Conference Program

We are pleased to announce that the entire AAAL 2003 Conference Program is now available online for your perusal (PDF files):

Use it to find out full information on all presentations and planned activities during the AAAL 2003 Conference in Arlington, VA (March 22-25) and to help you decide what to go see in advance! To read the above files, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader (free download).

We also have a less-detailed web version below, which just includes presentation titles and organizers (for colloquia) and first presenters (for papers and posters). To read abstracts or to view the full list of presenters, use the PDF files above.

We look forward to your attendance! It's going to be a great conference! Be sure to pick up copies of the Daily Program Update from the conference registration desk during the conference to find out about any changes or additions to the conference program.

NOTE: We still have a number of session chair slots available for AAAL 2003. If you are interested in being a session chair, please contact Associate Chair, Jim Yoshioka, at aaal2003@hawaii.edu

Last updated: 2/21/03

FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 2003 -- Daily Highlights
6:00-9:30 PM	Conference Registration	Main Lobby

SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 2003 -- Daily Highlights
7:30 AM - 6:30 PM	Conference Registration	Main Lobby
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM	AAAL/ILTA Joint Session New voices in applied linguistics and language testing Organizers: Larry Selinker, New York University & Fred Davidson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Commonwealth South
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM	Refereed Colloquia, Papers	as scheduled
12:00-5:00 PM	Publishers’ Exhibit	Galaxy
12:30-2:00 PM	Lunch Break
12:30-2:00 PM	Posters	Main Lobby
2:00-5:00 PM	Invited Colloquium Classroom talks: A conversation analytic perspective Organizer: Numa Markee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Commonwealth South
2:00-5:00 PM	Refereed Colloquia, Papers	as scheduled
5:15-5:30 PM	Opening Ceremony, awards	Commonwealth South
5:30-6:30 PM	Opening Plenary New directions and issues in second language socialization research Patricia A. Duff, University of British Columbia	Commonwealth South
6:30-7:30 PM	Opening Reception	Foyer, Commonwealth North

SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 2003 -- Daily Highlights
7:30 AM - 6:30 PM	Conference Registration	Main Lobby
8:15-11:15 AM	Refereed Colloquia, Papers	as scheduled
9:00-11:30 AM	Publishers’ Exhibit	Galaxy
10:30-11:15 AM	DSSA recipient featured paper The applied linguist, school reform, and enhancing foreign language proficiency: Challenges and opportunities G. Richard Tucker	Commonwealth South
11:30 AM-12:30 PM	Plenary Language without grammar: Some implications for applied linguistics William O’Grady, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa	Commonwealth South
12:30-2:00 PM	Lunch Break
12:30-1:50 PM	Rules & Resolutions open meeting	Commonwealth North 3
12:30-2:00 PM	Posters	Main Lobby
12:30-5:00 PM	Publishers’ Exhibit	Galaxy
2:00-5:00 PM	Invited Colloquium The discourse of health care dilemmas Organizer: Heidi E. Hamilton, Georgetown University	Commonwealth South
2:00-5:00 PM	Refereed Colloquia, Papers	as scheduled
5:30-6:30 PM	Plenary Language questions Geoffrey Nunberg, Stanford University	Commonwealth South
6:30-8:00 PM	Professional Service Session Publishing in applied linguistics journals	Commonwealth North 3

MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2003 -- Daily Highlights
7:30 AM - 6:30 PM	Conference Registration	Main Lobby
8:15-11:15 AM	Invited Colloquium Instructed second language acquisition Organizer: Catherine Doughty, University of Hawai'i at Manoa	Commonwealth South
8:15-11:15 AM	Refereed Colloquia, Papers	as scheduled
9:00-11:30 AM	Publishers’ Exhibit	Galaxy
11:30 AM-12:30 PM	Plenary What’s age got to do with it? Georgette Ioup, University of New Orleans	Commonwealth South
12:30-2:00 PM	Lunch Break
12:30-2:00 PM	Posters	Main Lobby
12:30-5:00 PM	Publishers’ Exhibit	Galaxy
12:30-1:50 PM	Professional Service Session Federal funding sources for research in applied linguistics	Commonwealth North 3
2:00-5:00 PM	Invited Colloquium Cognitive linguistics and second language acquisition Organizer: Peter Robinson, Aoyama Gakuin University	Commonwealth South
2:00-5:00 PM	Refereed Colloquia, Papers	as scheduled
5:15-6:15 PM	AAAL General Business Meeting	Commonwealth South
5:15-7:15 PM	Professional Service Session Systemic Functional Linguistics Association	East 3
6:30-7:30 PM	President’s Reception	Foyer, Commonwealth North
7:30-9:00 PM	Professional Service Session Variation in ASL	Cavalier A-B

TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2003 -- Daily Highlights
7:30 AM-5:00 PM	Conference Registration	Main Lobby
8:15-11:15 AM	Invited Colloquium The development of academic competence in adolescent English learners Organizer: Aída Walqui, WestEd	Commonwealth South
8:15-11:15 AM	Refereed Colloquia, Papers	as scheduled
11:30 AM -12:30 PM	Plenary Indigenous language survival in 21st century America: Improbable or just impossible? Honorable Robert A. Underwood, Former Representative to the US Congress from Guam	Commonwealth South
12:30-2:00 PM	Lunch Break
12:30-2:00 PM	Posters	Main Lobby
2:00-4:00 PM	Refereed Colloquia, Papers	as scheduled
4:15-5:15 PM	Plenary If sociolinguistics is applied, then what is theoretical? Joshua Fishman, Yeshiva University (emeritus) and Stanford University (visiting)	Commonwealth South
5:15-5:30 PM	Closing Ceremony	Commonwealth South