16.3593, Calls: Applied Ling/USA;Lang Acquisition/France

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1)
Date: 15-Dec-2005
From: Glenn Martinez < martinezg at utpa.edu >
Subject: Spanish for Native Speakers Special Interest Group at the 40th Annual Meeting of ACTFL 

2)
Date: 15-Dec-2005
From: Klingler Dominique < Dominique.Klingler at univ-paris3.fr >
Subject: Research on Second and Foreign Language Acquisition and Teaching 

-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 17:02:04
From: Glenn Martinez < martinezg at utpa.edu >
Subject: Spanish for Native Speakers Special Interest Group at the 40th Annual Meeting of ACTFL 

Full Title: Spanish for Native Speakers Special Interest Group at the 40th Annual Meeting of ACTFL 
Short Title: ACTFL SNS SIG 

Date: 17-Nov-2006 - 19-Nov-2006
Location: Nashville, TN, USA 
Contact Person: Glenn Martinez
Meeting Email: martinezg at utpa.edu
Web Site: http://www.actfl.org 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)

Call Deadline: 10-Feb-2006 

Meeting Description:

Spanish for Native Speakers Special Interest Group Sessions at the 40th Annual Meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages 

CALL FOR PAPERS
SPANISH FOR NATIVE SPEAKERS SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP (SIG)
at the 40th Annual Convention and Expo of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
November 17-19, 2006
Nashville, TN

The Spanish for Native Speakers Special Interest Group seeks abstract submissions for the 40th ACTFL Convention to be held in Nashville, Tennessee from November 17-19, 2006. The SNS SIG is soliciting proposals in Spanish or English for 1) twenty minute presentations related to pedagogical and policy issues in SNS and 2) posters on program models and research studies related to SNS. This call encourages language educators from all levels to submit their proposals and to attend the convention.

Please submit by e-mail a one-page 350-word abstract including the title and main focus of the paper or poster. Include your name, affiliation, address, phone and e-mail address at the end of your abstract. Abstracts must be received no later than February 10, 2006 to be considered. They should be sent to Glenn Martinez, chair of the SNS SIG, at martinezg at utpa.edu.

All abstracts will be read anonymously by a committee of SNS SIG members. Authors will be notified by mid March if their presentations or posters have been accepted. Please include your abstract in the body of your e-mail message. Attachments cannot be accepted.

Presenters must be members of ACTFL and of the SNS SIG and be registered for the conference. To join ACTFL, visit the website at www.actfl.org. Be sure to add the SNS SIG to your 'cart' before 'checking out'.

-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 17:02:47
From: Klingler Dominique < Dominique.Klingler at univ-paris3.fr >
Subject: Research on Second and Foreign Language Acquisition and Teaching 

Full Title: Research on Second and Foreign Language Acquisition and Teaching 
Short Title: DILTEC 

Date: 06-Sep-2006 - 08-Sep-2006
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: VERONIQUE Georges Daniel
Meeting Email: colloque at groupelca.org
Web Site: http://colloque@groupelca.org 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition 

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2006 

Meeting Description:

International Conference
Research on second and foreign language acquisition and teaching 
Paris, 6-8 September 2006
Organized by Groupe 'Langues en contacts et appropriations', DILTEC, Paris III
Call for papers
colloque at groupelca.org 

Research on second and foreign language acquisition has been conducted during the past thirty years from various theoretical perspectives, focussing on multiple factors, cognitive and social. Lately, several attempts have been made to describe developmental routes and stages in the L2 acquisition process. They mainly consist of lists of morphosyntactic means pertaining to the noun phrase, to the verb phrase, and to the clause, that are mustered by learners  at given stages for a specific L1. SLA research has also been devoted to classroom discourse and teaching activities during the past years. Yet, the relevance of SLA research for second or foreign language teaching is regularly questioned. This conference aims at a dialogue between researchers in language acquisition and language pedagogy over grammar, the lexicon, pragmatics, and discourse. 

This conference invites SLA researchers and those involved in research on second language pedagogy to examine their findings in terms of its relevance for language teaching.

Proposals that include specific interest for language teaching are expected. They will focus on the learning of L2 (or L3, L4 or Lx) grammar, lexicon, pragmatics, and discourse in classroom or guided settings. The mode of implication of teachers and learners during the SLA research process shall also be discussed from the angle of the impact of the research design on teaching activity and, conversely, from the angle of the intricate relation between teaching and researching.

Proposals are expected to fit in one of the following sections :

A. Discourse practices and grammatical marking: teaching and learning.

In this section , shall be discussed the relations between grammatical markers, lexicon and the learners' discourse practices. The learnability of discourse, of macrosyntactic patterns and of the grammatical markers of the target language shall be examined as well as the order of acquisition of different L2 forms and of different functions for a given form. The teachability of macrosyntactic structures and of grammatical markers in their specific context shall also be discussed. 

B. L2 development, curriculum design, pedagogical grammars and testing

Contributions which bear on the use of research findings in SLA to design teaching and testing materials will be selected for this section. The focus will be on the analysis of curriculum design and of teaching activities that are organized to enhance and facilitate the input-intake process. Theoretical constructs involved in course and class design shall be discussed. 

C. Research design and teaching tasks and activities in L2 learning

The design of data collection for SLA research may foster or develop L2 classroom learning. This workshop is devoted to methodological and theoretical issues related to the organization of data gathering and other experimental tasks of SLA research in relation to learners and teachers, and teaching activities in institutional settings.

Proposals based on empirical data analysis are most welcome. 

Contributors are asked to submit two copies of their proposal (about 300 words long) before the 15th of February 2006 (final deadline) - one the copies will have been anonymized - to colloque at groupelca.org

Acceptance or refusal of the submitted proposal shall be notified on the 31 st of March 2005. 

Organizing committee : Catherine Carlo, Cyrille Granget, Dominique Klingler, Kim Jin-ok, Mireille Prodeau, Kamila Sefta, Georges Daniel Véronique

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