Sponsor List
Gorski Lectures
Michael Ullman, Georgetown University
“Contributions of Memory Brain Systems to First and Second Languages”
April 3, 2007 (video available online)
Linda Waugh, University of Arizona
“Indices of Identity and Markers of Ideological Stance by Proficient L2 Speakers in their L1: Evidence from French Conversational Interaction”
September 22, 2006
Carl Ratner, Humboldt State University, California
“Fulfilling the promise of cultural-historical psychology: Articulating the historical dimension of mind”
February 10, 2005
Nancy Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania
“Multilingualism-as-resource and the ecology of language: Three cases of language education reform”
January 30, 2003
Spector Lectures
Anna Stetsenko, City University of New York
“The Dialectics of History: The Relevance of Vygotsky’s Approach for the 21st Century Education”
October 10, 2005
Norman Segalowitz, Concordia University, Montreal
“Cognitive Fluency in Second Language Acquisition”
October 1, 2004
Fred Genesee, McGill University
“Childhood Bilingualism: Another Case of the Deficit Hypothesis”
December 5, 2003
Ron Scollon, Georgetown University
“Nexus Analysis: Toward an Ethnography of Motives”
October 10, 2002
Deborah Cameron, University of London, England
“Communication Skills as Global Language Ideology”
Fall 2001
Watz Lecturers
Douglas Biber, Northern Arizona University
“Challenging stereotypes about academic writing: complexity, elaboration, explicitness"
October 23, 2009
Center For Language Acquisition Invited Speakers
Wolff-Michael Roth, University of Victoria
"Dialogism; Baktinian Perspectives n Learning in Science"
James Coleman, The Open University, UK
"Sex, religion, and global markets: What study abroad research doesn't tell you"
Rod Ellis, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Stephen May, University of Waikato, New Zealand
"Exploring 'Language', 'Identity' and 'Rights': Addressing Key Debates in Sociolinguistics"
April 28, 2008 (video available online)
Donald Freeman, University of Michigan
"Bridging Student and Teacher Learning: Conceptual Tools in the Design of Teacher Education"
April 25, 2008 (video available online)
Paula Buttery, Cambridge University
"English Profile: Reference Level Descriptions for English"
March 25, 2008
Claire Kramsch, University of California, Berkeley
"Language Ecology in Multilingual Settings: Implications for Foreign Language Education".
March 21, 2008 (video available online)
Patricia Duff, University of British Columbia
"Issues in Academic Discourse Socialization"
October 19, 2007 (video available online)
Carol Lidz (ret.)
"Curriculum-Based Dynamic Assessment: Increasing the Relevance and Applicability of Dynamic Assessment"
October 15, 2007
Leonard Talmy, University of Buffalo, State University of New York
"How Languages Represent Motion Events: Typologies and Universals"
April 27, 2007 (video available online)
Zoltan Kovecses, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest
"Universality and Cultural Variation in Metaphor"
March 28, 2007 (video available online)
James E. Messenger, Weil, Gotshal, & Manges LLP, Boston
"Challenging English Only: Linguistic Discrimination in a Public School"
February 23, 2007
Susan Conrad, Portland State University
"What Can We Expect From Corpus Linguistics in SLA Research and Why Haven't We Seen Much Impact Yet?"
February 9, 2007
Rick Kern, University of California, Berkeley
"Literacy, Technology, and Language Learning: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Headed"
October 6, 2006
A. Suresh Canagarajah, The City University of New York
"World Englishes and Writing Instruction: New Questions, Old Possibilities"
September 11, 2006
Shawn Loewen, University of Auckland, New Zealand
"Incidental focus on form: Its occurrence, characteristics, and effectiveness in the L2 classroom"
November 14, 2005
Marjolijn Verspoor, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
"THE help to THE correct using of THE English articles for THE Asian students"
October 22, 2004
Kees de Bot, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
"Dynamic systems theory and sociocultural theory: Incommensurable constructs or bridging the gap?"
October 19, 2004
Heidi Byrnes, Georgetown University
"Imagining, Fostering, and Assessing Advanced L2 Writing Ability: A Curricular and Genre-based Approach"
March 2, 2004
Janina Brutt-Griffler, University of Alabama
"Language Endangerment and World English: Theoretical Perspectives"
February 27, 2004
Robert Schrauf, Northwestern University
"Immigration Restructures the Mind: Studies of Bilingual Ethnic Elders"
September 12, 2003
Benjamin Bruening, University of Delaware
"Wh-Variables and Wh-Movement Parameters"
April 4, 2003
David Block, University of London, Great Britain
"Identity in Language Learning Research: Past and Present"
March 23, 2003
Ron Scollon, Georgetown University
"Nexus Analysis: Toward an Ethnography of Motives"
October 10, 2002
Peter Smagorinsky, University of Georgia
"The Twisting Path of Concept Development in Learning to Teach"
October 4, 2002
Armin Schweglar, University of California, Irvine
“Spanish Creoles and Creolists in Latin America: Past, Present, and Future”
September 30, 2002
Marcel Den-Dikken, The City University of New York
“Direct and Parasitic Polarity Item Licensing”
April 26, 2002
Susan Garnsey, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“What When The Verb At The End Is Happens? Understanding Sentences in English and Japanese”
March 20, 2002
Nina Spada, University of Toronto, Canada
“The Recast Debate in SLA: Assessing The Arguments and The Research”
March 15, 2002
Bernard Spolsky, National Foreign Language Center
“National Security, Heritage Languages, and Language Education Policy”
February 13, 2002
Andrew Cohen, University of Minnesota
“Assessment of Learners in a Distance Learning Course”
February 8, 2002
Claire Kramsch, University of California, Berkley
"Language as Culture"
January 28, 2002
Clinton Crawford, Medgar Evers College
“Ebonics and Language Education”
Fall 2001
Luigi Burzio, Johns Hopkins University
“The Many Faces of the Lexicon”
Fall 2001
Walter van Heuven, University of Nijmegen
“Orthographic, Phonological, and Semantic Effects in Bilingual Visual Word Recognition: Experiments and the BIA Model”
Spring 2001
Merrill Swain, University of Toronto, Canada
“What Happens to Feedback?”
Spring 2001
Norbert Schmitt, University of Nottingham, England
“Vocabulary Acquisition from an Incremental Learning Perspective”
March 22, 2001
Ben Rampton, King’s College, England
“Ritual, Cross-Discipliniarity and Foreign Language Practices at School”
February 23, 2001
Richard Kern, University of California, Berkeley
“Reframing Goals: Literacy as a New Organizing Principle for Foreign Language Education"
November 10, 2000
Benjamin Hary, Emory University
“Approaches to Corpus Linguistics”
October 16, 2000(lecture given with Michael McCarthy)
Paul Hopper, Carnegie Mellon University
“Psuedo-Cleft Sentences in English: A Corpus Study”
October 12, 2000
Leo van Lier, Monterey Institute of International Studies
“The Geeks Must Be Crazy! – The Ecological and Pedagogical Validity of Technology-Rich Learning Environment”
October 4, 2000
Hongyin Tao, Cornell University
“Establishing a Corpus of Spoken English”
“Discovering the Usual with Corpora: The Case of Remember”
April 19, 2000
Kees de Bot, University of Nijmegen
“Forgetting and Relearning Foreign Languages”
April 13, 2000
Bonny Norton, University of British Columbia, Canada
“Non-Participation, Imagined Communities, and The Language Classroom”
April 4, 2000
John Rickford, Stanford University
"African American Read-In"
Febrauary 6, 2000
Claire Kramsch, University of California, Berkeley
“The Rise and Fall of Literature in Language Study 1916 - 1999: What’s Left?”
January 29, 2000
Roger Anderson, UCLA
"Topic Translation in Intimate Two_Pary Conversations"
November 19, 1999
Roger Andersen, University of California, Los Angeles
“Discourse-Centered Language Learning: Language AND Culture vs Language AS Culture”
November 18, 1999
Joan Kelly Hall, University of Georgia
“Additional Language Learning Through Classroom Interaction”
November 8, 1999
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