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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.

Posted by: BertaLeiva at 02:18 | link | comments (2)

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#1  29 April 2007 - 06:38

 

There is much in your study that goes over my head but I understand the gist of it and thank you for sharing it here. As an English speaker I regret that so many peoples speak English and so give little incentive to learn another language. I would love to read Spanish in the original and not in translation for the nuances and differences and if i ever retire with enough time to study I hope it ill not be too late to learn other languages. (other than my atrocious French!)
Andrew

Frewin

#2  05 May 2007 - 13:57

 

Congratulations and thanks for sharing :-)

How was the event? How much did you enjoy it? :)

hugs from Mèxico

AngelesBerman

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