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2008-2009 Events
Orientation for Incoming SLA PhD Students
3:00-4:30 pm, Friday, August 29
1322 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Avenue
All incoming students were required to attend
Fall 2008 SLA Reception
4:00 pm, Tuesday, September 9, 2008
1322 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Avenue
Light refreshments will be served
Lecture: Interaction as Method and Result of Language Learning
Joan Kelly Hall
Pennsylvannia State University
4:00 pm, Tuesday, September 30, 2008
A lecture in the SLA Talk Series. Read the abstract >
Proposal Workshop for SLA Students
Sally Magnan and Diana Frantzen
12:00 pm, Friday, February 27, 2009
259-A Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive
SLA co-directors Sally Magnan and Diana Frantzen will lead a workshop for students on various conferences in SLA, and how to prepare a strong proposal to present at these conferences. They will also briefly address the journals that are associated with these conferences, since presenting at conferences is often the first step towards publishing research. This introductory workshop will be followed by a hands-on session later in the spring semester. Organized by SLA dissertator Paula Rucks.
Language Institute Lecture: Between the Lines: When Poetry, Language and Culture Meet in the Classroom
Charlotte Melin, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Comments from Susan Brantly, Department of Scandinavian Studies; Center for European Studies
4:00 pm, Tuesday, March 3, 2009
254 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive
SLA Lecture: Problems in Portraying the Migrant in Sociolinguistics
David Block, University of London Institute of Education
4:00 pm, Wednesday, March 25, 2009
254 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive
Abstract
This paper arises from my interest in two general areas of inquiry in the social sciences, which are drawn on in much current sociolinguistics research. On the one hand, I am interested in identity, both in terms of theoretical discussions and research; on the other hand, I am interested in migration as the flow of people around the world in the current global age. In much of the current literature on migration and migrants, theorists and researchers portray individuals in terms of sociocultural constructs such as gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion and social class. In addition, they attempt to give migrants names, such as ‘immigrant’, ‘transmigrant’, ‘cosmopolitan’ and ‘expatriate’, situating them as participants in large-scale movements of people, which are, depending on the presented circumstances, called ‘immigration’, ‘diaspora’, ‘transnationalism’ and so on. Viewed charitably, the practice of employing this array of terminology can be seen as part and parcel of academic inquiry: it is what we do. However, it is obviously not without its problems, not least because the putative reality to which the terminology is meant to apply is in a constant state of flux and change. And although we can fall back on Weberian notions of 'ideal types', whereby we know that we are using necessarily partial tools of analysis, as opposed to actual descriptions of reality, there is surely still room for greater clarity. In this paper, I aim to explore the difficulties I have encountered over the past several years with terminology of the type previously mentioned. Among other things, I will engage in a self-critique of some of my own research and I will discuss two key terms often used with reference to migration processes today, diaspora and transnationalism, exploring how they are similar and different in the work of migration theorists and researchers.
This lecture is free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Language Institute and the Doctoral Program in Second Language Acquisition. Funding from the UW-Madison University Lectures Committee.
SLA Graduate Student Symposium: Second Language Acquisition in the 21st Century
April
17-18, 2009
UCC Conference Center, University of Iowa
Co-sponsored by the UW-Madison SLA Graduate Student Organization and Foreign Language Acquisition Education and Research, University of Iowa
Celebration for SLA Graduates Michele Back and Isabelle Drewelow
3:00-4:00 pm, Friday, May 15
1322 Van Hise Hall
Join us to celebrate the accomplishments of Michele Back and Isabelle Drewelow, receiving their Ph.D. in SLA on May 15, 2009. Light refreshments will be provided. |
