PacSLRF 2001 Conference in Hawaii! Pre-register now (deadline - August 31)!

[National Foreign Language Resource Center]

    PACIFIC SECOND LANGUAGE RESEARCH FORUM (PacSLRF) 2001 CONFERENCE

                           OCTOBER 4-7, 2001
                         Imin Conference Center
                  University of Hawaii at Manoa campus
                         Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

                       EMAIL:  pacslrf at hawaii.edu
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   ** DEADLINE FOR SPECIAL PRE-REGISTRATION RATES IS AUGUST 31, 2001 **
     (PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR PRE-REGISTRATION FORM & MORE INFO)

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The PacSLRF 2001 Conference will focus on the acquisition of second
languages in instructed and naturalistic settings, particularly in East
Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific languages.

* VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO VIEW THE PRELIMINARY PROGRAM (complete with
presenters, titles, and presentation summaries):

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-- 6 PLENARIES! --

* WILLIAM O'GRADY (University of Hawaii at Manoa) -
        "Language Acquisition and Language Loss"
* KAREN WATSON-GEGEO (University of California, Davis) -
        "Mind, Language, and Epistemology:  Toward a Language
         Socialization Paradigm for SLA"
* JEFF SIEGEL (University of New England, Australia) -
        "Issues in Second Dialect Acquisition"
* KEVIN GREGG (St. Andrews University, Japan) -
        "The State of Emergentism in SLA"
* NOEAU WARNER (University of Hawaii at Manoa) -
        "Children Acquire Traits of Those Who Feed Them"
* LYDIA WHITE (McGill University, Canada)
        "Morphological Variability in SLA:  A Hardy Perennial"


-- 5 COLLOQUIA! --

* SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN STUDY ABROAD CONTEXTS
* JAPANESE AS A SECOND LANGUAGE FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES
* ISSUES IN INSTRUCTED SLA
* CURRENT RESEARCH IN SECOND DIALECT ACQUISITION
* A NEW FRONTIER?: COMPUTER-MEDIATED VOICE COMMUNICATION FOR LEARNING
  KOREAN


-- OVER 100 PAPERS AND POSTERS PRESENTATIONS! --

-- WAIKIKI AQUARIUM EXTRAVAGANZA! (FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5) --

-- SPECIAL PRE-REGISTRATION RATES THROUGH AUGUST 31, 2001! --

  **  Pre-register now at http://www.LLL.hawaii.edu/pacslrf/prereg.html **



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P             PACIFIC SECOND LANGUAGE RESEARCH FORUM (PacSLRF) 2001
 A   2        c/o National Foreign Language Resource Center
  C   0       University of Hawai'i at Manoa
   S   0      1859 East-West Road, #106
    L   1     Honolulu HI 96822
     R        phone: (808) 956-9424; fax: (808) 956-5983
      F       email: pacslrf at hawaii.edu

VISIT US ON THE WEB!   http://www.LLL.hawaii.edu/pacslrf
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