18.1990, Calls: General Ling/USA; Lang Acquisition/Germany

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1)
Date: 29-Jun-2007
From: Shin Fukuda < fukuda at ling.ucsd.edu >
Subject: The Western Conference on Linguistics 

2)
Date: 29-Jun-2007
From: Martin Pütz < Puetz at uni-landau.de >
Subject: Cognitive Approaches to Second Language Acquisition

 

	
-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:48:08
From: Shin Fukuda < fukuda at ling.ucsd.edu >
Subject: The Western Conference on Linguistics 
 

Full Title: The Western Conference on Linguistics 
Short Title: WECOL 2007 

Date: 30-Nov-2007 - 02-Dec-2007
Location: San Diego, California, USA 
Contact Person: Shin Fukuda
Meeting Email: wecol2007 at ling.ucsd.edu
Web Site: http://ling.ucsd.edu/events/wecol07 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Jul-2007 

Meeting Description

The Western Conference on Linguistics 2007 (WECOL 2007) 

WECOL 2007 organizing committee would like to remind prospective authors that
the deadline for the abstract submission is Sunday, July 1.

Please refer to the following call for papers for the details about the abstract
submission.

Call for Papers

The 2007 Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) will be held November 30 -
December 2, 2007 at the University of California, San Diego. This year's
conference will include a general session, a poster session, and two special
sessions described below.

General Session: expanding the depth and width of empirical data

While the general session will cover all areas of linguistic interest and
welcome papers from all major linguistic subfields and frameworks, as well as
from related cross-disciplinary areas, special consideration will be given to
experimental and corpus studies which challenge existing linguistic data and
generalizations or bring previously unnoticed data to discussion.

Invited Speaker
TBA

Special session I: What can L1 and L2 research tell us about Language Universals?

Special session I will focus on language acquisition studies from any of the
sub-disciplines in linguistics and related fields which contribute to our
understanding of universal characteristics of language.

Special session II: Challenges to linguistic generalizations from understudied
languages

Special session II invites papers that investigate linguistic generalizations
with data from under-studied languages. Submissions from all theoretical and
empirical perspectives are welcome.

Invited Speaker
TBA

Poster Session:
Submissions are also welcome for a poster session featuring posters on any of
the above topics or any other area of linguistic interest.

Submission Guidelines
Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks (plus 10 minutes of discussion) or for
the poster session. Abstracts can be submitted through the Abstract Submission
page (http://ling.ucsd.edu/events/wecol07/abstract.html). You may submit your
abstract for one of the three presentation sessions, for the poster session, or
for both.

Only online PDF submissions through the Abstract Submission page will be
accepted. Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per
author. Abstracts should be anonymous, and limited to two pages (using 1''
margins on all sides and 12pt font size). Data and examples must be given within
the body of the text rather than at the end. Any non-standard fonts should be
embedded in the PDF document.

Please include up to four keywords within your abstract (immediately below the
title) to help us match your abstract to relevant reviewers. These could include
the subfield and relevant languages for your paper. If you are submitting your
abstract to both a presentation session and the poster session, please include
your preferred session as a keyword. Presented papers will be published in the
online WECOL proceedings.

Submission deadline: July 1, 2007 
Notification of Acceptance: September 30, 2007

Please contact the organizers at wecol2007 at ling.ucsd.edu with any questions.



	
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Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:48:13
From: Martin Pütz < Puetz at uni-landau.de >
Subject: Cognitive Approaches to Second Language Acquisition 

	

Full Title: Cognitive Approaches to Second Language Acquisition 

Date: 10-Mar-2008 - 13-Mar-2008
Location: Landau, Germany 
Contact Person: Martin Pütz
Meeting Email: Puetz at uni-landau.de

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition 

Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2007 

Meeting Description:

32nd International LAUD Symposium

Cognitive Approaches to Second/Foreign Language Processing:
Theory and Pedagogy

Location:
University of Koblenz-Landau
Landau, Germany

Date: 
March 10-13, 2008

Call deadline: 
September 1, 2007 

First Call for Papers
32nd International LAUD Symposium

Call deadline: 
September 1, 2007

Plenary speakers (confirmed):

Melissa Bowerman
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Nick Ellis
University of Michigan, USA

Susan Gass
Michigan State University, USA

Jeannette Littlemore
University of Birmingham, UK

Peter Robinson
Aoyama Gakuin University, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

John Taylor
University of Otago, New Zealand

Andrea Tyler
Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA

The psycholinguistic and cognitive processes underlying the learning of a
foreign or second language have always been a subject of major interest to
both (i) Second Language Acquisition (SLA) researchers and (ii)
practitioners involved in language pedagogy, i.e. Foreign Language Learning
(FLL). Most SLA theories have thus far assumed a top-down operation from
Universal Grammar to L1 and L2 grammars. Just as for first language
acquisition, it is assumed that, given sufficient input, a second language
system develops in the mind automatically. The L2 input is said to trigger
the language acquisition device, which is seen to operate quite
autonomously, that is, independently from and without any interaction with
other cognitive abilities or faculties such as bodily experiences, image
schemas, perception, attention, categorization, emotion, or still other
mental faculties. 

The Symposium takes a radically opposing view in the sense that language
acquisition and learning can, like all human learning processes, only be
understood and explained if they are seen as bottom-up, exemplar-based and
usage-oriented processes. These can and have to be accommodated in a much
broader framework of how people interact with the world around them, store
and acquire knowledge in some symbolic form or other, and thus establish a
link between cognitive development and language acquisition. 
The Symposium will explore the even more complex process of L2 learning and
acquisition from three different inroads: 

(i)	the cognitive theoretical foundations of language and learning, 
(ii)	the specific acquisition procedures followed by language learners, and 
(iii)	the rational pedagogic strategies required to facilitate and speed up
the acquisition and learning processes seen from the perspective of the
cognitive linguistics enterprise. 
These will be explored in the following three theme sessions:

Theme Session 1: 
Cognition and language: Theoretical frameworks and models
The first session examines the theoretical foundations of language,
language acquisition and language learning. A number of theories have
emerged from empirical research findings on second language learning and
language instruction. 
In particular, we invite abstracts on the following topics:

- General: Second language acquisition theories and cognition
- Comparing and contrasting cognition in first and second language acquisition
- The relevance of conceptual knowledge for L2 learning and teaching
- Corpus linguistics, cognition and language pedagogy
- The nature and sequence of the form-meaning pairing 
- Cognitive grammar and SLA 
- Neuro-cognitive issues of language acquisition 
- Process-oriented instruction of second languages by children and adults

Theme session 2: 
The mental processes and acquisition procedures involved in SLA: 
Case studies and empirical findings
A second goal of the symposium is to empirically investigate the mental
processes of language learners within the acquisition process such as the
role of attention as one of the basic explanations of language learning.
In particular, we invite abstracts on the following topics:

- Explicit learning, attention and awareness in SLA research
- Language awareness and motivation in FLT
- Cognition and interlanguage at all linguistic levels (phonological,
morpho-syntactic, lexical, constructional, pragmatic)
- The mental process of interlanguage development in SLA
- Interaction of gesture and speech in the development of metaphorical
understanding
- Formulaic language as the cornerstone of natural SLA
- Constructions infants and L2 learners live by

Session 3: 
Cognitive language pedagogy: Pedagogical grammar, lexical expansion,
cultural fluency
The third and main theme of the symposium centers around the theoretical
model of cognitive linguistics, which represents a valid framework within
which FLL research may take place. Various implications for pedagogically
oriented research and for SL classroom practice will be discussed. The
contextual facets of CL including the social, cultural, and discourse
ingredients of language can be exploited for a communicative and
usage-based approach to language teaching in the classroom. 'Applied
Cognitive Linguistics', therefore, investigates the links between the
theoretical views of CL and their relevance for applications in the areas
of language acquisition, learning and pedagogy. 
The specific goal here is to discuss the didactic potential field of CL in
the teaching and learning of second and/or foreign languages. 
In particular, we invite abstracts on the following topics:

- The relevance of dynamic usage-based models in language acquisition 
- Corpus-data in a usage-based cognitive grammar
- The acquisition-learning debate in the light of CL findings
- Culture-specific conceptualizations in an FLT context
- Figurative thinking and SLA
- Cognition and pragmatic development in a second language syllabus
- Cognitive-didactic approaches to the English verb phrase (TMA-system)
- Iconicity, construal and prototypicality in Pedagogical Grammars
- The issue of 'rules' from a cognitive-linguistics perspective
- Idiom and metaphor in lexical expansion and creativity
- From the internet corpus to usable learning materials;
- From classroom experiments to large-scale experimentation

Conference Fees
The conference fee is EUR 75 payable on arrival.

Abstracts
Deadline of submission
September 1, 2007
Submissions are solicited for theme session presentations which should last
for 20-25 minutes with 5-10 minutes for questions (maximum 30 minutes total)
All submissions for presentations should follow the abstract guidelines below.

Abstracts of no more than 500 words (about one page) 
should be submitted via email to
Martin Pütz 
Puetz at uni-landau.de
The abstracts will be subject to anonymous peer-review.
Please include the following information in the subject header of your email:
Abstract LAUD 2008 - name/s -

Please include the following information in the main body of your email:
name of author/s, affiliation, email address, presentation title. 

Please also state for which of the 3 theme sessions 
of the symposium your contribution is intended:

Theme Session 1: 	
Cognition and language: Theoretical frameworks and models

Theme Session 2: 	
The mental processes and acquisition procedures involved in SLA: 
Case studies and empirical findings

Theme Session 3:
Cognitive language pedagogy: Pedagogical grammar, lexical expansion,
cultural fluency

Notification of acceptance will be given by September 15, 2007. 
A first draft version of your paper should be submitted by November 1,
2007, which will be reviewed and, if accepted, pre-published by LAUD and
distributed to all participants before March 2008.
Selected papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings.

More information on the city of Landau (1 hour by car south of
Frankfurt/Main and very close to the Alsatian border, France): 
Landau or Landau in der Pfalz (pop. 41,821) is an autonomous (kreisfrei)
city surrounded by the Südliche Weinstraße (''southern wineroute'')
district of southern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a university town
(since 1990), a long-standing cultural centre, and a market and shopping
town, surrounded by vineyards and wine-growing villages of the Palatinate
wine region. Landau lies east of the Pfälzer Wald, Europe's largest
contiguous forest (quoted from Wikipedia) 

For more information on LAUD 
(e.g. LAUD Symposium 2006, history, past symposia, conference proceedings
etc.) 
click here www.uni-landau.de/anglistik/LAUD/index.htm
Local Conference Organizer
Martin Pütz 
Puetz at uni-landau.de
University of Koblenz-Landau
Landau Campus
FB 6 Institut für Fremdsprachliche Philologien 
Fach Anglistik
Marktstr. 40
D -76829 Landau/Pf.
PH: 06341-146-204
Fax: 06341-146-200

Organising committee members: 
Sabine De Knop, René Dirven, Susanne Niemeier, 
Martin Pütz, Monika Reif, Ulrich Schmitz,
Laura Sicola










 




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