J-SLA 2011
The J-SLA organizing committee would like to express our heartfelt condolences to everyone affected by the Eastern Japan Earthquake Disaster. We sincerely wish for the quickest possible recovery from this adverse situation.
The conference, J-SLA 2011, will be held as scheduled (June 11~12, 2011) at Bunkyo University, Saitama. Kanto areas, including Saitama, have also suffered damage due to the earthquake, but transportation and facilities are more or less running normally now. Please visit the website to check for further updates.
J-SLA President
Makiko Hirakawa
J-SLA 2011 Conference Chair
Ken Urano
This notice is to give an update on conditions in Japan to participants in this year’s annual J-SLA conference who are coming from abroad. You may have heard conflicting information from various media sources, so we would like to give you as accurate a picture as we can in order to assist you in making your decisions regarding travel to Japan.
As you know, the March 11th earthquake that struck off the east coast of Japan near Miyagi prefecture caused a tremendous amount of damage. The subsequent tsunami caused further damage of disaster proportions. Clean-up efforts are still underway and will continue for some time into the future. All of our hearts go out to the thousands of people who have been directly affected by the disaster.
Perhaps of greatest concern at this time are the dangers surrounding the damaged nuclear reactors in Fukushima. While the conditions there are by no means entirely under control, they are much more stable than they were in the initial days following the tsunami. Residents within a 20km (12.5 mile) radius of the reactor site have been evacuated, and those within a 30km (18.6 mile) radius are advised to consider leaving the area if possible. The U.S. government has issued a more conservative advisory to American citizens in Japan suggesting that travel to areas within an 80km (50 mile) radius of the reactor site be avoided. Bunkyo University, the site of this year’s conference, lies 260km (162 miles) from the Fukushima reactor site.
Air quality in the Tokyo area is monitored regularly, and while some increased levels of radiation have been reported from time to time, they have been temporary and have never approached levels considered to be of concern for human health.
We have experienced, and are expected to continue experiencing, numerous aftershocks, some quite strong in and of themselves. In general, however, daily life in the Tokyo area has largely returned to normal. Extensive efforts to reduce electricity consumption have resulted in the suspension of scheduled power outages, and many places of business and city facilities can therefore be found operating with reduced lighting or suspended conveniences, such as escalators. In general, public transportation systems are operating without interruption.
While it remains a possibility that conditions might change in the future, we are sufficiently satisfied with the safety and security in the Tokyo area to go ahead with the conference as scheduled. It is our sincere hope that all participants will be able to attend; however, we completely understand those whose concerns require them to change there travel plans. At the very least, we hope that this description of the conditions as they are here in Japan at this time will help you to make your decisions in an informed way.
Kindest regards,
J-SLA President
Makiko Hirakawa
- Conference Venue
- J-SLA 2011 will take place at Bunkyo University in Koshigaya City, Saitama Prefecture. The conference will be held on the 3rd floor of Building 3 (the closest building to the Main Gate).
Campus Map: http://www.bunkyo.ac.jp/stf/kkokusai/English/about/img/visiting_1.pdf - Transportation
- The closest station to the conference site, about 10 minutes' walk, is Kita-Koshigaya on the Tobu Isesaki Line (about an hour train ride from Tokyo Station). For more information about transportation between Tokyo and the conference site, please visit the following pages (University website and Google Transit).
● http://www.bunkyo.ac.jp/stf/kkokusai/English/about/visiting_1.html ● http://www.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8 &f=d&dirflg=r&hl=en&saddr=tokyo+station+japan&daddr=bunkyo+
university+koshigaya+saitama - Accommodation
- As there are few hotels near the conference site, we advise you to look for a place to stay along the Tobu Isesaki Line, such as Soka, Shin-Koshigaya (adjacent to Minami-Koshigaya on the JR Musashino Line), and Kita-Senju. For a full list of accommodation opportunities around Bunkyo University, visit:
● http://travel.rakuten.com/
● http://www.japanican.com/
You may want to check the hotels below, where you can make a reservation in English, but please note that we do not investigate, endorse or guarantee any of them.
● Toyoko Inn Souka-eki Nishi-guchi (Soka Station) http://www.japanican.com/hotels/shisetsudetail.aspx?ar=11&sar=110701&st=4473A07
● Dormy Inn Yatsuka (Yatsuka Station, next to Soka) http://www.japanican.com/hotels/shisetsudetail.aspx?st=4473A02&ref=dormy - Additional Information
- ● New Tokyo International [Narita] Airport (http://www.narita-airport.jp/en/top.html)
● Japan National Tourism Organization (http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/)
● International Tourism Center of Japan (http://www.itcj.or.jp/en/index.html)
Programme
Saturday, 11th June
Language for presentation: [E] in English/[J] in Japanese
9:00 Registration (3rd Floor, Bldg 3, Koshigaya, Bunkyo Univ)
9:20-11:30 Student Workshop (Rooms 3303, 3304, 3306)
9:20-10:00 Bai, Chunhua (Ochanomizu Women’s University) [J]
The use of case markers and word order cues during Japanese language sentence
comprehension: Bilingual learners and monolingual learners of Japanese language
Emotional speech of L2 learners and evaluation of native speakers: Focusing on “apology”
A study on the L2 acquisition of Japanese conditional sentences by Chinese‐speaking learners
9:20-10:00 Collazos, Ana Maria Diaz (University of Florida) [E]
The Japanese immigrants in Colombia: Community, identity, and L2 Spanish variation of articles
Acquisition of English relative clause by Japanese speakers
Unaccusativity and causative alternation errors by Japanese learners of English
9:20-10:00 Kimura, Hirotaka (Chuo University) [J]
The Acquisition of dative alternation in English by Japanese learners of English
The effect of syntactic structures on the use of inflectional morphology in English by Japanese speaking learners
The acquisition of English reflexives by Japanese learners of English
12:20-12:25 Welcome and Opening Remarks (Room 3301)
12:30-14:00 Oral Presentations I (Room 3301)
Chair: Matthews, John (Chuo University)
Acquisition of the unaccusative-unergative distinction in L2-Korean by Japanese and Chinese speakers
The acquisition of English complements and adjuncts by Thai learners
14:05-15:25 Poster Presentations (Rooms 3302 & 3307)
P1-1 Hasuike, Izumi (Nagoya University of Foreign Studies) & Inagaki, Shunji (Nagoya University) [J]
L1 influence in the acquisition of English spatial expressions by Japanese speakers: Through comparison with English speakers learning Japanese
Vocabulary attrition among adult English as a foreign language Persian learners
Working memory and processing of relative clauses in L2 Japanese
P1-4 Kim, Chunhyang (Tohoku University), Tanaka, Mikihiro (Showa University) & Yasunaga, Daichi (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) [J]
The syntactic influence of second language acquisition on the first language use: the case of Korean-Chinese bilingual children
Development of coping strategies against “listening stress”
15:30-17:50 Oral Presentations II (Room 3301)
Chair: Suzuki, Takaaki (Kyoto Sangyo University)
The analysis of developmental sequences in ESL acquisition based on Processability Theory
Facilitating English as a foreign language word learning: The phonotactic solution
Subject/object asymmetries in acquisition of the relative clause construction by Japanese ESL learners
18:20-20:20 Conference Dinner (Dining Hall, Bunkyo Univ)
● You can register for the conference dinner at the reception.
● Fee: 4,500 yen (part-time teachers and students: 2,000 yen)
Sunday, 12th June
Language for presentation: [E] in English/[J] in Japanese
9:00 Registration (3rd Floor, Bldg 3, Koshigaya, Bunkyo Univ)
9:20-10:50 Oral Presentations III (Room 3301)
Chair: Yamane, Maki (Kanagawa University)
Syntactic feature transfer in L2 acquisition: Reflexive binding in Chinese and Japanese
Processing of subject-verb agreement in English by Japanese learners of English: An event-related brain potential study
10:55.11:55 General Meeting (Room 3301)
12:45.14:15 Poster Presentations (Rooms 3302-3304)
P2-1 Lee, Siu-lun (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) [E]
Acquisition of lexical cohesion links and discourse development: Cases from Japanese learners learning Chinese as a foreign language in Hong Kong
Bilingual cognition: Perceptual differences between monolingual and bilingual speakers
On the impact of concept mapping strategy on Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners' motivation toward writing skill
P2-4 Suzuki, Takaaki, Okazaki, Yuki & Gokenya Ryosuke (Kyoto Sangyo University) [J]
Preposition pied-piping and stranding in second language acquisition of English relative
clauses: The effects of the distinction between complements and adjuncts
What do timed grammaticality judgment tests reveal in terms of the framework of implicit and explicit knowledge?
P2-6 Yamamoto, Akio (Gakushuin Boys’ Senior High School & Gakushuin University) [J]
Measurement of reading stamina
14:20-15:40 Plenary Address (Room 3301)
Chair: Hirakawa, Makiko (Bunkyo University)
Slabakova, Roumyana (University of Iowa) [E]
L2 knowledge at the mapping of syntax and discourse
15:50-17:20 Oral Presentations IV (Room 3301)
Chair: Urano, Ken (Hokkai Gakuen University)
The role of semantic transparency in interpreting picture noun reflexives
Japanese “juncture” relations between pitch and pause: Acoustic phonetic considerations for native Japanese speakers
17:25-17:30 Closing Remarks (Room 3301)
