A Rotating Image SLA Colloquia

2007

  • February 21st
    Cindy Martin, Manel Lacorte, Roberta Lavine, University of Maryland
    "Great Expectations: Today's SLLC Language Students"

  • March 28th
    Kira Gor, University of Maryland
    "Frequencies and Probabilities in Second Language Processing"

  • May 3rd
    Andrea Tyler, Georgetown University
    "Applying Cognitive Linguistics to Issues in Second Language Learning"

2006
  • September 27th
    Alene Moyer, University of Maryland
    "A Closer Look at the Experience Construct in L2 Phonology: What Role Does Interaction Play?"

  • October 17th
    Louise Jansen, Australian National University
    "Reassessing the Application of Processability Theory: The Case of ESL Nominal Plural Marking"

  • October 25th
    Mike Long, University of Maryland
    "Linguistic Correlates of Proficiency"

  • November 9th
    Tatiana Chernigovskaya, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
    "The Brain and First and Second Language Acquisition"

  • November 16th
    Kara Morgan-Short, Georgetown University
    "A Neurolinguistic Investigation of Late-Learned Second Language: Effects of Explicit and Implicit Conditions"

  • November 21st
    Silvina Montrul, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
    "Spanish Object Expression Under Incomplete Acquisition in Adult Bilingualism"

  • November 27th
    John M. Norris, University of Hawaii at Manoa
    "Assessment and Evaluation of College Foreign Language Programs: Past, Present and Future Tense"

  • November 29th
    Liliana Sanchez, Rutgers University
    "Null Subjects in Shipibo-Spanish: How Syntax Interacts With Morphology and Pragmatics in Adult L@ Acquisition"

  • December 6th
    Guillermo Rodriguez, University of Pittsburgh
    "Using Only Word Class: Evidence Against Shallow Parsing in Second Language Sentence Processing?"

  • December 7th
    Micheline Chalhoub-Deville, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
    "The Native Speaker as a Rater of English Language Proficiency of International Students"
2005
  • September 30th
    Karen Vatz, University of Maryland
    "Gender Assignment and Gender Agreement in L2 Learners of French"

  • October 14th
    Sun-Young Lee, University of Maryland
    "Argument/adjunct Asymmetry in the Acquisition of Inversion in wh- questions by English-speaking Children and Korean Learners of English: Frequency Account vs. Structural Account"

  • October 28th
    Barbara Shulz, University of Maryland
    "Evidence for wh -scope Marking in Advanced Japanese-English Interlanguage Grammars"

  • November 11th
    Hyun-Sook Kang, University of Pennsylvania
    "Negative Evidence: Its Positioning, Explicitness and Linguistic Focus as Factors in Second Language Learning"
2003
  • October 28th
    Cathy Doughty, University of Maryland
    "Designing Psycholinguistically Valid Classroom Instruction"
2002
  • February 25th
    David Birdsong, University of Texas at Austin
    "Age and the End-State of Second Language Acquisition"

  • March 14th
    Scott McGinnis, NFLC
    "Our Separate Common Grounds: Research Priorities and Curricular Challenges in Heritage Education"

  • October 16th
    Bonny Norton, University of British Columbia
    "Identity and Imagined Communities in Language Learning: A Research Trajectory"
2001
  • March 15th
    Wendan Li, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    "Discourse Structure and Clause Integration of Chinese and English with Application to SLA"

  • April 30th
    Teresa Pica, University of Pennsylvania
    "Input and Interaction in the Foreign Language Classroom"

  • August 10th
    Teresa Cabal-Krastel, University of Maryland
    "Learning Disabilities and Foreign Language Learning"

  • November 15th
    Carmen Tesser, University of Georgia
    "The Teaching and Reading of Literature: Two Sides of the Same Coin or a Double-Edged Razor?"
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