J-SLA : The Japan Second Language Association

The 10th Annual Conference of the Japan Second Language Association

Date：	June 12 - 13, 2010
Place：	Gifu University

Plenary Speaker :

Vivian J. Cook（Newcastle University）

Thinking in a mind with two languages

Sunday, 13th June 14:25~15:40

Program

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

Saturday, 30th May

9:00 - Registration

9:20 -10:45 Student Workshop

Room1

9:20 - 10:00

Shizuka Goto, Nana Kondo & Misaki Minoura (Gifu University)

Bilingual cognition: The effect of second language acquisition, the results from the Muller-Lyer Illusion [E]

10:05 - 10:45

Su Yu-ting (National Chung Cheng University)

Native and nonnative phonemic perception in early bilinguals: The case of Mandarin and Southern Min Bilinguals [E]

Room2

9:20 - 10:00

Mayumi Shibuya (Chuo University)

The effect of features and structures on the processing of subject-verb agreement in L2 English [J]

10:05 - 10:45

Hiroya Shimizu (University of Shizuoka)

Acquisition of third-person singular morpheme -s by Japanese high school students [J]

Room3

9:20 - 10:00

Dewi Kusrini (Osaka Prefecture University)

A study of the acquisition of Japanese benefactive expressions by Indonesian Japanese learners [J]

10:50-10:55 Welcome and opening remarks

Oral Presentations- I

11:00-11:40

Hideki Maki (Gifu University), Juri Yoshimura (Gifu University), Toshiro Umezawa (Gifu City Women’s College) & Kenichi Goto (Nisshin Junior High School)

Acquisition of operator movement constructions by Japanese ESL learners: A preliminary study [E]

11:50-12:30

Tomoko Monou (Keio University)

L2 acquisition of ellipsis [E]

13:20-14:50 Poster Presentations

William Dalton (McGill University)

Achieving native-like production: The second language acquisition of allophonic alternations [E]

Marta Medved Krajnovi (University of Zagreb, Croatia)

Multicompetence, the age factor and first language attrition [E]

Shinsuke Tsuchiya (Brigham Young University)

Japanese language learners’ interlanguage: Differences between tutored learners and untutored learners and language development processes of tutored classroom learners [E]

Kenichi Ohyama (Waseda University)

Phonetic characteristics of “juncture”: Linguistic comparative considerations between English and Japanese functions [E]

Yi-hsiu, Lai (National University of Kaohsiung)

Production of Mandarin nasal codas by L1 and L2 speakers of Mandarin: From acoustic cues and perceptual judgment [E]

Tamami Katayama (Prefectural University of Hiroshima)

Effects of syllable duration on word boundary of non-words [J]

Yong Zhai & Tsutomu Sakamoto (Kyushu University)

The processing of empty subject constructions by L1 English / L2 Chinese learners [J]

Eriko Suzuki (Tohoku University)

A study about the relationship between L1 and L2: A case of Chinese learners of Japanese [J]

Chen Xi (Xi’an Foreign Language University)

A study on how Japanese learners recognize Japanese compound verbs: Based on an analysis of learners’ actual usage in a corpus [J]

Yumi Inoue (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Investigating errors of Japanese intransitive verbs’ potential form by L2 Cantonese learners of Japanese: Meaning of the sentence or verb morphology? [J]

Keiko Fukaya (St. Luke’s College of Nursing), Yukie Horiba (Kanda University of International Studies), Takashi Saito (Kanda University of International Studies) & Haruko Hishida (St. Luke’s College of Nursing)

Is it a language problem or knowledge problem that foreign nurses face in the national examination for nurses? [J]

Oral Presentations- II

15:00 - 15:40

Shunji Inagaki (Nagoya University)

Chinese and English speakers’ acquisition of motion expressions in Japanese [J]

15:50 - 16:30

Hitoha Oda (Asuka Gakuin)

Acquisition of Japanese particle “mo” by native Vietnamese speakers [J]

16:40 - 17:20

Becky Taylor (Nagoya University)

Pitch accent production of isolated nouns by British English learners of Japanese [J]

Sunday, 31st May

9:00 - Registration

Oral Presentations- III

9:20 - 10:00

Nao Ishino (Kwansei Gakuin University)

L2 acquisition of reflexives through feature transfer [J]

10:10 - 10:50

Noriko Yoshimura (University of Shizuoka) & Mineharu Nakayama (The Ohio State University)

Move α in interlanguage grammar: WH-movement or scrambling? [J]

12:10 -13:10 General meeting

13:20 -14:10　Poster Presentations

Miho Sasaki & Kazumi Matsuoka (Keio University)

Visual word recognition by Japanese signers in L2: How deaf people read Japanese as a second language [E]

Chise Kasai (Gifu University), Megumi Hasebe (Gifu University), Santiago Rodrigues de Lima (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies) & Akina Okada (Gifu University)

Bilingual cognition: The effect of a plural morphology language on speakers of a numeral classifier language [E]

Akihiro Kano & Yumi Fukushima (Kwassui Women’s College)

Binding Principle C and psych-verb constructions in L2 acquisition [E]

Masako Suzuki, Jiro Hasumi & Satoshi Atobe (Keio University)

Examining the relation between eye contact ratio and speaking assessment [E]

Pe-shi Weng (Tamkang University, Taiwan)

The impact of different social class mothers’ verbal input on children’s language acquisition [E]

Seth Goss & Mineharu Nakayama (Ohio State University)

Prosodic production in L2 Japanese [E]

Atsuko Kamezawa (J F. Oberlin University) & Maki Yamane (Kanagawa University)

Acquisition of Japanese particle deletion by L1-Hindi speakers [J]

Koji Suda (Toyama Prefectural University)