SLA at UW-Madison

Second Language Socialization as Sociocultural Theory: Insights and Issues
Patricia A. Duff, University of British Columbia
4:00 pm, Friday, September 22, 2006
1418 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive
Abstract
**SLA Fall Reception immediately following the lecture**

Beyond Linguistic Imperialism: Learner Resistance in the University Foreign
Language Classroom
Robin Worth, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Beloit College
4:00 pm, Thursday, September 28, 2006
254 Van Hise Hall
Abstract

Staying on Task in Oral Proficiency Interviews
Gabriele Kasper, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
3:30 pm, Thursday, October 26, 2006
Room TBA
Abstract

Communication
Foreign Language Standards and the Contexts of Communciation
June Phillips, Weber State University
4:00 pm, Tuesday, September 19, 2006
254 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive
Comments from Paul Sandrock, President, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages; Consultant for World Languages Education, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

Communities
Community as Mediated Participation in Activity
Steven Thorne, Pennsylvania State University
4:00 pm, Wednesday, February 7, 2007
254 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive
Comments from Robert Howell, Director, International Academic Programs; Professor, Department of German

Connections
Making Connections through Texts in Language Teaching
Richard Kern, University of California, Berkeley
4:00 pm, Tuesday, March 20, 2007
254 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive
Comments from Gilles Bousquet, Dean, Division of International Studies; Professor, Department of French and Italian

The Dialogic Aspects of the Private Speech of Korean-English Bilinguals
Jina Lee, SLA doctoral candidate
4:00-5:00 pm, Thursday, May 2
254 Van Hise Hall

Spring, 2006

The Dialogic Aspects of the Private Speech of Korean-English Bilinguals
Jina Lee, SLA doctoral candidate
4:00-5:00 pm, Thursday, May 2
254 Van Hise Hall

Abstract
Inspired by Bakhtin and Vygotsky's dialogic perspectives, the current study explores the dialogic aspects of private speech by scrutinizing the parallels between the discourse structures of social speech and private speech. I report on my study of private speech produced by seven Korean-English bilingual students at a North American university. For analysis, I adapt Goffman's participation framework and some concepts of CA descriptions of social speech as a basis for comparison with private speech. Although the discourse structure of private speech is not absolutely identical to that of social speech in regards of CA, this microdiscourse analysis demonstrate the apparent interactional structure revealed in private speech. This then ultimately documents how each participant is participating in his or her activities by deploying a dynamic interaction with the self, with one's own actions and activities, and with the study materials (written texts).

Literacy Development of Korean Learners of English: How their view of Korean writing affects their literacy development in English
Sookyung Cho
Thursday, April 6, 4:00pm – 5:00pm
254 Van Hise Hall

Sookyung Cho is a dissertator in the UW doctoral program in Second Language Acquisition. Her research interest is second language literacy development from a sociocultural perspective.

Abstract
Since Robert Kaplan’s contrastive rhetoric, a second language learner is believed to learn a new writing style in their second language. Drawing on the analysis of interview data with 35 Korean learners of English, this research reveals that acquiring second language literacy is not just a matter of learning a new writing style but it also involves the process of learning the values and meanings of writing specific to a second language culture. This presentation explains how Koreans think of writing, and then through two parallel English literacy developments, it displays how Korean learners of English with the traditional view of writing come to learn a new role of writing in the United States.

Attention: When, Where, and For Whom?
Sue Gass, Michigan State University
4:00 pm, Wednesday, March 22
254 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive
(Note change of room!)
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SLA Poster Session and Reception
4:00-5:30 pm, Thursday, March 2
1418 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive

Presenters:

Teaching World Languages for Social Justice
Terry A. Osborn
1:00 pm, Friday, February 10
Union South (check TITU)
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Fall, 2005

Poster Information Session
Tom Purnell, Department of Linguistics
Dianna Murphy, Language Institute
12:00-1:00 pm, Wednesday, December 7
1418 Van Hise Hall

Abstract: In the past few years, poster sessions have become more popular at scholarly conferences. Posters are seen as an effective means of presenting research, and encouraging the discussion and exchange of ideas. While posters often represent the unveiling of preliminary work, they require extreme synthesis of presentation and must be effective visually and effective with respect to the argument that the presenter is making. Come to this informal brownbag for SLA students to learn how to design an effective poster, how to print a poster on campus, and what to expect as a poster presenter.

Choices, Strategies, Reflections: Applied Linguistics and SLA Today
Organized and Presented by Graduate Students in the Department of English
and Program in Second Language Acquisition
3:00-7:00 pm, Monday, December 5
1418 Van Hise Hall
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Talking to the Self: A Study of the Private Speech of Adult Bilinguals
Jina Lee, SLA doctoral student
*NEW DATE* 4:00-5:00 pm, Thursday, November 17
1418 Van Hise Hall

Jina Lee is a dissertator in the UW doctoral program in Second Language Acquisition. Her research examines L2 users' Private Speech in Sociocultural Theory.

Project Summary : This is a qualitative study of Korean-English Bilinguals' use of Private Speech, self-directed utterance. This study is not a study of group comparisons for generalizations, but a study of individuals engaged in their activities of solitary exam preparation. This study has three main purposes: (1) A description of the metacognitive functions of Private Speech, (2) A comparison of the similarities and differences between Private Speech and Social Speech utilizing findings of Conversation Analysis, and (3) What does the Private Speech of bilinguals reveal about their language processing and language use? By exploring these, this study shows how Korean speakers of English use private speech in English and Korean as an instance mediation of thought, such as, self-regulatory functions of language, and how intrapersonal activity can be seen as the dynamic interaction, which illustrates the dialogic aspects of Private Speech.

SPRING, 2005

Who's Got The Power? Resistance to Language Learning Beyond Linguistic Imperialism
4:00pm - 5:00pm, Monday, May 2nd
254 Van Hise Hall

Robin Worth is a dissertator in the UW doctoral program in Second Language Acquisition. Her research examines university foreign language classroom dynamics of power and resistance through the lens of critical theory.

Project Summary: Research examining resistance to language learning has been largely limited to contexts of linguistic imperialism and majority/minority language power differentials. This presentation examines an American university Italian-as-foreign-language classroom using a variety of ethnographic techniques, evidencing learners' various enactments of resistance, and proposing that the predominant notion of resistance to language learning requires further complexification.

Cultural Models and Worldviews: Implications for Schooling English Language Learners
12:10 pm - 1:10 pm, Tuesday, April 26
254 Van Hise Hall

Julie Minikel-Lacocque is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at UW-Madison, and her area of focus is ESL/Bilingual Education. She is a Spencer Doctoral Research Program Fellow.

Project Summary: This study examines teacher/student perceptions of schooling for an adolescent ESL student. Critical Discourse Analysis is used to analyze interviews conducted with an ESL teacher and an ESL student, with a specific focus on how cultural models are represented in language, and their effect on schooling for this student.

SLA Research Forum
Classroom Talks: Potentials and limitations of CA
4:00-5:30, Monday, March 7
1418 Van Hise

The Modern Language Journal recently published a special issue on "Classroom
Talks," guest edited by Professor Numa Markee (University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign). This special issue features six articles written by
researchers who incorporate CA in their research as well as four
commentaries written by Drs. Susan Gass, Diana Larsen-Freeman, Joan Kelly
Hall, and Johannes Wagner.

In this research forum, Prof. Markee, along with other authors of the
articles in the special issue, Junko Mori and Elizabeth Miller, will discuss
their responses to these commentaries, which pose important issues
concerning the application of CA to the study of language classroom
interaction and second language acquisition. Sally Magnan, the editor of
Modern Language Journal will serve as a moderator. We intend this forum to
be an opportunity to exchange ideas freely among the presenters and the
audience. So, bring your burning questions concerning CA-for-SLA!

Second Language Acquisition Poster Session and Reception
4:00 pm, Monday, February 21
1418 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Avenue

FALL, 2004

Tuesday, October 12
12:00-1:00 pm, 254 Van Hise
"Libraries in a Nutshell: An Overview of Research Methods, Resources and Services"

Steven Frye, UW-Madison Senior Academic Librarian, will demonstrate effective ways of using research tools such as journal databases, highlightpertinent resources for research on second language acquisition, appliedlinguistics, language education and culture, and briefly review NEW libraryservices that can help you gather information and find research assistance.

4:00 pm, 1418 Van Hise
"The Melody of Speech: How, Why, and What to Teach"
Dorothy Chun, University of California – Santa Barbara

This presentation will discuss research on L2 prosody and its importance for teaching language in context. I will focus on the research and practice enabled by technological advances and will demonstrate software programs for teaching pronunciation and intonation. I will also suggest a future direction that increasingly integrates the prosodic dimension within a larger context of communication and behavior.

Wednesday, November 17
12:00 pm, 1418 Van Hise
"Maximizing Study Abroad Through Language and Culture Strategies"
Andrew D. Cohen, Rachel Shively, Holly Emert
Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA)
University of Minnesota

This talk will consider the significance of study abroad in terms of thesheer numbers of US college students involved, and the opportunities forlanguage and culture learning. Unfortunately, there is somewhat of a gapbetween the potential and the reality with regard to language and culturelearning. Attention to this gap will provide a segue to describing anintervention in study abroad involving guidebooks for students,instructors, and program professionals, which were designed to encouragestudents to use language and culture strategies as a means to maximize study abroad experience. The presenters will report on research efforts toevaluate the effectiveness of these guidebooks, and findings from the theirresearch will be presented. The presenters will also highlight somepedagogical implications of the research effort for both foreign language instruction and study abroad programs.

SPRING, 2004

Monday, January 6
4:00 pm, 264 Van Hise
"Grammatical and Pragmalinguistic Knowledge in a Foreign Language:The Case of English Focus Constructions."
Marcus Callies, English Department, University of Marburg, Germany

FALL, 2003

Tuesday, December 12
4:00-6:00 pm, 482 Van Hise
"A Cognition-based Functional Account of Presentative Sentences: Its Pedagogical Implications in the Teaching of Chinese."
Dr. Wenze Hu, Harvard University

Friday, December 5
4:00-6:00 pm, 479 Van Hise
"Maximize Learner's Capacity for Acquiring Second Language by Predicting Student's Difficulty "
Dr. Yongping Zhu, Washington University in St. Louis

Thursday, December 4
4:00-6:00 pm, 479 Van Hise
"The issue of validity in the studies of the acquisition of aspectual particles in Chinese by adult learners"
Dr. Jun Yang, University of Chicago

Thursday, December 4
"Libraries in a Nutshell: an Overview of Research Methods, Resources, and Services"
Steven Frye, UW-Madison Academic Librarian, together with Jo Ann Carr of the CIMC (Center for Instructional Materials and Computing, UW-Madison)

Wednesday, December 3
"All False Cognates Are Not Created Equally False:The Relative Difficulty of Two Types of False Cognates"
Diana Frantzen, Department of Spanish & Portuguese

Tuesday, November 18
6:30 pm, French House, 633 North Frances
"Computer-Assisted Communication and Compensation Strategies in the Foreign
Language Classroom"
Robin Worth, UW-Madison, SLA Doctoral Student

Thursday, November 13
5:00 pm, 367 Van Hise Hall
Second Language Acquisition Talk Series
"Publishing in Professional Journals: Demystifying the Process"
Professor Sally Magnan, editor of The Modern Language Journal, will describe the publication process in SLA journals, from writing an article to submitting it for publication, including how it is reviewed, rejected or accepted, and revised. Questions are welcome.

Friday & Saturday, October 25 & 26
Pyle Center
UW-Madison Global Languages Literatures and Cultures Forum 2003 Fall Conference
"Language Gain and Study Abroad"

For more information, check the following web site: http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/gfllc/conferences.htm

Wednesday, October 23
2:00-4:00 pm, 254 Van Hise
The Seventh Annual McGraw-Hill LIVE Satellite Teleconference and Webcast on Topics in Language Teaching and Learning
"Teaching Culture in the Digital Millennium"

Thursday, October 10 – Friday, October 11
"Foreign Languages: Teaching with Technology,"
organized by Houghton-Mifflin in conjunction with ACTFL and IALLT.

Friday, September 27
3:30-5:00 pm, 7191 Helen C. White
Language and the Mind Series
"Social Processes in the Evolution of Complex Cognition and Communication"
Chuck Snowdon, Hilldale Professor of Psychology and Zoology at UW Madison

Tuesday, September 24
3:00 pm, 254 Van Hise Hall
"A Case Study of the Acquisition of Narration in Russian"
Professor Ben Rifkin, Slavic Languages and Literatures

SLA Events & Colloquium Series

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