When: September 28, 2018
Where: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø – Humanities building (HUM),
room B.1003 10.00-12.00 & E.0104 13.30-16.30
The LAVA and ACQVA research groups at UiT/NTNU have considerable expertise in linguistic approaches to Second Language Acquisition. At the same time, we see an increasing need to communicate our research results and our methods to language teaching and teacher education.The workshop aims at bridging the gap between linguistic and pedagogical perspectives on Second Language Acquisition. The participants of the workshop will investigate the potential of combining insights from modern linguistics, language teaching and teacher education as well as experimentation and language assessment in the context of English, Spanish and Russian as a second language in Norway.
10:00-10:30 – Yulia Rodina: Welcome, coffee & tea
10:30-11:15 – Amber Dudley and Roumyana Slabakova: Input and L1 influence: Aspectual tense morphology in L2 English, again
11:15-12:00 – Thomas Shaw Rankin: Issues in learning and teaching L2 English grammar
12:00-13:30 – LUNCH
13:30-14:15 – Kira Gor: Acquisition of Russian as a second language: Lessons we have learned and new directions
14:15-15:00 – Heather Marsden: Insights for teacher-researcher collaboration from theoretical linguistic SLA research on English and Spanish
15:00-15:15 – Coffee, tea and fruit
15:15-16:30 – Discussion
Invited speakers:
- Kira Gor (University of Maryland)
- Heather Marsden (University of York)
- Thomas Shaw Rankin (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
- Roumyana Slabakova (University of Southampton, UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
Organisers:
- Yulia Rodina
- Merete Anderssen
- Roumyana Slabakova
