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Interview with Dr. Roy Lyster
No full textThank you to Dr. Roy Lyster for accepting our invitation for SLS Working Papers. Dr. Lyster is Professor of Second Language Education, Department of Integrated Studies in Education, at McGill University. His research interests include second language acquisition in classroom settings in general, with a specific focus on immersion and content-based classrooms, more specifically, teacher-student interaction, form-focused instruction, and corrective feedback. He came to Michigan State University to give a talk at Second Language Research Forum. The interview was conducted by Seongmee Ahn on November 1, 2009. For more information about Dr. Lyster, please visit his faculty page: http://people.mcgill.ca/roy.lyster/
Interview with Dr. Phillip Hamrick Kent State University
No full textInterview with Dr. Phillip Hamrick Kent State University by MSU Working Papers in SLS editors: Elizabeth Ablan, Kiyo Suga, & Dmitrii Pastushenko
Interview with Dr. Judith Kroll
No full textThank you to Judith Kroll, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Linguistics, and Women's Studies, Penn State University, for agreeing to be interviewed for these working papers. Dr. Kroll specializes in psycholinguistics, bilingualism, and second language acquisition. She came to Michigan State University to give a plenary talk at the Second Language Studies Symposium on April 3, 2009. For more information about Dr. Kroll, please visit her faculty page: http://www.cls.psu.edu/people/faculty/kroll_judith.shtml. This interview was arranged by Emma Trentman
Interview with Dr. John Norris
No full textThank you to John Norris, Professor of Second Language Studies, University of Hawai‘i, for agreeing to be interviewed for these working papers. Dr. Norris specializes in assessment and program administration in language education settings. He came to Michigan State University to give a plenary talk at the Second Language Studies Symposium on April 3, 2009. For more information about Dr. Norris, please visit his faculty page: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jnorris/ This interview was arranged by Emma Trentman
Interview with Dr. Robert DeKeyser
No full textI would like to thank Robert DeKeyser, Professor of Second Language Acquisition, University of Maryland, for agreeing to be interviewed for these working papers. Dr. DeKeyser’s research interests include SLA, interlanguage variability, individual differences in SLA, aptitude-treatment interaction, cognitive psychology of language acquisition, and age effects in SLA. He came to Michigan State University to give a plenary talk at the Second Language Research Forum 2009. The interview was conducted by Jimin Kahng on November 1, 2009. For more information about Dr. DeKeyser, please visit his faculty page: http://www.languages.umd.edu/SLAA/rdk.html
Confucius’s Analects: An advanced reader of Chinese language and culture
No full textZu-Yan Chen wrote the textbook Confucius’s Analects: An advanced reader of Chinese language and culture (讀論語學中文) for learners with at least three years of university Chinese language courses (Chen, 2010, p. xiii). The main focus of study is excerpts from the Analects, a collection of Confucius’ aphorisms and teachings, written in Classical Chinese, and widely studied by the Chinese population for around two thousand years. These passages are accompanied with translations in modern Chinese and short texts analyzing the underlying ideas. Because this textbook is only in Chinese, with the exception of the preface, some vocabulary definitions or section titles, and the content does not include grammar explanations, the author assumes that the readers are already generally competent in basic Chinese vocabulary and grammar. Based on the fact that the textbook is mostly written in Chinese and on the reviewer’s personal experience in learning Chinese as a second language, it does indeed appear to be suitable for Chinese language learners with at least three years of consistent Chinese study. However, it may not be necessary for the textbook users to have had university language classes as long as they have comparable language skills
Interview with Norbert Schmitt
No full textProfessor Norbert Schmitt is a professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. He started his career in Japan where he taught English as a Foreign Language and pursued his MA degree. He is mainly known for his work in all aspects of second language vocabulary including pedagogy, acquisition, and assessment. His interest in vocabulary extended through his PhD research at Nottingham. His current research interests include phraseology and formulaic sequences, corpus-based research, and the interface between vocabulary knowledge and the ability to read and listen in English. Dr. Schmitt agreed to talk to us during the SLS Spring 2013 symposium
Interview with Rod Ellis
No full textProfessor Rod Ellis is the deputy head of the Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He came to the U.S. as a Professor in the University’s Distinguished Professor visitor program. He stayed in the U.S. for five weeks. He is planning to visit the U.S. again in April 2013 for a week. At Michigan State University, he taught a short course, “Planning and Task-Based Performance,” and gave the PhD students insights into how to do research related to task-based learning/teaching. His research interests include: second language acquisition, individual learner differences, form-focused instruction, teacher education, course design, and methodology of language teaching. He was kind enough to do the interview for the Second Language Studies Working Papers
Review of SpeechInAction (2005). Richard Cauldwell & Mike Beiby. speechinaction.com
No full textThe speech of nonnative, late English language learners usually exhibits an accent that results from transferring the phonological rules and segmental or suprasegmental features from their first language (L1) into their English speech. Second language (L2) learners may also create novel pronunciations of English sounds that are not part of their L1 (e.g., Best, 1995; Flege, 1995). Native-like attainment in L2 pronunciation by adult language learners is the exception rather than the rule (Bongearts, 1999), yet most adult learners wish to speak the L2 without an accent
Interview with Dr. Jenefer Philp
No full textThank you to Dr. Jenefer Philp, Senior Lecturer of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics, The University of Auckland, for granting this interview. Dr. Philp’s research focuses on second language acquisition and individual differences, interaction, and oral corrective feedback, as well as on child second language acquisition. She came to Michigan State University to present at the Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) 2009, which was held October 29th through November 1st. For more information about Dr. Philp, please see her faculty page: http://artsfaculty.auckland.ac.nz/staff/?UPI=jphi048. This interview was arranged by Sheila Wheeler and conducted on October 31st
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