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

Friday, 27 March – Saturday, 28 March 2009

University of Oxford, Department of Education, 15 Norham Gardens, Oxford, OX2 6PY

Conference Programme

Friday 27 March

9.30 Registration and Coffee (at the Department of Education)

10.15 Seminar Room A

Welcome to Oxford and to the Department

Ernesto Macaro & Victoria Murphy, University of Oxford

10.30-11.30 Seminar Room A

The relationship between first and second languages

Vivian Cook, University of Newcastle

11.30-13.00 Seminar Room A (Panel Presentation)

The myth of L2 learning through exclusive L2 use: theoretical perspectives and empirical foundations.

Glenn Levine, University of California, Irvin, The ecology of language classroom code choice: A complexity-
theory perspective.

Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain, University of Alberta, Using the L1 in the bilingual foreign language
classroom.

Tetyana Reichert, University of Waterloo, Learner language use in social interactions.

Michael Evans, University of Cambridge, Linguistic and interpersonal dimensions of code-switching
in CMC by school learners of French and English as a foreign language.

13.00 Buffet Lunch (in the Department of Education)

Time / Presenter A1 / Title / Presenter A2 / Title
14.00 / Jacinta McKeon
University
of Cork
Seminar Room A / Use of stimulated recall sessions to develop student teachers’ awareness and understanding of teaching a second/foreign language through the target language. / Teresa Naves
University of Barcelona
Seminar Room G / The “long-long” term effects of an early start on EFL writing and on CLI by Catalan-Spanish bilingual learners.
14.30 / Tao Guo
Technology university Shanghai
Seminar Room A / Students’ strategic reactions toward teacher codeswitching: evidence from Chinese university learners / Cristina Corcoll Lopez
Universitat
Ramon Llull
Seminar Room G / “English spelling is weird”: helping children to think about languages
15.00 / Susan Oguro
University of Technology Sydney
Seminar Room A / First and second languages in the foreign-language classroom: exploring the relationship with beginner-level learners at an Australian University. / Maria González-Davies Universitat Ramon Llull, and
Christopher Scott-Tennent Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Seminar Room G / Back to Mother...Tongue. L1 and Translation as aids to FLA in a CLIL context

15.30 Tea

16.00 – 16.45 Ernesto Macaro & Victoria Murphy: Summing Up & Discussion. (Seminar Room A)

16.45 - 18.00 Poster Session (Seminar Room G)

19.30 Dinner ( at Worcester College)


Saturday 28th March

9.00-10.00 Seminar Room A

Multilingualism and young learners

Fred Genesee, McGill University

Time / Presenter B1 / Title / Presenter B2 / Title
10.00 / Ulrike Jessner
University of Innsbruck
Seminar Room A / Why TLA is not SLA / Laurent Rasier1,2 & Philippe Hiligsmann2
FRS-FNRS1 & Université catholique de Louvain2
Seminar Room G / Exploring the L1-L2 relationship in the L2 acquisition of prosody
10.30 / Kara McAlister, Gerda de Klerk, and Jeff MacSwan
Arizona State University
Seminar Room A / Codeswitching in school-age children: effects on academic achievement / Jasmina Milicevic
Dalhousie University
Seminar Room G / Lexical functions and paraphrasing rules as a bridge between L1 and L2

11.00 Coffee and biscuits

Time / Presenter C1 / Title / Presenter C2 / Title / C3 / Title
11.30 / Suzanne Flynn & Malgorzata Mroz
MIT
Seminar Room A / Pre-literacy development: bilinguals at risk / Rosa Manchon
University of Murcia
Seminar Room G / The multicompetent nature of foreign language writing / Santiago Rodriguez De Silva
Kobe City University
Seminar Room D / Retroactive interference of the L2 in the L1 when the languages are unrelated
12.00 / Tina Hickey
University College Dublin
Seminar Room A / Accelerated change in the classroom?
The influence of a high-status L2 on preschoolers whose L1 is an endangered minority language / Andrea Nava and Luciana Pedrazzini
Università degli Studi di Milano Seminar Room G / Investigating L1 pragmatic influence in L2 English through the Role Play learner corpus / Karim Sadeghi
Urmia University
Seminar Room D / The relationship between L1 and conversational implicature in English

12.30-13.30 Seminar Room A

L1 and L2 as merging systems

Kees de Bot, University of Groningen

13.30 Buffet Lunch (in the Department of Education)

Time / Presenters 1 / Title / Presenters 2 / Title / Presenters 3 / Title
14.30 / Catherine Brissaud,
Coralie Payre-Ficout
Jean-Pierre Chevrot
Université Stendhal
Seminar Room A / The acquisition of the simple past/present perfect by French secondary school learners: When the form/function relations diverge in L1 and L2 / Osamu Takeuchi Kansai University,
Maiko Ikeda Himeji Dokkyo University
Atsushi Mizumoto University of Marketing and Distribution Sciences, Kobe
Seminar Room G / Establishing the cerebral basis for language learner strategies: A NIRS
study comparing L1 and L2 strategy use / Stefka Marinova-Todd
University of British Columbia
Seminar
Room D / The development of oral proficiency and narrative skills in the two languages of Cantonese-English bilingual children in Kindergarten and Grade 2
15.00 / Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes1, Tiffany Judy2 & Jason Rothman2
University of Plymouth1 & University of Iowa2
Seminar Room A / When L1 Transfer cannot help: is L2 Spanish classroom input enough? / Vee Harris
Goldmsiths College
Mike Grenfell
Trinity College, Dublin Seminar Room G / Bilingual learners and language learner strategies / Alyona Belikova
McGill University
Seminar
Room D / Getting over misleading classroom instruction: the case of French ‘se’
15.30 / Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes
University of Plymouth
Paul D. Toth, Temple University
Seminar Room A / Grammar instruction and linguistic development in high school L2 Spanish classes. / Roma Kaur
Auckland International College
Seminar Room G / The role of first and second languages in third language processing: analysis of private Speech / Farah van der Kooi, Gulsen Yilmaz & Monika S. Schmid
University of Groningen
Seminar Room D / Multilingualism and attrition: Moroccan and Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands

16.00 Tea

16.15 Discussion Groups (based on questions arising from the papers [pre-prepared])

17.00 Close of Conference

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