Date:  Mon, 29 Nov 1993 16:06:37 -0500

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

Subject: Georgetown University Round Table 1994



         Preliminary Announcement  *  Please Post



            Georgetown University Round Table

            on Languages and Linguistics 1994



               March 13 - 16, 1994



          Educational Linguistics, Cross-Cultural

          Communication, and Global Interdependence



            Chaired by James E. Alatis, Dean

           School of Languages and Linguistics

          Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.





                Plenary Speakers



         Douglas Brown, San Francisco State University

           Braj Kachru, University of Illinois

       Stephen Krashen, University of Southern California

            Tom McArthur, Oxford University

        Jack C. Richards, City Polytechnic of Hong Kong

           Bernard Spolsky, Bar-Ilan University

           Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University





                Invited Speakers



     Ayo Bamgbose, University of Ibadan and University of Illinois

            Leslie Beebe, Columbia University

          Eyamba G. Bokamba, University of Illinois

       Jerry Cline-Bailey, Xavier University (Cincinnati)

        Nadine O'Connor Di Vito, University of Chicago

        Donald Freeman, School for International Training

         Rebecca Freeman, University of Pennsylvania

      Celeste Kinginger, University of Maryland at College Park

           Ronald Leow, Georgetown University

      Leo van Lier, Monterey Institute of International Studies

       Yu-Hwei Lii-Shih, National Taiwan Normal University

           Joan Morley, University of Michigan

         Anne Pakir, National University of Singapore

          Teresa Pica, University of Pennsylvania

    Ren Shaozeng, Hangzhou University (People's Republic of China)

         Elana Shohamy, Tel Aviv University (Israel)

      Larry E. Smith, East-West Center, University of Hawaii

    Zhuang Gen-Yuan, Hangzhou University (People's Republic of China)





           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  *  gurt[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]guvax.georgetown.edu

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









           Presessions: March 11 and 12, 1994



The presessions will be held in the Intercultural Center. Please contact the

individual organizers for more information.



African Linguistics V (Saturday morning)

Rev. Solomon Sara, S.J., organizer

Department of Linguistics

Georgetown University

Washington, D.C. 20057-1068

202/687-5956 or ssara[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]guvax.georgetown.edu



Arabic Dialect Teaching Workshop (Friday)

Karin Ryding, Ph.D., and Margaret Nydell, co-organizers

Department of Arabic

Georgetown University

Washington, D.C. 20057-1082

202/687-5646 or rydingk[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]guvm.bitnet



Colloquium on Academic Listening Across Language-Culture Areas (Saturday)

Abelle Mason, organizer

Department of English as a Foreign Language

Georgetown University

Washington, D.C. 20057-1083

202/687-5978



Community Interpreting (Friday)

Margareta Bowen, Ph.D., and Monika Gehrke, co-organizers

Division of Interpretation and Translation

Georgetown University

Washington, D.C. 20057-0993

202/687-5848



History of Linguistics (Saturday)

Rev. Francis P. Dinneen, S.J., organizer

Department of Linguistics

Georgetown University

Washington, D.C. 20057-1068

202/687-5812



Hypermedia Environments Open House (Friday)

Jackie Tanner, organizer

Language Learning Technology

Georgetown University

Washington, D.C. 20057-0984

202/687-5766 or jtanner[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]guvax.georgetown.edu



Issues in Greek Linguistics (Saturday)

James E. Alatis, Ph.D., and Pavlos Pavlou, co-organizers

Department of Linguistics

Georgetown University

Washington, D.C. 20057-1068

202/687-5956 or pavlos[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]guvax.georgetown.edu



Issues in Slavic Linguistics (Friday and Saturday)

Cynthia Vakareliyska, Ph.D., organizer

Department of Russian

Georgetown University

Washington, D.C. 20057-0990

202/687-6108



Issues in Teaching ASL as a Second Language (Saturday)

Jeff Connor-Linton, Ph.D., Ceil Lucas, Ph.D., and Clayton Valli, Ph.D.,

   co-organizers

Department of Linguistics

Georgetown University

Washington, D.C. 20057-1068

202/687-6156 or clucas[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]gallua.gallaudet.edu



Pragmatics in ASL and English (Friday)

Catherine Ball, Ph.D., and Clare Wolfowitz, Ph.D., co-organizers

Department of Linguistics

Georgetown University

Washington, D.C. 20057-1068

202/687-5949 or cball[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]guvax.georgetown.edu



Problems in Portuguese Linguistics (Saturday)

Clea Rameh, Ph.D., organizer

Department of Portuguese

Georgetown University

Washington, D.C. 20057-0991

202/687-6120



Special Student Session

Discourse Analysis: Works in Progress (Sunday)

Elif Tolga Rosenfeld and Scott Kiesling, co-organizers

Department of Linguistics

Georgetown University

Washington, D.C. 20057-1068

202/687-5956 or rosenfeld[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]guvax.georgetown.edu





Fees:



Full conference (five days, including presessions):

Professional         $100.00

Students           $ 50.00

Retired            $ 50.00



Presessions only       $ 20.00

Sunday or Wednesday only   $ 40.00

Monday or Tuesday only    $ 55.00



G.U. Students         $ 10.00

(Waived for 5 hours or more of volunteer work)

G.U. Faculty/Staff       waived







          Preconference Tutorials: March 13, 1994



The preconference tutorials will be held in the Intercultural Center at

Georgetown University on Sunday, March 13. Tuition is $75.00 per tutorial.

Please contact the individual organizers for more information.



Concordances and Corpora for Classroom and Research

Catherine Ball, Ph.D.

Department of Linguistics

Georgetown University

Washington, D.C. 20057-1068

202/687-5812 or cball[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]guvax.georgetown.edu



Criterion-Referenced Language Test Development for Teachers and Administrators

Jeff Connor-Linton, Ph.D.

Department of Linguistics

Georgetown University

Washington, D.C. 20057-1068

202/687-6156 or connorlinton[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]guvax.georgetown.edu



Tools for Computer-Aided Analysis of Language Acquisition Data:

   Training in Use of COALA

Catherine Doughty, Ph.D.

Department of Linguistics

Georgetown University

Washington, D.C. 20057-1068

202/687-6252 or doughtyc[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]guvax.georgetown.edu





To register, please print out, complete, and mail in the form below together

with your check for the appropriate amount.



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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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Fees. Please circle the category you're registering for:



Full conference (five days, including presessions):

Professional         $100.00

Students           $ 50.00

Retired            $ 50.00



Presessions only       $ 20.00

Sunday or Wednesday only   $ 40.00

Monday or Tuesday only    $ 55.00



G.U. Students         $ 10.00 (Waived for 5 hours of volunteer work)

G.U. Faculty/Staff       waived