Digital Campus Consortium (DCC)

Report on the Waseda-RELC International Student Seminar

（February 6-10, 2006）

（SEAMEO RELC, February 10, 2006）

March 2006

Digital Campus Consortium

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― Table of Content ―

Ⅰ． Introduction …………… 2

(1) Outline of the Seminar …………… 2

(2) Schedule and Programs …………… 3

(3) List of Participants …………… 5

Ⅱ. Reports on each program …………… 7

(1) Seminars Provided by RELC …………… 7

(2) Special Lectures/Workshops by W.E. Instructors …………… 8

(3) World Englishes Special Lecture at NUS …………… 9

(4) Group Work/Student Presentation …………… 10

Ⅱ. Conclusion …………… 11

Appendix

(1) Comments from Participating Professors

(2) Student Essays

(3) Student Presentation Materials

(4) Result on the Student Evaluation of the Seminar

(5) Program on "World Englishes Special Lecture at NUS"

(6) Handout of the Keynote Speech by Mr. Matsukawa

Ⅰ． Introduction

(1) Outline of the Seminar

Dates: February 6-10, 2006

Venue: SEAMEO Regional Language Centre (RELC)

Sponsor: Waseda University

Support: Digital Campus Consortium

Participating Universities:

Chulalongkorn University (Thailand),

De La Salle University (Philippines),

Fudan University (China),

Hong Kong Baptist University (China),

Korea University(Korea),

Namseoul University (Korea),

University of Malaya (Malaysia),

Waseda University (Japan)

Aim of the Seminar:

This seminar was designed to deepen the understandings of the features and cultural

background of each variety of Asian Englishes that students studied through the joint

online course, "World Englishes and Miscommunications." The course was operated as a

part of the projects called "Cyber University Consortium" supported by Digital Campus

Consortium. The seminar was also intended to accelerate the further development and

expansion of the joint online course in the future.

[RELC]

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(2) Schedule and Programs

Monday, 6th February:

8:30-9:00 Orientation at Room 602, 6th Floor of the RELC building

9:00-10:30 Seminar A: English in Singapore (Lecturer: Dr. J. Foley)

11:00-12:30 Seminar B: Terms of Address in Asian Societies

(Lecturer: Dr G. Poedjosoedarmo)

12:30･ 14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00 Group work

15:00-16:00 Special lecture 1 (Lecturer: Prof. Tony T.N. Hung)

"Speaking English as a World Language"

16:00-17:00 Special lecture 2 (Lecturer: Prof. Hikyong Lee)

"Identity and Identification of Asian Englishes"

17:00-18:00 Break

18:00-20:00 Welcome party at Room 603 (Malay food is served)

Tuesday, 7th February:

9:00-10:30 Seminar A: English in South-East Asia (Lecturer: Dr Lim B.S.)

11:00-12:30 Seminar B: English in the Rest of the World (Lecturer: Dr G. Cane)

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:40 Special lecture 3 (Lecturer: Prof. Azirah Hashim)

"Language and Culture in Advertisements"

14:40-15:15 Workshop 1(Lecturer: Prof. Xiong Xueliang)

"A Construction Grammatical Approach to the Chinese English"

15:30-16:00 Workshop 2 (Lecturer: Prof. Bok-Myung Chang)

"World English Acquisition through NWCCDL Project"

16:00-16:30 Workshop 3 (Lecturer: Ms. Sydney Gonzales-Villegas)

"World Englishes: The Philippine Experiences"

16:30-17:00 Workshop 4 (Lecturer: Prof. Michiko Nakano)

"What 1st year Waseda University Students Have Learned"

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Wednesday, 8th February:

9:00-10:30 Seminar A:Global Varieties of English: Which English do you want to speak?

(Lecturer: Dr J. Foley)

11:00-12:30 Seminar B: Politeness Strategies in Intercultural Communication

(Lecturer: Dr Lim B.S)

*For the participating professors of World Englishes

10:30-12:00 "World Englishes and Miscommunications" Faculty Meeting at Room 601

12:30-14:00 Lunch

Move to NUS by bus

14:00-16:30 World Englishes Special Lectue at NUS

(Place:University Scholar Program's(USP) Conference Room, Block ADM)

Mr. Yoshihiro Matsukawa, Director, Panasonic Asia Pacific Pte Ltd (PA)

"Requirements for Corporate Communications toward "Global Excellence

Company"

Dr. Anne Pakir, Dept. of English Language & Literature, Faculty of Arts

& Social Sciences, National University of Singapore

"English as a World Language"

Dr. Takashi Terada, Department of Japanese Studies, Faculty of

Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore

"Cultural dimensions in East Asian Community"

16:30-17:15 NUS Campus tour

17:15-17:45 Return to RELC

Thursday, 9th February:

9:00-10:30 Seminar A:Interpreting Body Language: Cross-cultural differences

(Lecturer: Dr G. Cane)

11:00-12:30 Seminar B: Cultural Factors in Personal Interaction

(Lecturer: Dr G. Poedjosoedarmo)

Friday, 10th February:

9:00-12:30 Preparation for Group presentation

12:30･ 14:00 Lunch

14:00-17:15 Student presentation

18:30-20:00 Farewell party at Changi Sailing Club

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(3) List of Participants

University Name

1 Chulalongkorn University Ms. Wannapa Trakulkasemsuk Student

2 De La Salle University Ms. Sydney Gonzales Instructor

3 De La Salle University Mr. Ariane Macalinga Borlongan Student

4 De La Salle University Ms. Carissa Anna A. Carino Student

5 Fudan University Prof. Xiong Xueliang Instructor

6 Fudan University Ms. Chen Xinyin Student

7 Fudan University Mr. Xiong Hui Student

8 Hong Kong Baptist University Prof. Tony T.N. Hung Instructor

9 Hong Kong Baptist University Ms. Zhang YanYan Student

10 Korea University Prof. Hikyoung Lee Instructor

11 Korea University Ms. Kim Jung Hwa Student

12 Korea University Ms. Lee Kinam Student

13 Korea University Ms. Lee On Soon Student

14 Korea University Ms. Seo Eun Kyeong Student

15 Korea University Ms. Song Jiyeon Student

16 Namseoul University Prof. Bok-Myung Chang Instructor

17 Namseoul University Mr. Hong Kyu Yoon Student

18 Namseoul University Mr. Seung Hyeok Lee Student

19 Namseoul University Ms. So Young Paik Student

20 University of Malaya Prof. Azirah Hashim Instructor

21 University of Malaya Ms. Rachel Tan Instructor

22 University of Malaya Mr. Abdul Hakim bin Abdullah Student

23 University of Malaya Ms. Payal Bhupatrai Student

24 University of Malaya Ms. Leena Wong Mei Chan Student

25 Waseda University

Prof. Michiko Nakano

Director, Distance Learning Center,

Waseda University

Supervising Director, Digital Campus

Consortium

Instructor

26 Waseda University Ms. Chie Watanabe Student

27 Waseda University Mr. Hiroki Tada Student

28 Waseda University Ms. Hiromi Hanawa Student

29 Waseda University Ms. Kana Akiyama Student

30 Waseda University Mr. Kenichi Ashina Student

31 Waseda University Ms. Masayo Kajitani Student

32 Waseda University Ms. Remi Shimada Student

33 Waseda University Mr. Shun Takagi Student

34 Waseda University Mr. Shunpei Toida Student

35 Waseda University Mr. Takeshi Kawase Student

36 Waseda University Mr. Tomohiro Yamazaki Student

37 Waseda University Mr. Toshihide Kawai Student

38 Waseda University Mr. Tsunehiro Ono Student

39 Waseda University Mr. Kazuharu Owada Observer

40 Waseda University Mr. Norifumi Ueda Observer

41 Waseda University Mr. Ryo Yoshimoto Observer

42 Waseda University Mr. Yusuke Kondo Observer

43 Panasonic Asia Pacific Pte Ltd

Mr. Yoshihiro Matsukawa

Director, Corporate Communications

Group

Guest

44 Panasonic System Solutions

Marketing Co., Ltd

Mr. Suguru Tanaka

Group Manager, Educational System

Group

DCC

45 Panasonic System Solutions

Marketing Co., Ltd Mr. Norio Osaki DCC

46 Waseda University Mr. Naoji Takagi

Executive Director, Waseda University

DCC

Chairman

47 Waseda University

Mr. Susumu Nemoto

Administrative Director, Media

Network Center, Waseda University

DCC Staff

48 Waseda University Mr. Kozo Okubo DCC Staff

49 Waseda University Mr. Yoshinori Omata DCC Staff

50 Waseda University Mr. Yukihisa Nakao DCC Staff

51 Waseda University Ms. Mika Shirota DCC Staff

52 Waseda University Ms. Naoko Haraguchi DCC Staff

[Group picture at RELC]

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Ⅱ．Reports on Each Program

(1) Seminars Organized by RELC

Time & Date Title of the seminars Name

A 2/6 09:00-10:30 English in Singapore Dr. J. Foley

B 2/6 11:00-12:30 Terms of Address in Asian Societies Dr G. Poedjosoedarmo

C 2/7 09:00-10:30 English in South-East Asia Dr Lim B.S.

D 2/7 11:00-12:30 English in the Rest of the World Dr G. Cane

E 2/8 09:00-10:30 English as an International Language:

Which English Do You Want to

Speak?

Dr J. Foley

F 2/8 11:00-12:30 Politeness Strategies in Intercultural

Communication

Dr Lim B.S

G 2/9 09:00-10:30 Cultural Factors in Personal

Interaction

Dr G. Poedjosoedarmo

H 2/9 11:00-12:30 Interpreting Body Language:

Cross-Cultural Differences

Dr G. Cane

[RELC seminar provided by Dr. Foley]

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(２) Special Lectures/Workshops by W.E. Instructors

Time & Date Title of the Lectures/Workshops Name

1 2/6 15:00-16:15 Speaking English as a 'World Language' Prof. Tony T.N. Hung

2 2/6 16:15-17:00 Identity and Identification of Asian

Englishes

Prof. Hikyong Lee

3 2/7 14:00-14:45 Language and Culture in Advertisements Prof. Azirah Hashim

4 2/7 14:45-15:15 A Construction Grammatical Approach

to the Chinese English

Prof. Xiong Xueliang

5 2/7 15:30-16:00 World English Acquisition through

NWCCDL Project

Prof. Bok-Myung

Chang

6 2/7 16:00-16:30 World Englishes: The Philippine

Experience

Ms. Sydney

Gonzales-Villegas

7 2/7 16:30-17:00 What 1st year Waseda University

Students Have Learned

Prof. Michiko Nakano

[Group discussion with Prof. Nakano] [Q&A session during the special lecture]

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(3) World Englishes Special Lecture at NUS

14:00～14:10 Opening Address

Prof. Tony T.N. Hung, Hong Kong Baptist University

14:10～14:50 Keynote Speech

“Requirements for Corporate Communications toward ‘Global Excellence

Company‘“

Mr. Yoshihiro Matsukawa, Director, Panasonic Asia Pacific Pte Ltd (PA)

14:50 ～15:00 Break

15:00 ～15:40 Special Lecture (1)

"English as a World Language: Global Issues and Local Responses“

Dr. Anne Pakir, Dept. of English Language & Literature, Faculty of Arts &

Social Sciences, National University of Singapore

15:40～16:20 Special Lecture (2)

"Cultural dimensions in East Asian Community"

Dr. Takashi Terada, Dept. of Japanese Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social

Sciences, National University of Singapore

16:20～16:30 Closing Address

Prof. Azirah Hashim, University of Malaya

[Mr. Matsukawa]

[Dr. Anne Pakir]

[Dr. Takashi Terada]

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(4) Group Work/Student Presentation

Group work was conducted during the seminar in order to prepare for the group presentation

on February 10th. Participating students were divided into groups based on their choice of the

research topics from the following:

1. What are common grammatical deviant features in

Asian Englishes?

2. What are common pronunciation features in Asian

Englishes? Which features are unique in each variety?

3. What are common pragmatic features (such as

Apologizing, Compliments, Thanking, Refusal or

Requesting) in Asian Englishes?

4. Which varieties can be included in Asian Englishes or

Interlanguage? [Student presentation]

During the presentations, each group made a presentation

on the topic for 20 minutes and spent 5 minutes for Q&A.

Each group member was responsible for a part of the

presentation by using the PowerPoint.

[Videoconfenrence (RELC-Waseda)]

<List of Group Members>

Group A Wannapa Trakulkasemsuk (CU), Carissa Anna A. Carino (DLSU), Lee On Soon (KU),

Toshihide Kawai (WU)

Group B Ariane Macalinga Borlongan (DLSU), Zhang Yanyan (HKBU), Kim Jung Hwa (KU),

Takeshi Kawase (WU)

Group C Chen Xinyin (FU), Song Jiyeon (KU), Abdul Hakim bin Abdullah (UM),

Chie Watanabe (WU), Hiromi Hanawa (WU), Masayo Kajitani (WU), Remi Shimada (WU)

Group D Seo Eun Kyeong (KU), Hong Kyu Yoon (NU), Payal Bhupatrai (UM), Shun Takagi (WU),

Shunpei Toida (WU), Tomohiro Yamazaki (WU)

Group E Lee Kinam (KU), So Young Paik (NU), Leena Wong Mei Chan (UM), Hiroki Tada (WU),

Tsunehiro Ono (WU)

Group F Xiong Hui (FU), Seung Hyeok Lee (NU), Kana Akiyama (WU), Kenichi Ashina (WU)

*Chulalongkorn University (CU), De La Salle University (DLSU), Fudan University (FU), Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU),

Korea University (KU), Namseoul University (NU) University of Malaya (UM), Waseda University (WU)

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Ⅱ. Conclusion

The 1st RELC-WASEDA International Seminar, February 6-10, 2006

Michiko Nakano

Director, Distance Learning Center, Waseda University

The first joint international seminar for World Englishes and Miscommunications (World

Englishes for short) was held outside Japan for the first time in Singapore. Most professors

who had been involved in establishing World Englishes I and II joined this seminar and three to

five students representing each participating university gathered together at RELC. Thanks

to Panasonic, DCC staff, DLC staff, we concluded our first seminar highly successfully on the

10th of February.

Every morning, two lectures by RELC professors were given to the students and

accompanying professors. 30 students were divided into 6 groups and groupings were made

as multi-lingual as possible, in which Tagalog, Korean, Malay, Chinese, Thai and Japanese

speakers of English are equally distributed. In each group, either participating graduate

students or Waseda University instructors are assigned as mentors. Some professors

volunteered to act as mentors on occasions. We had given four topics to the students from

which each group chose the topic of interest.

1. What are the common grammatical features in Asian Englishes which are deviant

from Standard English?

2. What are the common pronunciation features in Asian Englishes? What is unique

to each variety?

3. What are common pragmatic features such as thanking, apologizing, requesting,

complimenting, and refusing in Asian Englishes? What is unique to each variety?

4. Which varieties can be included in Asian Englishes or Interlanguage?

30 students had studied these topics and discussed among themselves for five days, in order

to prepare for their Power Point presentations on the last day of the seminar. During these

processes, they had been exposed to a variety of Englishes and they had used English for

authentic interactions. It was apparent that they also deepened mutual understandings and

feelings of intimacy through their heated discussion and bonding activities in the evening.

On Wednesday afternoon, we visited National University of Singapore. We listened to

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Keynote address by Panasonic Director in Asia-Pacific region, Special lectures by Professor

Anne Pakir and Professor Takashi Terada. Since their lectures reflected their first-hand

experiences in multi-lingual and multi-cultural societies in Asia, we began to think of the use of

English in the larger context, encompassing our future pedagogical directions. Firstly, the

students have repeatedly learned the following points in our on-demand Internet courses.

o English is denationalized. It does not belong to any nation-state. Since English

users in Asia outnumber Native speakers, some say that it is an Asian language.

o English can be used as a culturally neutral tool of communication: We do not need to

internalize NS cultural norms.

o Spoken English can be judged as adequate if it conforms to the criteria of Intelligibility,

Comprehensibility and Interpretability.

Our students’ experiences in Singapore promoted their awareness in the following issues:

o On the assumption that we have an Asian community, it is necessary for us to

promote awareness of an Asian identity; if it is a community we need to defend human

rights in the community; we have other issues such as parliamentary democracy and

the rule of law, and how to standardize various countries’social and legal practices.

o We have a common consensus that in our networked education, through authentic

collaboration via Network, which is our interpersonal activity in Asia, we should

develop inter-subjectivity in our students’ mind-set, which is an essence of Social

Constructivism in Asia.

o Learning takes place as a result of social interactions and sharing information.

o In the face of hybrid, changing and conflicting cultures and socio-economic policies,

real-world problems cannot be solved through native-like communication skills in

English nor Anglo-American norms; we Asians have to think independently.

o We need a lot of Cross-Cultural Cyber Seminars (CCCS) in which our understanding

and our relationship to our own culture and society can be transformed in light of the

other cultures and society in contact.

o CCCS can create a cultural third place outside the domain of the markets and national

and ethnic communities.

The student presentations on the last day of the seminar clearly illustrated the following

points:

o They have realized our common heritage in the Asian community.

o They strengthened and raised their awareness of the sense of belongings to the Asian

community, and they experienced how to be co-operative in the community.

As a result, I felt that our educational objectives for World Englishes I and II were not only to

improve linguistic skills, but also to educate our students as Active and Intellectual individuals

who can cope with real problems in the world. In fact, the former objective is negligible in

comparison to the latter broader objective. With the increasing globalization of markets and

international migration, we ought to notice that no stable knowledge can be passed on from

one generation to the next. Each generation has to discover each solution to each problem on

its own, because each set of circumstances is different in each generation. But this

discovery can take place only in dialog with others. With Globalization comes the opportunity

to create other communities beyond the borders of nation-state. We should help our students

expand their Asian personalities.

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[Computer Lab at RELC]

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-- Appendix –

1. Comments from Participating Professors

2. Student Essays

3. Student Presentation Materials

4. Result on the Student Evaluation of the Seminar

5. Program on "World Englishes Special Lecture at NUS"

6. Handout of the Keynote Speech by Mr. Matsukawa

[Group Picture at NUS]

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