UC Consortium for Language Learning and Teaching

The 4th
UC Language Consortium Conference
on Theoretical & Pedagogical Perspectives

April 25-27, 2008
University of California, Santa Barbara

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Hosted and Sponsored by the
UC Consortium for Language Learning & Teaching

With additional, much appreciated support from the UCSB College of Letters and Science and the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts; the UCSB Departments of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies; French and Italian; German, Slavic and Semitic Studies; Linguistics, Spanish and Portuguese; the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education; and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.; the UC Davis Second Language Acquisition, Director Travis Bradley; the UC Irvine Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures.


I would like to express my special gratitude to Dean David Marshall, Director Robert Blake, Associate Director Kathleen Dillon, and most notably to Assistant Director Karen Callahan, without whom this conference could not have happened. My colleagues at UCSB have also generously offered their help: J. O. Davis (Instructional Development), Lisa Daniels, Myriam Gonzales-Smith, Grace Lapinid, Margaret MacRae, Laura Marques-Pascual, Viola Miglio, Chikako Shinagawa, Hiroko Sugawara, Hsiao-jung Yu. ~Dorothy Chun, UCSB