Thursday Afternoon

1:30 pm

SCT, Vygotsky, and Education. Luis Moll

2:30

Dynamic Assessment and the Problem of Validity. Matt Poehner

Coffee Break

15’

3:15

A Design Approach to Research on Teacher Development in Two ESL Settings. Ana Christina DaSilva Iddings, Brian Rose, Brad Teague

4:15

Student beliefs in relation to theories of mind and learning. Howard Grabois

7:45

Dinner at El Charro Café – Downtown

Friday Morning

8:00

Continental Breakfast (provided)

8:30 am

Dialectics and SLA: Putting Things Back Together. Jim Lantolf

9:30

Dialectic - Dialogic: A discussion. Leo Van Lier and Steve Thorne

Break

15’

10:45

Promoting Pedagogical Expertise in Graduate Students: Dynamic Assessment and Teacher Training. Heather Allen & Eduardo Negueruela

11:45

Mimesis: A study of Post-Secondary Instructors of Italian as a Foreign Language and Their Students’ Perceptions. Ilaria N. Peltie

12:45-1:45

Lunch at the Courtyard (provided)

Friday afternoon

1:45 pm

Foreigner Talk Gesture. Alessandro Rosborough and Steve McCafferty

2:45

Thought and Language: From Gesture to Sign. Francisco Meizoso

Break

15’

3:45

Language Alternation In L2 Speakers’ Private Speech. Jina Lee

4:45

Emerging Feedback In Synchronous And Asynchronous Forums And Their Subsequent Face-To-Face Interactions in ESL. Stella K. Hadjistassou

7:45

Dinner and Salsa Baile @ El Parador

Saturday morning

8:00

Continental Breakfast (provided)

8:30 am

Learning the Language of Other to Mediate Social Relations and Worlds- An Examination of Teachers' Language Learning.

Theresa Austin and Yvonne Fariño

9:30

Genre As Concept In The ESL Writing Classroom: A Case Study. Neil Johnson

Break

15’

  10:45

Reconceptualizing Instruction of the English Article System. Ben White

11:45

Metaphor and Metonymy in Co-speech Spontaneous Gestures. Lin Waugh, Beth Specker, Jun Zhao

12:45

Discussions about next year’s Meeting

1:15

Lunch

2:00

Visit to the Desert Museum (transportation provided)