17.3103, Calls: Language Acquisition/USA

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Date: 19-Oct-2006
From: Alessandro Zannirato < alessandro1 at jhu.edu >
Subject: American Association for Italian Studies Conference 

	
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Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:45:29
From: Alessandro Zannirato < alessandro1 at jhu.edu >
Subject: American Association for Italian Studies Conference 
 


Full Title: American Association for Italian Studies Conference 
Short Title: 2007 AAIS 

Date: 03-May-2007 - 06-May-2007
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA 
Contact Person: Dana Renga
Meeting Email: drenga at coloradocollege.edu
Web Site: http://faculty1.coloradocollege.edu/~drenga/aais/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition 

Subject Language(s): Italian (ita)

Call Deadline: 30-Nov-2006 

Meeting Description:

2007 AAIS conference panel: L1, interlinguistic strategies, translation and the teaching of Italian. 

Call for Papers

Abstracts are invited for the following panel, to be held during the 2007 AAIS (American Association for Italian Studies) conference, from May 3 through May 6, 2007:

L1, interlinguistic strategies, translation and the teaching of Italian

This panel seeks to explore the role of L1, translation and interlinguistic strategies in the Italian language classroom. Theoretical or descriptive papers on studies involving both specific language pairs and multilingual settings will be particularly welcome.

Topics may include:

- Reflections on the use of student mother tongue in the classroom;
- Translation as a pedagogic tool;
- L1 to L2 (Italian) transfer;
- L2-L2 transfer (especially between another Romance language and Italian);
- The ''Italian only approach'';
- Monolingual versus bilingual textbooks.

Presentations will be 20 minutes in length plus 10 minutes for discussion and questions. 

Please submit a 300-400 word abstract, a short biographical note and contact details by November 30th, 2006 to: alessandro1[at]jhu.edu.

Dr. Alessandro Zannirato
Panel Chair
Dept. of German and Romance Languages and Literatures
Gilman 407
3400 N Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
Tel. 410 516 7230
E-mail: alessandro1[at]jhu.edu




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