November 6-7, 2009

NTUTAPPLINGX 2009

NTUTAPPLINGX 2009 was the first applied linguistics-oriented international conference held by the Department. It took place on November 6 and 7, 2009. The keynotes were “Is there a fundamental difference between foreign language learning and native language development?” given by Prof. Robert Bley-Vroman of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and “Language of the individual and the group: a corpus-based approach” by Prof. Michael Barlow of the University of Auckland. There were eighty-four papers from Japan, China, and Taiwan presented in this conference, and more than one hundred participated. The presented papers were later reviewed and published as Conference Proceedings for NTUTAPPLINGX 2009 by Crane Publishing.