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Title: The Comprehension of Relative Clauses by Romance Learners of English: Syntactic and Semantic Influences
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The Comprehension of Relative Clauses by Romance Learners of English: Syntactic and Semantic Influences
By Marie-Anne C.M. Duffeler
Published by LOT Publications
Relative clauses have fascinated linguists and psycholinguists for a long time because of their syntactic complexity and their high frequency in language. This dissertation examines the comprehension of syntactically and semantically varied relative clauses by learners of English having French or Italian as L1. It shows first that the L2 comprehension of relative clauses follows a gradient of difficulty, but that the latter does not match Keenan and Comrie’s (1977) Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy. Second, it reveals that this comprehension is affected by syntactic as well as semantic variables. In particular, it is influenced by the syntactic function of the relative clause, the syntactic placement of the preposition in oblique relative clauses, and the semantic content of the preposition used in oblique relative clauses. Finally it fails to demonstrate evidence of cross-linguistic transfer. These results lead to the conclusion that theoretical accounts of relative clause comprehension based only on syntax cannot be satisfactory, that methodological precision is essential in the study of relative clauses, and finally that L2 learners may acquire native-like parsing strategies.
Visit the publisher's website at https://www.lotpublications.nl/the-comprehension-of-relative-clauses-by-romance-learners-of-english-syntactic-and-semantic-influences
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Title: Book: Third Age Learners of Foreign Languages
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From http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?K=9781783099405
Third Age Learners of Foreign Languages
Edited by Danuta Gabrys-Barker
Published by Multilingual Matters
People are increasingly reaching the so-called third age, a period when seniors search for a renewed purpose to life and spend time undertaking activities that they consider motivating, such as the learning of a foreign language. The study of language learning among aging populations has become a fast-growing area of research and this book is one of the first attempts to bring together what we know about this age group and their profiles as foreign language learners. Contributors to the volume discuss the issue from various psychological, neurological and pedagogical perspectives. Each of the chapters provides an updated theoretical background and offers some initial conclusions on the basis of original empirical studies carried out. Chapters challenge certain familiar preconceptions and assumptions about senior learners, offer the reader ideas for future research in this under-studied area and provide some practical advice for applying the proposals and solutions offered in real foreign language third-age classrooms.
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Source: Multilingual Matters
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Title: Call for Proposals: Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Convention
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From http://www.aseees.org/convention/cfp
The 50th Annual ASEEES Convention will be held at the Boston Marriott Copley Place from Thursday, December 6, to Sunday, December 9, 2018. The Convention theme is "Performance."
Types of submissions: panel, roundtable, book discussion roundtable, individual paper, lightning round presentation, and affiliate group meeting request.
The deadline for all submissions is February 28, 2018.
View the full call for proposals at http://www.aseees.org/convention/cfp
Source: ASEEES
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Title: Call for Papers: 3rd Northwest Conference on Japanese Pedagogy
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From the JTIT-L listserv:
We are pleased to announce that the 3rd Northwest Conference on Japanese Pedagogy will be held at the University of Washington on May 12-13, 2018.
Conference Theme: Content Based Language Instruction (CBLI): Implementation and Effectiveness 「CBLI: 実践と効果」
Keynote speaker: Professor Masako Douglas (California State University, Long Beach)
We invite submissions for presentations on any area of Japanese pedagogy, and those related to the conference theme are especially welcome.
Presentations should be 30-minutes long with an additional 10 minutes allotted for discussion, in English or Japanese.
Please e-mail abstracts in MS Word format with the following information to inishi@uw.edu by March 18, 2018. Please also specify the subject line
as “NWCJP Abstract.”
1. Name, affiliation, position, and contact information of the presenter
2. Title of the presentation both in English and Japanese
3. Abstract in the language that will be used for presentation (approximately 300 words in English or 700 characters in Japanese)
4. Necessary equipment other than a data projector
Notification of acceptance will be sent by the end of March.
Best Regards,
Japanese Program
University of Washington
Matsuda. Call for Papers: Northwest Conference on Japanese Pedagogy. JTIT-L listserv (JTIT-L@LISTS.PSU.EDU, 11 Jan 2018).
Source: JTIT-L
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Title: 26th Annual Two-Way Bilingual Immersion Conference
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From https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=2027440
The Association of Two-Way and Dual Language Education cordially invites you to join as a member of the Two-Way and Dual Language network to this year's 26th Annual Two-Way Bilingual Immersion Conference in Long Beach, CA, February 1 – February 3, 2018. This year’s conference promises to be an exciting gathering of speakers, experts, and program planners who will work together to share the most current research, practices, and trends in second and third language development. If you are a teacher, administrator, teacher on special assignment (site or district level) or central office administrator working in Two-Way or Dual Language, this conference is designed uniquely for you. ATDLE works closely with new people to the field of TWBI Education and so if you are considering opening up a new program, come and study the program components needed to launch your new program.
Visit the conference website at https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=2027440 to learn more and to register.
Source: ATDLE
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Title: 7th Annual Southern New England Conference for Dual Language Programs
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From https://www.massmabe.org/event-2623515
7th Annual Southern New England Conference for Dual Language Programs
March 24, 2018
Somerville, Massachusetts
Making Connections: Celebrating Dual Language Education
Keynote Speakers: Wayne P. Thomas, Ph.D. and Virginia P. Collier, Ph.D.
Visit the conference website at https://www.massmabe.org/event-2623515 to register. Early registration ends January 31.
Source: Massachusetts Association for Bilingual Education
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Title: Colorado Association for Bilingual Education 2018 Winter Conference
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From http://www.cocabe.org/empowering-voices-2018-conference/
Empowering Voices 2018 Conference
February 1-2
Denver
Keynotes include
“Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies” by H. Samy Alim, Director, Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Language at UCLA and author of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World
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“Three decades of advocacy in Colorado” by Dr. Sheila Shannon, Associate Professor, Linguistically Diverse Education, CU Denver. Her research includes diversity and social justice focused on Mexican immigrants to the U.S. and dual language education, particularly how the asymmetric status of the two groups brought together in dual language programs can create inequality or present opportunities.
For more information go to http://www.cocabe.org/empowering-voices-2018-conference/
Source: CABE
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Title: Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association
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The American Comparative Literature Association's 2018 Annual Meeting will take place at UCLA in Los Angeles, California, March 29th through April 1st. For more details go to https://www.acla.org/annual-meeting
About the ACLA: “In its largest sense, comparative literature promotes the study of intercultural relations that cross national boundaries, multicultural relations within a particular society, and the interactions between literature and other forms of human activity, including the arts, the sciences, philosophy, and cultural artifacts of all kinds.
“The members of the ACLA are thus joined not by a national, linguistic, or methodological investment held in common, but by the shared condition of teaching and writing across nations, languages, and cultures--and hence by their lively interest in comparison as both a theoretical and a practical matter.”
Source: ACLA
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Title: Webinar: Russian Flagship Practices: Intensive Language Learning for Students of All Majors
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From https://actr.wildapricot.org/event-2787815
Russian Flagship Practices: Intensive Language Learning for Students of All Majors
January 25, 2018
The Language Flagship, an initiative of the National Security Education Program (thelanguageflagship.org), is a national initiative to change the way Americans learn languages through a groundbreaking approach to language education. Successful graduates of the Russian Flagship Program will have developed Superior-level language and cultural proficiency in Russian and can apply that proficiency to their field of choice.
The goal of the Language Flagship is to create a replicable program model that can be implemented for any language on any campus. In this webinar, following up on a two-part article in the ACTR Letter, Karen Evans-Romaine will describe the main features of the Russian Flagship Program at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and talk about ways in which aspects of Flagship programs can be implemented in other Russian programs.
For more details and to register, go to https://actr.wildapricot.org/event-2787815
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Title: Summer MA Program in Japanese Pedagogy
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From http://ealac.columbia.edu/program/language-programs/japanese/jlp-summerprograms/
Columbia University's Summer M. A. Program in Japanese Pedagogy offers thirty students the opportunity to earn an MA in Japanese Pedagogy over three years of summer courses.
For full details about this program go to http://ealac.columbia.edu/program/language-programs/japanese/jlp-summerprograms/ or https://gsas.columbia.edu/degree-programs/ma-programs/japanese-pedagogy
Source: Columbia University
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