LET Kansai Fundamental Theory SIG

Date & Time: December 8th (13:30 ~ 16:30) *Project members should arrive by 10:30 Location: Kwansei Gakuin University (Umeda Campus)  Room 1002 (10th floor)  The first part of the meeting will be a group reading and discussion of: Jiang, N. (2018). Second Language Processing. New York, NY: Routledge. The latter half of Chapter 3 Phonological Processing in L2: Issues and Findings (pp. 73-142) will be led by : Louis Lafleur (Ritsumeikan University) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Louis_Lafleur2/ The second part of the meeting will be a presentation by: Noriko Matsuda, Takayuki Ishii, Masahiko Iwata, Mitsuko Nishi, Yoshiko Hamazaki (Kindai University etc.) Title: Overused Words in the Essays of English Learners: Possibility of Building a Learner Corpus (Google map) Kwansei Gakuin University (Umeda Campus),  Room 1002 (10th floor)  Address: 19-19 Chayamachi, Kita-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka 530-0013

In the first part of the meeting, Miwa Morishita (Kobe Gakuin University) https://researchmap.jp/read0142634/?lang=english led a group reading of: Jiang, N. (2018). Second Language Processing. New York, NY: Routledge. The latter half of Chapter 7 Sentence Processing in L2: Sensitivity to Morphosyntactic Violations (pp. 286-322) Shoko Otake (Kobe Gakuin University) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shoko_Otake presented about the following: Title: Learning to Spell: Insights from Japanese EFL Students' Understanding of Orthographic Patterns in English We thank both the group reading leader and our presenters for their insightful presentation!