The Malaysian English Language T

MELTA conferences are always well attended by teachers, teacher educators, researchers, administrators, materials and curriculum developers, and professionals from the corporate sectors who are involved in English Language education.

Presentation Format
Presentations may be in the form of paper presentations (30 mins), workshops (60 mins), demonstrations (30 mins), panel discussions (60 mins), poster and/or multimedia presentations (30 mins). All presentations shall be made in English. See Guidelines for Presenters for more details.

To go or not to go Native:

The Role of Native Speaker Teachers and Trainers in Second and Foreign Language Teaching.

Since independence Malaysian education has had its ebb-and-flow romance with English native speaker teachers, consultants and trainers. In the immediate period post-independence this was inevitable due to a lack of Malaysian teachers. Later the country saw the coming of the American Peace Corps and much later still the Ministry of Education worked with universities and organizations from native speaker countries to bring in native speaker teachers, trainers and consultants to Malaysia with an aim to build local capacity. In the year 2010, we again hear the familiar clamour about bringing in hundreds of native speakers to act as trainers and consultants to the Malaysian English Language Teaching Community. This forum will deliberate on the role and value of native speaker contribution to ESL/SFL education. It will also touch on issues of non-native teacher education capacity building, sustainability and self-reliance.

The Forum will have 3 invited panelists who will each make a 10-minute presentation of his or her perspective on the issue. At the end of the presentation, members of the audience will be invited to offer their thoughts, views and ask questions. Each speaker will be allowed 3 minutes.

Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea will be served throughout the duration of the conference.

Presenters are requested to save their presentation slides in a format that is fully compatible with Power Point 97-2003.

Please also note that we require all portable storage devices such as USB pen drives/memory sticks/external hard disks to be scanned at the secretariat before your session. We hope you understand that this is a necessary measure to ensure that all digital devices used for presentation at the conference are at minimal risk of possible virus infection

Each presenter is responsible for producing enough copies of handouts. You might want to use the following rough estimate:

All rooms will have LCD Projectors and laptops. The cost of renting any other equipment will have to be borne by the presenters. Those who would like to rent any other equipment, please contact the hotel directly.

During the conference there will be a book exhibition and it is usual for publishers to offer books at reduced prices. You might want to keep this in mind when allowing for how much money you want to bring with you, or even make arrangements with your school or institution to purchase the books from the publishers.

If you require accommodation at the Conference venue, please make your own reservations. Room rates have been specially reduced for participants attending this Conference. Please refer to the “Accommodation and Travel” Page on this website.

Participants are encouraged to bring books or educational toys suitable for Primary Schools for the MELT-A-HEART social responsibility initiative. With the help of the State Education Departments MELTA has identified schools to benefit from this project. All items donated must be new and not pre-loved. Participants can drop off their items when they register for the Conference.

A Conference Proceedings CD, consisting of a compilation of presenters' papers (submitted before the deadline of 30 April 2010) will be made available for sale during the conference to all presenters and participants for the price of RM15 at the MELTA publication table. Please make your purchase early as the number of CDs prepared is limited.