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2012 Language Research Centre Annual Report
Pavlov, V. (2012, March). Assessing ESL students in mainstream English classes: The Alberta
English Language Arts diploma examination. Poster presented at the American Association
for Applied Linguistics Conference, Boston, Massachusetts.
Pavlov, V. (2011, October). Reading in your second language: Alberta ELA 30‐1 diploma
examination (Part B). Paper presented at the Alberta Teachers of English as a Second
Language Annual Conference, Calgary, Alberta.
Phillips, C. I., & Pexman, P. M. (2012, May). Clean pig—dirty pig: Children’s understanding of
antonymy. Poster presented at the Banff Annual Seminar in Cognitive Science (BASICS),
Banff, Alberta.
Phillips, C. I., & Pexman, P. M. (2012, July). Children’s appreciation for the concept of antonymy.
Poster presented at the Meeting of the International Society for Studies in Behavioral
Development (ISSBD), Edmonton, Alberta.
Pinchbeck, G. G. (2012, May). Vocabulary in writing and literacy in ELA 30‐1 students. Paper
presented at the English Language Arts Council of Alberta Conference (ELAC), Red Deer,
Alberta.
Pinchbeck, G. G. (2012, September). Vocabulary and writing error profiling in high school
student writing corpora. Multidisciplinary Approaches to Language Policy and Planning
Conference, Calgary, Alberta.
Pinchbeck, G. G. & Crossman, K. E. (2012, October). An intensive academic English course for
Gen1.5/ELLs bound for post‐secondary studies: Curriculum design, development and
implementation. TESL Canada 2012 Conference, Kamloops, BC.
Pinchbeck, G. G., Pavlov, V. (2012, February) The Alberta grade 12 provincial English exam as a
source of research data: Reading, writing, vocabulary and literacy. Joint presentation to the
Faculty of Education Research Seminars and Colloquia, Faculty of Education, University of
Calgary, Calgary, Alberta.
Ricento, T. (2012, March). The ‘inevitability’ of neo‐liberalism: Perceptions vs. effects on access
to social mobility through English. Paper presented at the American Association for Applied
Linguistics annual meeting, Boston, Massachusetts.
Roy, S., & Schafer, P. (2012, October). Lire en immersion française: une habileté ou une pratique
sociale. Paper presented at the Annual Conference for Teachers in Immersion (ACPI),
Montreal, Quebec.
Sciban, S‐n. (2012, June) Feibai and Mozhuang: A preliminary investigation of Wang Wenxing’s
rhetoric of Chinese characters. Now and Then: An International Conference in Honour of
Professor Milena Dolezelova‐Velingerova, Prague, Czech Repulic.
Siakaluk, P. D., Newcombe, P. I., Campbell, C., & Pexman, P. M. (2012, November). Effects of
sensorimotor, emotional, and introspective knowledge in semantic processing. Poster
presented at the 53 rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis,
Minnestota.
Wall, A. (2012, January). Personnes fascinées par une image: le cas de Gabriel‐Jacques de Saint‐
Aubin. Papir presented during the international colloquium entitled “Fascination des
Images/Fascinating Images”, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Wall, A. (2012, August‐September). La Verrue de Diderot. Paper presented during the
international colloquium entitled “Regarder l’oeuvre d’art: l’imperfection”, Centre culturel
international de Cerisy, Cerisy‐La Salle, France.
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