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The 11th Annual Temple University Applied Linguistics Colloquium

co-sponsored by the JALT Tokyo Chapter and Pragmatics SIG

Date:
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Time:
9:10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
(Registration and reception from 9:10, opening ceremony 9:45)
Place:
Temple University, Japan Campus, Azabu Hall (access)
Colloquium Fee:
1,500 yen
Registration:
3F
Contact:
For further information, please contact Megumi Kawate-Mierzejewska at mierze@tuj.ac.jp

Please see the PDF file below for the colloquium schedule and presentation details.


Plenary Speaker: (10:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.)
Professor Donald Carroll
Professor, Department of Language and Culture
Shikoku Gakuin University
"Embracing the body in second language interaction and learning"
This presentation begins with a general introduction to the subject of the talk ("embodiment in interaction") before moving on to how embodiment is relevant to second language learning. The talk will end by looking at data from an ongoing research project involving language learning in an "augmented" (multimodal) environment.


Plenary Speaker: (4:00 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.)
Professor Peter Robinson
Professor, the Department of English
Aoyama Gakuin University
"Task demands, speech production, interaction and L2 learning"
This presentation is an introduction to cognitive task analysis and a description of recent findings from research into the effects of task demands on second language speech production, interaction and learning.


For more information, please contact us at the Tokyo Center.
E-mail: tesol@tuj.ac.jp / Tel: 03-5441-9842