Applied Linguistics Conference

An international conference entitled:

First and second languages: exploring the relationship in pedagogy-related contexts

was held on Friday, 27 March – Saturday, 28 March 2009 in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford and organised by the Applied Linguistics Research Group.

The conference attracted some 90 delegates and keynote speakers were:

Professor Fred Genesee
Department of Psychology, McGill University

Professor Vivian Cook
School of ECLS, University of Newcastle

Professor Kees de Bot
Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Groningen  

The conference programme included papers on topics ranging from pre-literacy development to second language writing among university students. But each paper held as its underlying theme the relationship between the first and the second language(s).

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Learner Language Use in Social Interactions
Tetyana Reichert
University of Waterloo, Canada

From Hearing to Thinking to Remembering to Speaking; Understanding the Ecology of Bilingual Memory.
Calliope Haritos
Hunter College School of Education, NY

Morphological awareness and second language receptive and productive vocabulary knowledge in Japanese learners of English
Yuko Hayashi & Victoria A. Murphy
University of Oxford

Exploring the L1-L2 Relationship in the L2 Acquisition of Prosody
Laurent Rasier & Philippe Hiligsmann
Université catholique de Louvain & F.R.S – FNRS

Lexical Functions and Paraphrasing Rules as a Bridge between L1 and L2
Jasmina Milicevic
Dalhousie University

L1 and L2 as merging systems
Kees de Bot
Department of Applied Linguists/ Research school for behavioural and cognitive neurosciences, University of Groningen

Linguistic variations and Use of the 21st Century Arabicisation of English
Nuha Suleiman Al-Shurafa
Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah- Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

The acquisition of the simple past/present perfect by French secondary school learners: when the form/function relations diverge in l1 and l2
Coralie Payre-Ficout, Catherine Brissaud and Jean-Pierre Chevrot
Université Stendhal

Back to Mother...Tongue. L1 and Translation as aids to FLA in a CLIL context
Maria González-Davies,
Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain
Christopher Scott-Tennent,
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

Students’ strategic reactions to their teachers’ code-switching behaviours: evidence from Chinese university EFL learners
Tao Guo
Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College

Policy Shift, Inconsistency and the Reality of First and Second Languages in Learning Contexts in the West African Sub-Region
Professor Victor Benjie Owhotu
Department of Arts and Social Sciences Education, Faculty of Education, University of Lagos, Nigeria

Investigating L1 pragmatic influence in L2 English through the Role Play learner corpus
Andrea Nava and Luciana Pedrazzini, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy.

Pre-literacy Development: Bilinguals at Risk
Malgorzata Mróz, University of Warsaw and Harvard Graduate School of Education
Suzanne Flynn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cross linguistic influence in foreign language learning. The case of University of Bucharest
Victorita Trif, University of Bucharest