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The 3rd UC Language Consortium Conference on SLA Theoretical and Pedagogical Perspectives

The Center for World Languages will be hosting this conference on Second Language Acquisition at UCLA.

The University of California, Los Angeles
April 21-23, 2006

Keynote speaker: Michael McCarthy

University of Nottingham, UK/Pennsylvania State University
"Fluency Revisited: Flow and Confluence"

On April 23, 2006, Michael McCarthy will also lead a half-day workshop
"The Contribution of Spoken Corpora to Language Pedgogy."

For more information on the conference, please visit the UC Consortium website:
http://uccllt.ucdavis.edu/Events/index.cfm

Conference Schedule

To view the conference schedule, please visit this website: http://uccllt.ucdavis.edu/uclafs.htm

Funding

Note to faculty, lecturers, and graduate students affiliated with the University of California: There will be limited funding provided by the UCCLLT for travel and lodging expenses for both participants and attendees.

The South Asia Language Resource Center has a limited number of travel grants available to advanced graduate students and language lecturers and instructors in the South Asian languages whose proposals are accepted. Inquiries to Antoinette Klimek at salrc@uchicago.edu

Sponsored by the UC Consortium for Language Learning and Teaching.

The UC Consortium for Language Learning and Teaching is a system-wide initiative designed to make the most effective use of UC's vast linguistic resources and expertise. The consortium fosters collaboration among and across the language programs at the UC campuses with an eye to increasing student access to language study through a combination of the best classroom practices, technological enhancements and study and work-abroad programs.

Published: Tuesday, March 28, 2006