Brock University Department Of Applied Linguistics

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We offer honours degree and post-baccalaureate certificate programs in Applied Linguistics/TESL, and Speech and Hearing Sciences, and an MA degree program in Applied Linguistics/TESL. Please read our Department Profile below and the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about our Department.

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Department of Applied Linguistics Speaker Series

Speaker: William Crawford, PhD
Northern Arizona University
Date: Friday Nov. 6, 2009
Time: 12.30-1.30pm
Location: TH 259

Title: Is L2 writing like spoken language? Lexical Bundles in L2 Writing

Abstract

This talk presents recent work on the frequency and form of 4 word Lexical Bundles (LBs) in over 1 million words of L2 argumentative writing. The talk first motivates the construct of an LB and argues for its status as a grammatical construction.? Next, the frequency and function of LBs in L2 writing are compared to LBs in L1 writing and spoken language. Finally, the talk presents some new ways to analyze LBs with respect to register variation and fixedness.

Biography

Bill Crawford is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Director of the Program in Intensive English at Northern
Arizona University. His research interests focus on corpus linguistics as a methodology to inform L2 writing development and grammatical variation in varieties and registers of English.

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DALS Speaker Series 2009

Friday Feb 6th at 11am: Kris Tjaden, Ph.D. Plaza 600F. Dr. Tjaden is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Buffalo in the Dept. of Communication Sciences and Disorders. She conducts research investigating the acoustic bases of intelligibility deficits in dysarthria, a motor speech disorder.

Friday March 6^th at 11am: Lisa Archibald, Ph.D. Plaza 600F. Dr. Archibald is a Post Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychology at the University of Western Ontario where she works in the Language, Reading, and Cognitive Neuroscience lab. She studies the way language and memory processes interact and is particularly interested in the role that working memory processes may play in language impairment.

DALS Research Seminars 2009

Speaker: Elizabeth Gatbonton, Ph.D.
Date: Friday Feb. 13, 2009
Time: 11am-12 noon
Location: PL 600F
Title: The impact of social factors on patterns of development of a phonological variable: The role of Ethnic Group Affiliation

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"Through teaching, scholarship and research, the Department of Applied Linguistics strives to advance the understanding of human identity, lifespan development and life participation, as reflected in language patterns, first and subsequent language learning and language use."

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