Yukiko Abe Hatasa compiled the following list of Japan-related papers and posters presented at the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2000 conference, held March 11-14 in Vancouver. For full information: http://www.aaal.org/pages/Vancouver.html.

Saturday, 3/11: "The role of conversation in the long-term development of Japanese grammar and vocabulary" (Noriko Iwashita); "A critical review of measurements on cognitive aspects of language learning: As a basis for future research" (Seiko Horibe); "Comparative instructional effects of structured input practice, structured output practice, and mechanical output practice" (Kimi Kondo); "Implicit grammar instruction: Does it work for everybody?" (Sayuri Kubota).

Sunday, 3/12: "The effectiveness of a video-based multimedia lesson for teaching pragmatics" (Takako Egi, Tomoaki Tatsumi, Yasuko Ito, Mikiko Suzuki); "Testing comparability across languages equal but different?" (Kathryn Hill); "Acceptance vs. ritual ac- ceptance interactions in conversational discourse" (Megumi Kawate-Mierzejewska); "Devel- opment of kanji-learning competence among L2 readers of Japanese" (Keiko Koda); "The dynamic presentation of self: Middle-aged women's conversation in Japanese" (Yoshiko Matsumoto); "The role of standard and non-standard Japanese in conversations" (Shigeko Oka- moto).

Monday, 3/13: "Forgotten but not gone: The 'savings' approach in reactivating lost second-language vocabulary" (Lynne Hansen, Melanie McKinney, Yukako Umeda); "The effects of unfamiliar rhetorical organization on reading performance: What is measured and what is not" (Kumiko Inutsuka, Midori Yokota); "Kanji lexicality effects on masked form priming" (Michiko Shimomura) (poster).

Tuesday, 3/14: "The organization of turn-taking in a Japanese elementary school children" (Haruko Minegishi Cook); "Japanese politeness: A discoursal approach" (Naomi Fujita); "Verbal and non-verbal elements of other-repair in NS/NNS and NS/NS conversations in Japanese" (Yuri Hosoda); "The acquisition of geminates by children in a Japanese immersion program" (Tetsuo Harada); "Investigating the use of L2 writing strategies: The case of Japanese" (Yukiko Abe Hatasa, Eriko Soeda); "Acquisition of the discourse marker 'n desu' by JFL learners" (Tomoko Iwai); "Use of canonical sentence schema in L2 Japanese production tasks" (Noriko Iwasaki); "Discplined lived, gendered selves: Discourses of initiation in a Tokyo middle school" (Ruth Kanagy); "Japanese parsing by English JSL" (Kazue Kanno, Naoko Yoshinaga); "Shifting devices used by supporting participants in Japanese native/native and native/non-native conversations" (Yoko Kato); "Japanese identities in written communication: Politics and discourses" (Ryuko Kubota); "What to do with this yellow light? News-receipt tokens and development of informing in Japanese" (Junko Mori); "Children's early production of foreign language as social activity: Evidence from a Japanese immersion program" (Emi Morita).