8th BAAL Language Learning and Teaching Special Interest Group Conference
BEYOND THE BEGINNER: SUSTAINING SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING
Venue: University of Oxford, Department of Education (OUDE, www.education.ox.ac.uk)
& Worcester College (www.worc.ox.ac.uk)
Date: July 4-
Organising Committee: Applied Linguistics Research group
Confirmed plenary speakers for the conference are:
Dr. Ema Ushioda (University of Warwick)
Dr. Carmen Muñoz (University of Barcelona)
Dr. Rob Schoonen (University of Amsterdam)
The Applied Linguistics Research Group at Oxford invites abstracts for papers and posters for the 8th BAAL Learning and Teaching SIG conference, entitled BEYOND THE BEGINNER: SUSTAINING SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING
Particular consideration will be given to papers that explore questions such as:
- How do language learners make progress in the four language skills?
- What does research tell us about language learning motivation?
- What do we know about how different young language learners are from older language learners?
- How can second language attrition be countered?
- How can practitioners contribute to local research and theorist/researchers contribute to local practice?
Submissions are encouraged from researchers in all areas of language teaching, including, but by no means restricted to, English language teaching. Research students investigating areas relevant to the conference theme are warmly welcomed to contribute to the conference.
Papers will be 20 minutes long with 10 minutes for questions. Dedicated space and time will be given to poster presentations. Abstracts (up to 250 words) should be submitted by email attachment (Word files) to jess.briggs@education.ox.ac.uk. Queries about the conference should also be sent to this email address.
Please follow these procedures for your submission:
- Submit two files, one containing title (up to 10 words), abstract, and details of the author(s) (name(s), affiliation, mailing address and email address) and one containing title and an anonymous abstract (max 250 words). Files must be sent using the following format: first initial_last name_abstract 1 and first initial_last name_abstract 2
- Also please provide a shorter abstract of no more than 50 words for use in the conference program
- Under the title in each full abstract, please give four keywords which summarise the paper/poster.
- Please specify under the abstract whether you wish to present a paper or a poster.
The deadline for submissions is Friday 9 March 2012
Registration opens on Monday 12 March 2012
Conference fees are: £150 BAAL members, £170 non-
Accommodation (B&B) for July 4th has also been reserved at Worcester College (£70 B&B) and is arranged through the conference committee.
2010 Proceedings
Proceedings of the LLT SIG 2010 6th Conference now available:
Issues in Second Language Proficiency
Edited by Alessandro G Benati
Pub Date: 10 Jun 2009
ISBN: 0826435157
ISBN13: 9780826435156
hardcover (256 Pages)
Publisher: London: Continuum
2011 (7th) Conference
Theorising practice and practising theory: developing local pedagogies in language teaching
Thursday, 7th and Friday, 8th July 2011
Centre for Language Education Research at Aston (CLERA), Aston University, Birmingham, UK
http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/news-
2010 (6th) Conference
8-
2009 (5th) Conference
2008 (4th) Conference
List of Members’ Interests
Ros Mitchell
r.f.mitchell[@]soton.ac.uk
corpus approaches to SLA; FL learning and teaching; criticality development in higher education
Centre for Applied Language Research
Costas Gabrielatos
c.gabrielatos[@]lancaster.ac.uk
corpora and language teaching, ESP/EAP, language awareness, pedagogical grammar
Siân Etherington
s.etherington[@]salford.ac.uk
the teaching of grammar, SLA, English for Academic Purposes, student perceptions, beliefs and identities
Marion Williams
m.d.williams[@]exeter.ac.uk
psychological aspects of language learning and teaching
Suzanne Graham
s.j.graham[@]reading.ac.uk
Learner strategies, motivation, listening comprehension
Marina Mozzon-
m.mozzon-
Computer-
Emma Marsden
em502[@]york.ac.uk
Instructed and non-
Karen Roehr
kroehr[@]essex.ac.uk
Second language learning from a cognitive-
Michael Grenfell
grenfell[@]soton.ac.uk
Second Language Acquisition, Learner Strategies, Cognitive Theory, Communicative Language Teaching, Culture, Teacher Education, Language Policy, Bilingualism.
Keith Faulkner
kfedpubservices[@]blueyonder.co.uk
Dissemination of latest summary research findings about language learning to tutors in ITE
Do Coyle
Do.coyle[@]nottingham.ac.uk
technology enhanced learning, CLIL (content & language integrated learning), FL learning communities (strategic classrooms, pupil voice).
Teaching and Learning Observatories
Benedetta Bassetti
benedetta[@]ntlworld.com
SLA, psycholinguistics, second language writing systems, bilingualism and cognition
Jim Coleman
j.a.coleman[@]open.ac.uk
university language learning, including study abroad, policy and practice, applications of technology, pedagogy, and employability
Nick Andon
nick.andon[@]kcl.ac.uk
teacher knowledge and expertise, teacher education, materials, task-
Alessandro Benati
a.benati[@]gre.ac.uk
SLA, input processing and processing instruction
Dong Ye
dy.soton[@]gmail.com
Computer Mediated Language Learning with Second Language Acquisition
Richard C. Smith
R.C.Smith[@]warwick.ac.uk
History of language teaching; Cultural issues in ELT; Language learner autonomy; Teacher education and development
Gaelle Planchenault
French Cinema, French sociolinguistics, Conversation and Discourse Analysis (re. media), Language and Gender, Interlanguage pragmatics
Agneta M-
amls2[@]le.ac.uk
Tense-
Awareness
Florence Myles
florence.myles[@]ncl.ac.uk
Second language acquisition; linguistic theory; language processing;
French; Universal Grammar; L2 corpora; CHILDES
Thomas D Baldwin
thomas.baldwin[@]unimi.it
or
thomasbaldwin[@]tiscali.it
Interlanguage; Translating and SLA processes.
Nadya Yakovchuk
n.yakovchuk[@]hotmail.co.uk
EFL, EAP, sociolinguistics, promotion of academic integrity and plagiarism prevention
Gin Samuda
virginia.samuda[@]btinternet.com
Tasks in second language learning; task implementation and the role of the teacher; task design
Gee Macrory
g.macrory[@]zen.co.uk
learning modern languages in primary and secondary classrooms; language
teacher education; early bilingualism
Frank Romano
f.romano[@]lancaster.ac.uk
Adult SL learning and teaching, adult cognition and developmental linguistics;
instructed versus naturalistic contexts of adult L2 learning.
Tony Deyes
Tonyddd3[@]hotmail.com
Discourse analysis in language teaching; critical discourse analysis;
socio-
Language Learning & Teaching SIG
