Michigan State University welcomes Consul General Huang Ping, Head of the Chinese Consulate in Chicago, to give a presentation about the trade relationship between the United States and the People's Republic of China. Presented by the Chinese Undergraduate Student Association and the Broad China Business Society with support from Bank of America and CIBER.
Location: North Business College Complex, Michigan State University N100 (directions: http://www.bus.msu.edu/information/about/maps/nbusiness.cfm).

Admission is free and everyone is invited to attend.

With this year's theme, we turn our attention to the variety of approaches employed in studying the processes and contexts of SLA. Researchers draw on theoretical linguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropology, cognitive science, psychology, educational science, and other disciplines. They gather and analyze data through laboratory research, classroom observations, case studies, ethnographies, and language corpora. They quantify and they interpret. At times it appears that these researchers are looking at completely different subject areas, but all identify themselves as working within the field of SLA.
SLRF 2009 asks how these varied methodologies and approaches compose a single "field of SLA". We solicit papers, posters, and colloquia that address this question and that add to our understanding of SLA.

Peter Pratt is Senior Vice President, Health & Human Services at Public Sector Consultants.