-SLRF 2000 INVITED COLLOQUIA-
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8:00-11:50 am Friday September 8
Rm DE 335 Pyle Center

"Language Attrition: Crosslinguistic Interplay and Sociolinguistic Perspectives"

Organizer: Dorit Kaufman, SUNY at Stony Brook
dkaufman@cs.sunysb.edu

Presenters:

  • Agnes Bolonyai and Lida Dutkova-Cope, East Carolina University. "L1 attrition of verbal morphology in bilingual children."
  • Lynne Hansen, Brigham Young University, Hawaii. "Forgotten but not Gone: Extending the Savings Paradigm in the Recovery of Lost L2 Vocabulary and Syntax."
  • Georgette Ioup, University of New Orleans. "Age Differences in Forgetting a Language."
  • Dorit Kaufman, State University of New York at Stony Brook. "L1 Attrition and Narrative Structure."
  • Robert Russell, Brigham Young University, Provo Utah. "Attrition in English Native Speakers' L2 Production of Japanese: 10 Years Later."
  • Kamal Sridhar, State University of New York at Stony Brook. "Patterns of Acquisition and Attrition in a Transplanted Language: The Case of Thanjavur Marathi in India."
  • Saskia Stoessel, Tufts University, Boston. "Multilingual Social Networks: A Sociolinguistic Perspective on First Language Attrition in Immigrants."
  • S.N. Sridhar, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Discussant.

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1:30-5:20 pm Friday September 8
Rm DE 335 Pyle Center

"Conversation Analysis: A Methodological Resource for SLA in the New Millennium"

Organizer: Numa Markee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
nppm@uiuc.edu

Presenters:

  • Andrea Golato, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "Word Searches Inside and Outside of the Classroom."
  • Numa Markee, UIUC. "Rediscovering the strangeness of the familiar: Participants' constructions of problem ownership."
  • Jean Wong, The College of New Jersey Department of Language & Communication Sciences."Applying" Conversation Analysis in Applied Linguistics: Evaluating ESL textbook Telephone Dialogues."
  • Irene Koshik, UIUC."The Importance of Attending to Action in Studies of Talk-in-Interaction."
  • Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm, The University of Kansas. "The Role and Organization of Gesture in Persian Language Classrooms."

 

8:00 - 11:50 am Saturday September 9
Rm 313 Pyle Center

"Using Technology in Second Language Research: What Can It Offer?"

Organizer: Sally Sieloff Magnan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
ssmagnan@facstaff.wisc.edu

Presenters:

  • Nina Garrett, Yale University. " The Relationship of SLA Theory and Technology is Not Unidirectional."
  • Marisol Fernández-García and Asunción Martínez-Arbelaiz. "The Synchronous Written Medium and Learners' Interactions: Insights from Empirical Studies."
  • Dalila Ayoun, University of Arizona. "Web-Based Elicitation Tasks: A Better Window into the Competence of L2 and L3 learners of French?"

 

1:30-5:20 pm Saturday September 9
Rm 313 Pyle Center

"What is the End in End State Grammars? A Millennial Look at Interlanguage Data and the Question of Ultimate Attainment"

Organizer: Chris Bongartz , University of North Carolina - Charlotte
cmbongar@email.uncc.edu

Presenters:

  • Maria-Luise Beck, University of North Texas.
  • Rakesh Bhatt, University of South Carolina. "Left Edge in Second Language Phrase Structure Acquisition."
  • Chris Bongartz, University of North Carolina-Charlotte. "Will Strength be Weakness? Resetting Determiner Feature Values in Near-Native Interlanguage Grammars."
  • Robert Bley-Vroman, University of Hawaii. "On the Explanation of Variability in L2 Acquisition: Why the Theory of SLA Should not Be Predictive."
  • Harald Clahsen and Despina Papadopoulou, University of Essex. "Parsing Strategies in L1 and L2 Sentence Processing."
  • Scott Jarvis and Aneta Pavlenko, Ohio University. "Conceptual Restructuring in Language Learning: Is there an End State?"
  • Donna Lardiere, Georgetown University. "Is the L2 Steady State Unsteady?"
  • Helmut Zobl, Carleton University. "Functional Architecture and Low-level (ultimate) Attainment."

 

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