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AAAL: American Association of Applied Linguistics

From April 21-24, I attended and presented at the AAAL in Costa Mesa, Orange County, California. A dear friend and colleague from Venezuela and I had never attended this convention before and felt as if we were surrounded by the rock stars of Applied Linguistics, authors we have cited countless times and whose articles and books we have read for many years: William Grabe, Tom Cobb, Marlise Horst, Norbert Schmitt, Diane Schmitt, Elizabeth Bernhardt, Rod Ellis,  Keiko Koda, Barbara Kroll, Diane Larsen-Freeman, Fredricka Stoller, Zoltán Dörnyei, Doug Biber, Hossein Nassaji, James Lantolf,  William Labov and the superstars from University of  Toronto Jim Cummins, Merril Swain, Nina Spada, Alister Cumming and Sharon Lapkin ... It was a thrill to run into Grabe, Cobb, Horst and the Schmitts in almost all the presentations we went to as they dealt mostly with common areas of interest: lexical acquisition and reading comprehension.

Here is my presentation, as promised. I was honored to have Prof. Grabe in the audience and later have my study mentioned by him at the Invited Colloquium on Reading.

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