CALL and SLA: Chat room discourse and language-learning strategies. 2-hour colloquium, American Association for Applied Linguistics, St. Louis (co-director with Dale Koike; 3 additional presenters), 2001.
Oral Correction of student errors: Challenging our assumptions. ACTFL Annual Meeting, Boston (with Sharon Foerster and Ana Oskoz), 2000.
Corrective feedback, learner uptake, and teacher beliefs: A pilot study. Second Language Research Forum, Madison, WI (with Ana Oskoz), 2000
Interrogation, conversation, and the OPI. Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Washington, DC, 2000.
Burning the midnight oil: When students read (literary) texts on their own. Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, 1999.
Old skills, new strategies for approaching literary texts. ACTFL Annual Meeting, Dallas (with Sharon Foerster and Janet Swaffar), 1999.
We have ways to make you talk: Interrogating, interviewing, and conversing in the OPI. American Association for Applied Linguistics, Stanford, CT (with Dale A. Koike).
Building toward the Advanced level through textual deconstruction activities. ACTFL Annual Meeting, Chicago (with Sharon Foerster), 1998.
Near-native speaker: The perspective of the language learner. Colloquium on the near-native speaker. American Association for Applied Linguistics, Seattle (with Dale A. Koike), 1998.
Priority: The Advanced-level speaker. ACTFL Annual Meeting, Nashville (with Sharon Foerster and Cynthia Fraser González), 1997.
The acquisition of tense and aspect: Exploring learners' perceptions. Colloquium on the acquisition of aspect in natural and academic L2 Spanish. Second Language Research Forum, East Lansing, 1997.
The acquisition of tense and aspect: Exploring learners' perceptions. American Association for Applied Linguistics, Orlando, 1997.
Building towards excellence: Using literary texts in first-year college Spanish. Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Louisville (with Emma Gottwald), 1996.
Rethinking grammar: Perspectives for the 21st century. ACTFL Annual Meeting, Anaheim (with L. Kathy Heilenman and Erwin Tschirner), 1995.
A semester abroad for second-year Spanish students: Exploring the effects of linguistic and cultural immersion. Research Perspectives in Adult Language Learning and Acquisition Annual Symposium, Columbus (with Ladimiro Urdaneta), 1995.
The student as story-teller: Narrative strategies and skills of Intermediate High and Advanced level speakers of Spanish. Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, New York, 1995.
What have four years wrought? Outcomes assessment in Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Iowa. Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Denver, 1995.
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