Call for Proposals, 1st Annual Student Conference

English as a Field of Change and Flow: Contemporary Practices and Research in English Education, Literature, and Linguistics

Faculty - please invite your students to participate in the new English Dept. conference.

For all students who are interested in presenting at the 1st Annual Conference for RUM Undergraduate and Graduate Students of English, February 21, 2009,  please see the CFP Call for Papers . Deadline: Nov. 30.

 For application and registration, visit our blog:

1st Annual BA/MAEE Student Conference

Pre-Registration is open until January 19, 2009. We look forward to seeing you at the conference!

Judy Casey and Mary Sefranek, Conference Organizers

ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION CENTRE FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS

SANTIAGO DE CUBA
JANUARY 19-23, 2009

The Centre for Applied Linguistics of the Santiago de Cuba’s branch of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, is pleased to announce the Eleventh International Symposium on Social Communication dedicated to the 60 anniversary of the large work in defense of the Spanish language of professors Eloina Miyares Bermudez and Julio Vitelio Ruiz Hernandez. The event will be held in Santiago de Cuba January 19 through the 23, 2009. This
interdisciplinary event will focus on social ommunication processes from the points of view of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Medicine, Mass Media, and Art, Ethnology and Folklore.

All mail or inquiries should be addressed to: leonel@lingapli.ciges.inf.cu

OR

E-mail Dr. Bischoff at  sbichoff at uprm.edu for more information

Call for Proposals: “Exploring SLA: Perspectives, Positions, & Practices”

Second Language Research Forum 2008 at the University of Hawaii

Dr. Judy Casey Paper Presentation

In March, Dr. Judy Casey, in collaboration with Dr. Beth Virtanen, will be presenting a paper entitled “Writing Out Loud in a Bilingual Writing Center: Easier, Harder, Better, Scary, Rude?”at the Writing Centers Association Conference at the University of Oklahoma. This presentation outlines the history of the Arts and Sciences Writing Center with a focus on one particular SLA issue: the advantages and disadvantages of a situation in which students who are required to write in English often need to discuss their work in Spanish. The conference theme, “writing out loud,” addresses the talk of tutors as they go about their work. In our case, where both L1 and L2 are included, the topic is expanded for all writing center professionals who will attend because while they are aware of their growing need to be able to tutor L2 students, the concept of bilingual tutors working with students in their L2 is a new and essentially unexplored area of research. Due to the ever-changing demographic profile of the USA, this topic will soon move from the theoretical to become a reality, much in the same way that ESL teachers who are non-native speakers of English have moved from a marginalized group into the global mainstream.