Language Symposium 2006
Stories and Strategies:
Narratives in Second Language Acquisition
Friday, April 28, 2006Kellogg Conference Center
Northwestern University’s Downtown Chicago Campus
340 East Superior Street, Chicago, Illinois
5:30 - 6:30 p.m. / Registration and Wine Reception
Kellogg Lounge (Room 119)
6:30 – 7:45 p.m. / Welcome and Keynote Presentation
Baxter Room (Room 147)
Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig
Professor, Program in TESOL and Applied Linguistics and Department of Linguistics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Lost in America and Other L2 Narratives
L2 narratives are an ideal context in which to study the acquisition of second language tense-aspect systems, owing to the interaction of grounding, lexical aspect, and the distribution of tense-aspect morphology. The hunt for the ideal narrative as a vehicle for tense-aspect development leads to an investigation of narratives with different structures. In this talk, Professor Bardovi-Harlig will explore the use of different stimuli for the collection of L2 narratives, the characteristics of the resultant learner narratives, and the corresponding findings related to emergent L2 tense-aspect systems.
Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig is Professor of Second Language Studies at Indiana University. A graduate of University of Chicago (PhD in Linguistics, 1983), she researches facets of second language acquisition. Her work on the development of second language temporal semantics has brought her to the elicitation and analysis of second language narratives. Not one to mistake a narrative for a mere vehicle for temporal reference, Bardovi-Harlig can be heard saying “I just love a good story”.
7:45 - 9:15 p.m. / Dinner and Discussion
Kafé Lounge (Room 323)
Saturday, April 29, 2006
Kellogg Conference Center
Sessions take place inthe Baxter Room (Room 147)
8:30 - 9:30 a.m. / Registration and Breakfast
Ray Conley Lounge (Room 540)
9:30 - 11:10 a.m.
Narratives
and
Images / Heidi Lechner
Glenbrook South High School, Illinois, German
Picture Perfect: Helping the Visual Learner Understand L2 Narratives
Ana Clotilde Thomé-Williams
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Portuguese
Interpreting Contemporary Brazilian in the Context of Narratives in
Portuguese
Margaret Sinclair
Northwestern University, French
Using a Film Sequence to Teach Past Narration in French
Richard Alan Korb
Columbia University, New York, German
Storyboards: Pictures Worth a Thousand Words
11:10 - 11:30 a.m. / Break (Room 119)
11:30 - 1:10 p.m.
Media
and
Text
as
Tools / John Hartmann
Northern Illinois University, Thai
Teaching Thai to the Net/M Generation: Adapting a Child’s Narrative for
Adult FL Acquisition
Jeff Popko
Eastern Michigan University, ESL
Suggestions for Improving Advanced Academic L2 Reading Fluency
through Oral Narratives
Julie Foss
Michigan State University, French
Text Genre and Motivation in Foreign Language Reading
Jan Schwarz
University of Chicago, Yiddish
“The Yiddish Teacher”: Cultural Transmission and Narrative Structure
1:10 - 2:00 p.m. / Lunch
Ray Conley Lounge (Room 540)
2:00 - 3:40 p.m.
Dialogues and Interactions in Narratives / Chisato Koike
California State University, Los Angeles, Japanese
Interactive Storytelling: Story Elicitation by Questions in Interactions
between the Learners of Japanese
Ranjana Patnaik
Northwestern University, Hindi
The Journey of the Red Shoes: A Story in Translation
Ewa Malachowska-Pasek
University of Michigan, Polish
Writing Family Stories in the Early Stages of Foreign Language Acquisition
Margaret Beauvais
Johns Hopkins University, French
From Textbook to Structured Narrative
3:40 - 4:30 p.m. / Closing Remarks
Baxter Room (Room 147)
Language Symposium Committee 2006
This Symposium was organized by a committee consisting of members of the Northwestern University community and the University of Chicago community.
Ingrid Zeller, Chair, Northwestern University
Cathy Baumann, Chair, University of Chicago
Steven Clancy, University of Chicago
Heather Colburn, Northwestern University
Margaret Dempster, Northwestern University
Carmen Gomez Fiegl, University of Chicago
Martina Kerlova, Northwestern University
Julia Moore, Northwestern University
John Paluch, Northwestern University
Jeannie Ravid, Northwestern University
Yumi Shiojima, Northwestern University
Janine Spencer, Northwestern University
Vera Teixeira, Northwestern University
Dining services are provided by Kellogg Management Center at Northwestern University’s Downtown Campus.
Thank you to the committee and the support staff and the participants for their extraordinary input!
Ingrid Zeller, Co-Chair Symposium 2006 Northwestern University
Catherine Baumann, Co-Chair Symposium 2006 University of Chicago
Heather Colburn, Co-Chair Council on Language Instruction
Noriko Taira, Co-Chair Council on Language Instruction
Language Symposium 2006
Stories and Strategies:
Narratives in Second Language Acquisition
Northwestern University’s Downtown Chicago Campus
April 28 – 29, 2006
presented by
The Council on Language Instruction
The Multimedia Learning Center
The Searle Center for Teaching Excellence
at Northwestern University
together with
The Center for the Study of Languages
The Center for Teaching and Learning
at the University of Chicago