events
2008
May 30
Speakers: Dr. Lisa Parkes, the Director of the German Language Program at UCLA, and Brenna Reinhart, a graduate student in Germanic Linguistics
"Virtual Study Abroad: Example of a Multi-media Program for 2nd-Year Language Students"
April 25-27
UC Language Consortium Conference on SLA Theoretical and Pedagogical Perspectives, UCSB
February 22-24
Writing Research Across Borders Conference, UCSB
February 22
Speaker: John Swales, University of Michigan
"Discoursal and lexicogrammatical features of American academic speech:
Gleanings from MICASE"
2007
November 16
Speaker: Professor Stefan Gries, Linguistics, UCSB
"Frequency effects in cognitive-functional linguistics: Some problems and some strategies"
October 26
Speaker: Professor Gabriele Kasper, University of Hawaii
"Staying on Task in Oral Proficiency Interviews"
April 20
Speaker: Professor Aneta Pavlenko, Temple University
"Learning to think for speaking in a second language"
March 12
Speaker: Professor Jin Sook Lee
(Co-authored with Laura Hill-Bonnet and Jesse Gillispie), Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
University of California, Santa Barbara
"Becoming bilingual: Creating interactional spaces to develop L2 proficiency"
February 1
Speaker: Professor Batia Laufer, University of Haifa
Form focused instruction and second language vocabulary acquisition.
2006
November 7
Speaker: Dr. Jeff MacSwan, Visiting Scholar from Arizona State University
Language Proficiency and Assessment: How Our Views of Language Affect Children
October 10
Speaker: Dr. Jeff MacSwan, Visiting Scholar from Arizona State University
Why Some Kids Do Better Than Others: The Role of Language in Theories of Academic Achievement Differences among English Learners
May 23
Speaker: Professor Joan Kelly Hall, Pennsylvania State University
On the Mutually Constitutive Nature of Language Teaching and Learning with Implications for SLA Theory and Practice
February 21
Speaker: Dr. Elena Skapoulli
Youth Identity in "Action": The Symbolisms and Uses of English loanwords among Greek-speaking teenagers in Cypress
2005
February 23
Speaker: Romy Taylor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Foreign Languages with the Rassias Method
May 31
UCSB's First Informal Applied Linguistics Roundtable
4:00-5:00 p.m. in Phelps 5309.
October 11
Speaker: Professor Stephen Krashen, Emeritus, University of Southern California
Are the Reading Wars Over?
2004
January 28
Speaker: Leo van Lier, Graduate School of Language & Educational Linguistics,
Max Kade Language and Technology Center, Monterey Institute of International
Studies
Sociocultural Theory and the Ecology of Language
Learning
April 20
Speaker: Janet Goodwin,
University of California, Los Angeles
Using Film Clips to Teach Pronunciation
May 24
Speaker: Professor Angela
Paiva Dionisio, Federal University of Pernambuco/ CAPES-Brazil
Multimodal Genres and Multiliteracy
Speaker: Maria Angélica Furtado da Cunha, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Grammar teaching: The viewpoint of functional linguistics
November 30
Speaker: Jean Marie Schultz, University of California, Santa Barbara
A Cognitive Perspective on Foreign Language Writing
February 27
Speaker: Klaus Brandl, University of Washington, Seattle
Using Video in Language Teaching
May 7
Speaker: Maria Victoria González Pagani, University of California, Santa Cruz
Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain. Re-purposing
Electronic Teaching Materials.
November 19
Speaker: Olga Kagan, University of California, Los Angeles
Heritage Speakers and Language Learning:
Towards a Proficiency-Based Curriculum Design
2002
May 14
Speaker: Dale A. Koike, University of Texas at Austin
Discourse analysis in the second language teaching context: A look at paired
interaction
March 7
Speaker: Claudia Finkbeiner, University of Kassel, Germany
The ABC's of Cultural Understanding: Raising
Awareness and Cultural Concepts
February 22
Speaker: Richard Schmidt, University of Hawaii
Consciousness, Attention and Awareness in
L2 Learning
2001
November 26
Speaker: Richard Kern, University of California, Berlekey
Reframing Communicative Language Teaching
through Literacy
July 9 - 13
UC Consortium for Language Learning and Teaching
Language
Technology Workshop, UCSB
May 25
Speaker: Gilberte Furstenberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bringing Culture to the Forefront of the
Foreign Language Class: The Cultura Project
May 1
Speaker: Claire Kramsch, University of California, Berlekey
Language as Culture
March 15
Speaker: Martha C. Pennington, University of Luton
Changing Relationships Between Context and Communication from Pre-Language
to Post-Language
2000
November 3
Speaker: Robert Blake, University of California, Davis
What
the Language Professionals Should Know about Technology