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NEWS / SECOND LANGUAGE RESEARCH FORUM
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20.12.2007

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.



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