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)
One of the conferences we have been involved in organizing: CIRD 5.
Materials from a workshop we hosted on “Corpora and SLA”
Presentation slides from a colloquium we were involved in at the 2009 AAAL conference.
A conference we helped organize at the University of Michigan in 2008: LaCAS.