Pragmatics SIG

Pragmatics Special Interest Group

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Pragmatics SIG Events in 2005

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Saturday, May 14th, 2005

The JALT Pan-SIG Conference 2005 (day 1 of 2)

Speaker: Featured Speakers Curtis Kelly and Michael Bostwick
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (Sat., May 14th, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): 5,500 yen
Fee (One-Day members): 7,000 yen
Prefecture: Tokyo
City: Tokyo
Venue: Tokyo Keizai University
Description: The Pragmatics SIG is a co-sponsor of the JALT Pan-SIG Conference 2005, which will be held at Tokyo Keizai University, May 14-15, 2005.
The featured speakers will be Dr. Curtis Kelly of Osaka Gakuin University, who will talk on adult teaching methods, learning contracts, needs assessment and learning theories; and Dr. Michael Bostwick of Katoh Gakuen, who will give a presentation entitled Myths vs. Reality: What we Know About Early Language Learning.
For more information, visit the 2005 JALT-Pan-SIG Conference Website

Sunday, May 15th, 2005

The JALT Pan-SIG Conference 2005 (day 2 of 2)

Speaker: Featured Speakers Curtis Kelly and Michael Bostwick
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (Sun., May 15th, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): 5,500 yen
Fee (One-Day members): 7,000 yen
Prefecture: Tokyo
City: Tokyo
Venue: Tokyo Keizai University
Description: See day 1 of the JALT Pan-SIG Conference for details.

Friday, May 20th, 2005

Language Learning and Identity: From Learner Variables to Co-Construction

Speaker: Gabriele Kasper (University of Hawaii)
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM (Fri., May 20th, 2005)
Fee (JALT members): free
Fee (One-Day members): 1,000 yen
Prefecture: Tokyo
City: Tokyo
Venue: Temple University Japan Rooms 206/207
Description: The talk by Dr Gabriele Kasper will take a conversation-analytic perspective to examine identity at work in interactions between L2 users and their co-participants. The relationship between L2 learning and learners' identity has been a topical concern in SLA from early on, yet widely differing proposals have been offered to theorize this relationship - and, indeed, the notions of 'identity' and 'L2 learning' themselves. While earlier approaches favored correlational or causal models, the last decade has seen an upsurge of accounts that view language use, learning and identity as mutually constitutive, situated, emergent, and inextricably intertwined with the participation structure of specific activities. The many proposals that subscribe to this understanding have as their common denominator a view of language learning and use as social practice and of identity as something a person does (and does differently in different contexts) rather than something a person 'is' or 'has'. But the various social practice approaches differ considerably in their specific theoretical assumptions and research methodologies, with attendant consequences for their analytical capability to demonstrate rather than merely postulate the link between identity and L2 learning. The talk will take a conversation-analytic perspective to examine identity at work in interactions between L2 users and their co-participants.

Spaces are limited for participation in this seminar. If you are interested in attending please contact Megumi Kawate-Mierzejewska at jaltwesttokyo@yahoo.com

This event is co-sponsored by JALT Tokyo Chapter, JALT West Tokyo Chapter, JALT Pragmatics SIG & Temple University Japan.

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