About ESEA

The English in Southeast Asia (ESEA) conference series began in 1996 as a collaboration between the National Institute of Education, University of Malaya, and Universiti Brunei Darussalam. Since then, the conference consortium has expanded to include more educational institutions in Southeast Asia, as well as in the Asia Pacific. These institutions include the following:

National Institute of Education (Singapore)
University of Malaya (Malaysia)
Universiti Brunei Darussalam (Brunei)
Curtin University ( Australia)
Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines)
Hong Kong Baptist University (China)
Sanata Dharma University (Indonesia)
King Mongkut’s University of Technology (Thailand)
Waikato University (New Zealand)
University of Macau (China)
Hangzhou Normal University (China)

Past Conferences

The last ESEA conference in 2022 was in digital format, co-organized by the Ateneo de Manila University and conducted jointly with the Linguistic Society of the Philippines (LSP) International Conference. A total of 369 participants joined the event.

ESEA 2019 in Raffles Town Club, Singapore

ESEA-LSPIC 2022 fully online during the pandemic

💻 2022 – The 21st ESEA Conference: “Multilingualism, Multimodality, and Multiliteracies: Trends, Challenges, and Prospects” (Online)

🇸🇬 2019 – The 20th ESEA Conference: “Re-thinking Paradigms and Approaches to Researching, Teaching and Learning English” (Raffles Town Club, Singapore)

🇹🇭 2017 – The 19th ESEA Conference: “Doing Research in Applied Linguistics” (King Monkut's University of Technology, Thonburi, Thailand)

🇧🇳 2015 – The 18th ESEA Conference: “Interactions of English and other languages in Southeast Asia” (Universiti Brunei Darussalam)

🇲🇾 2013 – The 17th ESEA Conference: “English in the National, Regional and Global Context” (University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

🇮🇩 2011 – The 16th ESEA Conference: “English for People Empowerment” (Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia)

🇲🇴 2010 – The 15th ESEA Conference: “Our Diverse Communities” (University of Macau)

🇵🇭 2009 – The 14th ESEA Conference: “English Changing: Implications for policy, teaching, and research” (Ateneo de Manila University, the Philippines)

🇸🇬 2008 – The 13th ESEA Conference: “Englishes and Literatures-in-English in a Globalised World” (National Institute of Education, Singapore)

🇹🇭 2007 – The 12th ESEA Conference: “Trends and Directions” (King Monkut's University of Technology, Thonburi, Thailand)

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