LINGUIST List 7.1216

Sun Sep 1 1996

Calls: Teachers of Japanese, Romance ling

Editor for this issue: Ann Dizdar <dizdartam2000.tamu.edu>

Directory

1. Yuki Johnson, Lake Erie Teachers of Japanese Conference
2. "M. de Wind", Tenth Symposium on Romance Linguistics

First Call:

 The Ninth Annual
 Lake Erie Teachers of Japanese Conference
 The University of Michigan
 April 5 - 6, 1997

 "Proficiency" in Japanese Language Teaching:
 Current Issues in Theory and Practice

CALL FOR PAPERS!!

Abstracts can be submitted for 20 minute talks (followed by 10 minutes
for discussion) concerned with proficiency in Japanese language
teaching from theoretical or practical perspectives. Throughout the
conference, we intend to look at the pros and cons of proficiency
oriented instruction. We welcome papers address issues in reading,
speaking, listening, and/or writing skill(s) related to
proficiency-based instruction as well as testing proficiency.
Abstracts should outline the main points of the presentation,
describing any results or techniques to be presented, and indicate why
the work is significant.

Keynote speaker:
Professor Theodore V. Higgs, Chairman of the Department of Spanish and
Portuguese at San Diego State University will open the conference with
a keynote address on oral performance testing.

Please submit three copies of a one-page, anonymous abstract
(approximately 500 words) along with a separate information sheet,
including your name, title of the paper, affiliation, address,
tel/fax/e-mail, and special equipment necessary for the presentation.
Please do not send abstracts by e-mail.

The deadline for receipt of abstracts is January 10, 1997.

Send abstracts to: Yuki Johnson
 University of Michigan
 Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
 3070 Frieze Bldg., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285.
 Phone: (313) 647-2091
 Fax: (313) 647-0157

If you are not currently on the Lake Erie Teachers of Japanese
Conference mailing list, and wish to have information on the
conference mailed to you, please send an e-mail message to:
yukijohnumich.edu

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Yuki Johnson, Ph.D. E-mail: yukijohnumich.edu
Coordinator of Japanese Phone: 313-647-2091(O)
University of Michigan 313-332-0503(H)
Asian Languages and Cultures Fax: 313-647-0157
3070 Frieze Bldg.
nn Arbor, MI 48109-1285
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 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
 GOING ROMANCE 1996
 
 Tenth Symposium on Romance Linguistics
 Utrecht, December 12 - 14
 Research Institute for Language and Speech (OTS Utrecht)
 Holland Institute of generative Linguistics (HIL)
 
 
Abstracts are invited for thirty minute talks (with an additional ten
minutes for discussion) in all areas of Romance linguistics. Abstracts
should be anonymous, and should be no longer than two pages, with
margins of at least 1 inch, in a typeface no smaller than 12 point.
Submissions are limited to a maximum of one individual and one joint
abstract per author. Please provide 7 anonymous copies of the abstract
and 1 camera-ready original with the author's name and affiliation.
Abstracts submitted by e-mail or fax can be accepted under the
condition that the camera-ready original is received within 1 week. A
separate card should contain the title, author's name, affiliation,
address, telephone number and e-mail address if available.
 
The following speakers have accepted our invitation:

 GENNARO CHIERCHIA VIVIANE DEPREZ
 CARMEN DOBROVIE-SORIN
 IAN ROBERTS ESTHER TORREGO

Abstracts should be sent to the following address:

Going Romance 1996 E-mail:Going.Romancelet.ruu.nl
Research Institute for 
Language and Speech (OTS)
Utrecht University Phone: ++31-30-2536006
Trans 10
3512 JK Utrecht Fax: ++31-30-2536000
The Netherlands

Deadline for receipt of abstracts is september 20, 1996

Organizing Committee: Frank Drijkoningen (OTS/Department of Romance)
 Brigitte Kampers (University of Groningen)
 Josep Quer (OTS)
 Jan Schroten (OTS/Department of Romance)
 Maarten de Wind (HIL/University of Amsterdam)