In Search of the "Zen" of Second Language Acquisition: Examining the Learner at the Crossroads of Language, Culture and Identity
Organizer
The Second Language Research Forum
Plenary Speakers
*Bonny Norton, Professor of linguistics and distinguished university scholar from University of British Columbia, US
*John Swales, Professor of linguistics; Co-Director of the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English, University of Michigan, US
Participants
300 teachers, researchers, and other language professionals
Topic areas
*Biological processes and effects
*Cognitive processes and effects
*Neurological processes and effects
*Developmental sequences
*Environmental influences
*Socio-cultural influences
*Linguistic analyses
*Pragmatic analyses
*Individual differences
*Research methodology
*Use of learner-corpora
*Evaluation, assessment, and testing
Organizer information
The Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) is a prestigious and internationally renowned conference which brings together researchers in second language acquisition (SLA) from all over the world. It is the premier conference on SLA in North America providing a venue for established scholars and graduate students to present work on a wide variety of theoretical and empirical issues in SLA including cognitive, linguistic and sociolinguistic SLA research conducted in both laboratory and classroom settings.
Contact
email: slrf@u.washington.edu
For further information, please refer to http://students.washington.edu/slrf/.
