2016 – 2017 Programme archive – Second Language Learning and Teaching

Date	Speaker	Title	Venue
17.05.2017	Mohammad Javad Ahmadian	Explicit and Implicit Instruction of L2 Pragmatics: Do Working Memory Capacity and Language Aptitude Play a Role?	County South C89
07.06.2017	James Wilby	The relationship between motivation, self-regulation, and L2 international students’ paraphrasing behaviour and writing achievement over the course of an EAP programme	County South B59
28.06.2017 (11:00-12:00)	Karmen Pizorn (University of Ljubljana)	Language Anxiety of Year 6 EFL students	County South D72
28.06.2017 (12:00-13:00)	Andrew Sampson	Languaging and learning compared across three EFL course delivery modes	County South D72
28.06.2016 (13:00-14:00)	Jiexuan Lin (Guandong University)	Phonetic convergence in nonnative speech and the role of individual differences	County South C89
05.07.2017 (12:00-13:00)	Mayya Levkina (University of Barcelona)	The role of linguistic complexity in enhancing L2 pronunciation development of vowel contrasts through collaborative map tasks	County South B89
13.07.2017 Thursday (15:00-16:00)	Parvaneh Tavakoli (University of Reading)	Can a narrow approach to defining and researching fluency in Applied Linguistics help?	Bowland North SR3

Date	Speaker	Title	Venue
25.01.2017	Chajuan Hu	Chinese students’ cognitive composing process under the real time AWE context	Bowland North SR6
01.02.2017	Aina Casaponsa	Foreign language comprehension achievement: Insights from the cognate facilitation effect	County South C89
09.02.2017	Mary Jane Abrahams (Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile)	Curriculum design/reform in a Chilean university (joint talk with LTRG)	County South C89
24.02.2017		ELT Symposium in honour of Alan Waters	FASS meeting rooms
01.03.2017	Nicola Halenko (Mock Viva) (12.00-13.30)	Evaluating the explicit pragmatic instruction of requests and apologies in a study abroad setting: the case of Chinese ESL learners at a UK Higher Education Institution.	Bowland North SR 1
08.03.2017	Two consecutive talks by Javier Perez Guerra and Bimali Indrarathne	Contrasting syntax: on the design of predicates in native and learner language by Javier Perez Guerra Inclusion of learners with specific learning differences in teaching English as a foreign language: A teacher training project for Sri Lanka by Bimali Indrarathne	Bowland North SR 15
12.04.2017	Giulia Sulis and Shungo Suzuki	Try-out presentations for TBLT conference in Barcelona	County South C89

Date	Speaker	Title	Venue
12.10.2016	Patrick Rebuschat (LAEL)	Cross-situational learning of words and syntax	Bowland North SR 3
26.10.2016	Judit Kormos (LAEL)	Inclusive practices in teaching students with dyslexia: Foreign language teachers’ concerns, attitudes and self-efficacy beliefs on a massive open online learning course	Bowland North SR 3
09.11.2016	Dogus Can Oksuz (LAEL)	Revisiting the idiom principle through the lens of an agglutinating language: A corpus-informed research	Bowland North SR 3
23.11.2016	Nour Toumi Ornuma Chingchit Laura Stiefenhofer Giulia Sulis	The effects of summary and keyword generation instruction on L2 readers’ comprehension monitoring and metacognitive accuracy Effects of Written Corrective Feedback on L2 Learners’ Implicit Knowledge Development Effects of cognitive task complexity in computer-mediated collaborative writing tasks Directed motivational currents in the TBLT classroom	County South C89
30.11.2016 (11.30-13.00)	Tomas Kos (Mock viva)	An investigation of peer interaction in mixed-age EFL secondary school classes	County South B89
07.12.2016	Irene Marin (LAEL)	Phrasal Verbs in Spoken L2 English: The Effect of L2 Proficiency and L1 Background	County South C89