9:45     Coffee and light breakfast

10:00   President Frances Degen Horowitz 
             Opening Remarks

10:05   Ricardo Otheguy
            Welcome

Sociolinguistics
Chair: Alison Gabriele

10:10   Laura Callahan (20 min.)
            Language choice in interethnic communication: a pilot study of Spanish and
            English in urban service encounters

10:40   Daniel Erker and Ricardo Otheguy (20 min.)
            Social factors as predictors of lexical borrowing tendencies in New York Spanish
        
11:10   Break (10 minutes)

11:20   Jose Del Valle and Marco Aponte (10 min.)
            Media coverage of language policy and the presence of Spanish in New York
            
11:35   Peter Slomanson and Ronit Webman (10 min.)
            A Survey on Yiddish in Jewish day schools

11:50   Rocio Raña and Maureen Matarese (10 min.)
            Multilingual Ecology of New York 

12:05   Lunch (55 minutes) 

Psycholinguistics
Chair: Alison Gabriele

1:00    Loraine K. Obler (20 min.)
           Doing one’s job in a second language
           
1:30    Eva Fernández (20 min.)
           Reading English, reading Spanish: How two urban student populations differ 
           in a speeded reading task
           
2:00    Mira Goral (10 min.)
           Morphological processing in Hebrew-English bilinguals

2:15    Break (10 minutes)

Literacy and Academic Assessment
Chair: Erika Troseth

2:25     Silvia Rivero, Michele DeGoeas-Malone, Catalina Iricinschi, Hindy Rada,
            Tamara Rose, E. Zoe Schutzman, Rocio Rana, Gita Martohardjono, 
            Ricardo Otheguy (20 min.)
            Strengthening pre-reading skills in bilinguals: an early syntactic intervention

2:55     Catalina Iricinschi, Malgosia Szupica-Pyrzanowski, Alison Gabriele, 
            Erika Troseth, Gita Martohardjono, Ricardo Otheguy (10 min)
            Investigating the relationship between syntax and reading comprehension: 
            a project update

3:10     Helen Cairns (10 min.)
            Beyond decoding: psycholinguistic predictors of reading achievement

3:25     Break (5 minutes)

3:30     Anastasia Riazantseva (10 min.)
            The academic writing of bilingual immigrant college students: a case study of
            native speakers of Russian
            
3:45     Elaine Klein (10 min.)
            English Language Learners and high stakes testing: a project update

All talks will take place in the Skylight Room, on the 9th floor of the CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue, between 34th and 35th St.). Twenty minute papers will be followed by a ten minute question period; Ten minute papers will be followed by a five minute question period. If you would like to attend or if you have any questions, please contact Alison Gabriele by e-mail.