Call for Papers:

2009 SLA Graduate Student Symposium: Second Language Acquisition in
the 21st Century

Madison, Wisconsin
April 17 & 18, 2009

The University of Iowa and The University of Wisconsin-Madison had its
first annual SLA Graduate Student Symposium on April 11-12, 2008 in
Madison, Wisconsin. It was a very successful event and it will be
offered again this spring.

  The Second Language Acquisition Program at the University of Iowa is calling for papers for the 2009 SLA Graduate Student Symposium. The graduate students at the University of Iowa and the University of Wisconsin–Madison have formed a partnership to host this annual conference, with organization and hosting of the conference alternating between the universities. Our purpose is to provide an opportunity for graduate students in SLA and related disciplines to present their work and meet distinguished researchers in their field. The theme of the 2009 symposium is “SLA in the 21st Century.”

We would like to present topics from a variety of areas that inform current and future trends in SLA research, including the following: generative, psycholinguistic, and social approaches, technology in language teaching, implications of SLA research for instruction, and others. We seek proposals from graduate student researchers, both theoretical and empirical, that reflect the differing perspectives and methods currently used in SLA research. The research may be interdisciplinary in nature. We are willing to consider pilot studies, pre-dissertation studies, or work-in-progress projects.

More information and call for papers: http://international.uiowa.edu/centers/flare/news/default.asp