Past Events
FLLOC Conference
On 7th & 8th July 2008 the FLLOC project team organised a two-day conference "The Nature and Development of L2 French" at the University of Southampton with support from the Association for French Language Studies. The aim was to bring together the community of researchers interested in the study of French as a second language. The plenary speakers addressed the sociopragmatics of French SLA (Jean-Marc Dewaele), and the morphosyntactic development of classroom learners of French (Florence Myles). A number of other papers presented corpus-based findings on other aspects of learner French (syntax, lexical development, discourse). The conference also proposed a hands-on CHILDES training workshop especially designed for those using or interested in using the program and its tools to analyse French L2 data.
- Bruce Anderson Morphological Paradigms and Gender-Number Concord: A Comparison of Learners of L2 French, L2 Spanish, and L3 Italian University of California, Davis
- Annabelle David Productive and receptive lexical development in L2 learners Newcastle University
- Jean-Marc Dewaele Climbing the mountain of sociopragmatic competence in French L2 Birkbeck College, University of London
- David Divita Socio-pragmatic development through the Study of Phonetics: Lessons from the Ethnographic Enterprise University of California, Berkeley
- Lynn Erler Implications of basic literacy skills in French as a foreign language Oxford University
- Sandrine Ferré, Martin Haiden, Philippe Prévost & Laurie Tuller L1 Influence or Language Impairment? A Twin Case Study François Rabelais University
- Henriëtte Hendriks, Annie-Claude Demagny & Maya Hickmann The expression of Caused motion in French by English Learners University of Cambridge, CNRS & Université Paris 8
- Kevin McManus Cross-linguistic Influence in the Second Language Acquisition of Aspect: a Compositional approach Newcastle University
- Rosamond Mitchell Development of narrative ability in L2 French: relations between linguistic knowledge and learner self-regulation University of Southampton
- Florence Myles The development of morphosyntax in classroom learners of French Newcastle University
- Nora Presson & Brian MacWhinney An adaptive tutor for explicit instruction of French grammatical gender cues Carnegie Mellon University
- Vivienne Rogers L1 transfer and adverb placement in English L2 learners of French Newcastle University
- Sarah Rule The development of the determiner phrase (DP) in the French L2 classroom University of Southampton
- Maureen Scheidnes Syntactic movement in the production of French Wh-questions: The role of computational complexity versus L1 transfer in adult L2 acquisition François Rabelais University
- Claudia Stöber The acquisition of clitic subject and object pronouns in early child l2 University of Hamburg
- Françoise Tidball & Jeanine Treffers-Daller Learnability and the role of transfer in the expression of Manner of motion among L2 learners of French and English University of the West of England, Bristol
CHILDES Workshop
On 26th March 2009, Annabelle David & Florence Myles organised a one-day CHILDES workshop at Newcastle University Funded by British Academy Small Research Grant: SG-51728. The aim was to introduce researchers unfamiliar with CHILDES, but planning to do empirical work, to the basics of transcription and coding of new and existing material and to the tools available to analyse data; and to help researchers who have a basic knowledge of the database and programmes but need help in addressing specific research questions within CHILDES (e.g. use of part-of-speech tagger, searches on morphosyntactic lines, etc).
The workshop was attended by over 25 researchers from as far afield as Croatia and Finland working on L1 and L2 acquisition.
For more information, please contact: Annabelle David
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