Workshop on Applied Linguistics at Chulalaongkorn University

[Yuphaphann Hoonchamlong]

FYI.
For those sealang-ers who are in Bangkok...
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Current Issues in Applied Linguistics
and Their Applications to the Thai Context

A two-week series of lectures by Dr. Thom Huebner
At Room 405, Education Building 3, Chulalongkorn University
July 22 to August 1, 2002
Organized by the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn
University

The proposed lecture series will be offered Monday through Thursday each
week, approximately five hours per day. As a general format, it is
proposed that most morning sessions will be devoted to lecture, discussion
of main points, and bibliography. Afternoon sessions will be explore the
applications of the concepts presented in the morning to the Thai context.

Tentative Outline:

1. July 22, 2002: 	Introduction

Definitions of Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, and Critical Applied
          Linguistics
History of Applied Linguistics
Research Approaches in Applied Linguistics

2. July 23, 2002:  	Traditional Domains of Linguistics and their
    	Applications -- Phonetics / Phonology

Contrastive Analysis
     	Acoustic Approaches
     	Markedness Theory

3. July 24, 2002: 	Traditional Domains of Linguistics and their
Applications -- Morphology / Syntax

Contrastive Analysis
    	Morpheme Order Studies
    	Theoretical Approaches to Syntax -- Formal and Functional
    	The Role of Grammar in Language Teaching - Focus on Form


4. July 25,2002:	Traditional Domains of Linguistics and their
Applications --Semantics / Pragmatics

The Lexicon and Language Acquisition
    	Tense and Aspect in SLA
    	Implicature and Second Language Learning
   	The Role of Information Structure in Interlanguage Development
    	Cross-Linguistic Speech Acts

5. July 29, 2002:	Applications of the Analysis of Discourse

Conversational Analysis - input and interaction
    	Classroom Discourse
    	Contrastive Rhetoric

6. July 30, 2002:	Applied Sociolinguistics

Pidgin and Creole Studies
    	Variation and Interlanguage
    	Ethnographies of Language Learning

7. July 31, 2002:	The Sociology of Language and Language Policy and
Planning

Approaches to Language Planning
    	Language Minority Education
    	Bilingual Education
    	L1 and L2 Literacy

8. August 1, 2002:	The Role of English in a Global Perspective

The Native vs. Non-native Speaker
    	World Englishes
    	Assessment
   	English and New Technologies
    	Technology as New Language Policy
   	Resisting Linguistic Imperialism