12th roundtable

The 12th Research Roundtable for

Bilingualism as a First Language (BiL1)

Co-sponsored by The Master’s Program in Language Sciences,

Graduate School of Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University

 “Language acquisition and attrition in bilinguals”

(I) Date: Oct. 17th 2015 (Sat.) 12:50-17:30

(II) Place: Place: Room M301, Makim Hall (Building 15), Ikebukuro Campus, Rikkyo University

         3-34-1 Nishi-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo, Japan 171-8501

http://english.rikkyo.ac.jp/access/ikebukuro/direction

                *We have arranged sign language interpreters. 

(III) Programme

M.C.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        TAURA, Hideyuki (Ritsumeikan University)

1. Opening Address 12:50                                             YAMAMOTO, Masayo (Kwansei Gakuin University)

2. Guest Lecture 13:00-14:00       

“Language Dynamism: A Case of a Returnee’s English Language Acquisition and Attrition”

TOMIYAMA Machiko (International Christian University)

Break 14:00

3. Presentations

14:10-14:50

“Successful English-Japanese bilingualism: Parents' language ideologies and practices”

NAKAMURA, Janice (Sagami Women’s University)

14:50-15:30

“How do they acquire their home language? Respecting bilingual children's rights to language choice”

OH, Heesu (Nagoya University)

Break 15:30

4. Post-graduate Presentations

15:40-16:15

“Facets of the identity formed by adolescent Japanese L2 learners shifting between cultures”

MASUYAMA, Miyuki (Ritsumeikan University)

16:15-16:50

“A structural approach to balanced bilinguals' code-switching using Systemic Functional Grammar”

NAKAGAWARA, Risa (Kwansei Gakuin University)

5. Group discussion 16:50-17:20

6. Closing address 17:20

                                                                                                                     IKARI, Yukio (Osaka City University)

(IV) Fee : 1000 yen (members : free)

(V) Participation: Simply turn up on the day. There is no need to RSVP.

(VI) Dinner party: We're planning dinner after the research roundtable at a restaurant nearby (18:00-20:00 at a cost of about 5,000 yen). Details will be announced later, but let us know by e-mail tomorisato(a)rikkyo.ac.jp by Wednesday, Oct. 7th if you'd like to come to the dinner. In the e-mail message, please write 1) your name, 2) affiliation, 3) e-mail address and put the title of the message as “Application for BiL1 dinner party”.