21/03/2023
The Professional and Future English Teachers Association, the organization of BSEd English and MA Teaching English students, will host Dr. Shirley Dita of the De La Salle University for the lecture-workshop on "Using Corpus in Teaching English Grammar" on 24 March 2023 at the Tadena Hall.
Below is from the post of the association's page:
The fun aspects of the season-long celebration of the diversity of the English language keep going! We are excited to give you another educative, engrossing, and worthwhile seminar. Make sure to mark your calendar on March 24, 2023 at the University of Northern Philippines, Tadena Hall, as we hear from our speaker, Dr. Shirley Dita, an Associate Professor of the Department of English and Applied Linguistics at De La Salle University.
๐คSpeaker Profile:
Dr. Shirley N. Dita is an Associate Professor of the Department of English and Applied Linguistics at De La Salle University, the Philippines, and Director of the Lasallian Institute for Development and Educational Research (LIDER). She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the same university where she graduated With Distinction. She was a Visiting Professor at the School of Education at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, from August to September 2016, a visiting contributing scholar at the University of Sydney, Australia, in July 2018, and visiting scholar at the University of Macau in December 2018.
Professor Shirley considers World Englishes, Corpus Linguistics, and Austronesian Linguistics as her areas of interest. She has given various presentations, either as Keynote, Plenary, workshop, themed panel, or paper, on these areas here and abroad. She, as well, is mentoring Ph.D. and MA students on these topics and is a strong advocate of MTB-MLE and indigenous languages in the Philippines.
Maโam Shirley is the Immediate Past President of the Linguistic Society of the Philippines (LSP), the Executive Secretary of the Asian Association for Lexicography (AsiaLex), the organizer of the Action Research, Action Learning (ARAL) international congress, and a member of the Executive Board of the Southeast Asian Linguistic Society (SEALS) and the International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (ICAL).