Second Language Acquisition and Research: Focus on Form and Function.
Organizer
Second Language Research Forum
Invited speakers
*Gabriele Kasper, Professor of second language studies，University of Hawaii at Manoa
*Silvina Montrul, Associate Professor of Spanish and linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
*James Purpura, Associate Professor of language and education,Teachers College, Columbia University
*Lydia White, Professor of linguistics, McGill University
Topic areas
*Understanding the interlanguage systems of heritage language learners
*L2 acquisition of the nominal domain
*Interfaces between second language acquisition and language testing: past, present, and future directions for research and theory-building
*Conversation analysis in second language acquisition
Background information
The Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) is an internationally renowned conference that 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
For more information, please visit http://www.uiuc.edu/.
