Plenary speakers
	Vijay Bhatia Head of Dept. of English and Communication, City University of Hong Kong; expert in discourse and genre analysis, especially of occupational genres
	Edwin Thumboo Emeritus Professor at National University of Singapore; widely-published poet and critic; winner of Southeast Asia Write Award (1979), the Singapore Cultural Medallion (1980), and the ASEAN Cultural and Communication Award in Literature (1987).
	Patricia Duff Works at Faculty of Education, The University of British Columbia; expert in issues in the teaching and learning of English and other international languages
	Teun van Dijk Works at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Dept. de Traduccio ifilologia, Barcelona, Spain; wrote a key book on text grammar and led research in the cognitive psychology of discourse comprehension; more recently has written key texts on critical discourse analysis
Featured speakers
	Huw Jarvis   Senior lecturer in ELT at the University of Salford in the UK; widely published in computers and language pedagogy; further details from his personal web site. http://www.freewebs.com/huwjarvis/
	Jonathan James Webster   Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics. Director of The Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies. Editor of Collected Works of M.A.K. Halliday, and the journal “Linguistics and the Human Sciences.” Research interests include text linguistics and computational lexicography.
	Alan Maley   Involved in ELT for over 40 years, author of over 30 books and numerous  articles and series editor for Oxford Resource Books for Teachers.
Country speakers
1. J. Bismoko               Sanata Dharma University Indonesia         2. James McLellan                        The University of Waikato New Zealand         3. Janine Rutledge     Curtin University of Technology Australia         4. Lawrence Zhang      Nanyang Technological University Singapore         5. Margarita Orendain    Ateneo de Manila University Philippines         6. Norizah Hassan         University of Malaya Malaysia         7. Richard Watson Todd  King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi Thailand         8. Stephen Bird                       University of Brunei Brunei         9 William Littlewood        Hong Kong Institute of Education Hong Kong