-SLRF 2000-

SCHEDULE OF PAPER PRESENTATIONS

SLRF 2000 schedule of events

Exact times are subject to change. The final schedule will appear in the conference program.

Friday morning, 9/8

Track 1:
Memorial Union--Beefeaters Room, 4th Floor

8:00-8:40 Shunji Inagaki Japanese learners’ acquisition of English motion verbs with goal PP’s
8:45-9:25 Belma Haznedar Functional categories in child second language acquisition
9:45-10:25 Bill Crawford The L2 acquisition of Wh-movement: an argument against the transfer of functional features
10:30-11:10 Nigel Duffield, Ayumi Matsuo Divergent outcomes in L2 acquisition of Ellipsis and Anaphora
11:15-11:55 Yan-Kit Ingrid Leung The initial state of L3A: failed features and full transfer?


Track 2:

Memorial Union--Round Table Room, 3rd Floor East

8:00-8:40 Margaret Szymanski Conversation Analysis and L2 practice: Spanish speakers transitioning to English
8:45-9:25 Hanh Nguyen An ESL learner’s development of interactional competence in writing conferences
9:45-10:25 Masaki Kobayashi, Emi Kobayashi Co-constructing grammatical knowledge through peer interaction: a sociocultural perspective
10:30-11:10 Junko Mori Beyond questions and answers: a discussion activity in a Japanese language classroom


Track 3
:
Memorial Union--Old Madison Room, 3rd Floor East

8:00-8:40 Deborah Arteaga, Randall Gess, Julia Herschensohn Mimicking native knowledge: phonological focus on morphological form
8:45-9:25 Mailce Mota Fortkamp Working memory capacity and nonnative speech performance
9:45-10:25 Yuki Yoshimura The role of working memory in language aptitude
10:30-11:10 Matthew Finkbeiner The role of episodic memory in bilingual lexical representations
11:15-11:55 Diana Pulido Familiarity and proficiency effects on recognition memory and vocabulary gain


Track 4:

Memorial Union--Class of '24 Reception Room, 3rd Floor East

8:45-9:25 Yana Cornish Background variables and Russian learners’ beliefs about language learning
9:45-10:25 Tetsuo Harada Perceived degree of foreign accent in Japanese immersion children
10:30-11:10 Natasha Vanyushkina Proverbial language and its role in second language acquisition
11:15-11:55 Mutsuko Endo Hudson Reaction to nonnative speakers’ pronunciation in Japanese

 

Friday afternoon, 9/8

Track 1:
Memorial Union--Beefeaters Room, 4th Floor

1:30-2:10 Marie Felbaum Information structure in interlanguage
2:15-2:55 Nicholas Jungheim An interlanguage of gestures in Japanese learners’ L2 discourse
3:00-3:40 Eric Hauser Matrix language analysis of Japanese/English code-switching
4:00-4:40 Reiko Nishikawa JFL learners' acquisition of the connective suffix (-TE) as a discourse organizer
4:45-5:25 Bonnie Swierzbin Acquisition of NP referring expressions based on ease of production


Track 2:

Memorial Union--Round Table Room, 3rd Floor East

1:30-2:10 Jennifer Leeman A new classification of input: defining theoretically and empirically motivated categories
2:15-2:55 Marie Therese Jensen Is "no" really missing in the adult ESL classroom?
3:00-3:40 Adel Abu Radwan Effects of the interaction of degree of explicitness and level of awareness on second language learning
4:00-4:40 Wen-Hsien Hsu Language scaffolds and modified input generated through classroom questioning
4:45-5:25 Folkert Kuiken, Ineke Vedder How does interaction affect L2 acquisition?


Track 3:

Memorial Union--Old Madison Room, 3rd Floor East

1:30-2:10 Mahide Demirci Reflexives and pronouns in L2
2:15-2:55 Soo-Ok Kweon The acquisition of contraction constraint by high-proficiency Korean adult learners: a study on wanna-contraction
3:00-3:40 Silvina Montrul, Roumyana Slabakova Ultimate attainment of the preterite/imperfect contrast in Spanish near-native competence
4:00-4:40 Phillippe Prevost Are truncation and missing inflection mutually exclusive in child SLA?
4:45-5:25 Larissa Zakletskaia The L2 knowledge of reflexives and the Minimalist program


Track 4:

Memorial Union--Class of '24 Reception Room, 3rd Floor East

1:30-2:10 Nobuko Chikamatsu Cognitive development of L2 Japanese word recognition and reading
2:15-2:55 Christen Pearson Nonword repetition ability and L2 proficiency gain in adult learners
3:00-3:40 Nick Ellis, Bill Hicks Learning to read English, German, Welsh, and Dutch: Computational simulations
4:00-4:40 Joe Barcroft The generation effect in L2 lexical acquisition
4:45-5:25 Anthony Silva Does text elaboration facilitate L2 vocabulary learning?


Track 5:

Memorial Union--Inn Wisconsin Room, 2nd Floor

1:30-2:10 Naoko Taguchi L2 learners’ strategic mental processes during a listening test
2:15-2:55 Kangli Ji Higher-order reading strategies used by Chinese EFL learners
3:00-3:40
Barbara Birch Bottom-up reading strategies: a new agenda for ESL/EFL
4:00-4:40 Oktay Baysal The role of strategy training in promoting reading comprehension
4:45-5:25 Robert Manheimer Transfer from a Whorfian perspective: evidence from L2 narratives

 

Saturday morning, 9/9

Track 1:
Pyle Center, Room 225

8:00-8:40 Bruce Anderson The interpretive correlates of adjective position in L2 French
8:45-9:25 Shiraz Felling, Simona Maciukaite The development of articles in child L2 acquisition of English
9:45-10:25 Xenia Bonch-Bruevich Where is gender? Evidence from college-level English-speaking learners of Spanish
10:30-11:10 Rex Sprouse, Laurent Dekydtspotter, Erin Gibson Syntax and interpretation: split relatives in English-French interlanguage
11:15-11:55 Rachel Wilson Learning syntactic categories implicitly: artificial grammar experiments extend to Russian


Track 2:

Pyle Center, Room 111

8:00-8:40 Tara Gibbs Applying "genre analysis" to oral, non-academic discourse situations
8:45-9:25 Kimberly Johnson Saylor, Katarzyna Brzosko-Barratt Exploring democracy in the graduate seminar
9:45-10:25 Michelle Winn Cultural values and contextual presuppositions in the U.S. naturalization interview
10:30-11:10 Christina Higgins, Becky Roeder, Mary Thompson, Xang Vang Do ESL students need critical thinking skills? A microethnographic investigation
11:15-11:55 Jane Zuengler Pledging allegiance: participation choices and second language acquisition


Track 3:

Pyle Center, Room 309

8:00-8:40 Tania Ionin, Kenneth Wexler L1-Russian children learning English: tense and overgeneralization of "be"
8:45-9:25 Aida Martinovic-Zic Tense, aspect and time: rhetorical typology in L2 acquisition
9:45-10:25 Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig Into the future: a longitudinal study of futurity
10:30-11:10 Tom Salsbury The acquisition of unreal conditionals in L2 English
11:15-11:55 Yasuhiro Shirai The aspect hypothesis: a universal of SLA?


Track 4:

Pyle Center, Room 213

8:00-8:40 Akiko Okamura Non-English speaking professionals’ use of reporting verbs in academic discourse
8:45-9:25 Stephen Gaies, Sarah Eberly Prototypicality revisited: three recent studies
9:45-10:25 Hugh Bishop L2 lexical processing and multi-word vocabulary acquisition
10:30-11:10 Nan Jiang L1 mediation in L2 processing: evidence from a semantic judgment task
11:15-11:55 Asha Tickoo The discourse constraints and learning challenges of indefinite reference


Track 5:

Pyle Center, Room 112

8:00-8:40 Larissa Godish Dugas Attrition of pronunciation accuracy among advanced American learners of French
8:45-9:25 Akiko Kato The analysis of variation in interlanguage prosody and its methods
9:45-10:25 Laura Catherine Smith L2 acquisition of English liquids: evidence for production preceding perception
10:30-11:10 Kimberly Swanson Is second language learning the same as first language learning? Learning L2 phonology
11:15-11:55 Kelly Sax Acquisition of stylistic variation in French: [i] versus [il]

 

Saturday afternoon, 9/9

Track 1:
Pyle Center, Room 225

2:15-2:55 Tammy Hertel The second language acquisition of Spanish inversion with unaccusative verbs
3:00-3:40
Busi Dube Syntax and morphology in L2 acquisition: interdependent or independent?
4:00-4:40 Hiroyuki Oshita Uneasiness with the easiest: the subject-verb order in L2 English
4:45-5:25 Enchao Shi The partial-constraint hypothesis: functions of L1 LCs’s on L2 predicates


Track 2:

Pyle Center, Room 111

1:30-2:10 Matthew Ciscel Bridging context and cognition in second language acquisition
2:15-2:55 Momoyo Shimazu Creating self-expression: classroom discourse in Japanese as a foreign language classroom
3:00-3:40
Minako Yamada, Randolph Thrasher Negotiating perspective in cross-cultural communication
4:00-4:40 Erica Zimmerman Playing teacher: non-native use of addressee honorifics in Japanese
4:45-5:25 Paul Russell, Jean Yoo Learner investment in second language writing


Track 3:

Pyle Center, Room 309

1:30-2:10 Teresa Cabal-Krastel, Manel Lacorte Action research in L2 classrooms: issues of validity and reliability
2:15-2:55 Bahar Cantürk Explicit grammar instruction: comprehension-based or production-based?
3:00-3:40
Elizabeth Miller, Hui-Fen Chang The discourse of grammaticality judgement tasks and second language acquisition
4:00-4:40 Margaret DuFon Triangulation in qualitative SLA research on interlanguage pragmatics
4:45-5:25 Melanie Schneider Easy come easy go: a story of attrition in child SLA


Track 4:

Pyle Center, Room 213

1:30-2:10 Lyn Buchheit, Jonne Smith Detecting form in input: implications of certain learner profile variables
2:15-2:55 Andrew Cohen Researching mental and written translation strategies in language learning
3:00-3:40
Kazue Kanno Sentence processing by JSL learners
4:00-4:40 Bill VanPatten, Mark Overstreet Revisiting the role of Word-order in English sentence processing


Track 5:

Pyle Center, Room 112

1:30-2:10 Kirk Sullivan The Lindgren-Sullivan graph: a methodology to present L2 writing revisions
2:15-2:55 David Wible, Chin-Hwa Kuo SLA research, learner corpora, and web-based learning environments
3:00-3:40
Rafaella Negretti SLA and web-based communication: meaning negotiation strategies
4:00-4:40 Donald Weasenforth, Sigrun Biesenbach-Lucas "Please help me": L1/L2 variations in solicitations in electronic conferences
4:45-5:25 Carsten Roever Web-based elicitation of speech acts

 

Sunday morning, 9/10

Track 1:
Pyle Center, Rom 213

8:15-8:55 Tomohiko Shirahata Acquisition of phrase structures by Japanese child learners of English
9:00-9:40 Mila Tasseva-Kurktchieva Evidence of weak continuity in learning Bulgarian as L2
9:45-10:25 Chuanren Ke Acquisition patterns of Chinese linguistic features for CFL learners


Track 2:
Pyle Center, Room 309

8:15-8:55 Tony Macheak Operationalizing and defining corrective feedback in second-language research: towards an integrated model
9:00-9:40 Mariko Moroishi Recasts and learner uptake in the Japanese classroom discourse
9:45-10:25 Judith Liskin-Gasparro, Ana Oskoz Corrective feedback, learner uptake, and teacher beliefs: a pilot study


Track 3:

Pyle Center, Room 225

9:00-9:40 Kimberly Geeslin Linguistic simplification: past, present, and future links to second language acquisition
9:45-10:25 Robert Yates, Jim Kenkel Influences of the Basic Variety on instructed second language learning

 

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Last updated July 17, 2000