One-day Colloquium
Instructed Language Learning

Saturday 23 October 2010
Thessaloniki, University of Macedonia, Amphitheater 3

Alex Housen, Vrije University Brussels
“Were they taught or did they learn?” – The role and effects of instruction in second language learning

María del Pilar García Mayo, University of the Basque Country
Focus on form (FonF) in conversational interaction

Alessandro Benati, University of Greenwich
Grammar instruction and processing instruction

Katerina Nicolaidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
“Why is pronunciation so challenging to acquire and teach?”

James Milton, Swansea University
What is normal and abnormal in second language vocabulary acquisition? The role of classroom and informal vocabulary input