Invited Speakers
Dr. Nobuyo Fukaya is an associate professor at Niigata Agro-Food University in Niigata, Japan. She was formerly a lecturer at Shibaura Institute of Technology (Tokyo, Japan). She earned her B.A. from Rikkyo University (Tokyo, Japan) and her M.A. and Ph.D from Tsuda University (Tokyo, Japan). The title of her doctoral dissertation is Optimality Theory and Language Change: The Activation of Potential Constraint Interactions. The revised version of her dissertation was published by Kaitakusya, Japan. In her dissertation, she explained English word order changes, such as the verb-second phenomenon and its loss within Optimality Theory by re-ranking the set of constraints and tackled the question of how this re-ranking took place. She is currently studying how language develops. Her publications address the areas of language acquisition of L1 English-speaking children and Japanese EFL learners. She has collected extensive data using the Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES) database (MacWhinney 2000) and explained within Optimality Theory how and why children acquire their mother tongue. She has particularly focused on the acquisition of wh-questions, comparing children’s and parents’ utterances. Her recently published papers on first language acquisition are “Case Study 1” (2022), “Optimality Theory and the Development of Do-Support in Children’s Wh-Questions” (2023), and “A CHILDES-Based Study on the English Dative Alternation” (2023). In addition, she has addressed second language acquisition using the Japanese EFL learner (JEFLL) Corpus (Tono 2007), and has compared L1 English-speaking children and Japanese EFL learners. Her major article on Japanese EFL learners is “Comparison of Japanese EFL Learners and L1 English Children: The English Dative Alternation” (2023). She is also one of the translators of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language written by Rodney and Geoffrey (2002) (Eibunpou daijiten shiriizu vol. 0, 2017) and Language Change written by Bybee (2015) (Gengo-wa donoyouni henkasurunoka, 2019), and has contributed to deepening the understanding of linguistics for beginners.
Dr. Ahlam Othman is an Associate Professor of
English Language & Literature at the Faculty of Arts
& Humanities, British University in Egypt. She is
also a faculty member at the Faculty of Humanities,
Al-Azhar University where she gained her doctorate
in English Literature. She has a Master of Arts in
TEFL from the AUC, Egypt, and has registered at
Al-Azhar University for another doctorate in
Comparative Poetics. Dr. Othman’s research interests
are Comparative Literature, Literary Translation and
Comparative Poetics. She is a reviewer for the
National Center for Translation, Scopus indexed
journals, as well as several International
Conferences. Dr. Othman is a member of the Egyptian
Writers’ Union, a board member of the Egyptian
Society of Comparative Literature, a member of the
Egyptian Circle of Comparative Poetics and Genre
Studies, and an editorial board member of Muqaranat,
an annual journal.
Dr
Mariam Mohamad is a Senior Lecturer at Universiti Sains
Malaysia, Penang Malaysia. Her research interest is in
the field of mobile learning and mobile assistive
technology. Dr Mariam was acknowledged as one of the
pioneers from Malaysia in mobile learning research, in
the book entitled Mobile Learning in Higher Education in
the Asia-Pacific Region published by Springer. Her work
also referred by UNESCO in the publication entitled;
Turning on Mobile Learning: Illustrative Initiatives and
Policy Implications.
Dr. Mariam has extensive experience in disseminating her
work internationally. She actively involves presenting
her work in international conferences with ISI Web of
Science and SCOPUS indexed status. She was invited by
UNESCO to present her work in Mobile Learning Week 2014
at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. She was also invited by
ICEMT 2018 to give her speech in Okinawa, Japan and
IMLF2018 in Singapore. In 2019, she was invited by
ICEDU2019 in Kuala Lumpur as a plenary speaker and forum
panelist. She also attended ICEMT 2019 in Nagoya, Japan
as a plenary speaker. In 2020 she was invited as a
keynote speaker for IMRC 2020 in Philippines. In 2021,
she contributed as the keynote speaker in TEL 2021,
plenary speaker in ICSE 2021 and also as invited speaker
for ICEEL 2021. Recent contribution was as invited
speaker in ICIET 2022.
For her success in the field, in 2021, she was awarded
with international grants which include Sumitomo
Foundation and Japan Foundation to support her research
in mobile assistive technology. For the community, she
also devoted her time as the Advisor for Special Need
Students Association, University Sains Malaysia. She is
also a committee member for Research & Development Unit,
Malaysian Association for The Blind.
Dr.
Chew Fong Peng is a associate professor at the Faculty
of Education, University of Malaya (UM), Malaysia,
teaching Malay language education and early childhood
education program. She has presented approximately 176
working papers in international and international
seminars and conferences in Malaysia and foreign
countries, published 9 books, 132 articles published in
journals, 72 papers in conference proceedings, 44
chapters in books, 21 translated books including
creative writings, 14 edited books, and edited creative
writings. She is the book editor of Taylor & Francis,
editor for Malaysian Year 4, 5, and 6 History textbooks,
and Year 1 Arts and Music Education textbooks. Assoc.
Prof. Dr. Chew has completed 31 research projects, 10 of
which were led by Chew. She won many medals in the
academy and innovative expo, besides being listed in
Marquis Who's Who in the World 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015,
2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. Chew is an article reviewer
for established international journals on the Web of
Science and Scopus, such as Asia-Pacific Education
Researcher, Asia Pacific Journal of Education, SAGE
Open, Educational Research and Reviews (ERR), Pertanika:
Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, GEMA Online,
etc. Associate Professor Dr. Chew is also a member of
the editorial board of 11 national and international
journals including Journal of Contemporary Educational
Research, Review of Educational Theory, GATR Global
Journal for Business & Social Science Review, and
Advisory of International Research and Development
Center for Publication (IRDCP). She was invited as a
visiting professor at Peking University, China from
October 2011 to June 2012.
