Time

Event

from

to

7:30

8

Registration (in front of Allameh Jafari Salon)

8

9:30

Opening Ceremony  (Allameh Jafari Salon)

9:30

10

Break

10

10:50

Keynote Speaker (Alister Cumming from Canada):

Goals for Academic Writing: ESL Students and Their Instructors

(Allameh Jafari Salon)  Moderator: A. Mehdi Riazi

11

12

Parallel Paper Presentations (22 Presentations)

(in Rooms)

12

12:30

A Survey of Shiraz University E-Journals

 on English Language & Literature

Alireza Anushirvani, Director: Shiraz University Library Center

(Allameh Jafari Salon)

12:15

14

Lunch Time

14:10

14:55

Plenary Session (Ahmad Kotob from Syria): A Proposed Model for ESP Materials for Undergraduate Speakers of Other Languages: Syrians As an Example

(Allameh Jafari Salon)  Moderator: Gholamreza Kiany

15

16

Parallel Paper Presentations (22 Presentations)

(in Rooms)

16

20

Sight-seeing

Time

Event

from

to

8

8:50

8:45

9:35

Plenary Session (Hossein Farhady from Tehran): Language Assessment: Theoretical Idealization vs. Practical Realization 

(Allameh Jafari Salon)  Moderator: S. Mohammad Alavi

Plenary Session (Vivian Cook from England): The L2 User and Language Teaching

(Allameh Jafari Salon)  Moderator: Gholamreza Kiany

9:40

10:10

Break

10:15

11:15

12:15

12:15

Parallel Paper Presentations (44 Presentations)

(in Rooms)

Symposium (Hossein Farhady & his team)

(Allameh Jafari Salon)

12:15

14

Lunch Time

14

14:50

14:45

15:35

Plenary Session (Amrollah Abjadian from Shiraz): Nature and Aim of Literary Criticism

(Allameh Jafari Salon)  Moderator: F. Pourgive

Plenary Session (Hossein Payandeh from Tehran): Teaching Literary Criticism to Iranian University Students: Some Cultural and Political Obstacles

(Allameh Jafari Salon)  Moderator: Alireza Anushirvani

15:40

16

Break

16

17:30

Parallel Paper Presentations (33 Presentations)

(in Rooms)

17:30

19

Closing Ceremony  Moderator: S. Ali Miremadi