PAST EVENT - Eurosla Workshop: Current Perspectives on Second Language Acquisition
Friday 25 February 2011
Birkbeck, University of London
Room 101 Clore Building, 25-27 Torrington Square, London WC1E 7JL
5pm-7:30pm
The presenters are veteran researchers and all are member of the Executive Committee of the European Second Language Association (Eurosla) (www.eurosla.org)
Programme:
5 – 5.10pm Welcome and introduction (Jean-Marc Dewaele, President).
5.10- 5.35pm Martin Howard, University College Cork, “Acquiring L2 socio-phonological variation: The case of French liaison”.
5.35-6pm Camilla Bardel & Christine Lindvist, Stockholm University, "Developing a lexical profiler for spoken French and Italian L2. The role of frequency, cognates and thematic vocabulary".
6-6.25pm Rebekah Rast, The American University in Paris, "Extracting words from the L2 speech stream: preliminary data from a first exposure study of L2 Polish".
6.25- 6.50pm Leah Roberts, Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen & Radboudt University, “Processing tense-aspect violations in L2 English”.
6.50pm-7.15 pm Florence Myles, University of Newcastle, “Learning French from ages 5, 7 and 11: an investigation into starting ages, rates and routes of learning amongst early foreign language learners”.
7.15-7.30 : Final questions and discussion.
