Call for Presentations
Pan SIG 2010
Learner Perspectives
The 9th Annual JALT Pan-SIG Conference 2010
May 22-23, 2010
Osaka GakuinUniversity, Suita City, Osaka
The organizing committee of the JALT Pan-SIG Conference 2010 invites all interested applied linguistic researchers to submit presentation proposals for the 9th Annual Pan-SIG Conference, which will be held on Saturday and Sunday, May 22 and 23, 2010 at Osaka Gakuin University.
This conference is co-sponsored by the Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), Extensive Reading (ER), Framework and Language Portfolio (FLP), Global Issues in Language Education (GILE), Japanese as a Second Language (JSL), Lifelong Language Learning (LLL), Other Language Educators (OLE), Pragmatics (PRAG), Study Abroad (SA), Teacher Education (TE),Testing & Evaluation (TEVAL) Special Interest Groups, and together with the Kyoto Chapter of the Japan Association of Teaching (JALT).
Research in any area of applied linguistics will be welcome. Two types of proposals will be considered:
1. Reports on completed research
2. Works in progress (including completed research design and/or data collection)
Presentations will be 45 minutes in length (including 10 minutes for questions and answers). Preference will be given to those submissions that fit the theme of the conference and/or general interests of the SIG to which the submission is being made.
In particular, presenters that actually incorporate learners (or their voices /images/videos) are highly encouraged to submit!
Proposals
Contents:
(1) a 50-word summary,
(2) a 150-word abstract, and
(3) personal information (name, affiliation, contact details)
Send to: submissions@pansig.org
Deadline:No later than February 15, 2010
Subject line:The subject line should read:
"Submission for (XX) "
where `XX' is the abbreviated form of the SIG. i.e. (Submission for SA)
Format:
All proposals should be sent as an attachment; either as
a)Microsoft Word document (.doc), or
b)Rich Text File (.rtf) file format.
Submissions made in any other form will not be accepted.
Proposals for workshops (120 minutes) and poster sessions are also invited.
For further information, please contact Eric Skier (Pan-SIG 2010 Submissions Chair) at skier@toyaku.ac.jp or consult the conference web page at http://www.pansig.org/2010/
Second Call for Papers
Observing Talk: Conversation Analytic Studies of Second Language Interaction
JALT Pragmatics SIG Pragmatic Resources series.
Editor
Tim Greer, Kobe University, Japan
<tim(at)kobe-u.ac.jp>
As language teachers, much of our work involves talk-in-interaction. Although the participant-centered approach to talk in Conversation Analysis (CA) has been widely used in sociology over the past forty years, it has only been recently that it has received a growing interest among researchers into second language learning. Markee and Kasper (2004) proposed a possible research agenda for Conversation Analysis for Second Language Acquisition (CA for SLA) including;
- treating cognition as socially distributed
- respecifying learning as something that is observable in and through learner talk
- documenting how L2 learners accomplish aspects of their identities in talk
- focusing primarily on actions rather than language
There is a clear need to investigate what this kind of careful observation of natural interaction can offer teachers of second languages, and to make CA research more accessible to teachers and applicable to classrooms.
The JALT Pragmatics SIG is currently seeking papers for inclusion in the second book in its Pragmatic Resource Series. This collection will explore ways in which CA can be applied to investigations of interaction in second language contexts. Authors must adhere to the CA precepts of;
- privileging the participants’ actions over analyst interpretations and/or pre-existing models
- basing findings on detailed analysis of recordings of naturally-occurring interaction
- beginning with “unmotivated looking” rather than testing a hypothesis
- building collections of related interactional phenomena, based on the organizational principles of sequence, preference, turn-taking, repair, turn construction and action formation.
Papers will be considered in two main areas:
1. CA studies based on collections of phenomena from second language interaction.
These studies will inform research into ways that second language users accomplish certain social actions in their second language, and/or investigate how language learning takes place as social action. CA-based studies of novice/expert identity accomplishment in second language interaction are also welcome. Authors should also endeavor to comment on the study’s implications for learning and/or implications for classroom practice.
2. Commentary on how CA principles can be incorporated into classroom practices.
Articles in this section must be based around a practical theme, such as advising teachers on how to assess conversation, or applying CA findings to evaluate textbook dialogues or create teaching materials for second language learners. As such, the papers in this section may deviate somewhat from a traditional CA-style analysis, but should still present original ideas that are grounded in micro-level understandings of interactional data.
Papers must be written in English (4000 to 6000 words) and use APA referencing. Transcripts should follow the conventions developed by Gail Jefferson, as outlined in Schegloff (2007), and be limited to 60 characters per line, including punctuation and spaces. Any additional symbols should be clearly noted in an appendix.
Timeline
First draft due:20 February 2010
Proposed publication: November 2010
In addition, interested researchers are requested to submit a working title to the editor by January 30, 2010.
