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Dear Colleague: We are pleased to announce that the proceedings of the First University of Texas at Austin Spanish Second Language Acquisition Symposium held on October 3-4, 1997 are now available. The proceedings feature nine articles, as listed below. You may obtain a copy by filling out the form at the bottom of this page and sending a check to the address indicated. We are sure you will enjoy reading these fine papers and thank you for your support of this publication. Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education SPECIAL ISSUE: LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVES FROM SPANISH 2ND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION Volume 3 Number 3 Fall 1998 1 REBECCA JO BEARDEN Discourse Features of Spanish Oral Production at the Novice Level 33 DALE APRIL KOIKE and FANNY HINOJOSA A Discourse Approach to the Assessment of Foreign Language Oral Proficiency 51 MARA RAMREZ-MAYBERRY Acquisition of Spanish Definite Articles by English-Speaking Learners of Spanish 69 CHRISTOPHER D. GASCN The Spanish Psych Verb Construction: Beginning and Intermediate Learners' Patterns of Usage 85 MARY ZAMPINI The Relationship Between the Production and Perception of Second Language Spanish Stops 100 JEFFREY REEDER An Acoustic Description of the Longitudinal Acquisition of Spanish Phonological Features by English Speaking Adult Learners 119 BARBARA GONZLEZ-PINO Prochievement Testing: Matching Instructor Expectations, Student Level, and Task Levels 133 MICHAEL GUERRERO Current Issues in the Spanish Language Proficiency of Bilingual Education Teachers 149 MARGARET ANN KASSEN Multiple Challenges of Multimedia: Development, Implementation, and Evaluation in Second Semester Spanish - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please send me _______ copies of the SSLAS proceedings, at $8.00 per copy, plus $_____(see chart below) per copy for postage and handling. Postage and handling: U.S. $1.25 Canada $3.27 Mexico $3.60 Europe $6.36 Asia $8.15 Total enclosed: ____________ Send check payable to LSSPD (Linguistics Students of the Spanish and Portuguese Dept.) and information form to: Dale Koike/SSLAS Department of Spanish and Portuguese University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712 Name______________________________________________________________ Address____________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ Phone: _________________________ e-mail: __________________________Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
British Computer Society Natural Language Translation Specialist Group URL: http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/sg37.htm Forthcoming meeting ------------------ Date: Thursday 26 November 1998, 6.30pm - 8.00pm. Venue: Room 331, King's College London, The Strand, London WC2, U.K. Topic: Professor Tony Hartley (University of Brighton) will talk on "Going live with MT in Academe" or "Why vacuum-packed MT is stale fare for students" The meeting will be preceded by the Group's brief Annual General Meeting. ---------------------- How to get there: Underground: The nearest Underground station is Temple (District and Circle lines). Buses: 1, 4, 5, 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 23, 67, 77, 170, 171, 172, 176, 188, 501, 502, 513. British Rail stations: Blackfriars, Charing Cross, City Thameslink. Road: King's College is situated on the south side of the Strand and near its east end. The Aldwych and Bush House are immediately north. Car parking is not available on the premises but there are parking garages nearby. Entrance to meetings is free and all are welcome. It is a custom of our group that after a lecture, members of the audience, Group members and the speaker adjourn to a nearby restaurant in Covent Garden, London WC1, for a meal to continue discussing machine translation and linguistic matters in general and the speaker's subject in particular. You will be very welcome to join but you will be asked to pay for your meal; a main course together with a glass of wine might cost from GBP 8 (eight pounds). For further details please contact the Group's Secretary; Monique L'Huillier, Telephone: +44 (0)1784-443 243 or +44 (0)1276-20488. E-mail: m.lhuillierMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuevms.rhbnc.ac.uk Details of this meeting are posted on the Group's web-site at http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/sg37.htm --------------------------------------------------------------- Roger Harris (rwsh
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