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2009
The 3rd Biennial International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching. Lancaster University, UK.
Goo, J., Hama, M., & Sachs, R. (2009, September). Interactional feedback and working memory capacity.Georgetown University Round Table (GURT 2009)
Balkan, A. Effects of Structured Input and Explicit Information on L2 Idiom Acquisition: Sanz &Morgan-Short (2004)Extended [Co-presented with Jeong-eun Kim]
Goo, J. Implicit and explicit corrective feedback and working memory capacity.
2008
American Anthropological Association (AAA), San Francisco, CA
Rachael Allbritten. "Where do we draw the urban/rural border?: Personal identity and intra-community linguistic variation." Panel presentation for 'On the urban/rural border: language and identities in a global landscape'. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Washington, DC
Jaemyung Goo & Grañena, G. (2008, April). Working memory and reactivity. Jennifer Sclafani. Talking back to Newt Gingrich: Multimodal constructions of language ideology on Youtube.com.
Corinne Seals. “Te Espero: Varying Child Bilingual Abilities and the Effects on Family Dynamics in Mexican Immigrant Families”.
Arizona Anthropology and Linguistics Symposium, (AZANLI 2008), Tuscon, AZ
Blake Howald. Variation of Spatial Reference in the Institutionalized Narrative of a Serial Offender: Linguistic Evidence for Cognitive Mapping as a Reflection of Environmental Offense Behavior.AILA (Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée), Essen, Germany
Rebecca Sachs & Mika Hama. (2008, August). Elderly Latino immigrants learning English in the US: Interactional feedback, working memory, and modified output.Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD)
Ashley Fidler & Anna Babarczy. (2008, November). Expanding Locative Case Marking beyond Spatial Contexts in Child Hungarian.Building Bridges in the City and Beyone: Languages, Communities, and Cultures, Conference at the University of Maryland, Baltimore
Kathleen Williams. Maintaining a Rural Dialect in the City: Past Be Configuration Among the Lumbee Indians in Baltimore.Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium/International Association for Language Learning Technology (CALICO/IALLT), San Francisco
Rebecca Sachs, Dr. Markus Dickinson and Yunkyoung Kang (other collaborators: Soojeong Eom and Chong Min Lee). Integrating ICALL into synchronous CMC.
Chronos 8: International Conference on Mood and Modality, Austin, TX
Justin R. Kelly. The syntax and semantics of infinitival yet constructions.East Coast Organization of Language Testers Annual Conference, Washington, DC
Justin R. Kelly. The development and validation of the Pre-DLAB. (With John Lett, Charles Stansfield, George Reinhart, and Carolyn Fidelman)Georgetown University Round Table (GURT 2008)
Leslie Cochrane. Creating Close Sisters in the Story World.Ingrid Stockburger. Narrating the everyday?: Do-it-yourself autobiography in personal zines.
International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA) 2008, Essen, Germany
Blake Howald. Cross Cultural Jurisprudential Perspectives on Expert Testimony: The Role of the Linguist as Educator in the Administration of Justice, Symposium ParticipantInternational Conference on East Asian Linguistics 2 (ICEAL), Vancouver, Canada
Park, Jong Un. “Decomposition of the Verb –iss in Korean.”International Conference on Multilingualism, Universitat Jaume I (Castelló)
Sheena Shah. Negotiating multilingual identities in interaction: The Südwesters of Namibia. Paper to be presented.18th International Congress of Linguists (CIL), Seoul, South Korea
Park, Jong Un. “A Movement Approach to Case Alternations in Korean.”International Society of Developmental Psychobiology
Ashley Fidler, Zack, E., Nathanson, D., & Barr, R. (2008, November). Television viewing patterns in 6- to 18-month olds: the role of caregiver scaffolding and interactional quality.International Society of Infant Studies
Zack, E., Fidler, A., Carr, C., Lee, J., Reyes, J. & Barr, R. (2008, March). Television viewing patterns in 6- and 9-month-olds: The role of infant-parent interactions and joint attention.Japanese and Korean Linguistics Conference 18 (JK 18), New York, NY
Park, Jong Un. “Deriving Three Interpretations of the Verb –iss in Korean.”Linguistics Society of America (LSA)
Hwang, Sun Hee. “The differential effects of corrective feedback on two target structures in L2 Korean.” Poster presentation.Modern Slavic Culture Academic Conference, UC Santa Barbara
Corinne Seals. “Life in Gay Russia”.New Ways of Analyzing Variation 37 (NWAV 37), Houston, TX
Patrick Callier. "H%, L%, and Everything between: Phonetic and Phonological Variation in Mandarin Intonation."Patrick Callier. "The social meaning of released /t/ among US politicians: insights from production and perception." With Rob Podesva, Jermay Jamsu, and Jessica Heitman.
Blake Howald. "Variation of Victim Reference in the Construction of Serial Murderer Identity."
Rubin, Rebecca. “Stance taking as identity work: Attributed, accreted, and adjusted stances taken by an intercultural couple.”
Second Language Research Forum, Univeristy of Hawaii at Manoa
Hwang, Sun Hee. “Differential effects of corrective feedback on two structures in L2 Korean.”Symposium about Language and Society (SALSA) XVI, Austin, TX
Jennifer Sclafani. Newt Gingrich, bilingualism, and 'ghetto' language: Online constructions language ideology.Sociolinguistics Symposium (SS) 17, Amsterdam
Jennifer Sclafani. The intertextual construction of language attitudes and ideologies on a U.S. internet discussion board.Ingrid Stockburger. Narrating self, narrating community: Zine discovery narratives in sociolinguistic interviews.
Undergraduate Research Colloquium, University of California, Santa Barbara
Corinne Seals. “Te Espero: Varying Child Bilingual Abilities and the Effects on Family Dynamics in Mexican Immigrant Families" (Poster).University of California Undergraduate Conference on Slavic and East/Central European Studies
Corinne Seals. “From Russification to Ukrainisation: A Survey of Language Politics in Ukraine”.
2007
American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
Amy Firestone. Runakuna Hatarinqaku (‘The People Will Rise Up’): Revitalizing Quechua in Urban Ayacucho, Peru.
Jaemyong Goo. (with Gisela Granena) The effects of implicit and explicit instruction: A computer-based study.
Grañena, G., Azeredo, F., & Goo, J.. Implicit and explicit learning: A computer-based study.
Natalia Jacobsen. Individual Identity and the Acquisition of Second Languages and Dialects. (poster)
Jennifer Sclafani. Tracing the Intertextual Origins of Public Opinion: The 1996 Oakland Ebonics Controversy in The New York Times
Barbara Soukup. Investigating Listeners' Perception of Austrian Standard-Dialect Shifts as a Basis for Discourse Analysis
Bo-Ram Suh. Output, learner awareness and L2 development.
Heather Weger-Guntharp. Motivation: Revisiting and revising a language learning reality.
Eastern Psychological Association
Barr, R., Zack, E., & Fidler, A. Infant-parent interactions while viewing infant-directed videotapes.
EUROSLA, Newcastle, UK
Rebecca Sachs. Awareness constraints on the effectiveness of corrective feedback in SLA. September 2007.International Conference of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature
Maggie Ronkin. Voicing and Positioning to Produce a Local Moral Order. (Panel Member for Narrating Moral Selves in Everyday Life: The Struggle for Recognition across Cultures.)
International Pragmatics Association Conference (IPrA.)
Jia Lou. The English Morpheme “-ing” as Discourse Marker in Online Chinese Text: A Corpus-Based Sociolinguistic Analysis.
Anna Marie Trester. Investigating Language in Performance.
Linguistics Society of America (LSA)
Park, Jong Un. “Syntactic and Semantic Licensing Conditions on the Korean Plural Marker –tul.”
Barbara Soukup. On the Strategic Use of Dialect in Austrian TV Political Discussions.
Anna Marie Trester. Oh-prefacing in quotatices: implications for speaker stance, alignment, and style.
Georgetown Linguistics Society (GLS07). Language and Globalization: Policy, Education, and Media
Yunkyoung Kang. Migration and Language: Do you choose Americanization or Koreanness
Jia Lou. The Implications of technology for understanding language policy and practice: How Pinyin romanization helped China in the age of the multilingual Internet.
Rebecca Rubin. Unity through language? The language policies of Seeds of Peace.
Jamie L. Schissel. Teaching language for national security and global/American competetitiveness: U.S. government representation of language education policies in online fact sheets.
Georgetown University Round Table on Linguistics (GURT)
Leslie Cochrane. Be + Like: A Pragmatic Approach to the Quotative.
Natalia Jacobsen. Phonetics and Phonology of Hesitation Markers Across Languages.
Justin Kelly. A non-NPI use of 'yet': Effects on aspect and clausal structure.
Park, Jong Un. “Distributivity of the Korean Plural Marker –tul.”
Interfaces of Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning (IICALL 2), University of Waterloo, Canada
Rebecca Sachs & Dr. Markus Dickinson (other collaborators: Soojeong Eom, Yunkyoung Kang and Chong Min Lee). Integrating ICALL into synchronous CMC: Can intelligent computer-generated feedback be provided in learner-to-learner interactions? December 2007.
International Association of Forensic Linguists
Blake Howald, Esq. Guilty Pleas as Grist for Crime Investigation and Prevention: A Discourse Analytic Case Study of the BTK Killer.
Blake Howald, Esq. Authorship Attribution under the Rules of Evidence:Empirical Approaches in a Layperson's Legal System. (Panel Participant)
International Symposium on Korean Linguistics (ISKOL)
Park, Jong Un. “Resolving a PBC Puzzle in Korean Raising and Control Constructions.”
International Symposium on Processability, Bilingualism, and Second language Acquisition, Gateshead, UK
Rebecca Sachs & Mika Hama. Working memory, interactive language production, and L2 development among elderly ESL learners. September 2007.
Jewish Languages and Identity in a Globalized World, UMD
Rubin, R. “Are Israeli Americans linguistically American Jews?: A bicultural portrait of an Israeli-American family.”
Biolinguistic Investigations
Dominik Rus. The acquisition of tense and agreement at the interfaces.
Annual meeting of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics
Justin Kelly. Movement phenomenon in Saramaccan: A minimalist perspective
Speech and Hearing Association of Virginia (SHAV)
Dominik Rus. Bridging linguistic and neurocognitive approaches to the acquisition of morphosyntax in healthy-developing children and children with Specific Language Impairment. (Plenary talk)
Georgetown University Faculty of Languages and Linguistics (FLL) Graduate Colloquium
Barbara Soukup. Austrian language attitudes and language use: Exploring intertextual links.
Anna Trester. In Chicago, like people are just like '*Oh* our theater is better than your theater: Using "oh" with the voices of others to construct and perform aspects of identity.
Association for Asian Studies (AAS)
Peter Vail. The Stateless Encounter the State: Dimensions of Marginality on the Thai-Lao Border.
Chiang Mai University Conference 'Critical Transitions in the Mekong Region' (RCSD)
Peter Vail. Ethnographic Notes on Statelessness in Isan.
Oxford Linguistics Postgraduate Conference
Ashley Fidler & Rus, D. A cross-linguistic investigation of early locative morphology.
The Fourth Biennial International Conference on Language Teacher Education
Kathleen Williams. (with Dr. Christa de Kleine) Preparing to teach World English speakers in the ESL classroom.
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Convention
M. Malone, M. Montee and Colleen Gallagher. What every teacher should know about testing.
New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 36)
Patrick Callier. An obvious surprise: Language, gender, and sentence-final particles in Mandarin. Poster presentation.
Katheen Williams. Ethnic Identity and Past Be Configuration in the Lumbee Community of Baltimore, Maryland.
North Eastern Linguistic Society (NELS)
Park, Jong Un. “Word Order Asymmetry between Raising and Control Constructions in Korean.”
NYS TESOL
Emily Becketti, Jamie Schissel, Randy Althaus, and Meredith Magsig. Classroom Research after NCLB.
Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), Univerity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rebecca Sachs & Dr. Markus Dickinson (other collaborators: Soojeong Eom, Yunkyoung Kang and Chong Min Lee). Pushing the limits of traditional computer-assisted language instruction: Traditional vs. intelligent computer-generated feedback in synchronous CMC. October 2007).
Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research
Corinne Seals. “Te Espero: The Effects of Varying Bilingual Abilities of Schoolchildren on Family Dynamics in Mexican Immigrant Families”.
TESOL Graduate Student Forum
Emily Becketti (with Genesis Ingersoll). Examining Adult Advanced Level EPP Writing Curricula.
University of California Undergraduate Conference on Slavic and East/Central European Studies
Corinne Seals. “Unusual Palatalization in English by Native Russian Singers”.
American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference (AAAL)
Kendall King and Aubrey Logan-Terry. Additive bilingualism through family language policy: Ideologies, strategies and interactional outcomes.
Rebecca Sachs and Bo-Ram Suh. Reactivity of concurrent think-alouds in synchronous computer-mediated L2 interaction.
Inge Stockburger. Constructing identities in zine life-writing: A granola mother in The East Village Inky.
Anna Marie Trester. Intertextuality and the production of cultural meaning in improv performances.
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
Colleen Gallagher. The development of narrative structure in Spanish SOPI responses.
M. Malone, D. MacGregor, Colleen Gallagher, and M. Montee . Improving assessment literacy: An online guide to test selection.
Abbe Spokane. Online Resource Guides for Teaching Learning Strategies in FL Classrooms. Free Classroom Resources for Language Teachers.
Association for Machine Translation of the Americas (AMTA)
Rachael Allbritten. Automated MT Improvement Through Post-Editing Techniques: Developing an MT Error Taxonomy.
New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 35)
Rachael Allbritten. The Anatomy of a Sociolinguistic Interview.
Corinne Brandstetter. A Study in Syntactic Variation: Double Modal Constructions.
Patrick Callier. Multiple identities, multiple features: A sociophonetic profile of Condoleezza Rice. Poster presented with Podesva, Robert J., Jason Brenier, Lauren Hall-Lew, Stacy Lewis, and Rebecca Starr.
Barbara Soukup. Investigating the Dialogic Relationship of Language Attitudes and Speaker Design.
Anna Marie Trester. Framing Performance: Style and the Construction of Identity in Improv.
Sociolinguistics Symposium 16
Lyn Fogle. 'These are not kids with ESL': Examining adoptive parents’ talk about second language learning and their internationally adopted children.
Kendall King and Colleen Gallagher. Love, identity and evaluative morphology in Andean mother-child conversations.
Barbara Soukup. Interactional Functions of Standard-Dialect Switching in Austrian TV Political Discussions.
Inge Stockburger. Redoing small stories in written narratives: A mother's lice story in her memoir and personal zine.
Anna Marie Trester. Improvised performances and the linguistic (re)production of cultural knowledge. (Workshop on dialects, standards, and public performance).
East Coast Organization of Language Testers (ECOLT)
Helen Carpenter and M. Ullman. A Neurocognitive Approach to the Study of Second Language Aptitude.
Colleen Gallagher and M. Montee. Revisions to CAL’s foreign language test database.
Annual South Asia Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Maggie Ronkin. Stepping into a Women Collective Story in Lahore. (Panel member for Constructing Gender in South Asian Muslim Texts and Practices.)
SouthEastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL)
Rachael Allbritten. The Southern Vowel Shift in Alabama: The Role of Urban Orientation in Intra-Community Variation.
Second Language Research Forum (SLRF)
Helen Carpenter and M. Ullman. Beyond the MLAT: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective on L2 Aptitude.
Bo-Ram Suh. Effectiveness of textual input enhancement: A quantitative meta-analysis.
Pacific Second Language Research Forum (PacSLRF) 2006
Maymona Al-Khalil, Gergana Atanassova, Mika Hama, Aubrey Logan-Terry, Alison Mackey, Kimi Nakatsukasa. Teachers’ intentions and learners’ perceptions about corrective feedback.
The 31st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development
Dominik Rus. The acquisition of tense and agreement in early grammars and early root nonfinites (in child Slovenian) revisited.
BAAL/IRAAL Joint Annual Conference
Maymona Al-Khalil, Gergana Atanassova, Mika Hama, Aubrey Logan-Terry, Alison Mackey, Kimi Nakatsukasa. Accurate perceptions about corrective feedback in L2 classrooms.
Hawai'i International Conference on Arts and Humanities
Karolina Dembinska-Lemus. (Panel with Sigrid Norris and Anthony Garcia) Evidence of Conversational Dominance via Multimodal Discourse Analysis.
University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics and TESOL
Justin Kelly. Control in nominalizations: Distributed morphology and the movement theory of control.
Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics XV (FASL)
Dominik Rus. The functional structure of imperative phrase markers: Evidence from adult and child Slovenian imperatives.
2006 Asia Teaching English as a Foreign Language International Conference
M. Song and Bo-Ram Suh. The effects of output task types on noticing and learning of the English past hypothetical conditional.
Ramkhamhaeng University Faculty of Political Science Conference
Peter Vail. Formal Discourse, Rural Identity, and Social Power in Northeastern Thailand.
National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL)
Heather Weger-Guntharp. Why U.S. college students are learning Arabic: A motivation study.
Annual TESOL Convention
Kathleen Williams. (with Dr. Christa de Kleine) Innovative instruction for World English speakers.
Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies
Aliza Sacknovitz. Lexical Variation as Indicator of Jewish Denominational Ethnic Identity.
Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA)
Myong-Hee Choi and Donna Lardiere. Acquiring the interpretation of wh-expressions in Korean as a second language.
Georgetown Linguistics Society: "The Language and Identity Tapestry" (GLS05)
Karolina Dembinska-Lemus. Language, Ethnicity, and Identity: A Case Study.
Jia Lou. The presentation of self through online display names: A preliminary study on identity construction in computer-mediated interactions.
Aliza Sacknovitz. Collective Identity Construction, Case Study: Online sermons from the Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform movements of Judaism.
Jennifer Sclafani. Constructed Dialogue, Constructed Self: Identity in Narrative.
Barbara Soukup. The Joint Construction of Friendship.
Second Language Research Forum (SLRF)
Jaemyong Goo. Recasts in the acquisition of English relative clauses: Positive evidence or negative evidence?
Rebecca Sachs and Amy Pogoriler. Levels of awareness and L3 learning: A think-aloud protocol analysis.
Rebecca Sachs and Bo-Ram Suh. Textually enhanced recasts in synchronous CMC: Awareness and L2 development.
R. Leow, C.L. Cerezo, Bo-Ram Suh. Frequency of input, task complexity, and L2 development: A computerized study.
Heather Weger-Guntharp. L2 motivation and classroom attitudes: Stretching the motivation paradigm.
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA)
Jia Lou. The old and new faces of Chinatown: A geosemiotic analysis of Chinatowns' shop signs in Washington, DC and Boston.
Peter Vail. Formal Discourse and Social Power in Rural Thailand.
Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD)
Dominik Rus (with P. Chandra). Questioning the “imperative as an RI-analogue” hypothesis.
New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 34
Jia Lou. From English morpheme to symbol of Chinese netizenship: Exploring -ing in Chinese blogs.
Jennifer Sclafani. AAVE Existential Variation and Change in Apparent Time: A Preliminary Investigation in Washington, DC.
Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS)
M. Moffa, S. Lee, Helen Carpenter, and Michael Ullman. Left handedness, Procedural Memory, and Grammar.
Fifth International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB5)
Kendall King and Lyn Fogle. Raising bilingual children: Parent ideologies and strategies.
Pennsylvania State University Hispanic Linguistics Colloquium
Justin Kelly. A’-movement in Saramaccan.
Ninth International Conference on Thai Studies
Peter Vail. National Mythos, Historical Narrative, and a Swift Kick in the Head: Muay Thai Boxing and the Celebration of Thai Masculinity.
Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies
Aliza Sacknovitz. (Panel Organizer) What Does Linguistics Have to Offer Jewish Studies: Theory & Application.
Aliza Sacknovitz. What Does Linguistics Have to Offer Jewish Studies? A Literature Review.
Georgetown Graduate Portuguese and Hispanic Symposium
Justin Kelly. A’-movement in Saramaccan.
Second Biennial International Pakistan Studies Conference
Maggie Ronkin. Fugitive Meanings and Veiled Resistance in an Oral Narrative.
Language and Global Communication Conference
Jia Lou. Connecting the online and the offline: A preliminary study of display names in computer-mediated interactions.
International Applied Linguistics Association Conference
M-J Song and Bo-Ram Suh. The effects of output task types and input enhancement on noticing and learning of the English past hypothetical conditional.
Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics XIV (FASL)
Dominik Rus. Early root nonfinites and the acquisition of finiteness in child grammar: Evidence from early child Slovenian.
East Coast Organization of Language Testers (ECOLT)
Rebecca Sachs and Amy Pogoriler. Teachers’ attitudes and beliefs about student languages and high-stakes standardized testing.
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Conference
Bo-Ram Suh. Frequency of input exposure, task complexity and L2 development: A computer-based study.
Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA)
Dominik Rus (with P. Chandra). Child language imperatives: Root infinitive analogues?
2004
The Graduate Student Forum at the Annual TESOL Convention
Lyn Fogle. The role of native English-speaking teachers in Russia.
South Asian Language Analysis (SALA) 24
Maggie Ronkin. (Panel on Discourse and Inequality) Interrogating Power Upside Down: Literal and Hypothetical Worlds in Narration.
MIT Speech Communication Group Seminar
Christina Villafana. (Invited talk) The role of features, gestures, and frequency in consonantal lenition: Evidence from Gorgia Toscana.
International Conference on Generative Grammar, South Korea
Park, Jong Un. “Dissociating Case/Agreement from EPP?”
International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA)
Inge Stockburger. Magazine text as dialogue: The case of BUST magazine.
Second Graduate Colloquium on Slavic Linguistics
Diana Marinova. Current macrosociolinguistic issues in the education of the Turkish minority in Bulgaria.
Foreign Language Association of Virginia
Abbe Spokane. Free Language and Culture Resources for Language Teachers.
Michigan Linguistics Society
Diana Marinova. Identity construction in a sociolinguistics interview
Second Language Research Forum (SLRF)
Lauren Ross-Feldman. Exploring the role of gender in second language learner interactions
Rebecca Adams & Rebecca Sachs. Second language vocabulary instruction: How does it influence learner-learner interactions?
Heather Weger-Guntharp. Developing a heritage language learner classroom profile.
Paula Winke. Why students learn Arabic: Primary motivations by proficiency and heritage.
Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD)
Domink Rus (with P. Chandra). Bare participles are not root infinitives: Evidence from early child Slovenian.
Midwest Association of Popular Culture Studies
Ingrid Stockburger. 'That's Bitchmother to you, baby': The discursive construction of the mother identity in a mama zine
Symposium on Second Language Writing
Rebekha Abbuhl. Legal writing for the advanced L2 learner: The effect of feedback and instruction on writing quality. (Graduate Student Conference on Second Language Writing)
Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies
Aliza Sacknovitz. Choice of Prior Texts within Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Online Sermons.
Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
Mercia Santana Flannery and Dr. Clea Rameh. Variation in Spanish and Portuguese: Some uses of the marker 'tipo' in Brazilian Portuguese
International Society for Humor Studies
Diana Marinova. Ask The Onion: humorous tips and intertextuality
Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO)
Paula Winke. The development and delivery of online Arabic and Russian Proficiency Tests
Twelfth Manchester Phonology Meeting
Christina Villafaña. The role of features, gestures, and frequency in consonantal lenition: Evidence from Gorgia Toscana
American Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Meeting (AAAL)
Diana Marinova. Telling a meal-time story - to whom and why
Lauren Ross-Feldman. The role of gender in task-based interactions.
Aliza Sacknovitz. Tempering Agonism within the Culturally Agonistic Environment of Talmud Study.
Heather Weger-Guntharp. Investigating heritage-speaker status, motivation, and classroom identity.
Paula Winke. Chinese learners' aptitude complexes: How memory, motivation, and strategies interact.
Northeast Conference on Foreign Language Teaching
Abbe Spokane. Learning Strategies for Leaners of Less Commonly Taught Languages
Abbe Spokane. Resources to Help you Keep up and Stay Connected
SouthEastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL) LXX
Simon Mauck. The Biblical Hebrew "future"
Mercia Santana Flannery (with Io-ke Joaquim Kuong). Incorporating frame setting-topic in the theory of syntax
Sociolinguistics Symposium 15
Barbara Soukup. Dialect death by concentration: Glide fronted /aU/ in Smith Island adolescent speech
Margaret Toye. Modality, Soap Opera, and Everyday Conversation
Georgetown University Roundtable on Language and Linguistics (GURT)
Simon Mauck. The Biblical Hebrew tenses do not contribute to truth conditions
Simon Mauck, Miok Pak, Paul Portner and Raffaella Zanuttini. Clause typing in imperatives: A cross-linguistic perspective
Mercia Santana Flannery (with Io-Ke Joaquim Kuong). Frame setting-topic and the left periphery of syntax
Annual Meeting of the International Linguistics Association (ILA)
Simon Mauck. Yehudah Hayyuj's influence on Biblical Hebrew dictionaries
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2003
National South Asia Resource Center, University of Chicago
Maggie Ronkin (invited). Workshop on Languages of Afghanistan
102nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA)
Barbara Soukup. War at the Gas Pump - A Nexus Approach
Margaret Toye. Towards an Activist Ethnography of Communication: Nexus Analysis
Laura Wright. Navigating the Discourse of Dissent
Annual Conference of the Società Italiana di Glottologia
Christina Villafaña. New Vowels in an Existing Space: evidence from Italian production of English
Second Language Research Forum (SLRF)
Lauren Ross-Feldman (with S.M Gass & Alison Mackey). The role of setting in classroom and laboratory interaction: From claims to data
Bulgarian Studies Conference
Diana Marinova. Functions of the English discourse markers 'oh' and 'well' in dialogue in fiction and their translation into Bulgarian
98th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association
Marianna Toce-Gerstein. Beyond Education: The Discourse of Influence in Prenatal Genetic Counseling
International Society for Humor Studies
Laura Wright. Linguistics Structures' Effect on Humor in Narratives of Personal Experience
Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies
Aliza Sacknovitz. Power and Solidarity within the Agonistic Environment of Talmud Study.
First Annual Conference on Communication, Medicine & Ethics
Marianna Toce-Gerstein. The Principal Principle: Is Nondirectiveness Impeding Patient Autonomy in Prenatal Genetic Counseling?
9th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture
Mercia Santana Flannery. How Speakers Negotiate Relations of Control and Intimacy Through Gossip
Margaret Toye. Did You See Coronation Street?: Everyday Conversation and the Ideology of Mass Culture
SouthEastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL) LXVIII
Barbara Soukup. On Country-boying, and Other Ways to (not) Get a Job
First Biennial International Pakistan Studies Conference
Maggie Ronkin (invited). Izzat se BaiThe hue, Allah kii Raah par Lage
Panel on Contributions from the Study of Pakistani Languages. New Perspectives on Pakistan: Contexts, Realities and Visions for the Future
American Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Meeting (AAAL)
Paula Winke, Catherine Stafford & Rebecca Adams. Assessing working memory capacity in SLA research
Portuguese for Spanish Speakers: Symposium - Acquisition and Teaching
Mercia Santana Flannery. Using Different Discourse Genres to Develop Sociolinguistic Competence
Annual Meeting of TESOL
Rebecca Adams & Lauren Ross-Feldman (with T. Neuvonen). A model of successful ITA discourse
Penn Linguistics Colloquium
Mercia Santana Flannery. Framing and Brazilian Narratives of Social Discrimination
Diana Marinova. Two approaches to negotiating positions in interaction - Goffman's (1981) Footing and Davies and Harré's (1999) Positioning Theory
Margaret Toye. The Interaction Order and the Joint Production of Discourse
Laura Wright (panelist). Goffman's Legacy and Future Study of Language Interaction Panel: Non-Verbal Navigational Tools of Conversation
Georgetown University Roundtable on Language and Linguistics (GURT)
Rebecca Adams & Lauren Ross-Feldman. Incomplete grammars? NS and NNS indeterminacy revisited.
Marianna Toce-Gerstein. 'It's never an easy choice for anybody': Alignment strategies in genetic counselors' discourse
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2002
13th World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA)
Paula Winke. Vocabulary acquisition in the Chinese as a foreign language classroom
Middle Eastern Studies Association
Simon Mauck. The Semitic linguistics paradigm: The case of Arabic and Hebrew.
American Anthropological Assoication (AAA) Annual Conference
Cecilia Castillo Ayometzi. Preaching in Multiple Voices: Transformation Rhetoric and Undocumented Immigrants
Annual South Asia Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Maggie Ronkin (panel organizer/speaker). Speech Actions, Face-Work, and the Self in a Lahori Woman's Personal Experience Narrative. Panel on Women, Language Use, and Performativity in Muslim South Asia and Beyond.
Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies
Aliza Sacknovitz. Impressing the Opposite Sex: The Use of Quotations by Orthodox Jewish Females.
Second Language Research Forum (SLRF)
Paula Winke & Yiyoung Kim. It's not over with over: Cognitive approaches to teaching prepositions
8th Annual Conference of the American Communication Association
Heather Weger-Guntharp. Social identity: Its relationship to communication and language acquisition
8th Conference on Laboratory Phonology
Christina Villafaña and Elizabeth Zsiga. Syllables and gestures in Florentine vowel assimilation
Gesture: The Living Medium: First Congress of the International Society for Gesture Studies
David MacGregor. Real Space Blends in Spoken Language: Evidence from 'Mr. Roberts'
III International Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association
David MacGregor. A Cognitive Metaphor Approach to Ser and Estar
SouthEastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL) LXVI
Simon Mauck. Stress, weak letters and vowel quality in Biblical Hebrew.
SALSA - Symposium About Language and Society
Maggie Ronkin. Discursive Positioning and Identity Construction in a Pakistani Narrative
National Council on the Learning of Less Commonly Taught (NCOLCTL)
Helen Carpenter, Carmen Cross, David MacGregor and Paula Winke (also with Margaret E. Malone and Valerie Malabonga of CAL) (colloquium)
Applying National Reading, Listening and Speaking Criteria to Task Development
American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
Doug Demo. Interactional Competence of Advanced ESL Learners in Employment Interviews
Alison Mackey, Cathy Stafford, Rebecca Adams, and Paula Winke. Exploring the Relationship between Modified Output and Working Memory Capacity.
47th Annual Conference of the International Linguistics Association (ILA)
Simon Mauck. The concept of Harakah 'motion' in the Semitic linguistic tradition.
14th Sociolinguistics Symposium in Gent
Elisa Everts, Cecilia Castillo, Andy Jocuns, Ingrid de Saint Georges, Alex Johnston, Sigrid Norris, Najma al-Zijaly, and Susan Chen. Colloquium on Modalities of Access. (Organized by Suzanne Scollon.)
ECOLT - East Coast Organization of Language Testers
Helen Carpenter. Planning Time in a Semi-Direct Oral Proficiency Test: Proficiency Level and Language Make a Difference.
Georgetown University Roundtable on Language and Linguistics (GURT)
Mercia Santana Flannery. The Language of Radio Sports Broadcast Programs
Laura Wright. Giving the Television the Floor: communication in a technologically centered discourse community
Conference on Distance Learning of the Less Commonly Taught Languages
Paula Winke & Helen Carpenter. A framework for Web-based LCTL test delivery
Paula Winke (panelist). Innovations in language instruction
Gesture: The Living Medium: First Congress of the International Society for Gesture Studies
Christina Villafaña. Reference Time Flexibility and Present Perfect Puzzle Effects
Publications
(under construction - please revisit for updates)
Allbritten, R. 2008.
Fidler, A. 2008.
Fidler, A. & Babarczy, A. “Locative case marking and abstraction in child Hungarian.” Proceedings of the 2008 conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
2007. Fidler, A. & Rus, D. “The role of linguistic complexity in early locative marking: a comparative study of Hungarian, Slovenian and English.” In D. Rus & A. Fidler (Eds.),
Flannery, M. S. & Kuong, I.J. 2004
Incorporating Frame-Setting Topic in the Theory of Syntax
In Proceedings of SECOL LXX
Flannery, M. S. 2003
Frame Analysis and Brazilian Narratives of Social Discrimination
In Proceedings of PLC
Flannery, M. S. 2002
Unpeaceful Metaphors
Abdul Karim Bangura (ed.)
Goo, J. In progress, 2008.
SLA
Manuscript submitted for publication, 2008
Working memory and reactivity.
Gordon, Cynthia, Deborah Tannen, and Aliza Sacknovitz. Forthcoming. "A working father: One father's talk about family at work." In Deborah Tannen, Shari Kendall, and Cynthia Gordon (Eds.), Family Discourse. Oxford University Press.
Howald, B. Forthcoming, 2008.
2007. Identifying Authorship by Byte-Level N-Grams: The Source Code Author Profile (SCAP) Method, with Georgia Frantzeskou, Efstathios Stamatatos, Stefanos Gritzalis, and Carole E. Chaski, International Journal of Digital Evidence, Vol. 6, Issue 1.
Jang, S. B., Baldwin, J., & Mani, I. 2004
Automatic TIMEX2 Tagging of Korean News
In ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing 3.1, 51-65
Kelly, J. To appear 2008.
Interaction and tasks.
In C. Sanz (Ed.), Processing approaches to SLA: Theory and practice.
Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press
Marinova, D. 2004
Two approaches to negotiating positions in interatcion - Goffman's (1981) Footing and Davies and Harré's (1999) Positioning theory
In The 27th Penn Linguistics Colloquium Proceedings
Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press
Moss D., & Ross-Feldman, L. 2003
Second Language Acquisition in adults: Research to practice (NCLE Q&A)
Washington, DC: National Center for ESL Literacy Education.
Park, J. To appear 2008.
“A Movement Approach to Case Alternations in Korean.” In Proceedings of the 18th Congress of International Linguists (CIL).
Peyton, J.K., Lewelling, V.W., & Winke, P. 2001
Spanish for Spanish speakers: Developing dual language proficiency.
Educational Information and Resources Center, Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics
Washington, DC
Roca, A., Peyton, J.K., & Winke, P. 2001
Teaching Spanish to Spanish speakers: Resource guide online.
Educational Information and Resources Center, Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics
Washington, DC
Ronkin, M. (in press)
Resistance (and Agency) in a Lahori Domestic Worker's Narrative
In Proceedings of Narrative Matters 2004
Ronkin, Maggie. 2005.
[Book Review: Mukherjee, Arun Prabha, translator. 2003. Joothan: An Untouchable’s Life by Omprakash Valmiki (original in Hindi). New York: Columbia University Press.]
In The Journal of Asian Studies 64.2.
Ronkin, M. 2004
[Book Review: Tarlo, Emma. 2003. Unsettling Memories: Narratives of the Emergency in Delhi. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press]
In The Journal of Asian Studies 63.4.
Ronkin, M. 2003
Re-Modeling the Virtuous Self in a Working-Class Pakistani Woman's Narrative
In Saeed Shafgat and Brian Spooner (Eds.) New Perspectives on Pakistan: Contexts, Realities, and Visions for the Future.
Karachi: Oxford University Press
Ronkin, M. 2002
[Book Review: Wortham, Stanton. 2001. Narratives in Action: A Strategy for Research and Analysis (Counseling and Development Series) New York: Columbia University Teachers College Press]
In Journal of Sociolinguistics 6.4, 615-618.
Ross-Feldman, L. 2003
[Review of the book Multilungualism, second language learning, and gender]
In Language and Education, 17, 385-387
Sacknovitz, Aliza. 2006. "Niklas Luhmann." In Keith Brown (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Ed. Elsevier: Oxford
Sacknovitz, Aliza. 2006. "Henry Lee Smith, Jr." In Keith Brown (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Ed. Elsevier: Oxford.
Sacknovitz, Aliza. 2006. "Donna Jo Napoli." In Keith Brown (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Ed. Elsevier: Oxford.
Feizollahi, Zhaleh and Aliza Sacknovitz (Eds.). 2005. Georgetown University Working Papers in Theoretical Linguistics. Volume V. Georgetown University.
Sclafani, J. To appear 2008.
Newt Gingrich, bilingualism and 'ghetto' language: Online constructions of language ideology.
2008.
The intertextual origins of public opinion: Constructing Ebonics in the New York Times. Discourse and Society 19(4): 507-527.
2008.
Review of Speaking Out: The Female Voice in Public Contexts, by Judith Baxter (ed.). Women & Language 31(1): 63-64.
2007.
Dialect Jeopardy. Instructional game for Voices of North Carolina: Language and Life from the Atlantic to the Appalachians. With Walt Wolfram and Jeffrey Reaser.
Soukup, B. 2006
Language News in Review: UNESCO and the Quest for Cultural Diversity
Language Policy 5. 209-218.
2001:
'Y'all come back now, y'hear!?': Language Attitudes in the United States Towards Southern American English
Article in VIEWS 10-2 (Vienna English Working Papers) 12
Spokane, A. 2004
Cybersights: UCLA Phonetic Data
In Essential Teacher, 1 (5).
Stockburger,
Embedded stories and the life story: Retellings in a memoir and perzine.
Toce-Gerstein, M. 2004
"Cuisinart" and "Deer Park [trans.]."
In Sunshine, A., and Napoli, D.J. (Ed.) Tongue's Palatte: Poetry by Linguists.
Chicago: Atlantis Centaur, Inc.
Trester, Anna Marie, 2003
Bienvenidos a Costa Rica, la tierra de la pura vida: A study of the expression "pura vida" in the Spanish of Costa Rica. Selected Proceedings of the First Conference on Spanish Sociolinguistics. Lofti Sayahi, Ed. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla. 61-68
Laufenberg, George and Anna Marie Trester. Along the spectrum of dissent. Visual Communication. London: SAGE and Publications. 2 (3) 331-340
Tyler, A., Takada, M., Kim, Y., & Marinova, D., eds. (in press)
GURT 2003: Language and Use: Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives to Language and Language Learning
Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press
Van Duzer, C., Moss, D., Burt, M., Peyton, J. K., & Ross-Feldman, L. 2003
OCED review of adult ESL education in the United States
Washington, DC: Center for Applied Linguistics
Weger-Guntharp, H. 2003
[Review of the textbook Interactions 1: Reading (4th ed.)]..
TESL-EJ, 7(1)
Winke, P. (in press)
Online assessment of foreign language proficiency: Meeting development, design, and delivery challenges
In S. Howell (Ed.) Online assessment and measurement, vol. II.
Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press
Winke, P. 2003
[Review of the book Testcraft: A teacher's guide to writing and using language test specifications].
Language Testing, 20(3). 345-350
Winke, P. & Aquil, R. (in press)
Issues in developing standardized tests of Arabic proficiency.
In K. Wahba, L. England, and Z. Taha (Eds.) A Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals in the 21st Century
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Winke, P. & MacGregor, D. 2001
[A review of Hot Potatoes: Software for creating Web-based language exercises].
Language Learning and Technology, 5(2), 28-33
Winke, P. & Stafford, C. 2002
Selecting materials to teach Spanish to Spanish speakers
Educational Information and Resources Center, Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics
Washington, DC
Wright, Laura J. 2004
Non-Verbal Navigational Tools of Conversation
In S. Arunachalam and T. Scheffler (Eds.) University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 10.1, 231-236
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