2015-2016

MARTÍ QUIXAL, Universitat Barcelona, studies how technology, such as Natural Language Processing, can be meaningfully integrated in real life tasks. He has taught Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. 

September 1, 2015
Workshop: Exploring the feasibility of using automatic enhancement tools to support the teaching and the learning of L2 in real-life instruction 

RICHARD YOUNG is Professor of English and Applied Linguistics at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He works on interactional modifications of input, variation in SLA, social interaction in oral proficiency tests and discursive practice theory.

September 25-26, 2015
Talk: Personal Moments of Schooling in the History of Persons
Workshop: Interactional Competence

GLENN MARTÍNEZ is Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at Ohio State University. His research focuses on sociolinguistics and applied linguistics of Spanish-speaking communities in the U.S. and along the U.S.-Mexico border.

October 23-24, 2015
Talk: Vulnerable Latinidades in the Health Delivery Workforce
Workshop: Language Variation in Spanish and the Heritage Learner

THORSTEN HUTH teaches German and Linguistics at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. His research program addresses sociolinguistic, pragmatic, and interactional competencies among L2 learners, and how these competencies are taught and learned in the L2 classroom.

December 7, 2015
Workshop: Researching and Teaching L2 Interactional Competence

F. SCOTT WALTERS is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education and Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His work concentrates on language testing and assessment, TESOL teacher education, L2 pragmatics, and conversation analysis..

March 24, 2016
Workshop: Using test specifications to improve second-language classroom assessment

SIMONA PEKAREK DOHELER is Professsor of Applied Linguistics at University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. Her work concentrates on the dynamics of classroom and social interaction, interactional competence, and processes of social mediation.

April 14, 2016 [Abstract]
Workshop: L2 interactional competence: empirical findings and implications for praxis

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