APPLIED LINGUISTICS

3rd POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE

Wednesday, 27th May 2015 10.45 - 17.30

King William Court, room number KW302

In collaboration with

UNIVERSITY of GREENWICH

CAROLE Centre for Applied Research and Outreach in Language Education

Department of Literature, Language and Theatre

 

 

PROGRAMME

10.45 – 11.15 Registration and refreshments 11.15 – 11.30 Opening

11.30 – 12.30 Invited speaker: Dr Rebekah Rast The American University of Paris.

Instructed third language acquisition: The first moments of Input Processing.

12.30 – 13.00 Ayah Farhat

University of Greenwich An investigation into motivation (individual differences) and its effects on

Processing Instruction in the acquisition of Modern Standard Arabic

13.00 – 13.30 Elaine López

University of York The role of explicit instruction on article acquisition in L2 English.

13.30 – 14.30 Sandwich lunch

14.30 – 15.00 Mengmeng Tang

University of York The acquisition of processing of multi-verb constructions by Chinese L2

learners of English and English L2 learners of Chinese.

15.00 – 15.30 Patricia Vázquez López University of Greenwich

On the elicitation of the knowledge of Spanish copular verbs ser and estar.

15.30 – 16.00 Haiwei Zhang

University of York Influences of writing system background on the acquisition of Pinyin and

Hanzi by Arabic and English L2 learners of Chinese.

16.00 – 16.15 Closing remarks

16.15 – 17.30 Drinks reception

Organizing Committee:

Dr. Sarah Liszka

Patricia Vázquez-López

June Ernstzen

Photograph of the Old Royal Naval College © 2014 Patricia Vázquez-López