12:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.  

Registration

2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. 

Welcoming remarks

Dean John C. Keller

2:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.

Plenary Talk and Q&A Session

Carol Chapelle
Professor of TESL and Applied Linguistics
Iowa State University

3:15 p.m. – 3:30p.m.

Coffee Break

3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Session 1

Technology (I)

Paula Garrett-Rucks (UW): Influences on learners’ impressions of French culture in on-line discussions

Katherine Yngve (University of Minnesota): Motivating Students to Learn On-Line: An SLA Case Study

MyungJeong Ha (University of Texas, Austin): Nonnative students’ enculturation in an academic discourse through computer-mediated communication

Generative SLA (I)

Jacee Cho (UI): L2 Acquisition of Definiteness and Indefiniteness in Russian

Ivan Ivanov (UI): Acquisition of Clitic Doubling in L2 Bulgarian

Vladimir Kulikov (UI): Features, cues, and prosodic positions in acquisition of Russian palatalization

Classroom and Language Testing

Chiu Yin Cathy Wong (Texas Tech University): Foreign Language Teachers’ Perceptions and Implementation of Communicative Language Teaching

Silke Lipinski (University of Arizona): Recent German Lexical Frequency Research in Comparison with Textbooks’ Vocabularies

Dina Hosni (University of Texas, Austin): Introducing Linguistic Constraints on Code-Switching to Advanced Arabic Learners

Huei-Lin Hsu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Impact of World Englishes on language testing

5:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.

Prof. Pusack’s Memorial Panel

Sue Otto
Carol Chapelle
Judith Liskin-Gasparro
Kathy Heilenman
Geoffrey Hope
Rick Altman
Downing A. Thomas

6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Reception

8:00 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. 

Poster Set-Up - Breakfast

8:45 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. 

Plenary Talk and Q&A Session

Jane Zuengler
Professor,  Department of English
The University of Wisconsin-Madison

10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Session 2

Technology (II)

Erin Bidlake (Newcastle University, UK): Going solo: Case studies of learners grappling with self-instructed CALL

Hyewon Lee (Michigan State University): Networked Task-Based Dyads and L2 Literacy Development

Jim Ranalli (Iowa State University): Prospects for developing L2 students' effective use of vocabulary learning strategies via web-based multimedia training.

Feedback

Baburhan Uzum (Michigan State University): Bridging the gap: Influences of motivation on learners’ success in corrective feedback

Wakana Maekawa (Texas Tech University): Effects of diverse feedback on L2 Japanese writing

Keri and Kelsi Matwick (University of Notre Dame): An empirical study on Corrective Feedback in L2 French instruction

Yi-Chun Christine Yang (Wufeng Institute of Technology): Teachers’ role in EFL learners’ perception of recasts

Identity

Rachel Showstack (University of Texas, Austin): Cultural and Linguistic Identity in Spanish Heritage Speaker Classroom Discourse

Barbara Bird (UW): Don’t Derail Me: Emergent Identity in a Foreign Language Tutoring Session

Jill Hallett (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): More attention, this issue needs: English/Hindi topicalization and attrition

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Lunch

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Plenary Talk and Q&A Session

Judith Liskin-Gasparro
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The University of Iowa

2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. 

Session 3

Generative SLA (II)

Xiao Jing Wang (Newcastle University, UK): Grammatical Development among Chinese L2 Learners: a Processability Account

Qi Wang (Ohio University): The Acquisition of Wh-questions by Chinese speakers of English

HyunKyung Seo (Indiana University, Bloomington): Mild Garden Path Effect with Non Garden Path Sentences

Esra Altunkol (Cukurova University, Turkey): Acquisition of Causative/Inchoative Transitivity Alternations by Turkish Learners of L2 English

Language Communities and Multilingualism

Yumiko Matsunaga (UW): Overlapping and Exclusive Communities in a “Language Learning” Community

Peter I. De Costa (UW): Learning English in Singapore: A critical ethnographic case study

Jennifer Leazer (University of Minnesota): Bidialectalism pedagogy for Creolized English speaking adolescent immigrants

Pooja Reddy (Carnegie Mellon University): Cross-linguistic relationships in biliteracy acquisition of multilingual Indian children

Error Perception

Xiaoqing Chen (Michigan State University): Investigating L2 Teachers’ Beliefs on Grammar Teaching and Error Correction

Anna Kolesnikova (UI): Teachers’ and non-teachers’ perceptions of error gravity in Russian

Pragmatics

Bryant Smith (Louisiana State University): Pragmatic Acquisition – Teaching L2 Speech Acts

Johnathan Gajdos (UI): L2 semantic-pragmatic interpretations of German spatial demonstrative adverbs

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Poster Session / Coffee

• Zoltan Boka: New ambitions in a new land?
• Tingting Chen: Teaching and Learning Classical Chinese: New Horizons
• Elizabeth Deifell: Form, Meaning and Culture through CALL: A Spanish language pedagogy informed by SLA
• Eriko Ike: The Attitudes of Japanese Language Teachers towards Learning Disabled Students
• Katharina Kley: The ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview: An instance of an interview?
• Olga Kulikova: Russian across the Curriculum: Advertisement strategies in cultural context
• Jia-Ying Lee: Activities employed in a computerized Chinese reading program
• Jihye Lee: Korean L2 directives of American learners in and oustside a KFL classroom
• Chie Muramatsu: Examining interaction in L2 Japanese: From a sociocultural perspective
• Milica Savic: Politeness as an element of Serbian EFL students' communicative competence

5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

"Voices from the Field: Professional Paths in SLA"

Moderator: John Balong

Panelists:

Idoia Elola
Texas Tech University

Elizabeth  R. Miller
The University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Nobuaki Takahashi
East Carolina University

Robin Worth
The University of Wisconsin

6:30 p.m. – 6:45 p.m.

Closing Remarks

FLARE Faculty Member /FLARES Member