Events

RISLUS FORUM 2008

The annual one-day research forum of the Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society will be held at the CUNY Graduate Center on Friday, May 23, 2008, with talks beginning at 9:30 a.m. and ending at 4:45 p.m. The program is posted on the RISLUS website at the following link: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/dept/lingu/rislus/events.html#researchForum.

All talks will take place in rooms 9204 & 9205 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; thirty minute papers will be followed by a fifteen minute question period.

Registration for the RISLUS Forum is free of charge and open to everyone, and lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to rislus@gc.cuny.edu to confirm your attendance. If you have any questions, please contact Erika Troseth at rislus@gc.cuny.edu.

 
9:00 a.m. Coffee
9:30 am Welcome (Brian Schwartz, Vice President for Research and Sponsored Programs)
9:35 am Migration as a Language Endangerment Factor: San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec in Los Angeles, CA (20 min. talk)
Gabriela Pérez Báez
Predictors of English Proficiency in Elderly Chinese ImmigrantsPostmodern Analysis (20 minute talk)
Yen-Whei Shih and Loraine Obler
10:35am - 10:50am Break
10:50 am Healthcare in Spanish: What Makes Some Documents Better than Others (20 min. talk)
Rachel Varra, Laura Callahan and Ricardo Otheguy
Telephone Service Encounters: When Language Choice Doesn't Match the Customer's Voice (20 min. talk)
Laura Callahan
11:25 am No Implications: Why New York Latino English Doesn't Exist(20 min. talk)
Michael Newman
12:20 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch in Room 8301 & 8304
1:45 pm Language(s) and Pre-literacy Skills in Low Income Preschoolers in New York City (20 min. talk)
Isabelle Barriere, Gita Martohardjono and Garey Ellis
"Generation 1.5" and its Discourses of Partiality: Postmodern Analysis (20 min. talk)
Sarah Benesch
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm Break
3:00 pm One Size Doesn't Fit All: The Case of Long-Term English Language Learners in Secondary Schools (30 min. talk)
Kate Menken, Tatyana Kleyn, Nabin Chae, Alexander Funk and Nelson Flores
English Language Learners and the Literacy Gap (30 min. talk)
Elaine C. Klein and Gita Martohardjono
4:30 pm Closing Remarks (Ricardo Otheguy)