The Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa is pleased to announce. . .

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
31st Annual
Second Language Research Forum (SLRF)
October 17-19, 2008
University of Hawaii
Manoa Honolulu, Hawaii
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/slrf08/

Call begins: December 2007 (online proposal submissions - open mid-January, 2008)

Call deadline: April 15, 2008

Notification of selection: Mid-May 2008

Theme: EXPLORING SLA: PERSPECTIVES, POSITIONS, AND PRACTICES

Plenary speakers:

• Dr. Harald Clahsen (University of Essex)
• Dr. Alan Firth (Newcastle University)
• Dr. Eva Lam (Northwestern University)
• Dr. Richard Schmidt (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)

We welcome all areas of second language research, including, but not limited to:

• Instructed SLA
• Acquisition of grammar and phonology
• Child SLA
• L2 Processing
• Language and learner characteristics
• Language and cognition
• Discourse and interaction
• Language and socialization
• Bilingualism and multilingualism
• Language and ideology
• Literacy development
• Learner corpora
• Language learning and technology
• Second language measurement

1) PAPERS: Individual papers will be allotted 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes for discussion).

2) POSTERS: Posters will be displayed for a full day. Posters are intended for one-on-one discussion or reports of work in progress.

3) COLLOQIUA: The colloquia/panels consist of individual paper presentations that relate to a specific or related topics of interest. They are offered in 2-hour sessions.

Please see our website for submission instructions and additional updates: http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/slrf08/.

Deadline for submissions is April 15, 2008.

For any proposal submission questions, please contact the SLRF 2008 Program Chairs at slrf2008program@gmail.com.