengchi University, Taiwan, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
The Development of Cross-Cultural Health Communication Campaign Strategy to Fight HIV/AIDS and Malaria Cases in Uganda
Wilson Okaka, Kyambogo University, Uganda
Communicating Health in Intercultural, Cross-Cultural, and Multicultural Contexts: A Contextual Understanding of Cultural Competence in Provider-Patient Communication
Rukhsana Ahmed, University of Ottawa, Canada Benjamin R. Bates, Ohio University, USA
The Doctor-Patient Communication through the Internet: What and How Do Patients Inquire?
Yu-Chan Chiu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
3B Culture and Identity 1
God’s call to Abraham: intercultural identity formation and the concept of ‘boundary’
Alan J.E. Wolf, University of Sheffield, U.K.
Culture Identity and Bilingualism: A Mistaken Paradigm
Cecilia Ikeguchi, Tsukuba Gakuin University, Japan
Harmonious and Syncretic Culture and the Building and Communication of China’s State Image
Er-Chun Chen, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, China
Thirty Years of the Study of Chinese Values in China： A Preliminary Review
Han Guang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
3C Youth and the New Media
Adopt or Not? Differences among Users and Nonusers of Social Network Sites
Trisha Tsui-Chuan Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Wendy Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Vicki Chihsuan Chiu, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Attitude and Social Influence Predicting Bloggers’ Behaviors in Thailand
Vikanda Pornsakulvanich, Assumption University, Thailand Nuchada Dumrongsiri, Assumption University, Thailand
Adolescents’ Internet Use, Parental Mediation, and Family Communication Patterns
Bonnie Peng, Cheng-Chi University, Taiwan
3D Communication and International Students
The Causes and Effects of the ‘Cultural Divide’: An Exploratory Study of the Teaching and Learning of International Postgraduate Students at an Australian University
Niranjala (Nina) Weerakkody, Deakin University, Australia
Critiquing Communication Challenges: A case of intercultural communication barriers between Zulu and Chinese students at selected higher education institutions in Durban, South Africa
Renitha Rampersad, Durban University of Technology, South Africa Prenitha Singh, Durban University of Technology, South Africa Mia Zheng, Durban University of Technology, South Africa
Cross-cultural Adaptation among International Students: Differences and Similarities
Wenli Yuan, Kean University, USA
Analysis of Intercultural Sensitivity Between Chinese and International Students
An Ran, South China University of Technology, China
3E Literature and Culture 1
Developing the Malay Children's Literary Resources
Chew Fong Peng, University of Malaya, Malaysia Mahzan Arshad, University of Malaya, Malaysia Zahari Ishak, University of Malaya, Malaysia Loh Sau Cheong, University of Malaya, Malaysia Teh Ying Wah, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Discourse Models in Passion Plays: A Comparison of Tragedies in English and ta'ziya in Persian
Mohammad Reza Talebinejad, Islamic Azad University, Iran
Erotic Writing as Political Consciousness: A Taiwan Case Study
Hsiao-Yung Wang, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
3F Advertising and Visual Media
A Semiotic Study on Illustrated Print Advertisements of Coca-Cola in China
Jiang Chun, University of International Business & Economics, China
Cross-Cultural Communication in Cosmopolitan City: Focusing on the Print Advertisements of Shanghai Telephone Company in 1930s
Tao Yang, Nagoya University, Japan
Street signs as testimonial of a language cross–cultural adaptation in Macao
Denise Pacheco, University of Macau, Macau, China
Purchase Intentions as a Function of Culture—Examining the Effects of Visual Information on Young Chinese Consumers
Angela W.Y. Chang, University of Macau, Macau, China
Sign Values and Brand Glocalization: The Construction of “Something” in Taiwanese Coffee and Tea Brands Advertising
Huey-Rong Chen, Department of Journalism, Culture University, Taiwan
3G Culture in Education
Topic Based Syllabus for a Japanese University Cross Culture Communication Course
Susan Meiki, Hiroshima University, Japan
The Intercultural Factors in EFL Teaching
Wang Yang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Chi Yuan, Harbin Engineering University, China
Toward an Integrated Approach to Learning A Foreign Language and Culture: A Literature Review
Xiaoyan Li, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Katsuhiro Umemoto,Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
3H PANEL: Differences in Conversational Styles between Japanese and North American Speakers: Formal and Informal Styles, Participation Organization and Topic Development
Chair: Sanae Tsuda, Tokai Gakuen University, Japan Panelists:
Formal and Informal Styles and Uses of Sentence Final Particles in Japanese
Sanae Tsuda, Tokai Gakuen University, Japan
Participation organization,
Yuka Shigemitsu, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Japan
Topic Development and Topic Shift in Japanese and North American English Conversation
Yuko Iwata, Tokai University, Japan