SLAT Interdisciplinary Roundtable

                                     

                                    *Note: All sessions held in Modern Languages Building.

                                                   Please attend any/all of the sessions.

 

Roundtable 2012 Program

Friday, March 2nd

4:30-5:00 pm Registration

  • 3rd Floor, Modern Languages(ML) (Classroom Side, South Wing)

5-6:30 pm Keynote Address

  • Dr. Steven Thorne : A Distributed Language Approach to L2 Development 

ML311

6:30-7:15 Light Reception Following Keynote Address,

ML 3rd Floor

 

 

Saturday, March 3

8:00-9:30 am light breakfast and registration, 3rd Floor, Modern Languages

8:30-9:15 Session 1

  • Ayman Mohamed, Evaluating evaluation and output in foreign language vocabulary teaching tasks

      ML 312

  • Denise Osborne, Perception of English retroflex and glottal fricative by Brazilian Portuguese learners of English

      ML 314

9:20-10:05 Session 2

  • Jinjing Zhao, Attendant Game Discourses: Speech Acts in Two Videogame Discussion Forums

      ML 302

  • Merica McNeil, Hybrid French 101: Rationale and a preview of electronic materials

      ML 312

  • Mahmoud Azaz, Investigating the Effect of L1 Transfer on L2 Acquisition: New Evidence from English Learners of Elementary Arabic

      ML 314

10:10-10:55 Session 3

  • Katharine Burns Al Masaeed, Ideology and the Presentation of U.S. Spanish in Three Spanish as a Foreign Language Textbooks

      ML302

  • Alan V. Brown and Luke Plonsky,Course Grades as Research Tool and Programmatic Gatekeeper

      ML 312

  • Elizabeth Enkin, Using a Psycholinguistic Task for L2 Training: The Story Maze

      ML 314

11:00-11:45 Session 4

  • Khaled Al Masaeed, A Critical Discourse Analysis Study of Slogans of the Egyptian Revolution

      ML 302

  • Rachel Sales, Perception of Foreign Accented Speech: Role of Familiarity and Training

      ML 312

  • Zachary Brooks, Infants learn object names from audio-visual contingencies

      ML 314

11:45-1:00 Poster Session

  • L2 Sentence Processing, Eye-tracking, Discourse Analysisin Study Abroad, Metaphor, Re-examining CLT, and more!

      ML310

1:00-1:50 Plenary Address

  • Dr. Sonia Shiri, Subversive Multimodal Discourses in Multilingual Contexts: Slogans, Protest Signs and Facebook Posts from the Tunisian Revolutions

      ML 311

2:00-3:15 Panel Presentations

  • Michael Child, Jinjing Zhao, and Bonnie Christina Holmes. Filling In Each Other’s Gaps:The Native and Nonnative Speaker Teacher in Three Contexts--Foreign Language, Heritage Language, and Native/Second Language Composition

      ML 312

  • Kristin Helland, Claudia Kunschak, and Nadia Moraglio. Fostering collaboration in an EFL/EIL program in China

      ML 314

3:20-4:20 Workshop

  • Mohammed Tamimi, Teaching Culture Using Web 2.0: Hands-on Training

      **PLEASE NOTE: Bringing a laptop is recommended for this workshop **

      ML 311

4:30-4:45 Appreciation Ceremony

  • Closing Remarks
  • Presentation of the Claudia R. Kost Award
  • Poster Session Awards

      ML 311

Schedule

Last updated: 6 Dec 2012