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Thursday, October 29th
3:30pm - 5:30pm Registration
5:30pm - 5:45pm Opening Remarks
5:45pm - 6:45pm Plenary I - Oh what a tangled web we weave: Moving from simple to complex and finding a niche - Susan Gass
6:45pm - 8:00pm Welcome Reception in the Red Cedar Room
Friday, October 30th
8:00am – 5:30pm Registration
8:15am - 10:30am Five Parallel Sessions (Four papers per session) & Colloquium I - Language learning abroad: Insights from the Missionary Experience
10:30am - 11:00am Morning Coffee Break & Publishers' Exhibits in the Big Ten C Room
11:00am - 12:05pm Six Parallel Sessions (Two papers per session)
12:05pm - 1:45pm Lunch Break & Poster Display* (22 posters)
12:05pm - 1:05pm Workshop - How to get published in SLA
1:45pm - 4:00pm Six Parallel Sessions (Four papers per session & Colloquium II - Measuring the effectiveness of focus on form
4:00pm - 4:15pm Short Coffee Break
4:15pm - 5:15pm Plenary II - Variable interaction in SLA: Much more than a nuisance - Robert DeKeyser
Saturday, October 31st
8:00am – 5:30pm Registration
8:15am - 10:30am Five Parallel Sessions (Four papers per session) & Workshop "Learner Corpora"
10:30am - 11:00am Morning Coffee Break & Publishers' Exhibits in the Big Ten C Room
11:00am - 12:00pm Plenary III - Let's Go on a Hawaiian Tour (of Child L2 Acquisition) - Bonnie Schwartz
12:00pm - 1:40pm Lunch Break & Poster Displays* (22 posters)
1:40pm - 4:30pm Six Parallel Sessions (Five papers per session) & Colloquium III - Gaining access / granting access: Participation and non-participation in target language communities
4:30pm - 4:45pm Short Coffee Break
4:45pm - 5:45pm Plenary IV - The dialectics of L2 development: A new metaphor - James Lantolf
7:00pm - 9:30pm Reception in the Lincoln Room
Sunday, November 1st
8:30am – 10:45am Four Parallel Sessions (Eight papers per session)
10:45am - 11:15am Morning Coffee Break & Publishers' Displays in the Big Ten C Room
11:15am - 12:55pm Three Parallel Sessions (Six papters per session) & Workshop "Grant Writing"

*Posters will be on display each day between 9:15am-4:30pm.
Poster Presenters will be available to present and discuss their work during the lunch break.