Event

Emotion in SLA Self-Report Research

Tuesday, January 24th, 2017, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Speaker: Gabriele Kasper (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

Interested in learning about Dr. Gabriele Kasper's recent research? Come find out more--of special interest to any members who attended her popular lecture a few years ago. Please join us! If you are interested in joining us for dinner following the event, open to all JALT/Tokyo JALT members, please RSVP at: bit.ly/TJALTrsvp.

Summary: Emotion is present anywhere in social life and therefore readily observable in the activities that people normally participate in. Yet in research on second language learning, emotion has predominantly been studied through various forms of self-report, including interviews, surveys, and diaries. This talk will examine the theoretical perspectives that inform this research, show how each of the three discursive formats generates particular kinds of data, and review the main strategies that are used to analyze the data produced with each method. Finally we will consider alternative approaches to generating and analyzing data on emotion in second language use and learning and discuss how language education may benefit from such alternative perspectives.

Gabriele Kasper is Professor of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her teaching and research focus on language and social interaction, in particular on applying conversation analysis to multilingual interaction, second language learning and assessment, and standard research methods in applied linguistics. Recent co-edited volumes are Assessing Second Language Pragmatics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Emotion in Multilingual Interaction (Benjamins, 2016). In special collaboration with the Temple University Japan Distinguished Lecturer Series

Organization: Tokyo Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (Tokyo JALT)

Cost: JALT Members: free
Non-members: 1000 yen

Venue: New York University, School of Professional Studies, American Language Institute at Shinagawa Intercity Tower A 22F, 2-15-1 Konan, Minato-ku

Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis, Japan

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