Department of Applied Linguistics Speaker Series

Speaker: Brian Morgan, PhD
Glendon College/York University
Date: Friday Jan. 29, 2010
Time: 12.30-1.30pm
Location: Sankey Chambers

Title: Identity and agency in language teacher preparation: A project-based approach for
critical EAP


Abstract

In my presentation, I will explore the often difficult transfer of theory to practice in respect to the conceptual role of transformative practitioner through a pre-service social issues projectfor future English for Academic Purposes and English as an Additional Language teachers. I will look at the problematic issue of subject-area knowledge and how it promotes the role of technician for EAP instructors in the academy. Drawing on Sarah Benesch?s (2001, 1998)conceptualization of Needs and Rights analyses, I propose a more critical engagement for teachers in respect to academic content, one that draws on the diversity and multilingual resources intrinsic to EAP settings. In the next section of my talk, I will discuss a number of ideological and methodological challenges that arise in fostering this more critical or transformative role in EAP. How these challenges are addressed in syllabus design are detailed in the final sections of my talk through a discussion and description of a pre-service group assignment, the social issues project, in which students conceptualize and design a blueprint for transformative action in various forms such as an advocacy letter, workshop, curricular materials, etc. Reflection on the strengths and weaknesses of several selected projects and the assignment, in general, conclude my discussion.



Biography
Brian Morgan is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Glendon College/York University in Toronto, Canada. His research interests include language and identity, language teacher education, critical literacies and pedagogies, particularly in relation to EAP, ESL and EFL settings. He is the co-editor with Vaidehi Ramanathan of the 2007 special issue on Language Policies and TESOL: Perspectives from Practice in TESOL Quarterly. His first book, The ESL Classroom (1998), is published by University of Toronto Press.

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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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Speaker: Laura Collins, Ph.D.
Concordia University

Date: Friday Oct. 16, 2009
Time: 12.30-1.30pm
Location: Sankey Chambers

Title: Learning to look back in a second language: understanding the acquisition of the
past



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Speaker: E. Marcia Johnson, Ph.D.
University of Waikato

Date: Friday Sep. 18, 2009
Time: 12.30-1.30pm
Location: PL 600F

Title: Blended Learning across the Disciplines in a New Zealand University Context



read more NO overrides will be given to the following courses:
*AESL 1P92
*ALL the Sign Language courses eg. LING 1P00/1 LING 2P01/2
NO EXCEPTIONS

read more Thomas S. C. Farrell, chair, Applied Linguistics department, has been nominated for the 2009 SSHRC Aurora Prize.
Top-ranked scholars, as principal investigators, who are fairly new in their field are automatically considered for the prize if they are successful applicants in the Standard Research Grants competition of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
Farrell was awarded a Standard Research Grant in the latest round for a project entitled “Professional development through reflective practice,” which involves an intense, self-directed program of professional development for ESL teachers that he hopes can be developed into future ESL teacher education and development programs in Canada.

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Summary of Achievements 2008-2009

•DALS Students, consisting of 54 students and 12 teams, raised $2,085 in a Bowling for Smiles Campaign and this amount together with some generous online donors put it at a total of $2,555.00 raised. They thus raised enough money for 8 cleft lip/palate surgeries, which more than doubled their original goal.

•DALS Speaker & Research Series 2009 saw DALS faculty members together with speakers from University of Toronto, University of Western Ontario SUNY Buffalo, and McGill, deliver diverse topics on TESL, Applied Linguistics, Linguistics and Speech.

•DALS Annual Poster Session showcased both students and faculty research in poster format in an informal context.

•External Research Awards
oBarbra Zupan was recently awarded grant funding for a three year period and will include four investigators across three countries: Canada, United States and New Zealand. Barb is the principal investigator for the Canadian site which will include Brock University and local brain injury rehabilitation centers.

oTom Farrell was awarded a SSHRC Standard Research Grant over a three year period (2009-2012) for his research: “Professional Development through Reflective Practice”

•Internals Grant Awards
oFaculty received various internal awards such as BUAF, HRI, and DALS Awards

•DALS Faculty also presented at major conferences throughout the world from Bali, & Jakarta Indonesia, to Dubai, UAE, to Japan, to the US, to Canada. Many of these presentations were keynote presentations and plenary addresses.

•DALS Faculty also published a variety of books, refereed journal articles and conference proceedings paper is top journals.

read more Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada Standard Research Grants 2009 Competition

Congratulations to 2009 SSHRC grant recipient Thomas Farrell for his work: "Professional Development through Reflective Practice."
read more Operation Smiles:

Brock Bowling for Smiles.

On Friday night the bowling event took place, 54 students and 12 teams raised $2,085 Canadian. There have also been very generous online donors. In total the students have raised $2,555.00.

The students set a goal of raising enough money for 4 cleft lip/palate surgeries. They have more than doubled that goal.

Everyone at Brock Bowl for smiles had a lot of fun and it was a great atmosphere.
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CALL FOR POSTERS

Attention all students and faculty in the Department of Applied Linguistics at Brock University (and the Brock Community!):

The final presentation of the DALS Research Series for the 2008-9 academic year will take place on Thursday, April 9, 2009, between 12-2 pm at the Pond Inlet Mezzanine.

We will be hosting a Poster Session (with delicious snacks for attendees) whereby students and faculty will present their research in poster format in an informal context. Come and munch and chat with your peers and professors and find out about the exciting work that we are all doing.

read more Speech & hearing Program Notes
LING 2P90 and one of BIOL 2P97, CHSC 2P09 meets the human physiology requirement for some graduate programs in Speech-Language Pathology. Please note that BIOL 1F90 is the prerequisite for BIOL 2P97, and CHSC 2P09.
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We are accepting applications to the program.
All of the application information can be found in the following two locations:
http://www.brocku.ca/appliedlinguistics/dalsfaq08.pdf
Scroll to FAQs for CDA Certificate.

http://www.brocku.ca/registrar/admissions/ Go down to "Other Undergraduate Applicants" and then click on "Certificates".

read more Come join us for the final Research Seminar of the year presented by our own Barbra Zupan, Ph.D.
She will speak on: "Bimodal Perception of Visual and Auditory Cues of Emotion from Early Childhood to Early Adulthood" on Friday November 28, 2008, at 12 noon-1pm in PL 600F

read more Nine times a year, the Distinguished Lecturer Series brings three internationally-recognized TESOL scholars to Temple University Japan (TUJ) for intensive weekend seminars. Each seminar can be taken for elective credit for the M.S.Ed. and Ed.D. degrees. Professor Thomas S.C. Farrell was invited to give two weekend seminars on Reflective Language Teaching in Tokyo and Osaka in Novemeber, 2008.
read more The Center for Adult English Language Acquisition(CAELA) Network at the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) in Washington, DC USA requested Dr. Thomas S. C. Farrell to write a brief for the CAELA Network project on the topic of reflective practice for practitioners working with adult English language learners.

The reference for the brief is: Farrell, T.S.C., (2008). Reflective practice in the professional development of teachers of adult English language learners. Washington, DC: Center for Applied Linguistics.
The Brief is available at:
http://www.cal.org/caelanetwork/pd_resources/CAELABrief-ReflectivePractice.pdf

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Friday Oct. 10 at 11am: Alister Cumming, Ph.D.
Time: 11am-noon
Location: Plaza 600F
Organized by: Dept of Applied Linguistics
For more
information,
contact: Lynn Dempsey
(905) 688-5550 x5168
ldempsey@brocku.ca
Dr. Alister Cumming will be presenting a public lecture on his research at Brock on Friday October 10th at 11am. The talk will take place in PL 600F and is part of the Dept. of Applied Linguistics Speaker Series. Everyone is welcome. Dr. Cumming is Professor and Head of the Modern Language Centre at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. He has published extensively on writing in second languages, literacy and assessment in classroom and formal testing contexts, and curriculum evaluation, particularly of programs for English as a second or foreign language


read more DALS First Research Seminar of 2008-2009!
Veena D. Dwivedi, Ph.D.
Title: Is the brain sensitive to grammatical ambiguity?
Date: Friday Sep 26, 2008
Time: 11-12.45pm
Location: PL 600F
read more Welcome all new and returning Department of Applied Linguistics Students for the new academic year 2009-2010!
Please come to our Speaker Series and Research Seminars during this academic year.
read more Congratulations to Dr. Barbra Zupan who was recently awarded grant funding ($200000) from The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research.

The award is in the amount of $200 000 per year for a three year period beginning in October 2008 and will include four investigators across three countries: Canada, United States and New Zealand. Dr. Zupan is the principal investigator for the Canadian site which will include Brock University and local brain injury rehabilitation centers.
read more Thomas Farrell and David Hayes represented DALS at the 6th Asia TEFL conference in Bali, Indonesia, Aug 1-3, 2008.

read more David Hayes and Judy Sharkey (Eds)(2008) "Revitalizing a Curriculum for School-Age Learners" Alexandria, VA: TESOL.

read more Thomas S.C. Farrell gave the opening Keynote Address at the Refresh, Reflect, Renew:Connecting Through Reflective Practice Across Disciplines conference held May 28 - 30, 2008 in Centennial College, Toronto.

Other Plenary Speakers included:
Stephen Brookfield, Distinguished University Professor, University of St. Thomas (Minneapolis-St. Paul)

Chris Johns, Professor of Nursing RN, RM, Dip Nursing Part A, Cert Ed., PACT. MSc Nursing, PhD, Diploma in Reflexology, Diploma in Aromatherapy, Diploma Reiki 1 & 2

Jasna Schwind, RN, PhD. Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario


read more Faculty in the Department of Applied Linguistics have been very productive in the past academic year with many impressive presentations worldwide (some of these plenary presentations), some books (single authored and edited collections), papers in respected refereed journals (and many in non-refereed journals) and with an equally impressive attraction of research funds (many of these for a CFI research grant). In total the quantative amount of output for DALS is as follows:

Presentations: 36
Books: 5
Journal Articles: 14 refereed
Research money:
*external: 5--total $280,000;
*internal 7

read more DALS faculty member, DOCTOR Barb Zupan, SUCCESSFULLY defended her dissertation (Bimodal perception of visual and auditory cues of emotion from early childhood to early adulthood) April 16th at SUNY Bufallo, New York state, USA.

Many CONGRATULATIONS TO Dr. Zupan!!

read more Two Department of Applied Linguistics MA Applied Linguistics/TESL Students, Larissa Conley, and Kevin Hodgson, received the $2500 Dean of Graduate Studies Spring 2008 Research Fellowship.

Many Congratulations to both graduate students in the MA Applied Linguistics/TESL.

read more Congratulations to DALS students’ Karolyn Howarth and Laura Sangster both received an $8,000 Summer Research Assistantships at the University of Toronto, and Trent University (Oshawa campus) respectively.
read more The Department of Applied Linguistics Research Seminar Series is pleased to invite you to attend a talk by:Dr. Lana Soglasnova, Brock University
DATE: Tues. April 1, 2008
TIME: 12.15pm-1.15 pm
PLACE: TH 241
TITLE:TANYA, TOM, AND BIBI: LINGUISTIC STRATEGIES FOR SHORTENING PERSONAL NAMES
read more Attention all students and faculty in the Department of Applied Linguistics at Brock University:

The final presentation of the DALS Research Series for the 2007-8 academic year will take
place on Tuesday, April 8, 2008, between between *4-6* pm at the Pond Inlet.
We will be hosting a Poster Session (with pizza lunch for attendees) whereby
students and faculty will present their research in poster format in an informal context. Come and have some pizza and chat with your peers and professors and find out about the exciting work that we are all doing.

Interested individuals should email Dr. Veena Dwivedi by MARCH 7, 2008.

Also, please note that the Student Development Office runs FREE workshops
on how to do a poster and present it (go to
http://www.brocku.ca/sdc/learning/fallwinterworkshop.php)

read more Students interested in taking LING 4P25 (Research Practicum) and/or LING 4P99 (Independent Study) are advised to approach professors regarding supervision of these courses anytime over the spring and summer of 2008; early contact is preferable. See the DALS Research Profile (on this website) to learn more about the research interests of DALS faculty. Note that to register for these courses students must have contacted a faculty member who has agreed to provide supervision. Faculty members supervise a limited number of students and offer supervision at their own discretion.

read more Lynn Dempsey spoke to the Rotary Club of St. Catharines on Thursday February 7th on "Learning to be Literate: The Foundations of Literacy".

read more Tom Farrell gave the Plenary Address at the 21st Annual Professional Development Conference, Toronto District Catholic School Board: "Reflective Practice" Toronto Feb 1st, 2008.

read more *Dr Lynn Dempsey published a paper
*Dr Tom Farrell published a paper
read more CONGRATULATIONS TO DALS PROFESSORS!
*Congratulations to Dr. Lynn Dempsey and Dr. Hedy McGarrell for their recent research awards from the Humanities Research Institute (HRI), Brock University.
*DALS was also awarded a grant for its DALS Speaker Series
read more Tom Farrell has just published a book: "Reflective Language Teaching:From Research to Practice" London, UK: Contimuum Press, 2008.
read more Warmest congratulations to Dr. Veena Dwivedi on being awarded a Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) grant of over $83,800!
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