AAAL 2006

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Invited Colloquia

The AAAL and ACLA/CAAL 2006 Conference will feature six Invited Colloquia Sessions.  

• Computer mediated communication in L2 contexts, Robert Blake, University of California at Davis

• Recherches en français langue seconde: acquisition, enseignement et évaluation; Research in French as a Second Language: Acquisition, Instruction, and Assessment, Diane Huot, Université Laval

• Foreign/second language acquisition as meaning-making: A systemic-functional approach, Heidi Byrnes, Georgetown University

• Multilingualism in Canadian Schools, Roy Lyster, McGill University and Sharon Lapkin, OISE/University of Toronto

• Towards theoretically meaningful L2 assessments for SLA research, Robert DeKeyser, University of Maryland, and James Purpura, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Dynamic aspects of language development, Kees de Bot, University of Groningen
      (The Language Learning Round Table Conference)