ZhaoHong Han - Linguistic Relativity in SLA: Thinking for Speaking

Teresa Cadierno is Associate Professor at the Institute of Language of Communication, University of Southern Denmark. Her research interests include instructed second language acquisition, with a special focus on the acquisition of grammar by L2 learners, L2 input processing and the role of formal instruction in L2 acquisition; and applied cognitive linguistics, especially the acquisition and teaching of L2 constructions for the expression of motion events, and the investigation of re-thinking for speaking processes in a foreign language.

Kenny R. Coventry is Professor of Cognitive Science, and the Director of the Cognition and Communication Research Centre, Northumbria University. He is also currently a fellow at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany. His research focuses on the relationship between language and perception from a multidisciplinary perspective. With Simon Garrod, he is the author of Saying, Seeing and Acting: The Psychological Semantics of Spatial Prepositions (2004).

Monika Ekiert is currently an EdD candidate at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she also teaches graduate courses in the MA TESOL and Applied Linguistics programs. Her research interests include the acquisition of L2 meaning by adult L2 learners, the acquisition of definiteness, form-meaning connections in second language learning, crosslinguistic influence in second language acquisition and conceptual transfer.

Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes is a reader in Spanish. His research interests are in the interdisciplinary field of Spanish applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics and bilingualism. His current research projects include among others a study of the copula verbs ser/estar and a study of the acquisition of spatial prepositions by L2 learners of both English and Spanish, projects funded by the British Academy and the Art and Humanities Research Council. He has authored and co-authored numerous articles and book chapters, and his research has appeared in different international, refereed journals such as Language Learning, Bilingualism: Languageand Cognition, Cognition, Studies in Second language Acquisition and International Journal of Bilingualism among others.

ZhaoHong Han is Associate Professor in Linguistics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research interests lie broadly in second language learnability and second language teachability. She is the author of Fossilization in Adult Second Language Acquisition (2004) and the editor/co-editor of a number of volumes on the topics of the second language process, second language reading and fossilization. In addition, her work on input enhancement and input processing has appeared in scholarly journals. She is the recipient of the 2003 International TESOL Heinle and Heinle Distinguished Research Award.

Victoria Hasko is Assistant Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of Georgia. Her areas of research include second and heritage language acquisition, language attrition and cognitive development in bilinguals. Her recent projects have addressed topics such as acquisition of motion expressions, identity repertoire, variability of emotion talk and expressive suffixation in the speech of second language and heritage language learners. She is a co-editor of New Approaches to Slavic Verbs of Motion (John Benjamins Publishing, 2010) and the editor of a special issue of the Slavic and Eastern European Journal on the teaching and learning of verbs of motion (2009).

Terence Odlin teaches courses in linguistics and English as a second language at Ohio State University. He is the author of Language Transfer and several articles and book chapters on the same topic. He has also served as the editor or co-editor of volumes on language contact, pedagogical grammar and fossilization. His current research projects focus on comprehension, linguistic complexity and language transfer in second language acquisition.

Gale A. Stam is Professor of Psychology at National-Louis University. Her research interests include language and culture, language and cognition, speech and gesture, and first and second language acquisition, particularly the development of first language (L1) thinking for speaking and linguistic and gestural changes in thinking for speaking with second language (L2) acquisition. She has published articles on changes in thinking for speaking, the importance of looking at gesture in L2 acquisition and lexical retrieval in an L2. Her co-edited book