History of the Pacific Second Language Research Forum (PacSLRF)

 

The first PacSLRF meeting in 1992 was organised by Manfred Pienemann, then Director of the Language Acquisition Research Centre at the University of Sydney. PacSLRF conferences were begun to provide a forum for the dissemination of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research in the Asia-Pacific region. The conference was patterned after the North American SLRF, that is to say, to feature data-based studies or theoretical innovations in any area of SLA research. With its special emphasis on SLA work in the Asia-Pacific region, it was expected that PacSLRF would provide a needed complement to SLRF and EuroSLA. Previous meetings and sponsors are:

 

1^st PacSLRF (1992)

Language Acquisition Research Centre (LARC), University of Sydney, Australia

 

2^nd PacSLRF (1996)

 English Language Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

 

3^rd PacSLRF (1998) 

Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan

 

4^th PacSLRF (2001)

National Foreign Language Resource Center and the Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawai'i, Manoa

 

 

PacSLRF maintains a steering committee responsible for selecting sites for the meetings. Each meeting is organised and run by the host institution and is self-supporting. Members of the current steering committee are:

 

Jim Yoshioka, Chair, University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Michael Harrington, University of Queensland, Australia

Gabriele Kasper,  University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Rhonda Oliver, Edith Cowan University, Australia

Peter Robinson, Aoyama University, Japan

Ken Rose, City University of Hong Kong

Miyuki Sasaki, Nagoya Gakuin University, Japan

Yasukata Yano, Waseda University, Japan

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