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SSLW 2010: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries University of Murcia, Spain ‐ May 20‐22 PROGRAMME OVERVIEW STRANDS: ASS Assessment ACW Academic Writing CMW Computer-mediated Writing EC Error and Error Correction FEED Feedback FLW Foreign Language Writing PED Pedagogy RES Research Methodology SLA Second Language Acquisition TEXT Textual Analyses WFS Writing from Sources WPR Writing Processes Wednesday 19th, afternoon Sala Jorge Guillén (Facultad de Letras) 15.30-19.30 Registration 1 SSLW 2010: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries University of Murcia, Spain ‐ May 20‐22 PROGRAMME OVERVIEW Thursday 20th, morning Paraninfo Hall 8.00-19.30 Registration Paraninfo 8.30 Official opening Paraninfo 9.00- 9.55 Plenary 1: Tony Silva The Disciplinary Development of Second Language Writing Studies 9.55- Coffee break 10.25 Hemiciclo Jorge Guillén Mariano Baquero Antonio Soler Sala de Juntas (Dcho.) Paraninfo CMW FEED PED ACW ASS Chair: Rea Chair: Dyson Chair: Turner Chair: Curry Chair: Panahi Lam Hernández-García Furneaux Effects of two portfolio Corpora-research benefits Bitchener Breeze Mastering academic writing within 10.30 assessment approaches on Special for L2 writing: error Supervisor feedback in the Teaching legal writing: voice, one discipline in one year: from ‘in 11.00 writing processes and Session: analysis and the use of thesis-writing process attitude, value the middle of nowhere’ to ‘I can products of EFL pre-university FL writing: grammar checkers do anything!’ Reflections on students O'Brien Theory and Nurmukhamedov & Gimenez ESL student writers’ Rouillon Research Racelis Crossing boundaries in L2 11.05 experiences with written Raters' assessment Teacher, please read! academic writing: Issues of 11.35 feedback received on discourses and talks: A Learners’ email writing disciplinarity, authority, and Convener: Rosa academic coursework on a qualitative approach behavior identity in health sciences M. Manchón taught masters course Hemiciclo Jorge Guillén Mariano Baquero Antonio Soler Sala de Juntas (Dcho.) 10-30- Presenters: CMW FEED PED ACW ASS 13.00 Chair: Naves Chair: Bitchener Chair: Breeze Chair: Nanwani Chair: Baker 11.40 Marín-Pérez & Rea-Rizzo Lillis Melinda Yang 12.10 Nas Assessing student’s What’s locality got to do with Panahi & Birjandi Reichelt Affordance and Effects of teacher and peer awareness on the writing disciplinarity? The politics of Dynamic assessment of ESL Rosa Manchón orchestration in the feedback on revision process in the Bologna location in professional academic writing Robert design of English blogs process framework. text production and evaluation DeKeyser Tunceren Neumann Hwang Chen Bunce Graeme Porte Effects of intentional Information management A case study of the influence Determining proficiency in 12.15 Discipline-specific skills for writing academic vocabulary and grammar ssessment: of freewriting on writing second language writing 12.45 in literature and linguistics: a study on L2 writers and What do teachers attend to fluency and confidence of EFL research corpus study writing in L2 writing? college-level students Paraninfo 13.05- Plenary 2: Alister Cumming 14.00 Why Does Second-Language Writing have to Be so Complicated? Lunch 2 SSLW 2010: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries University of Murcia, Spain ‐ May 20‐22 PROGRAMME OVERVIEW Thursday 20th, afternoon Jorge Guillén Mariano Baquero Antonio Soler Paraninfo Hemiciclo FEED PED SLA Chair: Neumann Chair: Coleman Núñez Chair: Cabrejas Cheng Plumlee Basterrechea & García-Mayo Invited Invited 15.30- Teacher’s and students’ perceptions Representation of disciplinary Collaborative writing and noticing in Colloquium: Colloquium : 16.00 of onlinepPeer review: A case study in knowledge by graduate student an EFL setting: The facilitative role of Writing from Research in L2 an EFL writing class in Taiwan writers in L2 English a pushed output task Sources Writing in CLIL Santos & López-Serrano Cimasko (Content and El-ebyary & Windeatt Learning, noticing, and the Conveners: 16.05- From public to pedagogical: Modifying Language The impact of computer-based processing of written feedback: The Charlene Polio & genres for the classroom Integrated 16.35 feedback on students’ written work differential effect of error correction Ling Shi Learning) and reformulation Contexts Across Presenters: Europe Jorge Guillén Mariano Baquero Antonio Soler Diane Pecorari FEED PED SLA 15.30- Bojana Petric Convener: Chair: Johnson Chair: Furneaux Chair: Yan Zhang Charlene Polio Jingjing Dyson 18.00 Rachel Whittaker Turner Ling Shi Chinese EFL students’ strategies in How can SLA theory clarify the debate 16.40- Blurred boundaries: working with providing computer-mediated peer about the effectiveness of corrective 17.10 others' words in the age of global Discussant: feedback in peer assessment activity feedback? - A ‘teachability’ study of Presenters: Englishes Mary Jane Curry Debbie Coetzee- in L2 writing classroom: a case study research questions Lachmann Lena Heine Heini-Marja 17.15- Maerlein Li CALL for a new best practice for An empirical Study of "writing-reading Järvinen 17-45 Yolanda Ruiz de feedback on student compositions comparison" in L2 writing classes Zarobe Rachel Whittaker 18.00- Coffee break 18-25 Paraninfo 18.30- Plenary 3: Dwight Atkinson 19.25 Understanding the Social and the Cultural in Second Language Writing 19.30 Welcome reception (sponsored by John Benjamins, Mouton de Gruyter and Multilingual Matters) 3 SSLW 2010: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries University of Murcia, Spain ‐ May 20‐22 PROGRAMME OVERVIEW Friday 21st, morning Paraninfo Hall 8.00- 19.30 Registration Hemiciclo Jorge Guillén Mariano Baquero Antonio Soler Sala de Juntas (Derecho) Paraninfo FLW PED EC SLA WFS Chair: Angel-Villegas Chair: Lillis Chair: Plumlee Chair: Xiao Chair: Pecorari Special Session: Ahern Beckett & Nam Baerlocher Rocha Lucha Cuadros & Díaz Harwood Genres in Collaborative story Korean ESL graduate Lexical errors and The incidence of Focus Demystifying the rhetorical Interntional 8.15- writing in teacher students learning to typological proximity in on Form in written functions of academic education: write in their disciplines: written productions productions citation for postgraduate Contexts 8.45 schoolchildren and Where and how? second-language writers: student teachers research-based teaching communicating in EFL materials Convener: Ann Jiménez-Catalán, Saenkhum Johnson Zhang, Zhang & Gong Petric & Harwood Johns Agustín-Llach & Sullivan Disciplinary faculty Which Annoys” raters Bilingual students’ use They want us to be critical’: Overall structure and members’ and ESL more? Second language of writing strategies for An interview-based study of 8.15- Presenters: 8.50- lexical cohesion in a students’ views on writing errors or non- text production in ESL the citing behaviour of a 10.00 9.20 corpus of letters by disciplinary and standard dialect writing successful second-language Ann Johns adolescent Spanish EFL academic writing: errors? writer Guillaume Gentil learners Bridging the gap across Natasha disciplines Neff, Bunce, Rica, Curry Evans, Hartshorn & Allen Pidchamook Cheung Artemeva Dafouz & Genís What engineers do: Written ccorrective Thai EFL writers’ writing Visible and occluded citation Jana Fox 9.25- Teaching argumentation: Comparing the practices feedback: Do they? How strategies: A in master’s dissertations: Using form/function of writing for publication do they? And why? sociocultural perspective The case of Singapore 9.55 descriptors in an EFL with official sources of university academic advice context Paraninfo 10.05- Plenary 4: Lourdes Ortega 11.00 Exploring the Interfaces between Second Language Writing and Second Language Acquisition 11.00- Coffee break 11.25 4 SSLW 2010: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries University of Murcia, Spain ‐ May 20‐22 PROGRAMME OVERVIEW Friday 21st, morning Hemiciclo Jorge Guillén Mariano Baquero Antonio Soler Sala de Juntas (Derecho) Paraninfo FLW PED RES WPR WFS Chair: Reichelt Chair: Wetzl Chair: Neff Chair: Xiao Chair: Cheung Gunnarsson Special Session : Zhang, Zhang, Gong & Reynolds Reiman, Mustonen & Text production in L2 Kiss McCulloch Meta-knowledge Seilonen French and the writer’s Publishing Investigating the The use of source 11.30- formation and variation Methodological aspects on concentration on low Workshop relationship between material in academic 12.00 in a global English studying L2 writing in level linguistic aspects bilingual students’ self- writing and its effect on university different domains of during the formulation regulated learning and argumentation Presenters: language process: results from a composition quality Ann Corney longitudinal study (Elsevier) Wette Leih Urzua-Beltran Kim Nicolás-Conesa Developing L2 students’ Portfolio design for L2 Theoretical and Reading aloud for Ilona Leki & Rosa 12.00- A comparative study of ability to write using academic literacy: pedagogical uses of a revision in L2 writing: EFL learners’ and sources: Progress in and Manchón (Journal 12.30 integrating learning context-specific learner Insights gained from teachers’ writing goals. beyond a university-level of Second models corpus of academic writing introspective data Language unit of instruction 11.30- Writing)) Poolpoem Xiao Klitgård, Pecorari, 13.00 Factors that impede L2 Text, cognition, and McMillion & Shaw Lourdes Ortega writing: A study of EFL context: Toward a Summary, paraphrase (Language contexts in Thailand unifying hypothesized and plagiarism in Learning) model of second academic writing language writing
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