Date:  Thu, 17 Feb 1994 20:24:22 -0500

From:  GURT[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GUVAX.BITNET

Subject: GURT 1994 Program



          PRELIMINARY PROGRAM



      Georgetown University Round Table

      on Languages and Linguistics 1994

          March 13-16, 1994

 Educational Linguistics, Cross-Cultural Communication,

       and Global Interdependence



Sunday, March 13, 1994

Plenary Session - Gaston Hall



Opening Remarks: James E. Alatis, Chair

     Dean, School of Languages and Linguistics

The Speaking Tree: A Medium of Plural Canons

     Braj Kachru, University of Illinois

Beyond a Culture of Critique:

     The Framing and Reframing of Academic Discourse

     Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University



Monday, March 14, 1994



Morning Concurrent Sessions

(additional speakers to be announced)



Gaston Hall

Teaching Learning Strategies and Cross-Culturalism in the Language Classroom

    Rebecca Oxford, University of Alabama

Towards an Action-Oriented Syllabus

     Zhuang Gen-Yuan, Hangzhou University (China)



ICC Auditorium

The Use of Language Testing for Power and Control

     Elana Shohamy, Tel Aviv University



Plenary Session - Gaston Hall

Beginnings of Language Testing as a Profession

     Bernard Spolsky, Bar-Ilan University



Afternoon Concurrent Sessions



Gaston Hall: Political Implications

Language Choices for West Africa in the Global Village

     Jerry Cline-Bailey, Xavier University (Cincinnati)

Politics, Language Policy, and Textbook Construction: A Case Study

     Joan Morley, University of Michigan

Retooling for Communication: Hungary Reorients its FL Teaching

     Katalin Nyikos, Georgetown University



ICC Auditorium: Pragmatics

Politeness Across Cultures: Implications for Second-Language Teaching

     Ayo Bamgbose, University of Ibadan (Nigeria)

What Do "Yes" and "No" Really Mean in Chinese?

     Yu-Hwei Lii-Shih, National Taiwan University

Culture, Discourse, and Choice of Structure

     Ren Shaozeng, Hangzhou University (China)



Plenary Session - Gaston Hall

Teaching Global Interdependence as a Subversive Activity

     Douglas Brown, San Francisco State University





Tuesday, March 15, 1994



Morning Concurrent Sessions

(additional speakers to be announced)



ICC Auditorium: Computers

Locating Contingency in E-Mail

     Celeste Kinginger, University of Maryland

Computer-Based Classrooms for Language Teaching

     Stephanie J. Stauffer, Georgetown University



Plenary Session - Gaston Hall

Organized Babel: English as a Global Lingua Franca

     Tom McArthur, Oxford University



Afternoon Concurrent Sessions



Gaston Hall: Native Speakers

The Fiction of the Native Speaker in L2 Research

     Eyamba G. Bokamba, University of Illinois

Cross-Cultural Communication and Comparative Terminology

     Faina Citkina, Uzhgorod State University (Ukraine)

French Native-Speaker Use of the Subjunctive in Speech and Writing

     Nadine O'Connor Di Vito, University of Chicago



ICC Auditorium: Language Education

Educational Linguistics and

     the Knowledge Base of Second-Language Teaching

     Donald Freeman, School for International Training

Educational Linguistics: Field and Project

     Leo van Lier, Monterey Institute of International Studies

The Language Educator at Work

     Teresa Pica, University of Pennsylvania



Plenary Session - Gaston Hall

The Pleasure Hypothesis

     Stephen Krashen, University of Southern California





Wednesday, March 16, 1994



Morning Concurrent Sessions

(additional speakers to be announced)



Gaston Hall: Curriculum

A Model for Learning-Strategy Instruction

     in the Foreign-Language Classroom

     Anna Uhl Chamot, Georgetown University

Educational Linguistics and Coherent Curriculum Development:

     The Crucial Link

     Ronald Leow, Georgetown University



ICC Auditorium: Bilingualism

An Alternative to Mainstream Educational Discourse:

     Expecting, Tolerating, Respecting, and Celebrating Diversity

     Rebecca Freeman, University of Pennsylvania

Educational Linguistics: Looking to the East

     Anne Pakir, National University of Singapore



Plenary Session - Gaston Hall

Sources of Language Teachers' Instructional Decisions

     Jack C. Richards, City Polytechnic of Hong Kong



Closing Remarks: James E. Alatis, Chair

Dean, School of Languages and Linguistics, Georgetown University



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Registration form. Please send this form and your check (payable to

Georgetown University) to: Joan C. Cook, Coordinator, GURT 1994,

School of Languages and Linguistics, 303 Intercultural Center,

Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 20057-1067, USA.



Registration forms must be postmarked no later than February 21,

1994. After the deadline, add $10.00 to the fee.



So that the University may provide reasonable accommodations, we

ask that you notify the GURT 1994 Coordinator of any disability as

soon as possible. Because of the need to schedule sign language

interpreters in advance, please request interpreters no later than

February 28. Any information you provide will be treated

confidentially.



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Full conference (including presessions)

     Professional               $100.00

     Students                 $ 50.00

     Retired                  $ 50.00

     G.U. Students               $ 10.00*

     G.U. Faculty/Staff             waived



     *Waived for 5 hours or more of volunteer work



Presessions only                  $ 20.00

Sunday or Wednesday only              $ 40.00

Monday or Tuesday only               $ 55.00



For more information, please contact

Joan C. Cook, Coordinator, GURT 1994

Georgetown University School of Languages and Linguistics

303 Intercultural Center, Washington, DC 20057-1067

e-mail: gurt[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]guvax.bitnet or gurt[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]guvax.georgetown.edu

voice: 202/687-5726  *  fax: 202/687-5712