ABOUT SLRF 2004

The Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) is a prestigious and internationally renowned conference which brings together researchers in second language acquisition (SLA) from all over the world. It is the premier conference on SLA in North America providing a venue for established scholars and graduate students to present work on a wide variety of theoretical and empirical issues in SLA including cognitive, linguistic and sociolinguistic SLA research conducted in both laboratory and classroom settings.

conference theme

The theme of this year's conference is "Convergence and Collage", reflecting the breadth and collaborative nature of the field of Second Language Acquisition. The theme captures the diversity of perspectives on applied linguistics found at Penn State, which includes research from psycholinguistic, structural, generative, socio-cultural, discourse, functional and cognitive-based perspectives on second/other language acquisition, development, and instruction.

Penn State conference hosts

• Center for Language Acquisition
• Department of Comparative Literature
• Department of French
• Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
• Department of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
• Department of Psychology
• Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
• Institute for the Arts & Humanities
• Language Sciences Research Group
• School of Languages and Literature

conference organizing committee

conference co-chairs: Stefanie Rehn-Jordan, Jonathon Reinhardt, and Tracy Cramer
faculty advisors: Judith Kroll, Paola Dussias, and Nuria Sagarra

past conferences

• 2003: University of Arizona
• 2002: University of Toronto
• 2000: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 1999: University of Minnesota
• 1998: University of Hawaii
• 1997: Michigan State University

SLRF 2005

If you are interested in hosting SLRF 2005, please contact the SLRF 2004 committee. Details are forthcoming.