13 September 2006

Wednesday

7:30-8:30

Conference registration

PRE - CONFERENCE EVENT: LANGUAGE LEARNING ROUND TABLE:

Psycholinguistic perspectives on second language acquisition: Sentence processing research

(No registration required for the Language Learning Round Table)

8:30-9:15

Opening

9:15-10:15

Manuel Carreiras: Sex and agreement: behavioral and electrophysiological evidence

10:15-11:15

Alan Juffs: Second language sentence processing and working
memory  in college-educated and low-educated learners of English as a second language

11:15-11:45

Coffee break

11:45-12:45

Nigel Duffield: On competent gradience and the competence paradox

12:45-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:00

Harald Clahsen: Sentence processing in second language learners

15:00-16:30

Discussions and Conclusions

16:30-17:00

Coffee break

13 September 2006 (Wednesday)

Doctoral workshop (17:00-18:30)

Room 1

Room 2

Room 3

  17:00 - 17:30

Vivienne Rogers

Syntactic development of L2 learners of French

Discussant: Lydia White

Christine Möller

The development of narrative in German-English immersion

Discussant: Sumru Akcan

Mieke Rosselle

Reactions to automated feedback in a semi-open grammar learning environment

Discussant: Susan Gass

   17:30 -  18:00

Tihana Kras

Interface instability in bilingual language acquisition: In search of the causes

Discussant: Lydia White

Katarzyna Ozanska-Ponikwia

Perception and expression of emotions by second language users and bilinguals

Discussant: Jean-Marc Dewaele

   18:00 -  18:30

Clare Wright

The correlation between Working Memory and acquisition of wh-movement by adult learners of English

Discussant: Alan Juffs

Xiaoli Wu

Exploring self-efficacy belief as a mediating variable in EFL Learning: The case of Chinese learners of English vocabulary

Discussant:

Simona Pekarek

 19:00

RECEPTION AT RESORT DEDEMAN  ANTALYA HOTEL

(Conference Hotel)

16 September 2006

Saturday

  8:00 - 9:00

PLENARY TALK: Vivian Cook, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

The nature of the L2 user

  9:00 - 9:30

Coffee Break

  9:30 - 11:00

PLATFORM SESSION VI

Room 1

Chair:

Senem Yıldız

Room 2

Chair:

Susan Gass

Room 3

Chair:

Louise Jansen

Room 4

Chair:

Monika S. Schmid

Room 5

Chair:

Shigenori Wakabayashi

   9:30 - 10:00

Jenifer Larson-Hall

Long-term effects of limited immersion acquisition: Does age of acquisition make a difference?

Shawn Loewen Measuring the effectiveness of incidental focus on form: Prior and subsequent use

John Williams & Chieko Kuribara

What is learnt on initial exposure to “L2”? An investigation of Japanese scrambling

Martin Howard

The role of ‘context’ in a theory of second language acquisition. Insights from study abroad research

Ute Bohnacker

On the (in)vulnerability of syntactic domains: Placing verbs and particles in L2 Swedish

  10:00 - 10:30

John Field

Second language listening as a hypothesis-testing process

Jenefer Philp, Shawn Loewen, Rod Ellis

Investigating the effects of implicit and explicit form focused instruction

Renita Silva & Harald Clahsen Differences in L1 and L2: Evidence from priming

Petra Bos

SLA or SLI?

Irena Botwinik-Rotem

Null prepositions in L2 English and L2 Hebrew

  10:30 - 11:00

Paola Escudero Linguistic comprehension: A formal model for explaining the interrelation of sound

perception and word recognition in L1, L2, L3, and bilingual acquisition

Iliana Panova Morphological Variability and Corrective Feedback in Adult L2 Acquisition

Muiris Ó Laoire  & David Singleton

Evidence of Cross-linguistic Influence in Irish Learners’ German Morphosyntax: Further Exploration of the Psychotypology Factor

Rahim Sarı

Is output development possible without prior output practice?

Hyun Kyung Miki Bong

Learnability of functional properties, optionality between L1 and L2 structures, and Minimalist Economy

11:00-13:00    Invited Panel

Evidence for learning: Views from different SLA research paradigm

Panel organizers:

Marianne Gullberg, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

Aneta Pavlenko, Temple University

Simona Pekarek Doehler, Université de Neuchâtel

Speakers :

 Christine Dimroth, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

Evidence for learning in a 'learner varieties approach'

 Florencia Franceschina, Lancaster University,

Evidence for learning in the generative paradigm

Simona Pekarek Doehler, Université de Neuchâtel &

Johannes Wagner, University of Southern Denmark

How do learners develop language in real-world encounters? Evidence for learning from a social-interactional perspective

Natasha Tokowicz, University of Pittsburgh &

Janet G. van Hell, Radboud University, Nijmegen

Cognitive evidence for learning: Brain activity vs. overt behavior

Discussant:

 Vivian Cook, University of New Castle upon Tyne

13:00-13:30

Closing remarks

Ali Akbar Ansarin

The role of conscious knowledge in phonemic discrimination

Anna Kijak

L1 lexical accents and phonological default in L2 acquisition of stress: The case of Russian learners of Polish

Céline Gouverneur

Phraseology in instructed second language acquisition: Reconciling theory and practice

Chise Kasai

Bilingual cognition – Are there any cultural effects upon bilingual speakers’ cognitive states? A case of Japanese bilingual speakers in Japan and the UK

Elma Nap-Kolhoff & Peter Broeder

Through the looking-glass: possessive marking in Turkish learners' Dutch

Geke Hootsen & Rintse van der Werf

Using corpus linguistics to automatically provide learners with comprehensible input

Ghassan al Shatter

Developmental stages of the acquisition of equational sentences in Arabic as a second language

Gudrun Ziegler

Analyzing early foreign language learners' developing determiner systems - insights from an interactional perspective

Gülay Öztürk

The processing of subject-verb agreement in L2 English by Turkish native speakers

Hassan Asadollahfam

Phonological development of a Farsi-Azeri infant during holophrastic stage

Işıl Günseli Kaçar

Negotiation for meaning in EFL classrooms from Cognitive and Sociocultural perspectives: More than a search  for comprehensible input

Jason Rothman,

C. Elizabeth Goodin-Mayeda & Mike Iverson

Linguistic competition in L2 acquisition: When linguistic and non-linguistic rules meet.

Poster presentation cancelled!

Kelly Akerman

Of epistemological essences and representational reiterations in Applied Linguistics

Maurits van den Noort, Peggy Bosch & Kenneth Hugdahl

Second language acquisition: An fMRI study with the new verbal dichotic listening paradigm

Miho Sasaki

Development of phoneme and spelling cognition in L2 users

Natsuko Sato

What enhances Japanese college students’ motivation to learn English?

Nazik Dinçtopal

Relative clause attachment in the L1 and L2

Nicole Schumacher

The role of grammatical Aspect in the acquisition of Tense: Evidence from advanced learner varieties L1 Italian – L2 German

Panos Athanasopoulos & Chise Kasai

Language-specific effects of bilingualism on cognition the other way around: English speakers of Japanese as a second language.

Rabia Redouane

Acquisition of derivational processes: A case study of the acquisition of French agent nouns by L2 learners

Rebekah Rast

Theoretical implications of first exposure studies in SLA

Teresa Naves

The impact of age, exposure and proficiency on EFL writing

Zeynep Çamlıbel

Case studies of Turkish children’s literacy and oral language development in English as a second language</