The fourth international conference on English as a Lingua Franca follows on from the highly successful first three conferences in the series, held at the universities of Helsinki (2008),Southampton (2009) and Vienna (2010). This is the first time the conference will be held outside Europe.

• Prof Kingsley Bolton - City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Prof Fuad Abdul Hamied - Indonesia University of Education, Indonesia
• rof Nobuyuki Honna - Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan

• Prof Jennifer Jenkins - University of Southampton, UK
• Prof Anna Mauranen - University of Helsinki, Finland
• Prof Barbara Seidlhofer - University of Vienna, Austria