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The First

UC Language Consortium Conference on Language Learning and Teaching

University of California, Irvine

March 8-10, 2002

 

Overview of Events

Detailed Schedule of Events

Presentation Abstracts

Alphabetical List of Presenters

Restaurant Information

Travel and Parking Directions

 

Hosted and Sponsored by the

UC Consortium on Language Learning and Teaching

Special thanks for the additional support of the UCI School of Humanities

 

 

 


Overview of Events

Friday, March 8, 2002

Place:

Country Inn, Irvine

5:00-6:00

 

Conference registration outside Essex East/West

 

6:00-7:00

Keynote Address by

 

Heidi Byrnes (Georgetown University)

 

Essex East/West

 

7:00-9:00

Reception

 

(Appetizer buffet; cash bar)

 

Pool Area

 


 

Saturday, March 9, 2002

Place:

Humanities Instructional Building (HIB)

110

Murray Krieger Hall (MK) 126

Humanities Hall (HH) 247

8:30-10:30

Conference registration (outside HIB)

9:00-9:30

Session 1

Language and Culture

Session 2

Internet-Mediated Language Learning I

 

9:30-10:00

Session 3

Aspects of Interlanguage I

10:00-10:30

 

10:30-11:00

Session 4

Panel: Technology in Language Learning and Teaching

Session 5

Language Testing I

 

11:00-11:30

11:30-12:00

12:00-1:00

LUNCH

1:00-1:30

Session 6

Facilitating Cultural Learning & Literacy

Session 7

Heritage Learner I

 

Session 8

Teaching and Learning Phonology & Vocabulary

1:30-2:00

2:00-2:30

2:30-3:00

Session 9

Internet-Mediated  Language Learning II

Session 10

Heritage Learner II

Session 11

Aspects of Interlanguage II

3:00-3:30

3:30-4:00

4:00-4:30

Session 12

Panel:

Reading the Other…

Session 13

Language Testing II

Session 14

Learning and Teaching Grammar

4:30-5:00

5:00-5:30

 

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Sunday, March 10, 2002

Place:

HIB 135

9:00-12:30

Post-conference workshop:

Investigating foreign language classrooms: A practical introduction to planning research on language teaching and learning

conducted by Lourdes Ortega, Georgia State University

 

 

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Detailed Schedule of Events

Friday, March 8, 2002

Country Inn and Suites, Costa Mesa

 

 

Registration

5:00-6:00pm

Essex East/West

 

Keynote

6:00-7:00pm

Essex East/West

Heidi Byrnes, Georgetown University

What no methods course means: Toward an ethnography of foreign languages in higher education

Reception

7:00-9:00pm

Pool Area

 


 

Saturday, March 9, 2002

University of California, Irvine, Humanities Plaza

HIB = Humanities Instructional Building

MKH = Murray Krieger Hall

HH = Humanities Hall

 

Event

Time

Place

Description

Registration

8:30-10:00

Outside the Humanities Instructional Building (HIB)

 

Session 1

9:00-10:30

HIB 110

Perceptions of Language and Culture

 

 

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1.       Timothy McGovern (UCSB) and Julie Spencer-Rodgers (UC Berkeley)

      Prejudice toward Latinos/Hispanics: Ethnolinguistic factors, cultural stereotypes, and Spanish language learning

2.       Claire Kramsch (UCB)

      The multilingual subject

3.       Meryl Siegal (UCB) and Shigeko Okamoto (CSU Fresno)

      Gender ideologies versus learner realities: Reconceptualizing the teaching and learning of Japanese

Session 2

9:00-10:00

MK 126

Internet-Mediated Language Learning I

 

 

 

 

 

1.       Sirpa Tuomainen (UC Berkeley), Tuija Lehtonen (Indiana U), and Anu Kinnunen (Jyväskylä U, Finland)

Kuka Tapaa/Tappaa Kenet?  Who will meet/kill whom? Second Year Finnish networking between five U.S. universities

2.       Grit Liebscher  and Mathias Schulze (U of Waterloo, Canada)

Conferencing tools in ab initio language courses

Session 3

9:30-10:30

HH 247

Aspects of Interlanguage I

 

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1.       Eve Zyzik (UCD)

      Thinking in SVO: discourse competence and word order in L2 narratives

2.       Robin Scarcella (UCI)

      Does instructional feedback make a difference?  An analysis of verb tense in the writing of advanced English learners


 

Session 4

10:30-12:00

HIB 110

Panel: Technology in Language Learning and Teaching

 

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Session Leader: Dorothy Chun (UCSB)

1.       Françoise Sorgen-Goldschmidt (UCB)

      First experience teaching with a website and a data projector.

2.       Tin Pham (UCLA)

      Technology in language teaching for Vietnamese heritage learners:  Some basic steps

3.       Tonia DeChicchio (UCSC)

      Enriching the novel "La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa" (the Silent Duchess) with a Web-based application

4.       David Fahy (UCD)

      Tasks and tools on the computer for written Japanese

5.       Simone Clay (UCD)

      Carmen and technology

Session 5

10:30-12:00

MK 126

Issues in Language Testing

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.       George C. Bunch, Guadalupe Valdes, and Rachel A. Lotan

      The challenges of measuring academic oral proficiency

2.       Jean Marie Schultz (UCB)

      Computer assisted testing in French at the intermediate level: Complexity in simplicity

3.       Mark Kaiser and Lisa Little (UCB)

      Computer-based formative testing

Lunch Hour

12:00-1:00 (Click here for a list of restaurants within walking distance)

Session 6

1:00-2:30

HIB 110

Facilitating Cultural Learning and Literacy

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.       Cori Crane, Janel Galvanek, Olga Liamkina, and Marianna Ryshina-Pankova (Georgetown U)

Genre: Where art thou?  Tracing the role of genre in a foreign language curriculum

2.       Theresa A. Antes (U of Florida)

      Across the Great Divide: Making literature accessible to beginning language students

3.      David Brenner (Kent State U)

      Integrating language learning and cultural inquiry in the beginning foreign language classroom: The case of Run Lola Run


 

Session 7

1:00-2:30

MK 126

The Heritage Learner I

 

 

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1.       Kathleen J. Martin (UCD)

      Ehanni Wicowoyanke: Illuminating language and culture in a Lakota narrative

2.       Robert W. Train (San Leandro HS and UCB)

      Language standards, standard language and the culture of standardization: some implications for foreign language and heritage language education

3.      Linda Trinh Pham (UCB)

      Identity in a Vietnamese native language (re)learning classroom

Session 8

1:00-2:30

HIB 137

Approaches to Learning and Teaching Phonology and Vocabulary

 

 

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1.       Patrick Rebuschat (UCSB)

      Focusing on phonology: Focus-on-form in the teaching of L2 phonology

2.       Stephen Wilson (UCLA)

      A computer program to assist in learning a morphologically complex language

3.       Melissa A. Stewart (Western Kentucky U) and Inma Pertusa (U of Kentucky)

      Gains in vocabulary recognition with same language closed captioned films

Session 9

2:30-4:00

HIB 110

Internet-Mediated  Language Learning II

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.       Richard Kern and Owen McGrath (UCB)

      From language play to identity play on the internet

2.       Caroline Nash (UCD)

      Technology as a tool in teaching L2 gestures in the L2

3.       Robert Blake (UCD) and Maria Victoria Gonzalez Pagani (UCSC)

      Two heads are better than one: On-line L2 chatting and vocabulary growth

Session 10

2:30-4:00

MK 126

The Heritage Learner II

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.       Gyanam Mahajan (UCLA)

      Predictability and learning: Heritage speakers learn to read and write

2.       Maria L. Ruiz (Stanford U)

      From theory to handbook: Language, identity, and the teaching of Spanish as a heritage language

3.      Debra Friedman and Olga Kagan (UCLA)

      An analysis of writing of Russian heritage speakers


 

Session 11

2:30-4:00

HH 247

Aspects of Interlanguage II

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.       Margaret Lubbers-Quesada (Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro, Mexico)

      The interaction of semantic features in the development of the preterit/imperfect distinction in Spanish as a second language

2.       Carlee Arnett and Susannah Martin (UCD)

      Auxiliary selection in the present perfect by L2 students of German

3.       Haiyong Liu (UCLA)

      The acquisition of Mandarin reflexives by English speakers

Session 12

4:00-5:30

HIB 110

Panel: Reading the Other: Teaching Literature and Culture in Translation

 

 

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Session Leader: Anne Rothe (UCLA)

1.       Anne Rothe (UCLA)

      After my first time: 10 questions on how to teach literature in translation

2.       Stephanie Hammer (UCR)

      Writing, reading, and acting world literature

3.        Michelle Bloom (UCR)

      Teaching world literature in translation... and back to the original

4.       Susanne Kelley (UCLA)

      The role of context: Introducing the culture of text and the text of culture

5.       Christopher Bolton (UCR)

      Setting the text: Teaching Japanese literature with music

6.       Maggi Ivanova (U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

      Translating Miss Julie: Cross-cultural analysis of Strindberg's text and a Swedish, a South African, and an American production: The story of a writing assignment on staging the other