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Conference Program Click Daily Schedule for schedules for all events and presentations, including keynote speeches, theme sessions, general session presentations, and others. Click Poster Session for the list of poster session presentations. To General Session Chairs: 1. Before you come to Xi’an, check the conference schedule once (www.iclc11.org > Conference program > Daily Schedule) and note down the presentations in your section. Most of you will be chairing one strand. However, a few of you will “shift gears,” changing strands in the middle of the half-day. Also keep in mind that “strand” is used here in a very loose sense: Presentations in a strand may or may not bear a lot of resemblance to each other. 2. Somewhere on the conference site will be a notice board, posting, among other things, cancellations of presentations. Check it for possible cancellations in your section. 3. Be in your room at least 10 minutes before the start of the section and check the door of the room for possible last-minute cancellation. Then ask around, trying to know your presenters. Generally, most of them will be there at the start, but some of them may not, as they may be in a different room attending a different section. 4. In the case of “breaks” during your session due to cancellation, the next presentation cannot be moved up. You could either wait for the next presentation or go to a presentation in another room and then come back. 5. In the very beginning of the session, introduce yourself as the chair. Then introduce your first presenter: Title of presentation, name of presenter, and his or her professional affiliation. 6. For ICLC 11, each presentation is allotted 20 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions. In each room, there will be laminated signs that say, respectively, “Three Minutes,” “One Minute,” and “Stop.” Use those signs to alert your presenters. (Sometimes you may have to be a bit intrusive, waving the sign conspicuously!) Keep in mind that allowing one presenter to use two more minutes is to take away those two minutes from someone else. 7. Once the speaker stops, you immediately ask the audience for questions. You do not have to—in fact, you should not—make any commentary on the presentation. It may help to prepare a couple of questions yourself so that if others need more time to formulate their questions, yours would be used to fill the time. |
