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Second Language Acquisition Institute

Lecture Series: 1998-1999

"Constituent Questions in German and the Abstractness of Syntax"

Friday, May 28 1999 | 4:00-5:30 | Room 912, Sproul Hall

Andreas Kathol, UC Berkeley

"Lexical Development in Bilingual and Monolingual Students"

Friday, April 30 1999 | 4:00-5:30 | Room 912, Sproul Hall

Barry McLaughlin, UC Santa Cruz

"Chaos/Complexity Theory and Second Language Acquisition"

Monday, April 12 1999 | 4:00-5:30 | Room 2203, Social Sciences & Humanities

Diane Larsen-Freeman, School for International Training

"Advanced Learner Processing Within a Curricular Context:  Negotiating the Demands of Accuracy, Fluency, and Complexity"

Thursday, April 8 1999 | 4:00-5:30 | Room 912, Sproul Hall

Heidi Byrnes, Georgetown University

"Conceptualizing Language Proficiency in the Education of Bilingual Students"

Wednesday, March 17 1999 | 4:30-5:00 | Room 912, Sproul Hall

Jim Cummins, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

"New Literacy Studies and Computer Mediated Communication: Some History and Present Concerns"

Wednesday, March 10 1999 | 4:30-5:00 | Room 912, Sproul Hall

Ron Scollon, Georgetown University

"Language Learning Strategies in the Context of Learner Autonomy: Theory and New Research"

Friday, February 19 1999 | 4:00-5:30 | Room 912, Sproul Hall

Rebecca Oxford, University of Alabama

"Searching for English and Educational Equality in Post Colonial India: A Case Study of an 'English-Medium' College in Gujarat, India"

Friday, February 12 1999 | 4:00-5:30 | Room 912, Sproul Hall

Vai Ramanathan, University of Alabama

"Narrative Structure and Lexical Aspect: Conspiring Factors in Second Language Acquisition of Tense-Aspect Morphology"

Friday, February 5 1999 | 4:00-5:30 | Room 912, Sproul Hall

Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Indiana University

"The Teacher as Leaner"

Tuesday, January 26 1999 | 4:00-5:30 | Room 912, Sproul Hall

Barbara Kroll, California State University, Northridge

"Language Choice and Interaction in the Classroom: Practice of What Makes Perfect"

Friday, January 22 1999 | 4:00-5:30 | Room 104, Sproul Hall

Craig Chaudron, University of Hawaii

"Acquisition of German by Turkish Migrant Children"

Monday, January 11 1999 | 4:00-5:30 | Room 104, Sproul Hall

Carol W. Pfaff, JFK Institut fur Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universitat Berlin

"Pedagogy on the Web"

Tuesday, November 17 1998 | 3:30-5:00 | Room 18A, Olson Hall

Simone Clay, UC Davis

Presented by SLA Technology Cluster

"Linguists and Real People: Why the Former Ought to Get to Know the Latter Better"

Wednesday, November 11 1998 | 4:00-5:30 | Room 2234, Social Sciences & Humanities

Dennis Presont, Michigan State University

"Language Learning through Teleconferencing"

Tuesday, November 10 1998 | 3:00-4:30 | Teleconference Room, Olson Hall

Bruce Rosenstock, UC Davis

Presented by SLA Technology Cluster

"Spoken Chinese Online: Problems and Difficulties"

Wednesday, November 4 1998 | 3:30-5:00 | Room 18A, Olson Hall

Tim Xie, UC Davis

Presented by SLA Technology Cluster

"Spanish Reading Online: A Study of Vocabulary"

Wednesday, October 28 1998 | 3:30-5:00 | Room 18A, Olson Hall

Adam Karp, UC Davis

Presented by SLA Technology Cluster

"The Implementation of a Chat Program (RTA) in Spanish and Japanese"

Wednesday, October 21 1998 | 3:30-5:00 | Room 18A, Olson Hall

Robert Blake & David Fahy, UC Davis

Proposition 227 Conference

Thursday, May 21 1998 | 4:30 | Multipurpose Room, Cesar Chavez Elementary School, 1221 Anderson Road, Davis

A discussion of the "English for the Children" initiative on California's June ballot.

"On-Line Parsing Studies and Second Language Acquisition Research"

Friday, May 8 1998 | 3:00-4:30 | Room 912, Sproul Hall

Alan Juffs, Linguistics & the English Language Institute, University of Pittsburgh

"Second Language Reading as a Case Study of Reading Scholarship in the Twentieth Century"

Friday, February 13 1998 | 10:30-12:00 | Room 3201, Hart Hall

Elizabeth Bernhardt, German Studies & Stanford Language Center, Stanford University

"Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Learning"

Thursday, January 29 1998 | 4:30-6:00 | Room 912, Sproul Hall

James P. Lantolf, Department of Modern Languages, Cornell University