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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 09:13:43 -0500 (EST)
From: GURT at guvax.acc.georgetown.edu
Subject: GURT 1995 (long posting)
 
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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 09:13:43 -0500 (EST)
From: GURT at guvax.acc.georgetown.edu
Subject: GURT 1995 (long posting)
 
          GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ROUND TABLE
          ON LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS 1995
  Pre-sessions and Conference: March 6-11, 1995
 
"Linguistics and the Education of Second Language Teachers:
 Ethnolinguistic, Psycholinguistic, and Sociolinguistic Aspects"
 
Main Conference Opening Session:  Wednesday, March 8, 1995,
     7:30 p.m., Georgetown Campus, Gaston Hall
     (registration required)
 
                       Opening remarks:
James E. Alatis, Dean Emeritus, School of Languages and Linguistics
          Chair, Georgetown University Round Table 1995
        Dedication of Conference to Charles A. Ferguson
           Acceptance by Shirley Brice Heath
 
                        Honored Guest:
Eugene Garcia, Director, OBEMLA, U.S. Department of Education
 
                            Speaker:
Steve Krashen, University of Southern California
          The Cause-Effect Confusion and the Time Issue in Education
 
Opening reception to follow in ICC Galleria
 
Admission to all sessions by badge only; registration materials
and badges will not be mailed but may be picked up at registration
center in Intercultural Center  (ICC),
exact location to be posted; registration materials for March 8
evening session available in Gaston Hall foyer from 6:30 p.m.
All pre-sessions on March 6, 7, and 8 and
main sessions on March 9, 10, and 11 will be held in
Intercultural Center (rooms to be posted). Detailed program
with abstracts included in registration packets.
 
                            THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1995
                              Intercultural Center
Plenary speakers:
Kathleen Bailey, Monterey Institute of International Studies
     What teachers say about teaching
Bessie Dendrinos, University of Athens, Greece
       Foreign language textbook discourse and pedagogization
     of the learner
Invited speakers:
David R. Andrews, Georgetown University
     Standard versus non-standard:  The intersection of
     sociolinguistics and language teaching
Elsaid Badawi, American University in Cairo
     The use of Arabic in Egyptian T.V. commercials:  A
     language simulator for the training of teachers of Arabic
     as a foreign language
Kenneth Chastain, University of Virginia
          Knowledge, language, and communication
Virginia P. Collier, George Mason University
         Language acquisition for school:  Academic, cognitive,
          sociocultural, and linguistic processes
JoAnn Crandall, University of Maryland Baltimore County
         Reinventing  schools:  The role of the applied
          linguist
Nadine O'Connor Di Vito, University of Chicago
         Using native speech to formulate past tense rules in
          French
Adam Jaworski, University of Wales, College of Cardiff
         Language awareness in applied linguistics students:
          Evidence from linguistic and cultural heritage essays
Donna Lardiere, Georgetown University
          An update on transfer and transferability
Donald J. Loritz, Georgetown University
          Unlearning learnability
Yuling Pan, Georgetown University
         Addressee, setting, and verbal behavior:  How relevant
          are they in foreign language teaching?
Guy Spielmann, Georgetown University
         Multidisciplinary Integrated Language Education (MILE)
          and second/foreign language teaching
G. Richard Tucker, Carnegie Mellon University
         Developing a research component within a teacher
          education program
Andrea Tyler, Georgetown University
         Patterns of lexis:  How much can repetition tell us about
          discourse coherence?
Bill VanPatten, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
          Is psycholinguistics relevant to language teaching?
Shelley Wong, University of Maryland, College Park
         Curriculum transformation:  A psycholinguistic course
          for prospective teachers of ESOL K 12
Elizabeth Zsiga, Georgetown University
         Phonology and phonetics in the education of second
          language teachers:  The representation of some variable
          rules of English
 
                             FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1995
                              Intercultural Center
Plenary speakers:
Leslie M. Beebe, Teachers College, Columbia University
     Polite fictions: Instrumental rudeness as pragmatic
     competence
Joan Morley, University of Michigan
     Maximizing learning
 
Invited speakers:
Vincent J. Cangiano, El Houcine Haichour, Stephanie J.
     Stauffer, Georgetown University
     Taming the electronic lion, or How to shape a language
     learning environment out of the chaos called the Internet
 
Jeff Connor-Linton, Georgetown University
          Late night thoughts on complexity, linguistics, and
         language teaching
Barbara A. Craig, Georgetown University
         Boundary discourse and the authority of knowledge in
          the second language classroom
Madeline E. Ehrman, U.S. Department of State, FSI
     Personality, language learning aptitude, and program structure
Aviva Freedman, Carleton University, Ottawa
          "Situating" learning to write for the L2 teacher
William C. Hannas, Georgetown University
          Teaching Chinese teachers what constitutes "Chinese"
Susan Huss-Lederman, Georgetown University
          "Wait wait wait wait!"   A sociolinguistic analysis of
          repetition in the speech of adult beginning ESL learners
          using instructional software
Kurt R. Jankowsky, Georgetown University
          On the need to unlearn in the foreign language learning
          process
Ronald P. Leow, Georgetown University
         Teacher education and psycholinguistics:  Making
          teachers psycholinguists
Steven J. Loughrin-Sacco, Boise State University
          Research internships:  Involving undergraduate foreign
          language secondary education majors in ethnographic
          research
Anne Pakir, National University of Singapore
         Beginning at the end: "Bilingual education for all" in
          Singapore and teacher perception
Sophia C. Papaefthymiou-Lytra, University of Athens, Greece
          Culture and the teaching of foreign languages:  A case
          study
Teresa Pica, University of Pennsylvania
         Teaching language and teaching language learners: The
          expanding role and expectations of language teachers in
          communicative content-based classrooms
Peter Schmitter, Martin-Luther-Universit t Halle-Wittenberg,
          Germany
         Structural or cognitive semantics as a topic in the
          linguistic education of second language teachers?
Charles W. Stansfield, Second Language Testing, Inc.
          Considerations in the writing of SOPI prompts
Monique Y. Wong, Hellenic American Union, Greece
          Using simulation to develop negotiation strategies in a
          foreign language
 
                            SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1995
                              Intercultural Center
Plenary speakers:
Marianne Celce-Murcia, University of California, Los Angeles
     The elaboration of sociolinguistic competence:  Implications
     for teacher education
Diane Larsen-Freeman, School for International Training
     On the changing role of linguistics in the education of
     second language teachers: Past, present, and future
 
Invited speakers:
Catherine N. Ball, Georgetown University
          Providing comprehensible input in a dead foreign
          language: Two text-based strategies
Isolda E. Carranza, Georgetown University
          Multi-level analysis of two-way bilingual classroom
          discourse
Anna Uhl Chamot, Georgetown University
          Learning strategies of elementary foreign language
          immersion students
Mary El-Kadi, Old Dominion University
         Discourse analysis of classroom interaction and the
          training of ESL teachers
Elaine K. Horwitz, University of Texas at Austin
          Foreign language anxiety and foreign language
          teachers:  What can teacher educators do?
Christina Kakava, Mary Washington College
         Directness and indirectness in professor student
     interaction: The intersection of contextual and cultural
     constraints
David Nunan, University of Hong Kong
         Systemic-functional linguistics and the education of
          second language teachers:  A case study
Linju Ogasawara, Japanese Ministry of Education (ret.)
          Native cultural interference in Japanese English usage
John J. Staczek, Georgetown University
          Metalinguistic talk in mature L2 adult-learner classroom
          discourse
Stephanie J. Stauffer, Georgetown University
          Reap what you sow:  In-service training for language
          teachers for computer-mediated communication
Steven Sternfeld, University of Utah
          From Hirsch's Dystopia to Hakuta's Utopia:  A call for
          multilingual alliance
Weiping Wu, Center for Applied Linguistics
         Education of second language teachers:  The link
          between linguistic theory and teaching practice
Dolly J. Young, University of Tennessee
          Language anxiety in SL Acquisition: Using a wider angle
          of focus
Raffaella Zanuttini, Georgetown University
          Dialectal variation as an insight into the structure of
          language
Gen-Yuan Zhuang, Hangzhou University, PRC
         What they hear is not what they read:  Speech
     perception and the training of English teachers in China
 
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OTHER GEORGETOWN CONFERENCES:
 
*Georgetown Linguistics Society, GLS 1995, Developments in
Discourse Analysis, February 17-19, 1995.  Plenary speakers:
Frederick Erickson, Charles Goodwin, Heidi Hamilton,
Deborah Schiffrin, Roger Shuy, and Deborah Tannen.  Contact:
GLS 1995, G.U. Dept. of Linguistics, ICC 479, Washington,
DC 20057-1068; gls at guvax.georgetown.edu; gls at guvax.bitnet;
tel: 202/687-6166.
 
*International Linguistics Association, ILA, Discourse and Text
Analysis, March 10-12, 1995.  Contact: Ruth Brend, 3363
Burbank Dr., Ann Arbor, MI 48105;
Ruth.Brend at um.cc.umich.edu; Tel: 313/665-2787; Fax: (313) 665-9743;
email: Ruth.Brend at UM.CC.UMICH.EDU
 
*9th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, March 10-12,
1995.  Contact G.U. Arabic Department, ICC 463, Washington,
DC 20057-1082; solernoe at guvax.georgetown.edu; Tel: 202/687-
5743.
 
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PRE-CONFERENCE SESSIONS: March 6-8, 1995
The pre-conference sessions will be held in the Intercultural
Center of Georgetown University.  Please contact the individual
organizers for more information on the content of the sessions
only.  To register, see registration form or contact GURT
Coordinator.
 
MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1995
 
Spanish Linguistics I
Organizers:  Dr. Hector Campos, Mr. Eric Holt, and Ms.
Norma Catalan
          G.U. Department of Spanish
          Washington, DC  20057-0989
          (202) 687-6134
          hcampos at guvax.georgetown.edu
 
Issues in Slavic Linguistics
Organizer:      Dr. David R. Andrews
          G.U. Department of Russian
          Washington, DC 20057-0990
          (202) 687-6108/6147
        andrewsd at guvax.georgetown.edu
 
African Linguistics VI
Organizer:     Rev. Solomon Sara, S.J., Ph.D.
          G.U. Department of Linguistics
          Washington, DC  20057-1068
          (202) 687-5956
          ssara at guvax.georgetown.edu
 
Discourse and Agency: Responsibility and Deception
Organizer:     Dr. Patricia E. O'Connor
          G.U. Department of English
          Washington, DC  20057-1048
          (202) 687-7622; Fax: 687-5445
          oconnorpe at guvax.georgetown.edu
 
TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1995
 
Spanish Linguistics II
Organizers: Dr. Hector Campos, Mr. Eric Holt, and Ms. Norma
Catalan
          G.U. Department of Spanish
          Washington, DC  20057-0989
          (202) 687-6134
          hcampos at guvax.georgetown.edu
 
Teaching and Learning Spoken Arabic
Organizer:     Dr. Margaret Nydell
          G.U. Department of Arabic
          Washington, DC  20057-1082
          (202) 687-5743
 
History of Linguistics
Organizer:     Dr. Kurt R. Jankowsky
          G.U. Department of German
          Washington, DC  20057-0994
          (202) 687-5812
 
Innovative Audio and Looking at Multimedia (two sessions)
Organizer:     Jackie M. Tanner, Director
          G.U. Language Learning Technology
          Washington, DC 20057-0987
          (202) 687-5766
          jtanner at guvax.georgetown.edu
 
Issues in Foreign Language Program Direction I
Organizer:  Dr. Ronald P. Leow
        G.U. Spanish Dept.
        Washington, DC 20057-0909
        (202) 687-6134
        rleow at guvax.georgetown.edu
 
 
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1995
 
Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis
Organizer:     Dr. Susan Herring
          Program in Linguistics
          University of Texas
          Arlington, TX 76019
          (817) 273-3133
          susan at utafll.uta.edu
 
Celebration of Bilingual Immersion Programs
Organizer:     Prof. Dorothy B. Goodman
          Friends of International Education
          P.O. Box 4800
          Washington, DC 20008
          (202) 363-8510
 
Issues in Foreign Language Program Direction II
Organizer:     Dr. Ronald P. Leow
          G.U. Department of Spanish
          Washington, DC 20057-0989
          (202) 687-6134
          rleow at guvax.georgetown.edu
 
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TUTORIALS (for Connor-Linton and Spielmann tutorials,
maximum of 20 participants; no participant limit for Krashen
workshop):
 
MONDAY, MARCH 6
"Criterion-referenced curriculum and test development for
language teachers and administrators"
Presenter: Dr. Jeff Connor-Linton, G.U. Dept of Linguistics,
(202) 687-5956
 
TUESDAY, MARCH 7
"Language acquisition and language education:  A review of
research and theory and current issues"
Presenter: Dr. Steve Krashen, School of Education, University
of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0031
 
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8
Authentic documents in the language class: Theoretical
perspectives and didactic
applications
Presenter: Dr. Guy Spielmann, G.U. Department of French,
(202) 687-5717
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For registration, hotel and other information, please contact
Carolyn A. Straehle, Coordinator   *   GURT 1995   *
Georgetown University School of Languages and Linguistics   *
303 Intercultural Center   *   Washington, DC  20057-1067 *
e-mail: gurt at guvax.bitnet or gurt at guvax.georgetown.edu   *
voice: 202/687-5726   *   fax: 202/687-5712 *
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To obtain GURT '95 information from the World Wide Web,
use the following address:
URL:
http://www.georgetown.edu/conferences/gurt95/gurt95.html
 
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