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Directory         1.    Ruxandra Comanaru, Bloomsbury Round Table on Communication, Cognition & Culture Message 1: Bloomsbury Round Table on Communication, Cognition & Culture Date: 07-Jun-2010 From: Ruxandra Comanaru <rcoman01students.bbk.ac.uk> Subject: Bloomsbury Round Table on Communication, Cognition & Culture E-mail this message to a friend Bloomsbury Round Table on Communication, Cognition & Culture Date: 24-Jun-2010 - 25-Jun-2010 Location: London, United Kingdom Contact: Jean Marc Dewaele Contact Email: j.dewaelebbk.ac.uk Meeting URL: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/linguistics/about-us/our-events/round-table Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistics Meeting Description: The Bloomsbury Round Table on Communication, Cognition & Culture is an annual, international event, jointly hosted by adjacent colleges of the University of London, led by Birkbeck College, where researchers at different stages of their career are invited to present the latest work in the broad fields of Language, Communication and Cognition. This year the event will be co-organised by the International Association of Multilingualism, the AILA Research network Multilingualism: Acquisition and Use' and Birkbeck's Centre for Multilingual & Multicultural Research. The Thematic Focus will be on 'The Multiple Faces of Multilingualism.' Bloomsbury Round Table Timetable 2010 Thursday 24/6 9:30 Registration, Malet Street, ROOM B04 10:00 Opening 10:15 Li Wei (Birkbeck College, University of London): Creativity, Criticality and Multilingual Practices of Minority Ethnic Children 10:50 Gessica De Angelis (University of Bolzano, Italy) & Ulrike Jessner (University of Innsbruck, Austria): Writing Across Languages 11:25-11:40 Break 11:40 Anne Pauwels (SOAS): 'Being Cool': Gender and Language Practicesin Multilingual Settings 12:15 - 13:45 Lunch break (own initiative - addresses will be provided) 13:45-14:30 Poster Session in ROOM B04 Session A Malet Street, ROOM B04 14:30 Tsafi Timor (Kibbutzim College of Education, Israel): The Use of Mother Tongue in Foreign Language Acquisition 14:55 Rebecca Mitchell (University of Cambridge): Notre langue, c'est nous-mêmes': Language, Identity and Cultural Conflict in Gabon 15:20 Ji Meng (Tohoku University, Japan): East Asian Model of Multilingualism in the Making: A Comparative Study of Five East Asian Countries 15:45-16:00 Break 16:00-16:25 Shahnaz Kazemi, Islamic Azad University, Iran The Effect of Setting Reading Goals on the Vocabulary Retention of Iranian EFL Learner 16:25-16:50 Kellie Goncalves (University of Berne, Switzerland): "It's so Much More Comfortable to Speak the Local Language than to Speak High German when English is Your First Language": Language Practices within Intercultural Couples in a Multilingual Setting 16:50-17:15 Alma Rodriguez-Tsuda (University of Southampton): Adult English L2 Learning in an English Urban Context: Issues of Gender, Identity and Social Context Session B Building Malet Street MAL 152 14:30 Habibullah Pathan (University of Glasgow): Languages and Multilingualism in Pakistan 14:55 Mandira Halder (University of Nantes, France): Modelling Grammar Instruction in a Multilingual Classroom 15:20 Martin Pickett (University of Portsmouth): Understanding why English Mother Tongue Speakers Learn Foreign Languages? Bridging the Gap in the Literature and Preparing the Way for New Research beyond the Classroom 15:45-16:00 Break 16:00-16:25 Erida Prifti (University of Vlora, Albania): Designing an Assessment Instrument to Measure Student Performance in Consecutive and Simultaneous Interpreting 16:25-16:50 Maria Kambanaros, European University Cyprus, Bilingual Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI): How do They Compare with Monolingual SLI children 16:50-17:15 Elena Salakhian (University of Tuebingen, Germany): Emergence of Eastern European English: Empirical Findings and Theoretical Considerations 17:15-18:00 Reception Friday 25/6 Malet Street, ROOM B04, 10:00 Raphaele Berthele (University of Fribourg): Simple Heuristics and Abduction in Receptive Multilingualism 10:40 Larissa Aronin (University of Haifa & Muiris Ó Laoire, Institute of Technology, Tralee): The Multiple Faces of Multilingualism: Language Nominations 11:20-11:35 Break 11:50 John O'Regan (Institute of Education): The Discourse of Intercultural Communication: Aporias of Praxis in the Intercultural Public Sphere 12:30-14:00 Lunch break 14:00 Sian Preece (Institute of Education): Imagining English-medium Universities as Multilingual Spaces Session A Malet Street, Room B04 14:40 Kyoko Motobayashi, OISE, University of Toronto, Canada, Language Dependency in Bilingual Autobiographic Writing: The Cases of Japanese-English Bilingual Students with Transcultural Experiences 15:05 Katharina Schuhmann (SUNY Stony Brook, USA): Perceptual Learning in Hindi-English Bilinguals 15:30 Maria Pilar Safont Jorda (Universitait Jaume I, Spain): Early Pragmatic Development in Consecutive Third Language Learning 15:55 Michaela Hilbert (Otto-Friedrich-Universität, Germany): The Importance of Imitation: Non-standard Inversion as a Learner Phenomenon in English Contact Varieties 16:20 Marie Werndin (Stockholm University, Sweden): Understanding the Young and their Language Practices and Representations in the Research Context Session B Malet Street Building MAL B30 14:40 Mahmoud A. Al-Khatib (University of Science & Tech., Irbid, Jordan): Language and Cultural Shift among the Kurds of Jordan 15:05 Gopa Nayak (University of Oxford): Can E-books Play any Role in Developing Reading Skills in Young Chinese ESL Learners in Hong Kong? 15:30 Karim Siebeneicher Brito (Universidade Federal do Paranco, Brazil): Inferencing Word Meaning by Multilinguals: the Role of Previously Learned Languages 15:55 Bissera Gorgatchev (Université Paris 13): Foreign Language Acquisition and L1 Interference 16:20 Sara Mansoori (Islamic Azad University-Najafabad, Iran): Error Analysis: A Case of Second Language Writing 16:45 General discussion on issues that have arisen 17:00 End of Workshop Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 09-Jun-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.