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The Japan Second Language Association
The 8th Annual Conference of the Japan Second Language Association
Date： May 31 - June 1, 2008
Place：

Kyoto University of Foreign Studies Building 1, 7th floor

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Plenary Speaker :

Lydia White (McGill University)

The Critical Period Hypothesis: a UG Perspective

Sunday, 1st June　14:40〜15:55

Program

Languages for presentations: [J] in Japanese, [E] in English

Saturday, 31st May

9:30-　Registration

10:00-11:30  Workshop

Takahiro Ono (Kyoto University of Foreign Studies)
Principles of UG and Language-specific Realization [J]

 

12:30-12:35 Welcome and opening remarks

Oral Presentation- I　Chair: Miki Shibata (University of the Ryukyus)

12:40-13:25
Kazuyuki Shite (Tokyo University of Social Welfare)
Implicit vs. explicit knowledge in Japanese EFL learners [E]
 
13:35-14:20　
Neal Snape (Hokkaido University), Ayse Gurel (Bogazici University), Maria del Pilar Garcia-Mayo (Universidad del Pais Vasco), & David Barner (University of Toronto)
L2 acquisition of English generic NPs by Japanese, Chinese, Spanish and Turkish speakers [E]
 
14:30-14:45　Notice of Newly released publications
 

14:50-16:20　Poster Presentations

Nagatomo, Takashi (Takachiho Senior High School), Hasebe, Megumi (Gifu University) & Kasai, Chise (Gifu University)
The order of morpheme acquisition by EFL senior high school students [E]
 
Masa Tsuneyasu (Shibaura Institute of Technology)
The treatment of students’ oral errors: Providing effective feedback [E]
 
Kenichi Ohyama (Graduate school of Waseda University)
Reconsideration and Adaptation of ‘Juncture’: Reformed Viewpoints between Segmental and Prosodic Functions by Japanese Learners of English [E]
 
Ryoko Oi (Ohio University)
Object drop in Japanese learners of English: Effects of verb semantics and linguistic context [E]
 
Diana Hsien-jen Chin (Wenzao Ursuline College of Language)
The influence of L2 proficiency on interlanguage transfer:
an investigation on Chinese-English-Spanish trilinguals [E]
 
Kailash Kattalay (International Institute of Information Technoloy)
Grammar and multilingualism [E]
 
Inoue, Yumi (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) & Ohno, Kazutoshi (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Overextended Use of Japanese Intransitive Verb's Potential Form
by L1 Cantonese Learners of Japanese [E]
 
Keiko Asano (Juntendo University), Masaya Ohba (Kanazawa-Gakuin University, Yokohama National University)
Constructing Grammatical Knowledge among Japanese Learners of English - an Analysis through the Result of Grammar Test - [J]
 
Norifumi Ueda (Mejiro University)
A Study on Developmental Processes in the Mental Lexicon of Japanese Learners of English: A Case of Vocabulary Acquisition of English Prepositions [J]
 
Yasunori Morishima (International Christian University), Sahoko Hashimoto (International Christian University), Sayaka Sato (International Christian University)
The Effects of Readers’ Prior Knowledge and Text Coherence on Comprehension [J]
 
Sawetaiyaram Tewich (Nagoya University)
Emergence of knowledge of passive voice in Japanese discourse:
A case of novice learners from Thailand [J]
 
Takaaki Suzuki (Kyoto Sangyo University), Akimasa Shigeta (Kyoto Sangyo University), Mizuho Hitomi (Kyoto Sangyo University)
Anaphoric expressions in infinitival clauses: Binding Principles A and B
in SLA [J]
 
Reiichiro Uno (Kumamoto University), Yoshihiro Ekawa (Kumamoto University)，Toshihiro Kita (Kumamoto University)，Sachi Takahashi (Kumamoto University)
Designing and developing the on-line program for learning business English based on Story-Centered Curriculum [J]
 
Tomohiro Hakari (Chuo University), Shigenori Wakabayashi (Chuo University), Mayumi Shibuya (Chuo University)
Null prepositions in interlanguage: Consideration from the acquisition
of pseudo-passives [J]

Oral Presentation- II　Chair: Hirokazu Sawasaki (University of Shizuoka)

16:30-17:15
Tomohiko Shirahata (Shizuoka University), Mitsuko Hisano (Shizuoka University)
Interpretation of Japanese focus expressions dake(ga) and dake(o)
in Chinese learners of Japanese [J]
 
17:25-18:10
Ya-Ling Su (Tohoku University)
The Acquisition Process of Japanese Case Particles wo and ni
by Chinese JSL learners-from the viewpoints of transitivity and animacy- [J]


Banquet
Registration: You can register for the banquet at the reception.
Time: 18:30-20:30
Place: Building 11, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies
Fee: 4,500 yen (Part-time teachers and students 2,000 yen)
 

Sunday, 1st June

9:30-　Registration

Oral Presentation- III　Chair: Hideki Yokota (Gifu University of Medical Science)

10:00-10:45
Tamami Katayama (Hokkaido University)
Suprasegmental Effects on the Perception of Compound Words and Phrases by Native and Non-native English Speakers [J]
 
10:55-11:40
Keiko Tsubokura (Shimane University), Hiroyuki Nawata (Shimane University)
On the Acquisition of the Subject by Japanese Learners of English:
A Survey of Junior High School Students [J]
 

11:50-12:50 General meeting

13:00-14:30　Poster Presentations
Kimi Nakatsukasa (Michigan State University)
Impact of instructor's gesture on the analysis of corrective feedback
in Japanese as a foreign language classroom [E]
 
Anastasia A. Atabekova　(Peoples' Friendship University of Russia)
Cognition, professional culture and interpretation skills in Second Language Acquisition for Specific Purposes [E]
 
Heng-Yu Shao, Pei -Lun Tsai, Hsuan-Jung Chiang, & Ya-Jyun, Zeng (Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages)
The influence of age on English learners’ motivation: A study on child
and teenage EFL learners in Taiwan. [E]
 
Hideki Maki, Chise Kasai, Kazushige Takahashi, Megumi Hasebe (Gifu University), Toshiro Umezawa (Gifu City Women's College) , & Mayu Kashimura (Gifu National College of Technology)
Correlation Between Production and Perception in Acquisition of ESL [E]
 
Hashimoto, Ken-ichi (University of Queensland)
Frequency effects on second language acquisition:
a view from relative clause processing [E]
 
Kano, Akihiro (Kwassui Women’s College)
Binding Theory Condition A and Psych-Predicates [E]
 
Yasuyo Tomita (University of Toronto)
Form-focused instruction and investment in second language communication: A pilot study with Japanese ESL learners in Toronto [E]
 
Akiko Hagiwara (The University of Iowa)
L2 learners’ grammatical judgments on the Japanese auxiliary verbs “give” and “receive” [J]
 
Aditya Kumar (Osaka University)
The Acquisition of Japanese Demonstratives [Ko / So / A] by Hindi Native Speakers [J]
 
Michiaki Matsumoto (Kyushu Lutheran College), Hiroko Yamashita (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Syntactic Priming in L2 Learners and the Lemma Structure [J]
 
Tomoko Sekiguchi (Tokai University)
Acquisition of English Resultative Constructions by Japanese Learners [J]
 
Nobumi Nakai ( Meikai University)
Japanese L2 Learners’ Partial Comprehension in English Wh-questions [J]
 
Mayumi Shibuya (Chuo University), Shigenori Wakabayashi (Chuo University), Tomohiro Hakari (Chuo University), Saiko Goto (Gumna Prefectural Women’s University)
The acquisition of the English dative alternation in adult Japanese learners of English [J]
 
Hideki Yokota (Gifu University of Medical Science) & Andrew Radford (University of Essex)
On Clausal Pied-piping and Do-support in Japanese Learners’ English wh-questions [J]

Plenary Speech-　Chair: Makiko Hirakawa (Bunkyo University)

14:40-15:55

Lydia White (McGill University)

The Critical Period Hypothesis: a UG Perspective [E]

Oral Presentation- IV　Chair: Shuhei Kadota (Kwansei Gakuin University)

16:05-16:50
Li Zeng (City University of Hong Kong)
L2 acquisition of the long-distance binding and blocking effect of Chinese reflexive ziji by English speakers [E]
 
17:00-17:45
Steeve Mercier (Laval University)
The role of syntax/ phonology and syntax/ pragmatic interfaces
in the acquisition of French accusative clitics by L1 Japanese and L1 Chinese learners [E]
 

17:50-18:00　Closing remarks

 

For more information, please contact Shigenori Wakabayashi:
swkbys37@tamacc.chuo-u.ac.jp