French SLA: Call for papers

[Florence Myles]

BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS

B.A.A.L. / C.U.P.   SEMINAR PROGRAMME  2002

WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR FRENCH LANGUAGE STUDIES (AFLS)

LINGUISTIC DEVELOPMENT IN FRENCH L2

18-19 JULY 2002
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON, UK
Seminar Coordinators: Florence Myles, Ros Mitchell, Sarah Rule, Emma
Marsden, University of Southampton

CALL FOR PAPERS

Proposals for papers (30 minutes) are invited for this two-day seminar on
French SLA. The aim of the seminar is three-fold:
1. To document linguistic progression in learners of French.
Papers are invited which aim to further our understanding of developmental
stages in French, by documenting and analysing the development of a range of
morphosyntactic structures, such as sentence structure, verbal morphology,
gender, interrogation, negation, embedding, pronominal reference etc...

2. To inform current theoretical debates
The seminar will aim to inform current theoretical debates about linguistic
development in second language learners, in terms of the different learning
mechanisms available to classroom learners (e.g. innate or learnt), and in
terms of the impact of classroom instruction on development (comparison with
naturalistic learners; role of formulaic language). Papers are also invited
in this context.

3. To define a research agenda for French SLA
A final objective of the seminar will be to discuss a research agenda for
the study of French SLA. This will be achieved through a round-table at the
end of the seminar.

Plenary speakers: Roger Hawkins (Essex), and Daniel Véronique (Paris)

Deadline for abstracts: 8April 2002

Further information and abstracts to: Florence Myles (fjm at soton.ac.uk) or
Sarah Rule (sjr1 at soton.ac.uk)




Dr Florence Myles
Senior Lecturer in French and Linguistics
School of Modern Languages
University of Southampton
Southampton SO17 1BJ
UK

tel (0)23 80 592269
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e-mail: fjm at soton.ac.uk