Plenary Speakers

The AAAL 2007 Annual Conference will feature six Plenary Speakers:

Professor Andrew D. Cohen
University of Minnesota
"Teaching & Assessing L2 Pragmatics: What Can We Expect from Learners?"
 

Professor Ann Johns
San Diego State University
"Defining, Researching, and Teaching Genre: Conflicts and Convergences"
 

Professor William Labov
University of Pennsylvania
"Reading: The Imperative Challenge to Applied Linguistics"
 

Professor John Lipski
Pennsylvania State University
"The Evolving Interface of U.S. Spanish: Language Mixing as Hybrid Vigor"
 

Professor Richard Schmidt
University of Hawaii
"SLA & U.S. National Foreign Language Policy"
 

Professor Richard J. Watts
Universität Bern
"The Discursive Construction of Politeness/Impoliteness"

AAAL 2007  *  Costa Mesa, California  *  April 21-24, 2007