5月31日美国爱达荷州立大学Brent Wolter教授学术讲座预告

    讲座时间：2017年5月31日上午10点
    讲座地点：语林610
    Lecture title: Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition and Its Implications for EFL Learning and Teaching
    Lecturer: Prof. Brent Wolter
    
    Abstract: In this lecture, Prof. Brent Wolter will discuss some of the challenges facing L2 learners in acquiring a sophisticated knowledge of L2 vocabulary in EFL environments. He will relate these challenges to differences that often develop between native speakers and nonnative speakers in respect to their mental representation of words. He will conclude by discussing some teaching strategies that can be used to improve the quality, rather than simply the size, of vocabulary knowledge for L2 speakers.
   

    The lecturer’s bio: Prof. Brent Wolter is an applied linguist with an interest in second language acquisition, particularly vocabulary acquisition. He joined the faculty at Idaho State University in 2005 after teaching for bbin电子 than a decade in Japan. Through this experience teaching EFL, he became interested in the field of applied linguistics partly due to his desire to improve himself as a teacher, and partly due to his curiosity about the social, psychological, and cognitive processes that lead to the successful acquisition of second languages. His research especially reflects his concern with understanding how vocabulary acquisition and vocabulary use occur at a psycholinguistic level. His work has been published in a number of journals, including Applied Linguistics, Applied Psycholinguistics, ELT Journal, Language Learning, and Studies in Second Language Acquisition. In 2010, he was awarded the Master Teacher Award at Idaho State University.