13th Annual Conference

13th Annual Conference (J-SLA2013)

June 1st & 2nd, 2013

Chuo University, Tama Campus

Language for presentation: [E] in English / [J] in Japanese

9:00 Registration (1st floor, Bldg 3, Tama Campus, Chuo Univ.)

9:20−11:30 Student Workshop (Rooms 3110, 3111, 3112, 3113)

Room 3110 Commentator: Sawasaki, Koichi (University of Shizuoka)

9:20−10:00 Jiang, Yinshi (Tokyo Institute of Technology) [J]
L2 acquisition of Japanese numeral quantifiers by speakers of Chinese
10:05−10:45 Okazaki, Yuki (Nagoya University) [J]
The effect of animacy on the processing of relative clauses in Japanese
10:50−11:30 Seol, Hyeseon (Nagoya University) [J]
The acquisition of L2 vocabulary by Korean learners of Japanese：In light of prototype and transferability

Room 3111 Commentator: Shirahata, Tomohiko (Shizuoka University)

9:20−10:00 Yotsuya, Atsuko (Bunkyo University) [J]
L2 acquisition of English articles “the” vs. “a/an” and Japanese particles “wa” vs. “ga”
10:05−10:45 Kimura, Takayuki (Chuo University) [J]
The acquisition of telicity by Japanese learners of English
10:50−11:30 Asano, Masanao (University of Tsukuba) [J]
Errors in subject-verb agreement among Japanese learners of English

Room 3112 Commentator: Kawasaki, Takako (Hosei University)

9:20−10:00 Iwagami, Eri (Hosei University) [J]
Consonant gemination in loan words in Japanese and its relation to metrical structures in Japanese and English
10:05−10:45 Nakae, Hironori (Konan University) [J]
Measurement of lip protrusion by using high-speed camera

Room 3113 Commentator: Snape, Neal (Gunma Prefectural Women’s University)

10:05−10:45 Koyama, Sayaka (Chuo University) [E]
L2 acquisition of VP-ellipsis in English by Japanese speakers
10:50−11:30 Meechanyakul, Naparat (Thammasat University) & Singhapreecha, Pornsiri (Thammasat University) [E]
Null arguments in Thai learners’ L2 grammar

12:20−12:25 Welcome and Opening Remarks (Room 3114)

12:30−14:00 Oral Presentations I (Room 3114) Chair: Matthews, John (Chuo University)

12:30−13:10 Goss, Seth (The Ohio State University) [E]
Contributing factors to the perception of Japanese lexical pitch accent by native Chinese and Korean speakers
13:20−14:00 Kizu, Mika (Kobe University/SOAS, University of London) & Yamada, Kazumi (Kwansei Gakuin University) [E]
L2 Japanese null subjects at the interface of syntax and discourse

14:05−15:35 Poster Presentations (Room 3101)

P1-1 Miki, Kohei (Kwansei Gakuin University) [J]
The access to English homographic words of Japanese EFL learners: Interaction between context constraints and word meaning frequencies
P1-2 Okada, Miho & Hayashida, Minoru (The University of Kitakyushu) [J]
Confusion between the goal case maker ‘ni’ and the active case maker ‘de’
P1-3 Hamada, Yo (Akita University) [E]
Japanese students’ perceptions toward teachers’ strategies to prevent demotivation
P1-4 Lai, Yi-hsiu (National University of Kaohsiung) [E]
Tone acquisition in Hakka: An acoustic perspective
P1-5 Maki, Hideki (Gifu University), Amano, Makio (Okazaki Junior High School affiliated to Aichi University of Education), Hasebe, Megumi (Yokohama National University), Fan, Ling-Yun (Gifu University) & Umezawa, Toshiro (Gifu City Women’s College) [E]
Steps in acquisition of the interrogative construction in English by Japanese EFL learners
P1-6 Otsuka, Toshiko (Hiroshima University) & Shibata, Miki (Hiroshima University) [E]
The effect of positive and negative evidence on the distinctive use of if and when by the Japanese EFL learners

15:40−18:00 Oral Presentations II (Room 3114) Chair: Suzuki, Takaaki (Kyoto Sangyo University)

15:40−16:20 Okugiri, Megumi (Tokyo Healthcare University) [E]
The information status of English relative constructions by Japanese learners in spoken and written language
16:30−17:10 Shoji, Shinichi (University of South Carolina), Olejarczyk, Jenn (University of South Carolina) & Almor, Amit (University of South Carolina) [E]
Syntactic, semantic and discourse effects on the comprehension of scrambled Japanese sentences by English speaking learners of Japanese and native Japanese speakers
17:20−18:00 Ojima, Shiro (Keio University) [E]
Brain activity reveals faster processing of the mother tongue and arithmetic in proficient second-language users

18:30-20:30 Conference Dinner (“Hiyori,” Hilltop, 4th floor, Tama Campus, Chuo Univ.)

9:00 Registration (1st floor, Bldg 3, Tama Campus, Chuo Univ.)

9:20−10:50 Oral Presentations III (Room 3114) Chair: Koyanagi, Kaoru (Sophia University)

9:20−10:00 Yamaguchi, Yumiko (Tokyo Denki University) [E]
Acquiring and maintaining procedural skills in ESL and EFL learning: A longitudinal study of a Japanese learner
10:10−10:50 Kabata, Kaori (University of Alberta) [E]
On the role of collocations in learner usage of Japanese particles

10:55−11:55 General Meeting (Room 3114)

12:45−14:15 Poster Presentations (Room 3101)

P2-1 Kondo, Takako (University of Shizuoka) [J]
Errors in the usage of intransitive verbs in second language acquisition: From the viewpoint of telicity
P2-2 Tomita, Satsuki (Kanda University of International Studies) [J]
Acquisition of words of foreign origin in Japanese learners – Receptive and productive vocabulary knowledge
P2-3 Kasai, Chise (Gifu University), Sinclair, Lucas (INTERAC Co., Ltd.), Takahashi, Jun A. (Osaka University), Hattori, Natsumi (Gifu University), Iwai, Arisa (Gifu University), Minoura, Misaki (Gifu University), Miura, Rin (Gifu University) & Zhang, Yidan (Gifu University) [E]
Bilingual cognition – Is English learned in Japan cognitively effective?
P2-4 Liu, Hui-chuan (Kainan University) [E]
Interference of the mother tongue shown in Vietnamese learning Chinese consonants
P2-5 Mansbridge, Michael P. (Nagoya University), Hayakawa, Kyoko (Nagoya University) & Tamaoka, Katsuo (Nagoya University) [E]
Cross-linguistic priming of Japanese passives by Chinese and Korean speakers
P2-6 Shite, Kazuyuki (Tokyo University of Social Welfare) [E]
What ungrammatical judgment tells us about L2 learner’s implicit and explicit knowledge?

14:20−15:40 Plenary Address (Room 3114) Chair: Hirakawa, Makiko (Bunkyo University)

15:50−17:20 Oral Presentations IV (Room 3114) Chair: Yoshinaga, Naoko (Hirosaki Gakuin University)

15:50−16:30 Hasebe, Megumi (Yokohama National University), Maki, Hideki (Gifu University) & Umezawa, Toshiro (Gifu City Women’s College) [E]
On the superiority effect by Japanese ESL learners: A VAS-based analysis
16:40−17:20 Kano, Akihiro (Kwassui Women’s University) [E]
The awareness condition and L2 learners’ interpretation of reflexives

17:25−17:30 Closing Remarks (Room 3114)

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