2013 – 2014 Programme archive – Second Language Learning and Teaching

Please click on the titles below to access abstracts. Asterisks indicate talks that co-organized with another research group (see below for more information).

Date and Venue	Speaker	Topic
15 July 2014 Bowland North SR25	Rachel Hernandez Thorson (Georgetown)	The acquisition of English phrasal verbs by L1 Spanish speakers
28 May 2014 Management School LT7 (Wednesday talk, starts at 2pm)	Detmar Meurers (University of Tuebingen)	Readability analysis as an exploration of linguistic complexity (This talk is co-organized with CASS and UCREL.)
27 May 2014 Frankland Lecture Theatre (Tuesday talk, starts at 3pm)	Detmar Meurers (University of Tuebingen)	Learner language and natural language processing (This talk is co-organized with CASS and UCREL.)
19 May 2014 Bowland North SR10 (Monday talk)	John Read (University of Auckland)	The role of post-entry language assessment in English-medium universities (*)
15 May 2014 Cavendish Lecture Theatre (Thursday talk)	John Williams (Cambridge University)	Language learning without awareness: The case of semantic implicit learning (**)
29 April 2014 Bowland North SR 23 (Tuesday talk, starts at 10am)	Catherine van Beuningen (University of Amsterdam) CANCELLED	Explaining age-related differences in native speaker listening comprehension (*)
28 April 2014 Marcus Merriman Lecture Theatre (Monday talk)	Nivja de Jong (Utrecht University)	Production and perception of L2 fluency (*)
19 March 2014 Bowland North SR6	Henrik Gyllstad (Lund University)	The significance of vocabulary size and the validation of a vocabulary size test (*)
19 February 2014 Bowland North SR21	Paul Underwood (LAEL, Lancaster) CANCELLED	Japanese teachers’ beliefs and intentions regarding the teaching of English under national curriculum reforms (*)
5 February 2014 Bowland North SR21 (Starts at 4pm)	Vaclav Brezina (CASS, Lancaster)	Which words are useful for learners? Counting words, distinguishing meanings and developing wordlists (A corpus approach)
30 January 2014 Engineering LT3 (Thursday talk)	Karmen Pizorn (University of Ljubljana)	Doing classroom research (*)
15 January 2014 Bowland North SR 10 (Starts at 4pm)	Tamara Rakic (Psychology, Lancaster) CANCELLED	The role of language and accents in social psychology (, **)
5 December 2013 County South C89	Charles Alderson, Tineke Brunfaut & Luke Harding (LAEL, Lancaster)	Towards a theory of diagnosis in second and foreign language assessment (*)
27 November 2013 Bowland North SR13	Marije Michel (LAEL, Lancaster)	Primed production during computer-mediated peer interaction
20 November 2013 Bowland North SR13	Alan Waters (LAEL, Lancaster)	Thinking and Language Learning
6 November 2013 Bowland North SR 13	Dana Gablasova (LAEL, Lancaster)	Comparing L1 and L2 vocabulary acquisition: An analysis of newly learned words
23 October 2013 Bowland North SR 13	Judit Kormos (LAEL, Lancaster)	The role of textual enhancement in the acquisition of future tenses
16 October 2013 Bowland North SR 13	John Rogers (Institute of Education, University of London)	Implicit learning of L2 morphology

* Joint event with Language Testing Research Group
** Joint event with Cognitive Linguistics Research Group
*** Joint event with Language Variation Research Group