Program

    NB.: There will be powepoint facilities & overhead transparency projectors in all rooms

 

Program

 
9.00-16.15 LANGUAGE LEARNING ROUNDTABLE CONFERENCE: The age factor in natural and foreign language contexts  
9.00-9.15   Official opening  
9.15-10.15   Lecture 1: D. Singleton: "Will the real Critical Period Hypothesis please stand up?"  
10.15-11.15   Lecture 2: D. Birdsong: "Demystifying the Age Factor in L2 Acquisition"  
11.15-11.45   Coffee break  
11.45-12.45   Lecture 3: J. Jolles: "Learning in a ‘Lifelong’ Perspective in Relation to Brain Aging and Psychological Factors"  
12.45-14.00   Lunch break  
14.00-16.00   Discussion: E. Bialystok & C. Muñoz  
16.00-16.15   Conclusions  
17.00-19.00

DOCTORAL WORKSHOPS

 
   

 Room A

 

Room b

 

Room C

 

Room D

 
17.00-17.30  

S.C. Howell "Methods for studying low level L2 learners' vocabulary"

Discussant: B. Laufer

 

I. Moreno Teva "Formulaic sequences & function in acquisition of Spanish..."

Discussant: J.M. Dewaele

 

L. Mori "L2 phonological acquisition of Italian vowels..."

Discussant: M. Kondo

 

S. Sayehli "Problems in analysing data of language learning beginners"

Discussant: I. van de Craats

 
17.30-18.00  

M.L.I. Moonen "The multi-feature hypothesis"

Discussant: B. Laufer

 

D. Dippold "Interlanguage pragmatics & language of conflict"

Discussant: J.M. Dewaele

 

E. Gómez Lacabex "Vowel reduction for the non-native learner"

Discussant: M. Kondo

 

R. Östeberg "Verbal morphology & learning strategies..."

Discussant: I. van de Craats

 
18.00-18.30  

S. Moreno "Assessing L2 embedded vocabulary through computerised ..."

Discussant: P. Meara

 

H. Lindqvist "The acquisition & use of discourse markers in L2 Spanish"

Discussant: S. Foster-Cohen 

 

M. Keijzer "Methodological problems in the study of L1 attrition..."

Discussant: K. de Bot

 

J. Gutierrez "Old issues, new evidence: parameter resetting..."

Discussant: B. D. Schwartz

 
18.30-19.00  

E. Bylund "The age of onset of L2 acquistion as an external variable in L1 attrition"

Discussant: M.L. Celaya

 

J. Klawitter  Beuch "The bilingual FL learner: Immigrant..."

Discussant: E. Bialystok

 

 

 

 
18.30-20.00 Registration  
19.00-20.30 Conference Reception - Miramar Palace (Sponsored by Multilingual Matters)  

 

Program

 
8.30-9.00 Registration  
9.00-9.30 Official opening  
9.30-10.30 PLENARY TALK : Z. Dörnyei (U. of Nottingham)   "Motivational dynamics, language attitude and language globalization"   
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break  
11.00-13.00 PANEL 1

PAPERS

 
   

 Room A

 

Room b

 

Room C

 

Room D

 
11.00-11.30  

Linguistic Landscapes (Shohamy)

Gorter & Cenoz 

  J. Cebrián
“Why should /i/ be difficult?
S. Lipski
 

A. C. Demagny
“L’acquisition du lexique de la temporalité en Français L1 et L2"

  S. Y. Lee
“Development and learnability in Korean adults
L2 acquisition of English reflexives"
 
11.30-12.00  

T. Huebner

  N. Fullana & I.R. A. Mackay
“FL learners’ production of English vowel sounds”
 

M.P. Agustín
“Lexical errors in the lexicon of 10-year old learners”

 

J. Granfeldt
“Heads and maximal projections in the acquisition of French”

 
12.00-12.30  

Ben-Refael, Shohamy, & Trumper-Hecht

 

J.C.Mora
“The effect of lexical knowledge on the perception of some phonemic contrasts”

 

E. Peters
“Vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension by intermediate FLL”

 

N. Okuwaki
“Surface marking of past tense on thematic verbs
& be forms by L1 Japanese..."

 
12.30-13.00  

K. de Bot

Discussion Discussants: E. Bialystok & R. Ellis

 

S. Lipski
“Phonolical representations in the auditory cortex”

 

D. Singleton & M. O Laoire "Psychotypology and 'the L2 factor' in cross-lexical interaction

 

I. Van de Craats
“The role of 'is' in the acquisition of finiteness”

 
13.00-15.00 Lunch break  
15.00-16.00 POSTER SESSION 1  
  PANEL 2

PAPERS

 
   

 Room A 

 

Room b

 

Room C

 

Room D

 
16.00-16.30   Intercultural discourse & L2 pragmatics (Kecskes & Boxer)

D. Boxer

 

K. Stölten
“The role of age in the production of VOT”

 

P. Meara
“Reactivating vocabulary”

  M. Sharwood-Smith
"UG theory: black hole or missing link?"
 
16.30-17.00   S. Takahashi 

I. Kecskes 

 

K. Keong-Young
“L1 phoneme representations in L2”

 

M. Celaya & T. Naves
“The effects of proficiency & grade on CLI in EFL writing"

  S. Perales, J.M. Liceras & M.P. García Mayo
“The frog don’t appear”-Age & the acquisition of L3 negation"
 
17.00-17.30   Coffee Break              
17.30-18.00  

A. Barron 

J. Dewaele 

 

M. Kondo
“Strategies for controlling speech rhythm”

 

T. Kamimoto
“The vocabulary levels test”

  F. Myles
“The development of verb morphosyntax in French L2”
 
18.00-18.30   M. E. Ebsworth 

J. Romero 


Discussion

 

N. Thi Thui Minh
“Criticising in a second language”

 

A. Salamoura
“The representation of grammatical gender ..."

 

M. Dimitrakopoulou
“In defense of grammaticality judgment tasks”

 
18.45-20.30 Conference Reception Miramar Palace (Sponsored by Walter de Gruyter)  

 

Program

 
8.30-9.00 Registration  
9.00-10.00 PLENARY TALK:  E. Bialystok   (York University) "Bilingualism: Cognitive effects across the lifespan"       
10.00-11.00 POSTER SESSION 2  
11.00-11.30 Coffee Break  
11.30-13.00

PAPERS

 
   

 Room A 

 

Room b

 

Room C

 

Room D

 
11.30-12.00   R. K. Phillips
“Semantic transfer in L3 acquisition”
  E. Labeau
“Beyond the Aspect Hypothesis ...”
  A. Revesz
“The effects of task contet familiarity and recasts on L2 output”
 

M. Medved
“Language processing in bilingual children”

 
12.00-12.30   V. Murphy & S. Buwal
“Frequency effects in L2 inflection”
  R. Salaberry
“Transferring knowledge about aspect”
  H. Reinders
“Intake, acquisition and the effect of explicit & implicit instructions”
 

P. Athanasopoulos, M. Sasaki & V. Cook
“Do bilinguals think differently from monolinguals?”

 
12.30-13.00   P. Jordens
“Driving forces in the acquisition of verb-second in Dutch”
 

A. Meziani
“Acquisition of the English tense system by Moroccan LE”

  F. Kuiken &  I. Vedder
“How does cognitive complexity of a task affect...”
 

A. Gurel
“The acquisition of specificity in L2 English and L2 Turkish”

 
13.00-15.00 Lunch Break  
15.00-16.00

PAPERS

 
   

 Room A 

 

Room b

 

Room C

 

Room D

 
15.00-15.30   M. Rothweiler
“Differentiating specific language impairment & early L2 in German”
  A. Akyel, G. Ercetin & Y. Akbulut
“Factors affecting reading comprehension in a hypermedia environment”
  E. González Álvarez
“Task effect in the use of lexical innovation strategies”
  C. Abelló - Contesse
“Does peer-peer interaction help or hinder L2 development...?"
 
15.30-16.00  

Abrahamsson & Hyltenstam
“The role of language aptitude for near-native L2 proficiency”

 

J. Williams
“How incremental is L2 sentence processing?”

  E. Alcón & A. Martínez Flor
“Pragmatic instruction in a FonFS vs. a FonF context”
  E. Van der Linden
“Expressing possession in simultaneous bilingualism”
 
16.00-17.00 EUROSLA GENERAL ASSEMBLY  
17.00-17.30 Coffee Break  
17.30-18.30 PLENARY TALK: B. Laufer (University of Haifa) "Focus on form in second language vocabulary acquisition"  
19.30
Dinner: Saizar Cider House
Buses leaving from Hotel Costa Vasca at  18.45
 

 

Program

 
8.30-9.00 Registration  
9.00-10.00 PLENARY TALK: C. Muñoz (Universitat de Barcelona) "Age effects in foreign language acquisition"  
10.00-13.30 PANEL 3 (i)

PAPERS

 
   

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Room b

 

Room C

 

Room D

 
10.00-10.30  

Acquisition of Basque as L2 (Cenoz & Lasagabaster). This panel is in Basque with simultatenous translation into English & Spanish

 Balluerka & Gorostiaga 

  M. Bernaus & R. Gardner
“Age and gender: To what extent individual factors influence..."
  E. Álvarez & C. Helland
“Developmental stages in the oral narratives of  FL learners”
  M. Pannemann "Acquisition of DP-syntax in bilingual french: evidence for crosslinguisticfrequency effects  
10.30-11.00   Beloki, Idiazabal & Manterola
  L. Mettewie & R. Van Hout
“Patterns of L2 profiency  in monolingual vs bilingual L2 learning...”
  J. Huetter
“Formulaic and other realizations of genre in student academic writing”
  M. Domakani "Effect of Implicit & Explicit FonF on acquisition of syntactic structures vs morphological markers..."  
11.00-11.30

Coffee Break

 
11.30-13.30 PANEL 3 (ii)

PAPERS

 
   

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Room b

 

Room C

 

Room D

 
11.30-12.00   J. Aiestaran   G. Hakansson & C. Norrby
“Grammar and pragmatics: Learner profiles”
  M. Green-Vänttinen
“Doing self-repair in oral presentations in Swedish as L2”
  L. Dekydtspotter, B. Schwartz & R. Sprouse
“Evidence for the C-domain in early interlanguage
 
12.00-12.30   Sotés Ruiz, Oroz &  Vilches

Discussion

  M. Rost-Roth
“The acquisition of interrogation: Pragmatic constraints...”
  S.Pekarek-Doehler “Left and right dislocation in advanced learners’ discourse”   R. Towell
“Language processing in development of L2 grammatical knowledge”
 
12.30-13.00   V. Pavicic "The relationship between vocabulary teaching and vocabulary learning strategies"   G. Kasper & S. Ross
“Multiple requests in language proficiency interviews”
 

A. Housen, M. Pierrard & S. Van Daele
“The influence of planning on fluency, accuracy & complexity..."

  C. Kuribara
“What appears to be happening may not be what it is taking place”
 
13.00 Closing remarks