9:00 – 10:15 a.m.
Sheraton Camellia/Gardenia Ballrooms

Call to Order
Brett Thomas, 2008 Conference Chair

RICK SULLIVAN AWARDS
Award winners: Cassia De Abreu, Christopher Mefford, Mary Negrete, Francisco Ramos

GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD
Sponsored by: University of Michigan Press
Presented by: Ellen Lange, College/University Level Chair
Award winner: Taesung Kim

COMMUNITY COLLEGE LEVEL ESSAY AWARD
Sponsored by: Oxford University Press
Presented by: Charmaine Phipps, former Community College Level Chair
Award winner: Victor Calmo

Speaker:
Claire Kramsch, UC Berkeley
Language Learning and Language Use in Multilingual Settings
An analysis of service encounters between Yucateco Maya immigrants in San Francisco and immigrants from other ethnic and national backgrounds shows that the ability to function in the multilingual environments of our globalized economy requires more than just communicative competence in English. This paper proposes a new notion, that of “symbolic competence,” and explores its significance for the teaching of English as a second language.

Claire Kramsch is Professor of German and Affiliate Professor of Education at UC Berkeley, where she teaches courses in SLA/Applied Linguistics in the German department and in the Graduate School of Education. She is the past president of the American Association for Applied Linguistics and past editor of Applied Linguistics. She is the editor of Language acquisition and language socialization: Ecological perspectives (Continuum, 2002).

Plenary Speaker
José Montoya, California State University Sacramento, Professor Emeritus
Using Art to Nurture Creativity in the Classroom
Mr. Montoya will share his fascination with art and storytelling, focusing on how the arts can be a motivator to students of all ages, from pre-school all the way through college and beyond. Mr. Montoya will discuss his “Barrio Art Program,” share some of his strategies for teaching, and read from his poetry.
José Montoya is one of the most influential Chicano bilingual poets in the U.S. His work has been published in many well-known anthologies and magazines, and he was appointed Sacramento’s first Poet Laureate in 2004. Previously, he co-founded the Rebel Chicano Art Front, an artists’ collective internationally recognized for its mural and poster work and for its synthesis of creative expression and community activism. Montoya’s own work depicts everyday barrio life and urban types through visual art, poetry, and song lyrics. He has taught art at every level of the public school system, from preschool to graduate courses for prospective teachers. Most notably, he taught for over 25 years at California State University Sacramento, where he retired in 1996. He continues to remain active professionally, and his artwork continues to be displayed in exhibits locally, nationally, and internationally.