Date and Time: 2011. 11. 11(Fri.) 14:00~

Location: Law School Building #101

Lecturer: Prof. Peter Robinson (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan)

Topic: Scripts, Frames, Understanding and Task-based Language Learning

 

Peter Robinson is Professor of Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition at Aoyama Gakuin University, in Shibuya, Tokyo, and has held Graduate Teaching appointments as Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto, the University of Pittsburgh, and Temple University Japan. 

 

His books include

Cognition and Second Language Instruction (2001, Cambridge University Press)

Individual Differences and Instructed Language Learning (2002, John Benjamins)

The Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition (2008,Routledge) co-edited with Nick Ellis

Task-Based Language Learning (2011, Wiley-Blackwell)

Second Language Task Complexity: Researching the Cognition Hypothesis of Language Learning and Performance (2011, John Benjamins)

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition (Routledge, to appear 2012).

 

He is editor of the Routledge book series, Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition, and currently member of the editorial boards of the International Review of Applied Linguistics (Mouton DeGruyter), Modern Language Journal (Wiley-Blackwell), Language Teaching Research (Sage Publications) and Studies in Second Language Acquisition (Cambridge University Press).