Georgetown University Round Table
on Languages and Linguistics 1996
Linguistics, language acquisition, and language variation:
Current trends and future prospects
March 14 - March 16, 1996
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Thursday, March 14, 1996
Opening remarks
James E. Alatis, Chair, Georgetown University Round Table
1996
Dedication of Conference to Earl Stevick, Independent Researcher
Plenary Address
David Crystal, Cambridge University Press
"Playing with linguistic problems from Orwell to Plato and
back again"
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Friday, March 15 and Saturday, March 16, 1996
INVITED SPEAKERS:
Michael Breen, Edith Cowan University, Australia
Anna Uhl Chamot, The George Washington University
Donna Christian, Center for Applied Linguistics
Mary Ann Christison, Snow College
Reinhold Freudenstein, IFS der Philipps-Universitaet, Marburg/Lahn,
Germany
Braj Kachru, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Yamuna Kachru, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stephen Krashen, University of Southern California
Donna Lardiere and Andrea Tyler, Georgetown University
Ronald P. Leow, Georgetown University
Joan Morley, University of Michigan
Peter Patrick, Georgetown University
Theodore Rodgers, University of Hawaii and Bilkent University,
Ankara, Turkey
Renzo Titone, University of Rome, Italy and University of Toronto,
Ontario
Walt Wolfram and Gail Hamilton, North Carolina State University
and Ocracoke School, North Carolina
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Tutorial with Stephen Krashen, School of Education, University of
Southern California
This workshop will cover, and attempt to integrate, material
presented at Krashen's GURT presentations since 1989. It will
review evidence for and against the input hypothesis, the reading
hypothesis, applications of the input hypothesis to beginning
and intermediate language and literacy development, the role of
light reading, and applications to bilingual education.
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For more information, please contact Carolyn A. Straehle,
Coordinator * GURT 1996 * Georgetown University
International Language Programs and Research * 306-U
Intercultural Center * Washington, DC 20057-1045
e-mail: gurt@guvax.bitnet or gurt@guvax.georgetown.edu *
voice: 202/687-5726 * fax: 202/687-0699
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