12th Annual Conference (J-SLA2012)
J-SLA 2012
(1) Dates: June 2 and 3, 2012
(2) Place: Hosei University
(3) Plenary speaker: William O’Grady (University of Hawaii)
(4) Abstract:
Processing and Acquisition: Exploring New Possibilities
William O’Grady
Programme
Saturday, 2nd June
Language for presentation: [E] in English/[J] in Japanese
9:00 Registration (Boissonade Tower(BT)26th floor, Ichigaya Campus, Hosei Univ.)
9:20-11:30 Student Workshop (Rooms BT801, BT802, BT803)
9:20-10:00 Sawada, Saori (Gunma Prefectural Women’s University) [E]
Why do some learners achieve a high level in English without significant experience in English-speaking countries?
How can teachers motivate Japanese learners of English with a Confucian Heritage Culture-
Transferability of L1 parsing preferences to L2 parsing
9:20-10:00 Suzuki, Kazunori (Bunkyo University) [J]
Knowledge of Japanese psych adjectives by learners of Japanese and native speakers of Japanese
How and what kind of verbs do English textbooks for: Elementary schools and junior high schools introduce?
The acquisition of indirect questions by Japanese learners of English
9:20-10:00 Fukuta, Junya (Nagoya University) [J]
Statistic information of syntactic/lexical compound verb in Japanese: Toward acquisition study of compound verb from corpus analysis
The acquisition of English comparative morphemes by Japanese learners of English
12:20-12:25 Welcome and Opening Remarks (Sky Hall)
12:30-14:00 Oral Presentations Ⅰ (Sky Hall)
Chair: Yoshinaga, Naoko (Hirosaki Gakuin University)
Acquisition of wh-movement by Japanese learners of English: Feature valuation, selectional restriction, and scope interpretation
U-shaped development in Japanese speakers’ acquisition of English intransitive verbs
14:05-15:35 Poster Presentations (Conference Room A)
The effects of working memory capacity and proficiency on sentence processing by Japanese learners of English
The L2 acquisition of purpose clauses with Tameni and Youni in Japanese: Is the overgeneralization of Tameni specific to Chinese learners-
An asymmetry in acquisition of the passive construction by Japanese ESL learners
“Juncture” relations between pitch and aspiration: Phonetic acquisition considerations for Japanese learners of English
Onset effects on the perception of L2 English vowels: A pilot study
Development of English subordinate clauses in L2 acquisition
Bilingual cognition: Cognitive shift and English proficiency, results from item categorisation task in high school
The challenges faced by teachers in English activities at elementary schools
Code-switching as a strategy use in an EFL classroom in Taiwan
15:40-18:00 Oral Presentations Ⅱ(Sky Hall)
Chair: Urano, Ken (Hokkai-Gakuen University)
L2 acquisition of null subject constructions
Lexical semantic integration in second language sentence processing of relative clauses
Asymmetry in Japanese EFL Learners’ on-line sensitivity to English number agreement
18:30-20:30 Conference Dinner (Lounge, BT 26th floor, Hosei University)
● You can register for the conference dinner at the reception.
● Fee: 4,500 yen (part-time teachers and students: 2,000 yen)
Sunday, 3rd June
Language for presentation: [E] in English/[J] in Japanese
9:00 Registration (Boissonade Tower(BT)26th floor, Ichigaya Campus, Hosei Univ.)
9:20-10:50 Oral Presentations Ⅲ(Sky Hall)
Chair: Yamane, Maki (Kanagawa University)
The L2 mental lexicon: Evidence for reorganization of the mass-count distinction in L2 English by Japanese speakers
Chinese speakers’ knowledge on Japanese Verb-Verb Compounds: A preliminary study
10:55-11:55 General Meeting (Sky Hall)
12:45-14:15 Poster Presentations (Conference Room A)
The effect of preemption on the intransitive/transitive alternation in L2 English
Acoustic analysis of Japanese stops produced by Taiwanese learners
The instructional effect on the English grammar counterfactual if: A case of Japanese EFL learners
Behind the scene: A showcase of the workflow on an adjunct model of Chinese enhancement course
Contextual influence on ambiguity resolution by Japanese learners of English at different proficiency levels: Two questionnaire studies
The effect of phonetic instruction on the understanding of word identification by stressed position in L2 English
Japanese EFL learners’ Acquisition of relative clauses revisited: The application of “Latent Rank Theory”
Implicit learning of Japanese verbal inflection: The pilot
Psych verbs, causatives, and Thai learners
14:20-15:40 Plenary Address (Sky Hall)
Chair: Suzuki, Takaaki (Kyoto Sangyo University)
O’Grady, William (University of Hawaii at Manoa) [E]
Processing and Acquisition: Exploring New Possibilities
15:50-17:20 Oral Presentations Ⅳ (Sky Hall)
Chair: Koyanagi, Kaoru (Sophia University)
Evidence against purely phrasal pitch in English speakers’ L2 Japanese
Mapping acoustic cues in L2 speech perception and the acquisition of new segmental categories
17:25-17:30 Closing Remarks (Sky Hall)