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SUMMARY:What Makes Applied Linguistics Applied? Language Acquisition & Language in Use
DESCRIPTION:The Language Program has been granted department status earlier this spring\, and we are hosting an event to celebrate becoming the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics. Professor Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig\, a leading scholar in second language acquisition\, will give a talk on June 6 in the University Center after a brief welcome by Dean William Ladusaw. The event will begin at 5 pm\, with a reception following 6-8 pm.\n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/what-makes-applied-linguistics-applied-language-acquisition-language-in-use-2/
LOCATION:University Center\, University Center‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140127T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140127T183000
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SUMMARY:Silvia Perpiñan: "Microparametric variation among Romance languages: the L2 acquisition of Spanish locative and existential constructions by Catalan and Italian speakers"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Selection of copula verbs in Spanish is a classic challenging area for L2 learners. Even so\, it has received moderate attention on SLA research\, and most of the studies have focused on the acquisition of the semantic and pragmatic distinctions between ser and estar\, particularly when combined with adjectives (Bruhn de Garavito & Valenzuela\, 2006; Geeslin\, 2002; 2003; Schmitt & Miller\, 2007; among others). The present study goes beyond the alternation between ser and estar + adjective by looking at the selection of copula verbs to express location\, and existentials. \nFollowing Freeze (1992)\, I assume a universal locative paradigm with three surface structures that imply the use of three different verbs in Spanish: estar for the predicate locative when the subject is an object (1)\, and ser when it is an event (2); the existential with haber (2); and the possessive or ‘have’ using tener. \nThree microparametric differences among Spanish\, Italian\, and Catalan are investigated\, which regulate (a) the distribution of ser vs. estar in locatives (the eventiveness effect\, which does not exist in Standard Catalan or Italian)\, (b) the distribution of haber vs. estar (the definiteness effect\, Milsark\, 1977\, which is only obeyed in Spanish)\, and (c) the use of clitics in locatives (Spanish does not have a locative clitic\, whereas in Catalan and Italian it is obligatory). Given these differences\, we question whether L2 speakers of Spanish are able to fully acquire the distribution of estar in locative predicates and observe the restriction on definite DPs in Spanish existential constructions. Furthermore\, we wonder how the bilingual mind will restructure her clitic system into a reduced morphological paradigm with no partitive or locative clitics. \nThe present study analyzes the expression of L2 Spanish existential and locative constructions in 20 native speakers of Catalan\, 34 native speakers of Italian (from Rome)\, and 20 monolingual Spanish speakers with two main tasks\, an Acceptability Judgment Task and an elicited oral production task. Results indicated that L2 learners used significantly less ester to express location than native speakers\, showing that this verb develops later than ser as previously reported for English (VanPatten\, 1985\, 1987)\, and as predicted by recent analyses of the copular ser/estar (Brucart\, 2012; Gallego & Uriagereka\, 2011). Nonetheless\, Italian speakers also overgeneralized estar to localize events\, and in existential constructions\, when ser or haber are required in Spanish. \nFinally\, Italian speakers of intermediate proficiency\, and some Catalan speakers continued using ser to localize objects. More interestingly\, both L2 groups accepted definite DPs in presentational sentences\, violating the definiteness effect\, displaying problems when assembling semantic features into specific lexical pieces. These results will be discussed within the debate on dissociation between acquisition of syntax and acquisition of semantics\, and the feature assembly or feature matching hypothesis (Lardiere\, 2008\, 2009; Slabakova\, 2009).\nSpeaker: Silvia Perpiñan is Assistant Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Western Ontario.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/silvia-perpinan-microparametric-variation-among-romance-languages-the-l2-acquisition-of-spanish-locative-and-existential-constructions-by-catalan-and-italian-speakers-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140124T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140124T183000
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SUMMARY:Gabriela Zapata: "Investigating the Connection between Learning and Assessment: Formative Assessment in Intermediate L2 Spanish Classes"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: This paper investigates the connection between learning and assessment by examining the implementation of ACTFL’s Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) in intermediate\, L2 Spanish classes. There were 880 students who participated in this classroom-based study. This presentation will discuss the following: 1) the theoretical and pedagogical bases of IPA; 2) the materials and tasks that were created; 3) the steps followed for its successful implementation; and 4) the results of a study on students’ and instructors’ perceptions of IPA and the relationship between classroom content and assessment. In addition\, we will compare the results of IPA-based assessment tools with those from previous\, more traditional evaluation tools. \nGabriela Zapata is Associate Professor and Director of Spanish and Portuguese Language Programs at the University of Southern California.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gabriela-zapata-investigating-the-connection-between-learning-and-assessment-formative-assessment-in-intermediate-l2-spanish-classes-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140117T170000
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SUMMARY:Marcela Depiante: "Preposition Stranding in Heritage Speakers of Spanish: Implications for the Interface Hypothesis"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nIn this talk\, we discuss the properties of Heritage Languages by examining Preposition Stranding in the Spanish of Heritage\nspeakers versus monolingual speakers of Spanish. We discuss the implications of this work for the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace 2000\, Tsimpli and Sorace 2006) as applied to Heritage speakers (Montrul 2009\, Montrul & Polinsky 2011) according to which changes in Heritage speaker syntax are restricted to areas of the grammar where the syntax interfaces with interpretable domains such as discourse/pragmatics. \nSince the possibility of preposition stranding constructions is one of purely syntactic features\, this hypothesis predicts that Heritage speakers of Spanish should not show variation from monolingual Spanish speakers with respect to these constructions. However\, the data that will be presented will show that they do and they do so in different syntactic contexts and with different types of prepositions. The data argues against extending the Interface Hypothesis to Heritage Speakers. \nIn addition\, we do not interpret the data found in this study of Spanish Heritage speakers as instances of incomplete acquisition. Instead\, the variation we observe between Heritage speakers and monolingual Spanish speakers with respect to the possibility of preposition stranding can be seen as variation between speakers of different varieties of Spanish and used as a further source of insight into the human language faculty. \nSpeaker: Marcela Depiante is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Wisconsin\, Eau Claire
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/marcela-depiante-preposition-stranding-in-heritage-speakers-of-spanish-implications-for-the-interface-hypothesis-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Berenice Darwich: "Continuity and discontinuity in syntactic patterns in New York City.  A look at co-referential complex sentences"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Berenice Darwich\, Hispanic Linguistics\, CUNY Colleges; New York\, New York.\nAbstract: \nThe variable phenomenon of subject expression\, specifically in the second clause of co-referential complex sentences\, is analyzed in a subset of interviews of Mexican and Dominican Spanish speakers from the Otheguy and Zentella corpus of Spanish in New York City. \nBy taking into account the generation of speakers (first and second) and the syntactic hierarchy of the second clause (main or subordinate)\, the study will address the following questions: \nIs there pattern continuity in regards to subject expression in contexts of co-reference among generation of speakers?\nIs there an influence of English in regards to this pattern in second generation speakers?\nIs there a correlation between subject expression and the syntactic hierarchy of a clause across geographical varieties? \nThe hypothesis that guides this investigation is that in this context\, subject pronoun expression in the second clause is an instrument to signal the principal information of a message\, carried in the main clause of a complex sentence. \nResults confirm previous studies regarding this variable phenomenon in Spanish in general and in New York City: Dominican Spanish speakers favor pronoun subject expression more than Mexican Spanish speakers\, even in the second clause of co-referential complex sentences. When we look at the frequencies by each geographical variety in this very specific context\, the distributional differences allow a classification of the varieties in two different groups (Mexican pattern and Dominican pattern). But this trend does not hold when the generational group is considered\, showing a reverse pattern in the second generation Dominican speakers. \nThese findings confirm partially the hypothesis since it is only the first generation Dominicans who do not use subject pronoun expression as a mean to signal hierarchical syntactic information.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/berenice-darwich-continuity-and-discontinuity-in-syntactic-patterns-in-new-york-city-a-look-at-co-referential-complex-sentences-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131125T171500
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SUMMARY:Language Program Colloquium with Midori Ishida
DESCRIPTION:This paper explores the issue of roles of social interaction for developing pragmatic competence in a second language. As an example\, it examines interactions between a learner of Japanese and native speakers\, focusing on ‘receipts’\, or a kind of listener responses (e.g. soo desu ne [That’s true]). A learner’s conversations recorded during one-year study abroad in Japan and recorded in the U.S. before and after the period were analyzed using conversation analysis. Even though corrective feedback was rarely provided to the learner’s inappropriate receipt use\, his interlocutor’s next-turn action served as implicit feedback and provided him an opportunity for a more competent action. Moreover\, although not interactionally modified\, the interlocutor’s utterances and embodied actions provide comprehensible linguistic resources that the L2 speaker can draw on when performing similar actions. \nMidori Ishida earned her Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Her research interests include interlanguage pragmatics\, conversation analysis\, and the roles of interaction in second language acquisition. Her works have been published in Language Learning\, Pragmatics and Language Learning\, the Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics\, and other edited books. She is currently teaching Japanese at Santa Clara University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/midori-ishida-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 408
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130519T200000
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SUMMARY:International Playhouse XIII
DESCRIPTION:The Language Program\, Cowell College\, and Stevenson College cordially invite you and your students to attend a performance of The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse XIII (IP)\, an annual multilingual program of fully-staged short theater pieces\, now in its 13th season. Four public performances will be held on May 16\, 17\, 18\, 19\, at 8:00 PM at the Stevenson Event Center and will feature works in French\, Italian\, Japanese\, and Spanish\, with English super-titles. The program will be directed by Language lecturers\, working with their students. There is no admission charge; however\, evening parking permits are required for the Thursday and Friday performances. Parking permits will be available by attendant in the Cowell/Stevenson lower parking lots (#109/110) for $4.00. Those already in possession of a valid “A”\, “B”\, or “C” permit do not need to purchase an additional permit to park during evening hours. \nThis year’s works include excerpts from (French) LE MALADE IMAGINAIRE (The Hypochondriac) by Molière\, directed by Miriam Ellis; (Italian) NATIVITÀ (Nativity) by La Smorfia\, directed by Giulia Centineo; (Japanese) THE VAMPIRE CABBIE by Murakami\, directed by Sakae Fujita; (Spanish) LAS LUCIÉRNAGAS DEL CARIBE (Caribbean Fireflies) by Carballido\, directed by Marta Navarro.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/international-playhouse-xiii-4-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130426T170000
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SUMMARY:Víctor Fuentes: "Literatura memorialista de la inmigración"
DESCRIPTION:Víctor Fuentes is the author of a memoir\, Memorias del segundo exilio español (2011) and fourteen books\, among them\, La marcha al pueblo en las letras españolas (1917-1936)\, El cántico material y espiritual de César Vallejo\, Buñuel\, cine y literatura\, Antología de la poesía bohemia española\, Antología del cuento bohemio español. \nHe is Professor Emeritus of the University of California\, Santa Barbara; Full Member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language and Co-editor of the literary magazine Ventana abierta. \n\n  \nProfesor Emérito de la Universidad de California\, Santa Bárbara. Miembro Numerario de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española. Coeditor de Ventana abierta. \nEs autor de numerosas publicaciones\, entre las que se cuentan 14 libros de ensayo\, dos novelas y un libro de memorias. Entre ellos destacan: La marcha al pueblo en las letras españolas (1917- 1936)\, El cántico material y espiritual de César Vallejo\, Buñuel\, cine y literatura (Premio “Letras de Oro”\, 1988)\, Antología de la poesía bohemia española\, Antología del cuento bohemio español\, Morir en Isla Vista (1999); Memorias del segundo exilio español (2011).\n  \nThis event is sponsored by the UCSC Language Program.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/victor-fuentes-literatura-memorialista-de-la-inmigracion-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 408
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