Colloquium at AAAL 2009

We were involved in a colloquium on “SLA and the inseparability of vocabulary and syntax” at the 2009 meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) in Denver, Colorado — Ute as co-convener of the colloquium and Nick, Matt and Ute as co-presenters of a colloquium paper. Here is the colloquium schedule with links to the presentation slides.

1. Introduction (Ute Römer & Stefanie Wulff)

2. Constructions and chunks in learner language: Experimental and corpus-linguistic evidence (Stefanie Wulff & Stefan T. Gries)

3. What are the pedagogical implications of a phraseological approach to language? (Fanny Meunier)

4. Measuring the formulaicity of language (Nick C. Ellis, Matthew Brook O’Donnell, Ute Römer, Stefan T. Gries & Stefanie Wulff)

5. Lexico-constructional variability, task demands and assessment of second language spoken performance (Peter Robinson & Daisuke Nakamura)

6. Formulaic language: What language models must explain (Norbert Schmitt)

7. Discussion (Randi Reppen)

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