29.1158, Calls: Applied Ling, Lang Acquisition, Phonology, Psycholing, Socioling/USA

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Subject: 29.1158, Calls: Applied Ling, Lang Acquisition, Phonology, Psycholing, Socioling/USA

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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 22:19:54
From: John Levis [jlevis at iastate.edu]
Subject: Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching

 
Full Title: Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching 
Short Title: PSLLT 

Date: 06-Sep-2018 - 08-Sep-2018
Location: Ames, Iowa, USA 
Contact Person: John Levis
Meeting Email: pslltconference at gmail.com
Web Site: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/PSLLT10_2018 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Phonology; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2018 

Meeting Description:

The Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference is
celebrating its 10th year, with a conference theme of perception. Ann Bradlow
of Northwestern University will be the plenary speaker. The conference
includes pre-conference workshops (Sept. 6), oral sessions, poster sessions,
teaching tips, and special sessions from former plenary speakers. There is
also a welcome reception and conference dinner included in the cost of the
registration.

Approaches to pronunciation research and teaching have always strongly
emphasized production, and indeed “pronunciation” is often used synomymously
with the accurate production of L2 segmentals and suprasegmentals. 

But pronunciation has another equally important side, perception, especially
in relation to speech intelligibility. Perception is often a hidden factor in
intelligibility (Levis, 2005), and many L2 perception difficulties are
directly tied to inability to hear or understand the phonetic detail of
speech, whether in relation to phonemic categories (Broersma & Cutler, 2008)
or unexpected changes in casual connected speech (Cauldwell, 2013). 

Two well-known models of speech perception, Flege’s (1995) Speech Learning
Model and Best & Tyler’s (2007) Perceptual Assimilation Model suggest that the
ability to perceive categorical differences in the L2 is important for changes
in L2 production. Perception of new sounds can improve with even modest
amounts of practice and instruction (Qian, Chukharev-Hudalainen, & Levis,
2018), and perception may improve more robustly with the use of multiple
voices and speech models (Thomson, 2011, 2012). But many questions about the
connection between perception and production for adult L2 learners remain.

In addition, perception of speech is not simply perception of linguistic
features in isolation, but is also at the root of judgments of
comprehensibility (Munro & Derwing, 1995), interpretability (Low, 2006; Smith
& Nelson, 1985), and discourse meaning (Reed & Michaud, 2015). Social
perceptions of language are also tied to discriminatory reactions to speakers
based on assumptions about the groups they belong to (Lippi-Green, 2012;
Munro, 2003) and may even lead to worse comprehension based on assumptions
about speakers (Rubin, 1992). In addition, language learners may perceive
their own pronunciation as the cause of L2 social stigma (Gluszek & Dovidio,
2010), and these perceptions can even make them inaudible to others and
prevent development of their L2 identity (Miller, 2003).


2nd Call for Workshop Proposals:

Workshop - Research Methods in L2 Pronunciation 
September 6, 2018 | Iowa State University 

We invite proposals for hour-long L2 pronunciation research methods workshops.
Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the use of corpora for
pronunciation research, analysis and manipulation of speech, ultrasound, eye
tracking, and other types of research methods.
Workshop presenters will have their registration to the Pronunciation in
Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference paid (up to a maximum of two
registrations per workshop). The conference (September 7-8, 2018) follows the
workshops. 

Workshop presentations will be given in English. The online abstract
submission site will open on March 10, 2018, and the deadline for submissions
is April 15, 2018. Six workshops will be selected, and review outcome
notifications will be sent in early May.

Proposals should be given a descriptive title, be double-spaced, have no more
than 500 words,  and should clearly indicate the workshop's learning outcomes.

Abstracts should be uploaded to
http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/pslltworkshop18

The 10th annual PSLLT Conference also seeks paper proposals for aspects of L2
pronunciation for all second languages and contexts, but especially for papers
on perception and pronunciation. Such papers may be related to

- laboratory or classroom approaches to perception
- issues of perception related to social factors in L2 learning
- L2 connections to L1 perception research
- acoustic measurements and perceptions of speech rate for L2 learners
- perception of accentedness, intelligibility and comprehensibility
- studies of speech processing under varied conditions
- the interface between production and perception

The Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference has
three main types of presentations: Oral presentations (20 minutes+5 minutes of
questions), posters (a dedicated 90-minute poster presentation session), and
Teaching Tips (10 minute, evidence-based pedagogical approaches to teaching
perception and pronunciation in a dedicated time-slot).

Submissions open: 2 Jan 2018
Submission deadline: 16 April 2018
Submission link: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/PSLLT10_2018




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