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Date: Sun, 08 Jan 1995 15:48:26 -0500 (EST)
From: GURT at guvax.acc.georgetown.edu
Subject: GURT 1995 (conference program)
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Date: Sun, 08 Jan 1995 15:48:26 -0500 (EST)
From: GURT at guvax.acc.georgetown.edu
Subject: GURT 1995 (conference program)
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ROUND TABLE
ON LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS 1995
Pre-sessions and Conference: March 6-11, 1995
"Linguistics and the Education of Second Language Teachers:
Ethnolinguistic, Psycholinguistic, and Sociolinguistic Aspects"
Main Conference Opening Session: Wednesday, March 8, 1995,
7:30 p.m., Georgetown Campus, Gaston Hall
(registration required)
Opening remarks:
James E. Alatis, Dean Emeritus, School of Languages and Linguistics
Chair, Georgetown University Round Table 1995
Honored Guest:
Eugene Garcia, Director, OBEMLA, U.S. Department of Education
Speaker:
Steve Krashen, University of Southern California
The Cause-Effect Confusion and the Time Issue in Education
Opening reception to follow in ICC Galleria
Admission to all sessions by badge only; registration materials
and badges will not be mailed but may be picked up at registration
center in Intercultural Center (ICC),
exact location to be posted; registration materials for March 8
evening session available in Gaston Hall foyer from 6:30 p.m.
All pre-sessions on March 6, 7, and 8 and
main sessions on March 9, 10, and 11 will be held in
Intercultural Center (rooms to be posted). Detailed program
with abstracts included in registration packets.
THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1995
Intercultural Center
Plenary speakers:
Kathleen Bailey, Monterey Institute of International Studies
What teachers say about teaching
Bessie Dendrinos, University of Athens, Greece
Foreign language textbook discourse and pedagogization
of the learner
Invited speakers:
David R. Andrews, Georgetown University
Standard versus non-standard: The intersection of
sociolinguistics and language teaching
Elsaid Badawi, American University in Cairo
The use of Arabic in Egyptian T.V. commercials: A
language simulator for the training of teachers of Arabic
as a foreign language
Kenneth Chastain, University of Virginia
Knowledge, language, and communication
Virginia P. Collier, George Mason University
Language acquisition for school: Academic, cognitive,
sociocultural, and linguistic processes
JoAnn Crandall, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Reinventing schools: The role of the applied
linguist
Nadine O'Connor Di Vito, University of Chicago
Using native speech to formulate past tense rules in
French
Adam Jaworski, University of Wales, College of Cardiff
Language awareness in applied linguistics students:
Evidence from linguistic and cultural heritage essays
Donna Lardiere, Georgetown University
An update on transfer and transferability
Donald J. Loritz, Georgetown University
Unlearning learnability
Yuling Pan, Georgetown University
Addressee, setting, and verbal behavior: How relevant
are they in foreign language teaching?
Guy Spielmann, Georgetown University
Multidisciplinary Integrated Language Education (MILE)
and second/foreign language teaching
G. Richard Tucker, Carnegie Mellon University
Developing a research component within a teacher
education program
Andrea Tyler, Georgetown University
Patterns of lexis: How much can repetition tell us about
discourse coherence?
Bill VanPatten, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Is psycholinguistics relevant to language teaching?
Shelley Wong, University of Maryland, College Park
Curriculum transformation: A psycholinguistic course
for prospective teachers of ESOL K 12
Elizabeth Zsiga, Georgetown University
Phonology and phonetics in the education of second
language teachers: The representation of some variable
rules of English
FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1995
Intercultural Center
Plenary speakers:
Leslie M. Beebe, Teachers College, Columbia University
Polite fictions: Instrumental rudeness as pragmatic
competence
Joan Morley, University of Michigan
Maximizing learning
Invited speakers:
Vincent J. Cangiano, El Houcine Haichour, Stephanie J.
Stauffer, Georgetown University
Taming the electronic lion, or How to shape a language
learning environment out of the chaos called the Internet
Jeff Connor-Linton, Georgetown University
Late night thoughts on complexity, linguistics, and
language teaching
Barbara A. Craig, Georgetown University
Boundary discourse and the authority of knowledge in
the second language classroom
Madeline E. Ehrman, U.S. Department of State, FSI
Personality, language learning aptitude, and program structure
Aviva Freedman, Carleton University, Ottawa
"Situating" learning to write for the L2 teacher
William C. Hannas, Georgetown University
Teaching Chinese teachers what constitutes "Chinese"
Susan Huss-Lederman, Georgetown University
"Wait wait wait wait!" A sociolinguistic analysis of
repetition in the speech of adult beginning ESL learners
using instructional software
Kurt R. Jankowsky, Georgetown University
On the need to unlearn in the foreign language learning
process
Ronald P. Leow, Georgetown University
Teacher education and psycholinguistics: Making
teachers psycholinguists
Steven J. Loughrin-Sacco, Boise State University
Research internships: Involving undergraduate foreign
language secondary education majors in ethnographic
research
Anne Pakir, National University of Singapore
Beginning at the end: "Bilingual education for all" in
Singapore and teacher perception
Sophia C. Papaefthymiou-Lytra, University of Athens, Greece
Culture and the teaching of foreign languages: A case
study
Teresa Pica, University of Pennsylvania
Teaching language and teaching language learners: The
expanding role and expectations of language teachers in
communicative content-based classrooms
Peter Schmitter, Martin-Luther-Universit t Halle-Wittenberg,
Germany
Structural or cognitive semantics as a topic in the
linguistic education of second language teachers?
Charles W. Stansfield, Second Language Testing, Inc.
Considerations in the writing of SOPI prompts
Monique Y. Wong, Hellenic American Union, Greece
Using simulation to develop negotiation strategies in a
foreign language
SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1995
Intercultural Center
Plenary speakers:
Marianne Celce-Murcia, University of California, Los Angeles
The elaboration of sociolinguistic competence: Implications
for teacher education
Diane Larsen-Freeman, School for International Training
On the changing role of linguistics in the education of
second language teachers: Past, present, and future
Invited speakers:
Catherine N. Ball, Georgetown University
Providing comprehensible input in a dead foreign
language: Two text-based strategies
Isolda E. Carranza, Georgetown University
Multi-level analysis of two-way bilingual classroom
discourse
Anna Uhl Chamot, Georgetown University
Learning strategies of elementary foreign language
immersion students
Mary El-Kadi, Old Dominion University
Discourse analysis of classroom interaction and the
training of ESL teachers
Elaine K. Horwitz, University of Texas at Austin
Foreign language anxiety and foreign language
teachers: What can teacher educators do?
Christina Kakava, Mary Washington College
Directness and indirectness in professor student
interaction: The intersection of contextual and cultural
constraints
David Nunan, University of Hong Kong
Systemic-functional linguistics and the education of
second language teachers: A case study
Linju Ogasawara, Japanese Ministry of Education (ret.)
Native cultural interference in Japanese English usage
John J. Staczek, Georgetown University
Metalinguistic talk in mature L2 adult-learner classroom
discourse
Stephanie J. Stauffer, Georgetown University
Reap what you sow: In-service training for language
teachers for computer-mediated communication
Steven Sternfeld, University of Utah
From Hirsch's Dystopia to Hakuta's Utopia: A call for
multilingual alliance
Weiping Wu, Center for Applied Linguistics
Education of second language teachers: The link
between linguistic theory and teaching practice
Dolly J. Young, University of Tennessee
Language anxiety in SL Acquisition: Using a wider angle
of focus
Raffaella Zanuttini, Georgetown University
Dialectal variation as an insight into the structure of
language
Gen-Yuan Zhuang, Hangzhou University, PRC
What they hear is not what they read: Speech
perception and the training of English teachers in China
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OTHER GEORGETOWN CONFERENCES:
*Georgetown Linguistics Society, GLS 1995, Developments in
Discourse Analysis, February 17-19, 1995. Plenary speakers:
Frederick Erickson, Charles Goodwin, Heidi Hamilton,
Deborah Schiffrin, Roger Shuy, and Deborah Tannen. Contact:
GLS 1995, G.U. Dept. of Linguistics, ICC 479, Washington,
DC 20057-1068; gls at guvax.georgetown.edu; gls at guvax.bitnet;
tel: 202/687-6166.
*International Linguistics Association, ILA, Discourse and Text
Analysis, March 10-12, 1995. Contact: Ruth Brend, 3363
Burbank Dr., Ann Arbor, MI 48105;
Ruth.Brend at um.cc.umich.edu; Tel: 313/665-2787; Fax: (313) 665-9743;
email: Ruth.Brend at UM.CC.UMICH.EDU
*9th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, March 10-12,
1995. Contact G.U. Arabic Department, ICC 463, Washington,
DC 20057-1082; solernoe at guvax.georgetown.edu; Tel: 202/687-
5743.
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PRE-CONFERENCE SESSIONS: March 6-8, 1995
The pre-conference sessions will be held in the Intercultural
Center of Georgetown University. Please contact the individual
organizers for more information on the content of the sessions
only. To register, see registration form or contact GURT
Coordinator.
MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1995
Spanish Linguistics I
Organizers: Dr. Hector Campos, Mr. Eric Holt, and Ms.
Norma Catalan
G.U. Department of Spanish
Washington, DC 20057-0989
(202) 687-6134
hcampos at guvax.georgetown.edu
Issues in Slavic Linguistics
Organizer: Dr. David R. Andrews
G.U. Department of Russian
Washington, DC 20057-0990
(202) 687-6108/6147
andrewsd at guvax.georgetown.edu
African Linguistics VI
Organizer: Rev. Solomon Sara, S.J., Ph.D.
G.U. Department of Linguistics
Washington, DC 20057-1068
(202) 687-5956
ssara at guvax.georgetown.edu
Discourse and Agency: Responsibility and Deception
Organizer: Dr. Patricia E. O'Connor
G.U. Department of English
Washington, DC 20057-1048
(202) 687-7622; Fax: 687-5445
oconnorpe at guvax.georgetown.edu
TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1995
Spanish Linguistics II
Organizers: Dr. Hector Campos, Mr. Eric Holt, and Ms. Norma
Catalan
G.U. Department of Spanish
Washington, DC 20057-0989
(202) 687-6134
hcampos at guvax.georgetown.edu
Teaching and Learning Spoken Arabic
Organizer: Dr. Margaret Nydell
G.U. Department of Arabic
Washington, DC 20057-1082
(202) 687-5743
History of Linguistics
Organizer: Dr. Kurt R. Jankowsky
G.U. Department of German
Washington, DC 20057-0994
(202) 687-5812
Innovative Audio and Looking at Multimedia (two sessions)
Organizer: Jackie M. Tanner, Director
G.U. Language Learning Technology
Washington, DC 20057-0987
(202) 687-5766
jtanner at guvax.georgetown.edu
Issues in Foreign Language Program Direction I
Organizer: Dr. Ronald P. Leow
G.U. Spanish Dept.
Washington, DC 20057-0909
(202) 687-6134
rleow at guvax.georgetown.edu
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1995
Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis
Organizer: Dr. Susan Herring
Program in Linguistics
University of Texas
Arlington, TX 76019
(817) 273-3133
susan at utafll.uta.edu
Celebration of Bilingual Immersion Programs
Organizer: Prof. Dorothy B. Goodman
Friends of International Education
P.O. Box 4800
Washington, DC 20008
(202) 363-8510
Issues in Foreign Language Program Direction II
Organizer: Dr. Ronald P. Leow
G.U. Department of Spanish
Washington, DC 20057-0989
(202) 687-6134
rleow at guvax.georgetown.edu
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TUTORIALS (for Connor-Linton and Spielmann tutorials,
maximum of 20 participants; no participant limit for Krashen
workshop):
MONDAY, MARCH 6
"Criterion-referenced curriculum and test development for
language teachers and administrators"
Presenter: Dr. Jeff Connor-Linton, G.U. Dept of Linguistics,
(202) 687-5956
TUESDAY, MARCH 7
"Language acquisition and language education: A review of
research and theory and current issues"
Presenter: Dr. Steve Krashen, School of Education, University
of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0031
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8
Authentic documents in the language class: Theoretical
perspectives and didactic
applications
Presenter: Dr. Guy Spielmann, G.U. Department of French,
(202) 687-5717
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For registration and other information, please contact
Carolyn A. Straehle, Coordinator * GURT 1995 *
Georgetown University School of Languages and Linguistics *
303 Intercultural Center * Washington, DC 20057-1067 *
e-mail: gurt at guvax.bitnet or gurt at guvax.georgetown.edu *
voice: 202/687-5726 * fax: 202/687-5712 *
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To obtain GURT '95 information from the World Wide Web,
use the following address:
URL:
http://www.georgetown.edu/conferences/gurt95/gurt95.html
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Washington Student Center at the
Washington International AYH-Hostel
1009 11th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
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