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Subject: 6.1615, Calls: Penn Ling Coll, Teachers of Japanese
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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 11:59:58 EST
From: bhatt at BABEL.ling.upenn.edu ("Rajesh Bhatt")
Subject: Final Call for the 20th Penn Linguistics Colloquium
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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 14:20:17 -0400
From: HNARA at vms.cis.pitt.edu (Hiroshi Nara)
Subject: Conference of the Lake Erie Teachers of Japanese
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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 11:59:58 EST
From: bhatt at BABEL.ling.upenn.edu ("Rajesh Bhatt")
Subject: Final Call for the 20th Penn Linguistics Colloquium
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Penn Linguistics Club Announces
The Twentieth Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium
Saturday and Sunday, February 17 and 18, 1996
Invited Speaker: Norbert Hornstein, U. of Maryland, College Park
We welcome papers on any topic in linguistics. Speakers will have
twenty minutes for their presentation and five minutes for discussion
and questions.
Prospective speakers should submit an abstract no later than Friday,
December 1, 1995 to:
The Penn Linguistics Colloquium Committee
Department of Linguistics
619 Williams Hall
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6305
Abstracts should be no longer than 2 pages (including examples,
diagrams and references) in 12 point font with 1 inch margins and
should be accompanied by an index card including your name,
affiliation (department and institution), address, email address and
the subfield of linguistics (or related discipline) that you find most
appropriate to your topic. Submission by email to
plc20 at babel.ling.upenn.edu will be greatly appreciated. Please note
that abstracts received after December 1 will not be considered.
Colloquium participants are invited to submit their papers to the Penn
Review of Linguistics, which is published as a special issue of the
Penn Working Papers.
If you have any further questions, please contact us at the above
address or via e-mail at plc20 at babel.ling.upenn.edu
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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 14:20:17 -0400
From: HNARA at vms.cis.pitt.edu (Hiroshi Nara)
Subject: Conference of the Lake Erie Teachers of Japanese
Call for ABSTRACTS
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The Eighth Annual Conference of
the Lake Erie Teachers of Japanese
'Back to the Basics--Building Automaticity'
Friday and Saturday, February 23 and 24, 1996 at the
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Overview
The theme of the conference 'Back to the Basics--Building
Automaticity' reaffirms the importance of thorough acquisition of the
basic skills in language curricula. In this conference, we intend to
pay renewed attention to the goals and methods of teaching these
skills with an explicit goal of exploring ways for students to achieve
higher automaticity.
Throughout the conference, we intend to look at the issues of
achieving automaticity in several ways. First is to look at existing
problems in the classroom and determine which skill areas have been
successful in achieving a level of automaticity. Secondly, we will
provide an opportunity to learn more about the notion of automaticity
and how it relates to any learning situation. Once this basis is
established we intend to examine its relationship to language learning
and teaching. The last step is a more practical one that hopes to
address the issue of how we make use of this idea in concrete learning
situations and teaching techniques, in our attempt to solve the
problems as identified in Step One above.
Plenary Speaker
The plenary speaker for the conference is Charles Perfetti, a
specialist on psycholinguistics and reading at the University of
Pittsburgh, who will speak on the key principles of automaticity as
applied to language learning. His work in this area is known
worldwide.
Call for abstracts
Any public presentation (paper presentation, mini workshops,
demonstration of teaching techniques, showing videotapes of
techniques, etc.) that addresses the issues pertaining to achieving
automaticity in the Japanese (or any foreign language) classroom will
be welcome. These presentations will be scheduled for Saturday
afternoon (2/24/96). If you are interested in presenting, please
submit the following two items to the conference organizer.
(1) A proposal of presentation bearing the title and a short
description of the proposed presentation. The description should be
no more than one page long (approximately 250 words). Please note
that the proposal should have only the title and the description of
the presentation (no name).
(2) A 3' x 5' note card bearing the title of presentation, presenter's
or presenters' name(s) and address(es), institutional affiliation(s),
telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address(es), and audiovisual
equipment needed for the presentation.
Send these two items to LETJ Committee, c/o Hiroshi Nara, East Asian
Languages and Literatures, 1501 CL, University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, PA 15260. USA. For questions, contact Hiroshi Nara at
hnara at vms.cis.pitt.edu. Telephone (412) 624-5574, fax (412) 624-4419.
We are sorry but e-mail or fax submissions of presentation proposals
cannot be accepted. The deadline for submission is Monday, November
27, 1995.
Dissemination
The conclusions and the summaries of our discussions will be shared
with the rest in the _Newsletter_ of the Association of Teachers of
Japanese and _Breeze_ of the Japan Foundation Language Center. At the
time of this writing, IT IS LIKELY THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO PUBLISH THE
PROCEEDINGS.
Lake Erie Teachers of Japanese Conference
LETJ is an informal regional organization established by Japanese
teachers primarily in the states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and
Indiana for the purpose of providing a forum for scholarly discussion
on Japanese language pedagogy, in-service training, and exchange of
teaching techniques and ideas. Over the years, the annual conference
has also proven to be an excellent place for developing professional
relationships with other teachers in the same field. The conference
attendees are teachers of Japanese at either secondary or
post-secondary schools in the area.
In 1995, the conference was hosted by the Ohio State University and,
in 1997, it will be hosted by the University of Michigan.
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Tentative Schedule
Eighth Lake Erie Teachers of Japanese Conference
University of Pittsburgh
Friday evening, February 23, 1996
6:45 p.m.- Registration
7:15- Welcoming remarks
7:30-8:30 Session I. Issues in Japanese language classroom
8:45-9:30 Session II. Demonstration of CAI materials for building
automaticity
Hiroshi Nara, University of Pittsburgh
Sono Takano Hayes, Carnegie Mellon University
Saturday, February 24, 1996
8:00- Registration
9:00-10:00 Plenary Session. Charles Perfetti, University of
Pittsburgh.
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:15 Session III. Keiko Koda, Carnegie Mellon University.
11:15-12:00 Session IV. Small group discussion.
12:00-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:45 Session V. Presentations; concurrent sessions
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-4:30 Session VI. Presentations; concurrent sessions
4:30-5:00 Business meeting. Evaluation of the conference. Closing
remarks.
5:30- Reception.
PLEASE forward this message to anyone you think might be interested in
this conference. Also, I will be happy to send this call to anyone if
you give me his/her e-mail address. Send the names and addresses to
Hiroshi Nara hnara at vms.cis.pitt.edu.
Questions? Direct your questions to Hiroshi Nara at
hnara at vms.cis.pitt.edu.
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