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Tuesday 4 July 9:00 - ll:00 |
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| Colloquium #1 (Room 24-S304) | CALL |
| Colloquium #24-S401 | Pragmatics |
| Session 1 (Room 32-2xxx) | Classroom SLA (Chair: TBA) |
| 1. Weaver, C. | Learners’ perceptions concerning their L2 performance in an out of class speaking task | 2. Yen, Y-Y K. | SWOT Analysis---The Study of Primary English Teachers’ Teaching Beliefs and Behaviors toward Tracking/Detracking |
| 3. Bitchener, J. | Written and oral corrective feedback on ESL student writing |
| Session 2 (Room 32-2xxx) | Others (Chair: XXXX) |
| 1. Horiba, Y. | Breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge in Japanese-as-L2 text comprehension |
| 2. Gardner, R. | Broken starts: Turn initial bricolage in second language speaker talk |
| 3. Schembri, A. & Cresdee, D. | The second language acquisition of referential cohesion in Australian Sign Language (Auslan) |
| Session 3 (Room 32-2xxx) | Syntax (Chair: TBA) |
| 1. Hwang, S. | Null Object Unlearning and Topic-Drop Parameter |
| 2. Kawaguchi, S. | Structural choices and argument mapping in learners of Japanese L2 |
| 3. Liang, Y-C. | UG constrained interlanguage: L2A of Mandarin classifiers by English-speaking learners |
Tuesday 4 July 13:45 - 15:45 |
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| Session 4 (Room 32-2xxx) | Classroom SLA (Chair:XXXX) |
| 1. Chen, Y-C. | The Effect of Two Teaching Methodologies on the Acquisition of Restrictive Relative Clauses Among Taiwanese Tenth Graders |
| 2. Consolo, D. A. & da Silva, V. L. T. | The oral production of university EFL students: an analysis of tasks, format and quality in foreign language development |
| 3. Dibiase, B. | Developmentally moderated focus-on-form |
| 4. Foster, P. | Measuring the effects of storyline structure upon first and second language performance |
| Session 5 (Room 24-S401) | Bilingualism (Chair:XXXX) |
| 1. Bowles, M. | Can instructed L2 learners acquire native-like sentence interpretation strategies?: an online empirical study |
| 2. Na Ranong, S. | The acquisition of Chinese nominal phrases in L3A: a comparison between L1 Thai-L2 English-L3 Chinese and L1 English-L2 Chinese groups |
| 3. Nguyen-Hoan, M. | L1 transfer effects in native-like L2 speakers |
| 4. Ranta, L. | Language Use Questionnaires: Can They Be Trusted? |
| Session 6 (Room 32-2xxx) | Reading/Writing (Chair:XXXX) |
| 1. Iwashita, N., Noguchi, S. & Sekiguchi, S. | Learner characteristics and their effects on the development of writing skills in Japanese as a second language |
| 2. Hafner, A. & Ulanoff, S. | Using Growth Mixture Modeling to Identify Patterns of Early Reading Development for English Language Learners |
| 3. Shiotsu, T. | Exploring Flexibility and Stability of the Reading Speed as Indices of Reading Ability |
| 4. Chang, C. | The effects of prompting on EFL learners’ mapping behavior and consequent recall performance |
| Session 7 (Room 32-2xxx) | Social-cultural theory and Processing (Chair:XXXX) |
| 1. De Costa, P. | The classroom, the context and the candidate: A case study of a Korean ESL learner through an identity lens |
| 2. Woodfield, D. | Talk about Language: A Fillip for Language Learning? |
| 3. Yates, L. & de Courcy, M. | Identity, community and English language development among three age groups of Iraqi refugees |
| 4. Cho, S. | Literacy development of Korean learners of English: Writing is a benefit itself in the United States |
| Session 8 (Room 32-2xxx) | Syntax and Lexicon/Vocab (Chair:XXXX) |
| 1. Bullock, G. | The Acquisition of L2 Argument Structure: English Locative Verbs and Constructions |
| 2. Chen, M. Y-C. | Infintival clauses in the interlanguage of EFL learners |
| 3. Fukuchi, K. | The Acquisition of Island Repair under Ellipsis by Japanese Learners of English |
| 4. Shen, M-Y. | EFL Learners’ Reflective Practice in Learning Contextual Analysis for Word Inferencing |
Wednesday 5 July 10:45 - l2:45 |
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| Colloquium #3 (Room 24-S304) | Interactionists’ SLA |
| Session 9 (Room 24-S401) | Bilingualism and Processing (Chair:XXXX) |
| 1. Taura, H. & Taura, A. | Temporal aspects of language attrition and retention in Japanese returnee children |
| 2. Bridges, S. | Prospect or promise – the future of short-term English immersion programs in Australia |
| 3. Charters, H. | Processing complex Nominal phrases: ‘phrasal’ or ‘inter-phrasal’ processing? |
| 4. Gullberg, M. | Breaking and entering: First contact with a new language |
| Session 10 (Room 32-2xxx) | Motivation/Learner Strategy (Chair:XXXX) |
| 1. Dehghan, M., Mirhassani, A. & Akbari,R. | The Relationship between Iranian EFL Learners’ Goal-oriented and Self-regulated Learning and Their Language Proficiency |
| 2. Imura, T. | Impact of interaction with NS on linguistic and affective development |
| 3. Yang, N-D. | A Strategy-based Approach to Language Learning for College EFL Learners |
| 4. Sawyer, M. | The motivational fluctuations of Japanese EFL learners over 8 years of formal instruction |
| Session 11 (Room 32-2xxx) | Syntax (Chair:XXXX) |
| 1. Miyamoto, Y. | On scrambling and left branch effect in the grammar of Japanese EFL learners |
| 2. Zhang, Y. | The topic hypothesis: syntactic development of Chinese as a second language |
| 3. Rothman, J. | Syntactic competence similarities despite target-deviant performance: pragmatic deficiencies in L2 acquisition |
| 4. Witzel, J. & Witzel, N. O. | Wanna contraction in intermediate-level Japanese learners of English |
| Session 12 (Room 32-2xxx) | Testing (Chair:XXXX) |
| 1. Kikuchi, K. | University English entrance examinations in Japan and task-based language teaching |
| 2. Chen, G-S., Cheng, Y-T. & Wang, Y & Lin, L-F. | The assessment of Chinese character writing skills: a computerized model |
| 3. Horai, T. | Intra-task comparison in monologic test of speaking: aspects of linguistic analysis |
| 4. Kiani, G. | Writing performance assessment: the role of writer’s/rater’s content Familiarity/Unfamiliarity |
Wednesday 5 July 13:45 - l5:45 |
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Graduate Students Dissertation Work-In-Progress Workshop |
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| Session 13 (Room 32-2xxx) | Classroom SLA (Chair:XXXX) |
| 1. Nassaji, Hossein | Explicitness of interactional feedback and its role in the learning of targeted forms in student-teacher interaction |
| 3. Qiu, C.J. | Comparing teacher intentions with student utilization of feedback in an EFL writing classroom |
| Session 14 (Room 32-2xxx) | Pragmatics (Chair:XXXX) |
| 1. Haugh, M. | The place of ‘intention’ in the interpretation of implicature |
| 2. Munro, A. | Figuring Intention |
| Session 15 (Room 32-2xxx) | Syntax/Morphology (Chair:XXXX) |
| 1. Boss, B. | The role of formulaic sequences in the acquisition of German as a foreign language |
| 2. Dalila, A. | Grammatical gender and agreement in L2 French: A minimalist approach |
| Session 16 (Room 32-2xxx) | CALL (Chair:XXXX) |
| 1. Stockwell, G. | Online approaches to learning vocabulary: Teacher-centred or learner centred? |
| 2. Woodman, K. | Cyber-self-reflection |
| Session 17 (Room 32-2xxx) | Lexicon/Vocab (Chair:XXXX) |
| 1. Wen, Q. | A corpus-based analysis of frequency adverbs ssed by Chinese English majors |
| 2. Wu, W-S. | Mental images and contextual clues: A comprehension study of animal idiomatic expressions in an EFL environment |
Thursday 6 July 2006 10:45-12:45 |
Session 18 (Room 24-S304) | Classroom SLA (Chair:XXXX) |
| 1. Friedman, G. | Pragmatically-pushed output and strategic negotiation in scenario tasks |
| 2. Hama, M., Al-Khalil, M., Atanassova, G. Logan-Terry, A. Nakatsukasa, K. & Mackey,A. | Teachers’ and learners’ perceptions about corrective feedback in the L2 classroom |
| 3. Jensen M-T. | Patterns of feedback to spoken errors in adult ESL classrooms and the link to teacher beliefs |
| 4. Lin, P-Y | Long-term effect of early L2 learning in a formal instructional environment |
| Session 19 (Room 24-S401) | Phonology (Chair:XXXX) |
| 1. Kuo, J.Y-C | Acquisition of English complex onsets by Japanese speakers |
| 2. Wong, C.S.P. | What makes English consonant clusters difficult for Cantonese-speaking ESL learners? |
| 3. Marinova-Todd, S. H. & Hall, E. | Age and the degree of foreign accent in English: the case of children and adults |
| 4. Tsukada, K. | Effects of bilingual dominance and language mode on L2 speech: perceived foreign accent and acoustic measurements |
| Session 20 (Room 32-2xxx) | Oral Discourse (Chair:XXXX) |
| 1. Cook, H. | Speech-style shifts and interactional styles of Japanese host families |
| 2. Jamali, F. | It’s not just about language: code-switching across the curriculum |
| 3. Kurt Taþpýnar, H. | Would you like to join my speaking circle? |
| Session 21 (Room 32-2xxx) | Child SLA (Chair:XXXX) |
| 1. Allen-Tamai, M. | The development of L2 phonological awareness in relationship to L1 and intelligence |
| 2. Haroon, H. A. | Associations between gender, home and school languages, and language learning beliefs, and achievement in two second languages (L2s) |
| 4. Atay, D. & Kurt, G. | Recasting with Turkish young learners: effects on oral and written narratives |
| Session 22 (Room 32-2xxx) | Syntax/Morphology and Reading/Writing (Chair:XXXX) |
| 1. Jansen, L. | The acquisition of plural marking in Vietnamese learners of English: counterevidence for processability theory? |
| 2. Attaviriyanupap, K. | The acquisition of German verb paradigm and its... |
| 3. Wong, B-E. | Acquisition of the English definite article by Chinese and Malay ESL learners |
| 4. Marefat, F. | Rethinking writing apprehension and performance |
Thursday 6 July 2006 13:45-15:45 |
Session 23 (Room 24-S304) | Classroom SLA and Research Methodology (Chair:XXXX) |
| 1. Rahimpour, M. | Task condition and interlanguage variation: an investigation of the impact of interactional feedback |
| 2. Rolin-Ianziti, J. & Brittain, C. | The influence of training on teachers’ use of delayed feedback: an exploratory study |
| 3. Sheppard, C. | Noticing the gap and second language acquisition: A role for output in uptake and subsequent incorporation |
| 4. Storch, N.& Wigglesworth, G. | Reformulate or edit? Investigating the impact of different feedback practices |
| 5. Cross, R. | Theory to practice: methodological implications of Vygotskian sociocultural theory |
| Session 24 (Room 24-S401) | Pragmatics (Chair:XXXX) |
| 1. Alavinia, P. | Bilingualism & speech act of request: is knowledge of a second language really helpful? |
| 2. Han, S. | The relation between L2 proficiency and the development of the speech act of requests |
| 3. Lin, Y-H. & Ho, P-C. | Interlanguage apology realization—cross-cultural variations and effect of exposure to the target language |
| 4. Kim, Y. | L2 Learners’ assessments and accounts: a longitudinal study |
| 5. Rinnert, C. | Learning to complain: Development of awareness of English pragmatic strategies among Japanese EFL students |
| Session 25 (Room 32-2xxx) | Processing & Syntax (Chair:XXXX) |
| 1. Wakabayashi, S. | Processing mechanism underlying the production of English past tense inflection |
| 2. Toyoda, E. | L2 orthographic processing skills at different levels of L2 exposure |
| 3. Moskovsky, C. | Second Language fossilization in adult migrants in Australia |
| 4. Okamoto, A. | Acquisition of Japanese transitivity alternation by L1 English speakers |
| 5. Herschensohn, J. & Arteaga, D. | Developing tense morphosyntax: A case study of L2 French |
| Session 26 (Room 32-2xxx) | Lexicon/Vocab (Chair:XXXX) |
| 1. Hsieh, L. C-C. | Learning prepositions as part of fixed phrases in phrasal verbs and collocations: the case of “on” in the EFL classroom |
| 2. Bird, S. | Depth of processing effects in vocabulary learning |
| 3. Horiba, Y. & Fukaya, K. | Task of learning content vs. language from L2 text |
| 4. Jeng-Yih, T. H. & Chiu, C-Y. | Incorporate vocabulary into second language syllabus: collocations, fixed/semi-fixed expressions, and idioms |
| 5. Molina, Sylvia | English and Spanish idioms in contrast: a functional and cognitive view |
| Session 27 (Room 32-2xxx) | CALL (Chair:XXXX) |
| 1. Nakane, I. | Development of L2 sociolinguistic competence in email correspondence between learners of Japanese and their tutors |
| 2. Fang, Y-J. | Designing online listening comprehension tasks for learners of Mandarin Chinese as a second/foreign language |
| 3. Kuo, F-R. & Tsai, M-T. | Web-based concordancing as a learning tool for lower level EFL learners |
| 4. Erlam, R. | Corrective feedback in a computer mediated communicative context: an experimental study |
| 5. Rowan, M. | Issues and revelations: student responses to blended learning in a first year tertiary Chinese language classroom |
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