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Subject:      Multiple Recipients of SLART: LARS 92 3rd Circular

                                           LARS

                            Second Language Acquisition Research
                                  The State of the Art
                                   19-21, August 1992
                               Third Circular (April 1992)

LARS 92 will be organised under the auspices of EUROSLA (the European Second
Language Association) and the Scientific Commission on Second Language Acquisiti
   on of
AILA (Association Internationale de la Linguistique Applique). Amongst those exp
   ected
so far are the following: Vivian Cook (Essex, UK), Suzanne Flynn (MIT, USA), Sus
   an
Gass (Michigan State, USA), Esther Glahn (Copenhagen, Denmark), Helen Goodluck
(Ottawa, Canada), Kevin Gregg (Osaka, Japan), Allan James (Amsterdam), Eric
Kellerman (Nijmegen), Juana Liceras (Ottawa, Canada) Clive Perdue (Max Planck,
Nijmegen), Peter Peterson (Newcastle, Australia), Antonella Sorace (Edinburgh, U
   K),
Bonnie Schwartz (Boston, USA), Daniel Vronique (Aix-en-Provence, France), Lydia
White (Montral, Canada)

DAY I: STATE OF THE ART ROUND TABLE (open session)

Aim: To survey the state of the art in different research areas of second
language theory and identify theoretically important problems for future
research .

Participants: Speakers will participate as members of a round table but the
day's proceedings will be open to a wider audience who will have a chance,
time permitting, to ask questions and make comments after the round table
members have been given their chance to discuss the presentations just
given (see timetable below). Presenters will be asked to give a state of the
art description of their particular area of interest summing up the main
trends/controversies and, by way of illustration only, selecting some area for
development in the near future. Contributions should be not longer than
thirty minutes. Some speakers will be invited but unsollicited abstracts are
welcome up until May 15th.

Areas 1) Syntax, 2) phonology, 3) lexis 4) pragmatics and discourse 5)
learning strategies, 6) communication studies 7) SLA plus sister discipline(s)
DAY 2 : MORNING SESSION PLUS AFTERNOON WORKSHOP

Morning Session (open): The morning will be reserved for some standard conferenc
   e
presentations on theoretical and methodological issues in SLA. (Unsollicited
abstracts welcome up until May 15th).

Afternoon Session (restricted): Workshop on SLA as an academic subject (limited
participation)

Aim: to discuss and share information about the way in which various academic
teaching programmes on SLA round the world figure in a wider academic context.

Participants will present descriptions of how SLA programmes are organised in
particular academic institutions detailing academic level/audience, topics, cove
   red,
contact hours, requirements for completion of course, etc. This will facilitate
   the
creation of study guides for students wanting to study abroad and accreditation
   of
courses.  Speakers will make short (15 minute) descriptions of programmes
circulated to them in advance by people in their geographical area. These should
    be
sent well in advance to allow each speaker to make some overall comparisons to
guide the participants through the material which will be distributed in advance
    of
the day's proceedings. In this way it should not be necessary to sacrifice cover
   age
because participants from some active centre are not able to come.

Workshop Participants: Invited participants. 25-40. Sample centres:          1)
Finland 2) Austria 3) USA, 4) Canada, 5) Scandinavia 6) The British Isles 7) The

Low Countries, 8) Germany, 9) France, 10) Australia and S.E. Asia


DAY 3: COMBINED BUSINESS MEETING
EUROSLA Executive Committee and the AILA Scientific Committee on Second
Language Acquisition

Aim: To bring participants up to date on international activities in SLA
(associations, conferences, etc.) and to discuss issues concerning SLA research
   and
how it is received and disseminated in applied and other theoretical circles wor
   ld-
wide and the possible role for organisations such as EUROSLA, PacSLRF and the
AILA Scientific Commission..

Participants: As on Day 2 plus interested members of committees of
relevant associations. Requests for points to be put on the agenda should be
sent in well in advance.
_______________________________________________________________

PUBLICATION: Those papers presented on the first day of LARS 92 will
automatically be considered for early publication in Second Language
Research and speakers will be asked to have final versions ready soon after
the conference.

*REGISTRATION: Open Day: Students and members of EUROSLA: Hfl.
25.--
                                        Others: Hfl 30.--.
               The whole symposium (invited members only):
                                        Eurosla members: Hfl. 40.--
                                        Others: Hfl. 50.--

The LARS account is:
L.A.R.S. '86  Nr. 68.72.24.594. NMB Bank, Vredenburg 2, 3511 BA,
UTRECHT.
*Please allow 20 guilders for processing foreign cheques

ABSTRACTS: to be sent by May 15th (approx 200 words with name,
mailing address and affiliation on separate card) to:

Mike Sharwood Smith,
LARS '92 Organising Committee
Trans 10, 3512 JK, Utrecht
The Netherlands
Fax *30-333380
Email Mike.S.Smith@let.ruu.nl

*ACCOMMODATION (URGENT!): Participants should write NOW to:
VVV Utrecht, Vredenburg 90, 3511 BD UTRECHT (the City Tourist
Bureau), tel: *30-331544 (Fax: *30-331417) to arrange their
accommodation. BOOK EARLY! (Guest speakers should tell us now
whether they wish us to arrange their bookings)
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