Applied Linguistics at MLA

[Benjamin Rifkin]

CALL FOR PAPERS (repeat posting)

2000 MLA CONVENTION IN WASHINGTON, DC

27-30 December 2000

DEADLINE IS APPROACHING:  MARCH 1, 2000!



The Applied Linguistics Division will sponsor 3 panels as follows:

1.      Gender and Language Learning.

Papers focusing on gender
as a variable in FL study and may examine performance,
motivation, learning styles, language processing strategies and so forth.
Papers must be theoretically grounded.



2.      Feedback and Language Learning.

We welcome papers
examining feedback from instructors, peers, or others on written or spoken
discourse with respect to cognitive, affective or metacognitive issues.
Papers must be theoretically grounded.

3.  Heritage Learners in the Language Classroom

We welcome papers
exploring learner profiles, learner needs, and learning goals for heritage
learners in instructed L2 study of any language.  Papers must be
theoretically grounded.



THE DEADLINE FOR THE SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS FOR ALL THREE PANELS IS MARCH 1.

THE SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS BY E-MAIL (NOT ATTACHMENTS) IS PREFERED:  Please
send complete contact information (e-mail address, surface mail address,
telephone number, fax number) in the message with the abstract.  Send
abstracts (or queries) to Prof. Benjamin Rifkin at
<brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu> by March 1, 2000.

I will also accept abstracts (or queries) by the deadline submitted by
surface mail or fax to this address and fax number:

Prof. Benjamin Rifkin
Slavic Dept., UW-Madison
1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Dr.
Madison, WI  53706 USA

fax:  (608) 265-2814


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Benjamin Rifkin, Assoc. Prof., Slavic Dept., UW-Madison
1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Dr., Madison, WI  53706 USA
voice:  (608) 262-1623; fax:  (608) 265-2814

Director of the Russian School, Middlebury College
Freeman International Center, Middlebury, VT  05753 USA
voice:  (802) 443-5533
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