Call for Proposals - 'Language Choice and Choosing a Language' Second Language Acquisition Graduate Student Symposium, April 2012

[Snezhana Zheltoukhova]

2012 Second Language Acquisition Graduate Student Symposium

Language Choice and Choosing a Language

Submission Deadline – January 31, 2011

            April 13–14, 2011

The Pyle Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Co-hosted by University of Iowa





The SLA graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the
University of Iowa have formed a partnership to host an annual SLA Graduate
Student Symposium. Organizing and hosting the conference alternates between
the universities. Graduate students in SLA and related disciplines present
their work and meet distinguished researchers in their field.





The theme of the 2012 symposium is *Language Choice and Choosing a Language*.
Submissions may address the conference theme or any area related to current
and future trends in SLA research.



We seek proposals, both theoretical and empirical, from graduate student
that reflect the differing perspectives and methods currently used in SLA
research.  Specifically, proposals dealing with language choice, the
decision to use a specific form or code during an interaction, and how it
is determined by social context. SLA being interdisciplinary in nature, we
seek  proposals that discuss microsocial and psycholinguistic aspects of
language choice and the roles of social and geographical contexts in
choosing a language or having no choice due to sociopolitical factors,
language policy and planning. The research may be interdisciplinary in
nature. Submissions based on pilot studies, predissertation studies, or
work-in-progress projects will be considered, as well as completed projects.



*Plenary Speakers:*

Johannes Wagner (University of Southern Denmark)

Alister Cumming (University of Toronto, OISE)

Agnes Weiyun He (University of Stonybrooke)



*Panel Discussion:* *Publish or Perish***



*Areas of interest:*

code switching

bilingual, cross-cultural interpersonal communication

globalization and language use

heritage language acquisition

language policies

conversation/discourse analysis

psycholinguistic aspects of language choice

identity

foreign language education





*Submission Guidelines:*

We invite proposals for papers and posters from graduate students at any
level of

graduate study. All proposals must be original (i.e., not previously
presented in public)

and unpublished work. Paper presentations will be 20 minutes followed by a
10*-*minute

discussion period. Poster presentations will be displayed at an hour-long
session,

during which poster authors will stand by their posters to discuss their
work.

Abstracts should be no more than 300 words.  Please submit abstracts by
January 31, 2011 to: slagrads at languageinstitute.wisc.edu (only email
submission is accepted).



*Notification of acceptance will be sent by February 28, 2011*.**



*Areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to*:**

Classroom research

Second and foreign language pedagogy

Psycholinguistic approaches to SLA

Generative second language acquisition (syntax, phonology, semantics)

Heritage language learning and maintenance

Language, culture, socialization, and pragmatics

Learner corpora and SLA

Testing and assessment

Analysis of discourse and interaction

Computer-assisted language learning

Second and foreign language policy

Sociocultural approaches to language learning



*Please adhere to the following format:*

I. In the body of the email message, please include all of the following
information in the

following order:

1. Title of presentation (maximum 10 words)

2. Presenter*ʼ*s name (family, given)

3. Department and affiliation

4. Complete mailing address

5. Phone/Fax

6. Preferred email address for correspondence

7. Summary of the presentation, with a clear theoretical or empirical focus
(maximum 50

words). This summary will be included in the program booklet and cannot
besubsequently revised.



8. Also in the body of the email message, please indicate your choice below.

I wish my abstract to be considered as a:

a. Presentation OR poster

b. Presentation only

c. Poster only





9. Please include an abstract as *an attachment*. The attachment must be a
Microsoft

Word document and may not exceed 300 words. Please place the title as the
first line of

the document. Neither your name nor your institution*ʼ*s name should appear
in the

abstract.

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