University of Calgary

Pedagogy Reading Group

All members of the University of Calgary and its extended community are invited to attend the LRC's Pedagogy Reading Group meetings. This group is facilitated by the LRC's Post-Doctoral Fellow, faculty and graduate students. Meetings are held on a Friday afternoon at 2:00 pm in CHD412 (in the LRC).

Participants are expected to have read the article beforehand in order to contribute to the discussion.   The Pedagogy Reading Group is open to everyone and all are invited to attend.

  • Pedagogy Reading Group Winter 2009

    Winter 2009 Schedule

    • February 27, 2009 - Ellis, R. (2006). Current issues in the teaching of grammar: An SLA Perspective. TESOL Quarterly, 40 (1), 83-107.  - Discussion to be led by Katherine Mueller.

    • March 20, 2009 - Wildner-Basset, M.  (2005).  CMC as Written Conversation: A Critical Social-constructivist View of Multiple Identities and Cultural Positioning in the L2/C2 Classroom.  CALICO Journal, 22 (3), 635-656. - Discussion to be led by Brandee Strickland.
  • Pedagogy Reading Group Fall 2008

    Reading Group Fall 2008

    • November 28, 2008 - "Methodological Hurdles in Capturing CMC Data: The Case of the Missing Self-Repair" by Bryan Smith
    • October 24, 2008 - "Task complexity, theory of mind, and intentional reasoning: Effects on L2 speech production, interaction, uptake and perceptions of task difficulty," by Peter Robinson
  • Pedagogy Reading Group Winter 2008

    Reading Group Winter 2008

    • March 7, 2008 - "Corpus linguistics, language variation, and language teaching," Susan Conrad
    • February 1, 2008 - "The Effect of Functional-Analytic Teaching on Aspects of French Immersion Students’ Sociolinguistic Competence" by Roy Lyster
  • Pedagogy Reading Group Winter 2005

    Reading Group Winter 2005

    • April 1, 2005 - "A Ceiling Effect in Traditional Classroom Foreign Language Instruction: Data from Russian" by Benjamin Rifkin
    • February 4, 2005 - "Lexical Approach to Second Language Teaching. ERIC Digest" by Olga Moudraia
  • Pedagogy Reading Group Fall 2005

    Reading Group Fall 2005

    • December 2, 2005 - "A Study of Flow Theory in the Foreign Language Classroom" by Joy Egbert
    • November 4, 2005 - "Guidelines for Foreign Language Lesson Planning" by Benjamin Rifkin
    • February 18, 2005
      • "Corpus Linguistics: What It Is and How It Can Be Applied to Teaching" by Daniel Krieger,
      • "The Automatic Generation of CALL Exercises from General Corpora" by Eve Wilson
  • Pedagogy Reading Group Winter 2006

    Reading Group Winter 2006

    • April 7, 2006 - "Integrating Textual Thinking into the Introductory College-Level Foreign Language Classroom" by Hiram H. Maxim
    • March 10, 2006 - "Fine Brush and Freehand: The Vocabulary-Learning Art of Two Successful Chinese EFL Learners" by Peter Yongqi Gu
    • January 20, 2006 - "Synchronous CMC and Pragmatic Development: Effects of Oral and Written Chat" by Julie M. Sykes
  • Pedagogy Reading Group Fall 2006

    Reading Group Fall 2006

    • November 24, 2006 - "Ultimate Attainment in Second Language Acquisition" by David Birdsong
    • November 10, 2006 - "What learners know and what they need to learn" by Terry Shortall
    • October 20, 2006 - "The Contribution of Second Language Acquisition Research" by Wolfgang Klein
  • Pedagogy Reading Group Winter 2007

    Reading Group Winter 2007

    • March 30, 2007 - "Validity in Language Assessment" by Carol A. Chapelle
    • March 9, 2007 - "Technologies and second language learning: expanding methods and agendas" by Carol A. Chapelle
    • January 26, 2007 - "Technologies for Second Language Literacy" by Denise E. Murray