APPLIED LINGUISTICS POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCEAPPLIED LINGUISTICS 3rd POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE...
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APPLIED LINGUISTICS
3rd POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE
Wednesday, 27th May 2015 10.45 - 17.30
King William Court, room number KW302
In collaboration with
UNIVERSITY of GREENWICH
CAROLE Centre for Applied Research and Outreach in Language Education
Department of Literature, Language and Theatre
PROGRAMME
10.45 – 11.15 Registration and refreshments 11.15 – 11.30 Opening
11.30 – 12.30 Invited speaker: Dr Rebekah Rast The American University of Paris.
Instructed third language acquisition: The first moments of Input Processing.
12.30 – 13.00 Ayah Farhat
University of Greenwich An investigation into motivation (individual differences) and its effects on
Processing Instruction in the acquisition of Modern Standard Arabic
13.00 – 13.30 Elaine López
University of York The role of explicit instruction on article acquisition in L2 English.
13.30 – 14.30 Sandwich lunch
14.30 – 15.00 Mengmeng Tang
University of York The acquisition of processing of multi-verb constructions by Chinese L2
learners of English and English L2 learners of Chinese.
15.00 – 15.30 Patricia Vázquez López University of Greenwich
On the elicitation of the knowledge of Spanish copular verbs ser and estar.
15.30 – 16.00 Haiwei Zhang
University of York Influences of writing system background on the acquisition of Pinyin and
Hanzi by Arabic and English L2 learners of Chinese.
16.00 – 16.15 Closing remarks
16.15 – 17.30 Drinks reception
Organizing Committee:
Dr. Sarah Liszka
Patricia Vázquez-López
June Ernstzen
Photograph of the Old Royal Naval College © 2014 Patricia Vázquez-López