DWCU Wins Best Paper Award at Kuala Lumpur’s Free Linguistics Conference
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On July 10-11, 2018, the University of Malaya (UM) hosted the 12th International Free Linguistics Conference (FLC) at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The topics discussed at the conference ranged across numerous fields, including linguistics and applied linguistics, translation studies, language studies, and language education.
The English Education Department (EED) of Duta Wacana Christian University (DWCU) sent one of its faculties, Ignatius Tri Endarto, to present his research paper entitled “Indonesian English(?): A Corpus-Based Lexical Analysis” at the conference. In that research, he looked at the use of local words and patterns in an English language newspaper to identify the characteristics of what he called Indonesian English. “A new variety of English is born whenever this language is used among non-native speakers of the same community to express their shared identity, and that is the case for Indonesian English”, he claims. By the end of the conference, it was announced that the paper won the first place of de Gruyter Best Paper Award.
This 12th International FLC was attended by more than 420 linguists and language teaching practitioners from around the world. Not only did the conference consist of paper presentations but it also included poster presentations on various topics. Along with both paper and poster presentations, this event incorporated several focus lectures by a number of keynote speakers. Those speakers were Ahmar Mahboob (University of Sydney, Australia), Willy Renandya (National Institute of Education, Singapore), Gerard Docherty (Griffith University, Australia), Kofi Yakpo (Hong Kong University), Azirah Hashim (UM), and Elaine Espindola (Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil).
According to Stefanie Pillai, the organizing chair of FLC 2018, the conference’s mission is to give free access to researchers and practitioners in the area of language sciences to share their best practices, studies, and perspectives. Brazil will be the next country to organize the 13th International FLC in 2019.
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