“Celebrating HALT’s 25th Year!”

25th Annual HALT Conference

Saturday, March 5, 2011

8:30 am-3:00 pm (full-day)


Imin International Conference Center


(UH Manoa campus, across from Kennedy Theatre)

In partnership with the Confucius Institute 
and the Hawai’i Department of Education

2011 HALT CONFERENCE PROGRAM

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Keynote Speaker: Dr. Stephen Krashen

Stephen Krashen is professor emeritus at the University of Southern California, who moved from the linguistics department to the faculty of the School of Education in 1994. He is a linguist and educational researcher. Dr. Krashen has published more than 350 papers and books, contributing to the fields of second language acquisition, bilingual education, and reading. He is credited with introducing various influential concepts and terms in the study of second language acquisition, including the acquisition-learning hypothesis, the input hypothesis, the monitor hypothesis, the affective filter, and the natural order hypothesis. He as actively defended whole language and bilingual education. Most recently, Dr. Krashen promotes the use of free voluntary reading during second language acquisition, which he says “is the most powerful tool we have in language education, first and second.”

View Dr. Krashen’s Keynote Presentation here