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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