Recent conferences (2007-2000)
2010 AAAL Atlanta, GA
Long-term Incidental Acquisition of New Vocabulary: The Effect of Task Type and the Number of Word Occurrences (with Bella Rozovsky-Roitblat)
2009 AAAL Denver, Co. Collocational knowledge and use in a second language: how do they develop? (with Tina Waldman)
2008 FONAEL Chetumal, Mexico Learning vocabulary in a second language: what do we know about it from research?
Plenary lecture
2008 EUROSLA Aix-en-Provence, France.
Long-term Retention of New Vocabulary: number of encounters of quality of task? (with Bella Rozovski-Roitblat)
2007 SLRF Urbana Champaign
Verb-Noun Collocations in Learners’ Writing: Some Insights from a Corpus of Learner English
(with Tina Waldman)
2007 ELIA Seville, Spain Form focused instruction in L2 vocabulary
acquisition (Plenary lecture)
2006 Tromso, Norway “ Diversity
through education and participation”
Learning Vocabulary
in a Second Language: what do we know about it from research? (Plenary
lecture)
2006 AAAL Montreal Form
focused instruction in L2 vocabulary and reading: a case for contrastive
analysis and translation
2005 EUROSLA 15 Dubrovnik, Croatia
Vocabulary acquisition through
text-based translation tasks (With N. Girsai)
2005 ICLC4 (International Contrastive Linguistics Conference) Santiago
de Compostela, Spain The effect of translation tasks on
vocabulary acquisition (With N. Girsai)
2005 AILA Madison Focus on form,
focus on forms and vocabulary acquisition
2005 AsiaLEX Singapore Towards a bilingualized dictionary for
second language production (with T. Levitzky-Aviad)
2004 EUROSLA 14 San Sebastian, Spain Focus on Form in Second
Language Vocabulary Acquisition (Plenary Lecture)
2004 TESOL International Long Beach, CA The why and how of
teaching vocabulary (Spotlight Lecture, with K. Folse)
2003 AsiaLEX, Tokyo, Japan Dictionary look up behavior and word
retention as a function of task type and word relevance (with T. Levitzki-Aviad)
2003 16th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Thessaloniki , Greece Word focused instruction and L2 vocabulary learning
(Plenary Lecture)
2003 AAAL, Arlington Testing L2 vocabulary
knowledge: size, strength and computer adaptiveness
2002 AILA, Singapore Type of task, time on task and electronic dictionaries
(with M.M. Hill)
2002 L2 Vocabulary Acquisition Colloquium,
Leiden Organizer with P. Bogaards+ short report: Computerized vocabulary testing
2002 AAAL, Salt Lake City Organizer with V. Cook: symposium on
L2 effect on L1 + Lecture: L2 effect on L1 lexical
knowledge and competence
2002 TESOL, Salt Lake City Word focused tasks and vocabulary learning
2002 ALAA, Sydney Size and strength: Do we need both
to measure vocabulary knowledge? (with . K. Hill and C. Elder)
2001 EUROSLA, Paderborn Acquiring vocabulary by listening
(with S. Kehat and A. Saba)
2001
'L2 effect on L1' workshop University
of Colchester, UK L1 lexical attrition and misuse of
collocations
2001 LTRC Symposium, St. Louis Computer Adaptive Test of Size and
Strength (with K. Hill, C. Elder)
2001 AAAL St. Louis Do learners acquire most lexis from
reading?
2001 TESOL International St. Louis Vocabulary Testing by Computer
2000 EUROSLA, Krakow, Poland Passive
vocabulary size and speed of meaning retrieval: are they related?
2000 EURALEX, Stuttgart Dictionaries
and vocabulary learning: does technology make a difference?
2000 Instructed Second Language Symposium,
Brussels University The fault in the default hypothesis
Less recent conferences (1999-1988)
1999 AILA '99, Waseda University, Tokyo. Instructed L2 vocabulary learning:
the hypothesis of involvement (Key-Note Address)
1999 EUROCALL, Besancon, France.
What lexical information do L2 learners select in a CALL dictionary and how
does it affect word retention? (with M.M. Hill)
1999 EUROSLA 9, University of Lund Avoidance of idioms: the effect of
degrees of L1-L2 similarity
1998 PacSLRF, Aoyama Gakuin University,
TokyoWhat leads to better retention: comprehensible input or comprehensible
output? (with J. Hulstijn)
1998 AAAL, Seattle Activating passive vocabulary: communicative
input versus form- focused instruction
1998 ALAA, Griffith College, Brisbane,
Australia What information is looked up in electronic
dictionaries? ( with M.M. Hill)
1998 EUROSLA, The British Institute
and University of Paris, Paris Task effect on incidental vocabulary
learning
1998 Testing Workshop, U. of Swansea,
Wales, UK Vocabulary recognition speed test
1997 EUROSLA, University of Barcelona Learning context effect on lexical
development (with T.S. Paribakht)
1997 SLRF, Michigan State University In praise of output
1996 RELC seminar, Singapore Memorizing vocabulary: does teaching
have anything to do with it? (with K. Shmueli)
1996 EUROSLA, Nijmegen University,
The Netherlands Passive and active vocabularies: are
they related?
1996 AILA, Jyvaskyla University,
Finland
a. Measuring passive and active vocabulary;
b. Discussant at the symposium on lexicography
1995 IATEFL, York University, U.K.
Bilingualised dictionaries: how learners
really use them (with M. Kimmel)
1995 Conference on Testing and Evaluation,
USTHK, Hong Kong Beyond 2000 - a measure of active
vocabulary
1995 EUROSLA, Dublin University Avoidance in L2 and L1-L2 difference:
difference in what?
(with J. Weinstein)
1995 SLRF, Cornell University Development of passive and active
vocabularies. (with D. Shahaf)
1994 RELC Seminar, Singapore Lexical profiles in writing: do they
change over time?
1994 EURALEX, Free University of
Amsterdam Monolingual, bilingual and bilingualised
dictionaries: which are more effective, for what and for whom?
(with Linor Melamed)
1994 EUROSLA, University of Aix-en-Provence,
France The effect of passive vocabulary instruction
on the development of active lexis
1994 MAPRJAL, Regenburg, Germany Maintenance and attrition of lexical
richness of Russian immigrant (with A. Purisman)
1994 Vocabulary workshop, University
of Essex, U.K. Measuring the productive lexicon:
research applications
1993 Corpus Linguistics and Lexicology
, USTHK, Hong Kong Lexis in Reading Comprehension: where
the real problems lie
1993 AILA, Free University of Amsterdam Lexis in second language writing:
can it be measured?
1992 EUROSLA, Jyvaskyla University,
Finland How does L2 lexical knowledge interact
with the general academic ability in L2 reading?
1992 EURALEX, Tampere University, Finland
Corpus-based versus lexicographer
examples in comprehension and production of new words.
1992 IATEFL, Lille , France Words you need to read
1991 TESOL, New York Avoidance in L2 learning: L1 influence
or L2 complexity? (with S. Eliasson)
1991 Contrastive Linguistics, Innsbruck,
Austria L1 effect on lexical confusions
1991 EUROSLA, Salzburg What causes avoidance in a second language:
similarity to L2, difference from L2, or complexity of L2? (with
S. Eliasson)
1990 IATEFL, Dublin University
Facilitating long-term memorization: the 'second-hand cloze' (with
H.Osimo) 1990 AILA World Congress, Thessaloniki,
Greece Lexis in the production of advance
learners: does it grow?
1989 IATEFL Warick University, U.K. They think they know them, but they
don't.
1989 LSP symposium, University
of Budapest How many words should one know to read
authentic texts?
1989 Lexicography and vocabulary
symposium, University of Lyon The lexical threshold of reading comprehension
1988 IATEFL, Edinburgh Ease and difficulty in vocabulary learning:
some implications for teaching.
Conference oldies (pre - 1988)
1987 IATEFL, Westende, Belgium Words you know: how they affect the
words you learn
1987 LSP symposium, Vaasa, Finland How much lexis is necessary for text
comprehension?
1987 AILA , Sydney Vocabulary acquisition in a second
language: the hypothesis of 'synforms' (similar lexical forms)
1986 IATEFL, Brighton, UK Some intralexical factors that affect
vocabulary acquisition
1985 TEFL-TESOL Jerusalem Why are some words more difficult to
learn than others?
1985 LSP symposium, Leuven, Belgium
A case for vocabulary in English for
Academic Purposes
1984 AILA , Brussels Avoidance of phrasal verbs-a case
for contrastive analysis (with M.Dagut)
1983 IATEFL, London A rationale for special vocabulary
materials in English for Academic Purposes
1982 ACTFL , New York To what extent is L2 reading comprehension
a function of L2 competence rather than of strategies?(with D.Sim)
1981
IATEFL , Athens Lexical guessing in context (with
M.Bensoussan)
1981 AILA , Lund How intralingual are intralingual
errors? (with M.B.Dagut)
1981 IATEFL , London Does the EFL learner need language
more than strategies?(with D.D.Sim)
1980 TESOL, San Francisco A problem in vocabulary learning- synophones.
