Keynote speakers
Suzie Beaulieu
Suzie Beaulieu is a teacher educator and researcher at Université Laval (Québec City, Canada). Her research focuses on the acquisition of French as an additional language in adult populations, with a particular emphasis on the skills needed for successful integration into French-speaking communities of practice. Specifically, she investigates linguistic attitudes toward French Lx users, the development of oral skills among (low) literate adult learners, and the explicit teaching of Québec French sociolinguistic and pragmatic norms.
Charlie Nagle
Charlie Nagle is a quantitative researcher working in the areas of language learning, speech perception and production, and listener-based evaluations of speech. He is especially interested in longitudinal research methodology and multivariate statistical techniques including multilevel modeling and structural equation modeling. He is currently researching crosslinguistic influence in perception and production and how training paradigms and procedures for second language speech learning can be optimized. He is also interested in individual differences in motivation, behavior, and learning, and the complex relationships that emerge among those constructs over time. His work has been published in venues such as Language Learning, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, and The Modern Language Journal, and his research has been supported by the Fulbright Program and the National Science Foundation. He also maintains a database and cross-tabulation of longitudinal second language pronunciation studies.