Previous Seminars in 2008
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Seminars in 2008
| Presenter | Title | Time/Location |
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| Matilde V.R. Scaramucci State University of Campinas, Brasil |
Consequences and Validity |
Friday 18 January 2008, 2.00pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Margaret Dahlstrom The University of Melbourne |
Swedish Bicultural Fiction: recurring themes and contrasting treatments. Swedish PhD Confirmation talk |
Thursday 7 February 2008, 11:00am Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Thi Thanh Ha Do The University of Melbourne |
The acquisition of English agreements and disagreements in a study abroad context. Linguistics PhD Confirmation talk |
Thursday 21 February 2008, 2:00pm Room 502, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Sascha Rixon The University of Melbourne |
Humour and facilitator talk-in-interaction: An Australasian case study Linguistics PhD Confirmation talk |
Friday 22 February 2008, 10:30am Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Akiko Ryumon The University of Melbourne |
Washback processes in the secondary school foreign language classroom: a case study of two Japanese classrooms Linguistics PhD talk |
Friday 29 February 2008, 2:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Celeste Rodriguez Louro The University of Melbourne |
Linguistic-external forces on language change: The Preterit and the Present Perfect in Argentinian River Plate Spanish |
Friday 7 March 2008, 2:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Alan Davies University of Edinburgh |
Academic Language Testing in the UK: the IELTS compromise
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Friday 7 March 2008, 3:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Catriona Fraser The University of Melbourne |
An evaluation of intercultural communication practices amongst the Victoria Police. Linguistics Conversion talk |
Friday 14 March 2008, 11:00am Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne *Note date change |
| Janne Morton The University of Melbourne |
Becoming architectural: socialization into disciplinary discourse through the design studio presentation. Linguistics PhD talk |
Friday 14 March 2008,
2:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Dr. Timothy Baldwin Computer Science, University of Melbourne |
The Syntax and Semantics of Determinerless PPs in English and Dutch |
Friday 14 March 2008,
3:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Abdul Asmari The University of Melbourne |
Integration of foreign culture in pre-service EFL teacher education: A case study of Saudi Arabia Linguistics PhD Completion talk |
Friday 4 April 2008, 2:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Sylvia Mackie The University of Melbourne |
The revival of the parataxis hypothesis Linguistics PhD Completion talk |
Friday 4 April 2008, 3:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Linguistics & Applied Linguistics - Honours The University of Melbourne |
Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Mid-Year Honours Poster Session |
Friday 11 April 2008, 1:00pm to 2:15pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Saya Ike The University of Melbourne |
Japanese English as an emerging variety of English: Its features and intelligibility |
Friday 11 April 2008,
2.15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Beth Zielinski Forum on Accent #7 |
Reduced intelligibility in L2 speakers of English 3.30 - 4.30 Presentation + Question Time |
Friday 11 April 2008,
3:30pm to 5:00pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Esther Jilovsky Melbourne-Monash German Research Seminar |
Recreating Postmemory? Using Holocaust Sites to 'experience' the Holocaust. |
Friday 11 April 2008,
3:30pm to 5pm Room 501 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Prof Tim McNamara The University of Melbourne |
A journey into language: Ein Gastprof lernt Deutsch |
Friday 18 April 2008,
3:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Hyejeong Kim The University of Melbourne |
Evaluating aviation policy in relation to English language proficiency testing: The case of Korea. PhD Confirmation talk |
Tuesday 29 April 2008, 10:30am Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Meredith Bartlett The University of Melbourne |
Language Use of Bilingual Deaf Adults using Australian Sign Language (Auslan) and Australian English. |
Friday 2 May 2008, 2:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Dan Flickinger This seminar is sponsored by HCSNet. |
Transparent Heads in English |
Friday 2 May 2008, 3:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Dr Heather Benbow Melbourne-Monash German Research Seminar |
The Gentleman and the Rogue: Jewish Protagonists in Lessing's Die Juden and Dani Levy's Alles auf Zucker | Friday 2 May 2008,
3:30pm to 5pm Room 501 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Mónica S. Cárdenas-Claros The University of Melbourne |
A principled framework of help options in computer based-listening Confirmation talk |
Friday 9 May 2008, 2:00pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Susan Douglas The University of Melbourne |
Verb acquisition in the language of children with autism: syntax, semantics and social cognition. |
Friday 9 May 2008, 3:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Felicity Grey PhD candidate sociology/linguistics The University of Melbourne |
Speaking well of the Other |
Friday 16 May 2008, 3:15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Prof Tim McNamara REPEAT Melbourne-Monash German Research Seminar |
A journey into language: Ein Gastprof lernt Deutsch |
Friday 16 May 2008,
3:30pm to 5pm Room 501, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Kerrie Delves The University of Melbourne |
Repair in the conversation of high functioning children with autism and typically developing children. Abstract - Delves (pdf 216kb) |
Friday 23 May 2008, 2.15pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Dr Debbie Loakes The University of Melbourne |
When celery and salary are homophones: neutralisation of prelateral /æ / and /e/ in Melbourne English |
Friday 23 May 2008, 3.30pm (Note new time) Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
David Blencowe Melbourne-Monash German Research Seminar |
Please note that this Seminar has been cancelled. |
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| Mosheer Amer The University of Melbourne |
The Linguistics of Representation: The New York Times’ Discourse on the Second Palestinian Intifada PhD Completion talk |
Friday 20 June 2008, 2.15pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Quynh Thi Ngoc Nguyen The University of Melbourne |
An exploratory study of the acquisition of Vietnamese as a second language by ethnic minority children in a bilingual education program in Vietnam PhD Confirmation talk |
Friday 20 June 2008, 3.30pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Assoc Prof John Bitchener AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand |
Written corrective feedback and second language development: A ten month investigation of the relationship. |
Friday 11 July 2008, 3:15pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Dr Alexander Maxwell Victoria University, Wellington |
A Historian Examines Dialectology, or, Why the Slovak Language Has Three Dialects |
Monday 14 July 2008, 1:00pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Australian Society of French Studies (ASFS) | The XVIth meeting of the Australian Society of French Studies Call for Papers (See web page): |
14th to 16th of July 2008, The University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Interdisciplinary Conference | Borders & Crossings / Seuils et Traverses Call for Papers (see web page): |
16th to 19th July 2007, The University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Hoa Nguyen The University of Melbourne |
Investigating the validity of two EFL listening tests Completion talk |
Friday 18 July 2008, 2:15pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Kazumi Namiki The University of Melbourne |
The development of the pragmatics of requests in Japanese as a foreign language setting Conversion talk |
Friday 25 July 2008, 11:00am Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Maureen Saclot The University of Melbourne |
Event Structure in Tagalog: Interface of Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics |
Friday 25 July 2008, 2.15pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Oliver Bond SOAS, London |
Conditions on agreement: Feature mismatch and intra-paradigmatic variation in Eleme. |
Friday 1 August 2008, 2:15pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Dale Adams Melbourne-Monash Seminar Series - German |
The Confrontation of Thought and Reality: The Role and Significance of Mathematics in the work of Robert Musil, Hermann Broch and Friedrich Dürrenmatt PhD Completion Talk (will be given in German) Abstracts - Melbourne-Monash Seminar Series 2008 (pdf, 100kb) |
Friday 1 August 2008, 3:30pm Room 223 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Miriam Butt University of Konstanz |
An Ergative/Dative Connection |
Friday 1 August 2008, 3:15pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Oranna Speicher School of Modern Languages and Cultures The University of Nottingham |
The One-Stop-Language-Shop |
Monday 4 August 2008, 12.10pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| Anne Taille University of Melbourne |
Topic TBA PhD Confirmation talk |
Monday 11 August 2008, 12.10pm Room 509 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
| William B. McGregor Aarhus University, Denmark |
Optional ergative case-marking systems in a typological perspective |
Friday 15 August 2008, 3.15pm Room 509, Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |
Erik Beyersdorf Monash-Melbourne Seminar Series 2008 |
Normalising the Abnormal-Jonathan Littell's 'Die Wohlgesinnten' and Arno Surminski's 'Die Vogelwelt von Auschwitz'. Abstracts - Melbourne-Monash Seminar Series 2008 (pdf, 100kb) |
Friday 15 August 2008, 3.30pm Room 223 Arts Centre, University of Melbourne |