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CONFERENCE DATES: April 12th - April 14th 2007
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Patricia A. Duff
Patricia
A. Duff is Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the
University of British Columbia, where she has directed the Modern
Language Education program, the UBC Centre for Intercultural Language
Studies, and the TESL graduate program. Patsy’s research examines
second language (L2) acquisition and socialization, task-based
interaction, L2 education, and research methods in applied linguistics.
Her articles have appeared in a variety of international journals in
language education and applied linguistics and in nearly 20 edited
books. "Her books (in print or in press) include Case Study Research in
Applied Linguistics (Erlbaum), Inference and Generalizability in
Applied Linguistics (co-edited with Micheline Chalhoub-Deville and
Carol Chapelle, 2006, John Benjamins), and Language Socialization (Vol.
8, Encyclopedia of Language and Education, co-edited by Nancy
Hornberger, Springer). "
She serves on the editorial boards of several
journals (e.g., Applied Linguistics, CMLR, Annual Review of Applied
Linguistics, Modern Language Journal), edits the Research Issues
section of the TESOL Quarterly, chairs the Research Advisory Committee
of the TESOL International Research Foundation. She was Distinguished
Visiting Scholar at Monash University (Australia) in 2005,
Distinguished Visiting Professor at the American University in Cairo in
2003, and Visiting Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University,
in 1999.
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Rod Ellis
Rod
Ellis is currently Professor in the Department of Applied Language
Studies and Linguistics, University of Auckland, where he teaches
postgraduate courses on second language acquisition, individual
differences in language learning and task-based teaching. His
published work includes articles and books on second language
acquisition, language teaching and teacher education.
His books include
Understanding Second Language Acquisition (BAAL Prize 1986) and The
Study of Second Language Acquisition (Duke of Edinburgh prize 1995).
More recently, Task-Based Learning and Teaching early (2003) and (with
Gary Barkhuizen) Analyzing Learner Language in (2005) ), were
published by Oxford University Press.
He has also published several
English language textbooks, including Impact Grammar (Pearson:
Longman). He is also currently editor of the journal Language
Teaching Research. In addition to his current position in New
Zealand, he has worked in schools in Spain and Zambia and in
universities in the United Kingdom, Japan and the United States. He has
also conducted numerous consultancies and seminars throughout the world.
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James P. Lantolf
James P.
Lantolf is the Greer Professor in Language Acquisition and Applied
Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and Applied Language
Studies at Penn State University. He is also Director of the Center for
Language Acquisition and co-Director of CALPER (Center for Advanced
Language Proficiency Education and Research). He was President of the
American Association for Applied Linguistics (2004-05), and Program
Chair for AAAL’s Annual Conference (Portland, Oregon, May 2004).
He served as co-editor of Applied Linguistics (1995-2000). He has been
a visiting scholar at the universities of Auckland, Melbourne,
Nottingham, Rome, and Kassel.
His research focuses on Sociocultural
theory and second language learning and has published numerous articles
and book chapters in this area. He has also published a co-edited
volume (with G. Appel), Vygotskian Approaches to Second Language
Research. Ablex, 1994, an edited volume, Sociocultural Theory and
Second Language Learning. Oxford University Press, 2000, and a
co-authored book (with S. T. Thorne), Sociocultural theory and the
genesis of second language development. Oxford University Press,
2006.
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Alison Mackey
Alison Mackey is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown. She
has a range of research interests focusing on second language
acquisition, specifically the relationship between input, interaction,
corrective feedback and L2 learning, the role of attention in L2
learning, and task-based learning in the second language classroom. She
is also interested in second language research methodologies.
Her work
has been published in numerous scholarly journals including Studies in
Second Language Acquisition, Applied Linguistics, Language Learning,
the Modern Language Journal, Foreign Language Annals, Language and
Language Education, Language Teaching Research, System, the
International Review of Applied Linguistics, the AILA review, TESOL
Quarterly, and the International Journal of Educational Research, as
well as in edited collections published by Cambridge University Press,
John Benjamins and others.
She has published three books on research
methodology (co-authored with Susan M. Gass) Stimulated Recall
Methodology in Second Language Research (2000), Second Language
Research: Methodology and Design (2005) and Collecting Second and
Foreign Language Data (in press), all with Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Her new book Input, Interaction and Corrective Feedback in L2 Learning
is in progress and will be published by Oxford University Press.
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Merrill Swain
Dr. Merrill Swain is a Professor in the Department of Curriculum,
Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
of the University of Toronto. Her interests include bilingual
education (particularly French immersion education) and communicative
second language learning, teaching and testing. Her present
research focuses on the role of collaborative dialogue in second
language learning. She was President of the American Association
for Applied Linguistics in 1998-99, and is currently a VP of the
International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA).
She is
recipient of the 2003 Prix Robert Roy Award which is given to “an
outstanding Canadian second language educator who has been active in
the second language professional community in teaching, research,
writing and dedication to the improvement of second language teaching
and learning in Canada. She is also the recipient of AAAL’s 2004
Distinguished Scholarship and Service Award. Her most recent book
is one co-edited with Bygate and Skehan “Researching pedagogic
tasks: Second language learning, teaching and testing.
(Longman’s).
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Elaine Tarone
Elaine E. Tarone is Distinguished Teaching Professor in English as a
Second Language at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and
Director of the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition
(CARLA), which hosts the international biennial Language Teacher
Education Conference and the Language Immersion Conference. She was
President of the American Association for Applied Linguistics
(1991-1992), and Program Chair for AAAL’s first independent
annual conference (New York, NY 1991), which set the pattern for all
subsequent conferences. She served as co-editor of Applied Linguistics
(1984-1989).
Her primary, and long-time, research interest is
interlanguage variation, beginning in 1979 with ‘Interlanguage as
chameleon’ and producing numerous publications, including her
1988 book Variation in Interlanguage. Her recent publications
include ‘Fossilization, social context and language play’
(Han & Odlin 2006), ‘Alphabetic print literacy and processing
of oral corrective feedback in L2 interaction’ (Mackey 2006), and
the co-edited book The Interaction of Social and Cognitive Factors in
SLA (Cascadilla).
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CONFERENCE DATES: April 12th - April 14th 2007
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