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Date: 31-Aug-2010
From: Emmanuelle Labeau < E.labeau at aston.ac.uk >
Subject: Simultaneity in Adult Second Language Acquisition
 

	
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From: Emmanuelle Labeau [E.labeau at aston.ac.uk]
Subject: Simultaneity in Adult Second Language Acquisition

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Simultaneity in Adult Second Language Acquisition 

Date: 18-Apr-2011 - 20-Apr-2011 
Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom 
Contact: Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig 
Contact Email: bardovi at indiana.edu 
Meeting URL:
http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/news-events/conferences-seminars/chronos-10/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition 

Meeting Description: 

Panel 2: Simultaneity in Adult Second Language Acquisition
Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Hyun-Jin Kim (Indiana University), Inès Saddour,
Qiaochao Zhang (Aston University)

Theme and Purpose of the Panel:

This panel explores the expression and development of simultaneity in adult
second language acquisition. Simultaneity can be defined as 'Two events,
processes, or states are simultaneous if they share a value on the time axis.
Temporal boundaries need not coincide' (Aksu-Koç, & von Stutterheim, 1994, p.
397).  Many configurations of simultaneity are possible (including complete
overlap, complete inclusion, identical starting points, identical endpoints, and
nonidentical start- and endpoints which are not contained).  Until recently,
simultaneity has not received the attention enjoyed by sequentiality and
imperfectivity in either acquisition and general TMA studies. It is noteworthy
that simultaneity does not appear in the indices of major tense-aspect reference
works.  Aksu-Koç and von Stutterheim's  (1994) groundbreaking study of
simultaneity in L1 narrative development showed that although languages have
different morphological means of indicating simultaneity (including progressive,
perfective, or none), all languages have lexical, adverbial, perceptual, and
discourse means. Additionally, narrative structure, including number of
protagonists, influences expression of simultaneity and the interpretation of
simultaneous events as background or foreground.  

The few studies available in second language acquisition research have
investigated combinations of first and second languages where the L1 has a
reduced system of morphology compared to the L2 (L1 German, L2 Czech) and where
they are relatively similar (L1 English, L2 Czech; Schmiedtová, 2004), and where
means are primarily lexical in the L1 (L1 French, L2 English; Leclercq, 2007,
2008, 2009).  In this panel we expand the investigation of target languages,
means of eliciting data, and L1-L2 combinations including the acquisition of an
L2 with lexical means of indicating simultaneity and an L1 rich in verbal
morphology (L1 Arabic, L2 French) and an L2 with both resultative and
progressive (L1 English, L2 Korean). This panel anticipates up to five
contributions on the acquisition of L2 simultaneity in both Indo-European and
Asian target languages (Catalan, Chinese, English, French, and Korean) from a
variety of first languages, including Arabic, English, Japanese, Korean, and
Spanish. 

Scientific Committee:

TBC





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