Date:  Tue, 21 Nov 1995 21:19:45 -0500

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

Subject: GURT'96



====================CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT====================



       Georgetown University Round Table

        on Languages and Linguistics 1996



 Linguistics, language acquisition, and language variation:

       Current trends and future prospects



          March 14 - March 16, 1996



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This is a brief version intended to keep list messages short.

To see the full program, visit this www-site:

>> http://www.georgetown.edu/conferences/gurt96/gurt96.html

...or contact the GURT staff at the address given below.

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          Thursday, March 14, 1996



Opening remarks

   James E. Alatis, Chair, Georgetown University Round Table

   1996



Dedication of Conference to Earl Stevick, Independent Researcher



Plenary Address

   David Crystal, Cambridge University Press

   "Playing with linguistic problems from Orwell to Plato and

   back again"



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  Friday, March 15 and Saturday, March 16, 1996



INVITED SPEAKERS:



Michael Breen, Edith Cowan University, Australia



Anna Uhl Chamot, The George Washington University



Donna Christian, Center for Applied Linguistics



Mary Ann Christison, Snow College



Reinhold Freudenstein, IFS der Philipps-Universitaet, Marburg/Lahn,

Germany



Braj Kachru, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign



Yamuna Kachru, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign



Stephen Krashen, University of Southern California



Donna Lardiere and Andrea Tyler, Georgetown University



Ronald P. Leow, Georgetown University



Joan Morley, University of Michigan



Peter Patrick, Georgetown University



Theodore Rodgers, University of Hawaii and Bilkent University,

Ankara, Turkey



Renzo Titone, University of Rome, Italy and University of Toronto,

Ontario



Walt Wolfram and Gail Hamilton, North Carolina State University

and Ocracoke School, North Carolina





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Tutorial with Stephen Krashen, School of Education, University of

Southern California



This workshop will cover, and attempt to integrate, material

presented at Krashen's GURT presentations since 1989. It will

review evidence for and against the input hypothesis, the reading

hypothesis, applications of the input hypothesis to beginning

and intermediate language and literacy development, the role of

light reading, and applications to bilingual education.



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For more information, please contact Carolyn A. Straehle,

Coordinator  *  GURT 1996  *  Georgetown University

International Language Programs and Research  *  306-U

Intercultural Center  *  Washington, DC 20057-1045

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

voice: 202/687-5726  *  fax: 202/687-0699



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