<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Arabic-L: Fri 21 Dec 2007</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To post messages to the list, send them to <a href="mailto:arabic-l@byu.edu">arabic-l@byu.edu</a>]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> unsubscribe arabic-l ]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Directory------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1) Subject:SLRF Call for Proposals</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Date: 21 Dec 2007</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From:National Foreign Language Resource Center <<a href="mailto:nflrc@hawaii.edu">nflrc@hawaii.edu</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject:SLRF Call for Proposals</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ">Our apologies for any cross-postings . . .<br><br>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *<br><br>The Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaii at<br>Manoa is pleased to announce. . .<br><br>CALL FOR PROPOSALS:<br><br>31st Annual Second Language Research Forum (SLRF)<br>October 17-19, 2008<br>University of Hawaii at Manoa<br>Honolulu, Hawaii<br><a href="http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/slrf08/">http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/slrf08/</a><br><br>Call begins: December 2007 (online proposal submissions - open<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> mid-January, 2008)<br>Call deadline: April 15, 2008<br>Notification of selection: Mid-May 2008<br><br>Theme: EXPLORING SLA: PERSPECTIVES, POSITIONS, AND PRACTICES<br><br>Plenary speakers:<br>- Dr. Harald Clahsen (University of Essex)<br>- Dr. Alan Firth (Newcastle University)<br>- Dr. Eva Lam (Northwestern University)<br>- Dr. Richard Schmidt (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)<br><br><br>We welcome all areas of second language research, including, but not<br>limited to:<br>- Instructed SLA<br>- Acquisition of grammar and phonology<br>- Child SLA<br>- L2 Processing<br>- Language and learner characteristics<br>- Language and cognition<br>- Discourse and interaction<br>- Language and socialization<br>- Bilingualism and multilingualism<br>- Language and ideology<br>- Literacy development<br>- Learner corpora<br>- Language learning and technology<br>- Second language measurement<br><br><br>1) PAPERS:<br>Individual papers will be allotted 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes for<br>discussion).<br><br>2) POSTERS:<br>Posters will be displayed for a full day. Posters are intended for<br>one-on-one discussion or reports of work in progress.<br><br>3) COLLOQIUA:<br>The colloquia/panels consist of individual paper presentations that relate<br>to a specific or related topics of interest. They are offered in 2-hour<br>sessions.<br><br><br>Please see our website for submission instructions and additional updates:<br><a href="http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/slrf08/">http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/slrf08/</a>.<br><br>Deadline for submissions is April 15, 2008.<br><br>For any proposal submission questions, please contact the SLRF 2008<br>Program Chairs at <a href="mailto:slrf2008program@gmail.com">slrf2008program@gmail.com</a>.<br><br><br>*************************************************************************<br> N National Foreign Language Resource Center<br> F University of Hawai'i<br> L 1859 East-West Road, #106<br> R Honolulu HI 96822<br> C voice: (808) 956-9424, fax: (808) 956-5983<br> email: <a href="mailto:nflrc@hawaii.edu">nflrc@hawaii.edu</a><br>VISIT OUR WEBSITE! <a href="http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/">http://nflrc.hawaii.edu</a><br>*************************************************************************<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">End of Arabic-L: 21 Dec 2007</div></body></html>