Duke University

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Department

February 20, 2009: “Computer-mediated Interaction and the New Frontiers of Language Learning”

Presenter: Steven L. Thorne

National Standards for Korean Task Force Meeting

University of Rhode Island

February 27-28, 2009

Task Force Member: Susan Strauss

Chinese Language Teachers Association of California

Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA,

March 7, 2009: “Discourse and Corpus Approaches to Chinese Language Teaching: The CALPER Project and Beyond”

Presenter: Hongyin Tao

URL: http://www.cltac.org

Critical and Intercultural Theory and Language Pedagogy Symposium

University of California, Irvine

March 7, 2009: “Critical issues in language use and development.”

Presenter: Steven L. Thorne

 

Confucius Institute at San Francisco State University

San Francisco, CA

March 8: “Chinese Language Use and Language Teaching in the Context of Globalization”

Presenter: Hongyin Tao

URL: http://www.sfsu/edu/~ci/index.html

 

CALICO Conference

Arizona State University

March 10+11: Pre-Conference Workshop: “Automatic Analysis of Learner Language (AALL’09): From a Better Understanding of Annotation Needs to the Development and Standardization of Annotation Schemes”

Presenters: Detmar Meurers and Xiaofei Lu

March 12: “Corpus Linguistic Approaches to the Analysis of Formulaic Sequences in L2-Spanish Computer-Mediated Learner Language Use”

Presenters: Steven L. Thorne, Aziz Yuldashev, Julieta Fernandez

March 13: “Second Language Acquisition Theories, Technologies, and Language Learning”

Presenter: Steven. L. Thorne

 

March 13: “Developing Technology-Mediated Language Awareness Through Bridging Activities”

Presenters: Steven L. Thorne and Jonathon Reinhardt

URL: http://www.calico.org

 

American Association for Applied Linguistics

Denver, CO

 

March 21: Colloquium: “Applying Cognitive Linguistics to Second Language Learning: Experimental Evidence”

Presenter: Susan Strauss

 

March 21: “The Social Life of Private Speech”

Presenters: Steven L. Thorne and Fee Steinbach Kohler

 

March 22: “Group Dynamic Assessment in the L2 Classroom”

Presenter: Matthew E. Poehner

 

March 23: Colloquium: “Alternative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition”

Paper: “Sociocultural Theory and Educational Praxis: A Dialectical Perspective on L2 Development”

Presenter: James P. Lantolf

 

March 23: “Profiling English in the real world: what learners and teachers can tell us about what they know” 

Presenters: Michael McCarthy and Nick Saville

URL: http://www.aaal.org

 

Southeastern Association of Teachers of Japanese

Wake Forest University, Salem, NC

 

March 23: “[Speaking vs. Conversing: Reconsideration of the Current State of Foreign Language Education from the Perspective of Conversation Analysis]”

Presenter: Junko Mori

URL: http://www.wfu.edu/eal/SEATJ2009/

 

University of Texas, Austin

Texas Language Technology Center

March 27, 2009: “Semiotic flows, bricolage, and critical language awareness.”

Presenter: Steven L. Thorne

URL: http://tltc.la.utexas.edu/tltc/events/lecture_series.html