CURRICULUM VITAE

NEAL SNAPE

Associate Professor of Language and Linguistics

Faculty of International Communication

Department of English

Gunma Prefectural Women s University

Electronic e-mail address: abp0x3@r.postjobfree.com

Personal website: http://www.nealsnape.com

Tel: +81 (207) 65-8511 ext. 538

EDUCATION

Ph.D in Language and Linguistics, University of Essex, 2006

Thesis title: The acquisition of the English determiner phrase by Japanese and Spanish learners of

English.

Supervisor: Professor Roger Hawkins

Committee chair: Professor Andrew Radford (University of Essex)

co-chair: Dr. Danijela Trenkic (University of York)

MA (with distinction) in Applied Linguistics, University of Essex, 2002

MA dissertation title: Variability in the use of the English article system by Japanese learners of

English.

Supervisor: Professor Roger Hawkins

Committee chair: Professor Martha Young-Scholten

BA (2:1) Honors in Language Studies, University of Essex, 1998

Advanced Core Training in Linguistics (ACTL)

Organised by Cambridge, RCEAL, Essex, QMUL, UCL, LLC for Ph.D students to gain

further knowledge in Semantics, Syntax, Morphology and Phonology, (2004 2005)

International House, London, UK. RSA Cambridge Certificate in English Language Teaching to

Adults (CELTA), 1997

City & Guilds Certificate in Teaching Basic Skills for ESOL, 1996

Colchester Institute, UK. A' level Communication Studies and AS' level English language, 1996

NetLearn Languages, UK. Certificate in On-line Teaching of English (COLTE), (1994 1995)

Advanced proficiency in Spanish.

Intermediate proficiency in Japanese (JLPT level 3).

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RESEARCH POSITION

Post-doctorate position, University of Calgary, Language Research Centre, (2006 2007)

Continuing with current research on second language acquisition of articles by adult Chinese

learners of English.

Led a pedagogy reading group with Tanja Kupisch.

TERTIARY TEACHING EXPERIENCE

(LIST OF COURSES TAUGHT)

Gunma Prefectural Women s University, (current position), undergraduate

Presentations

Essay Writing

Advanced Writing How to write a research paper

Phonetics and Phonology

Language and Psychology

Introduction to Child Language Acquisition

Introduction to Second Language Acquisition

Introduction to Second Language Learning and Language Teaching

Introduction to Second Language Research: Methodology and Design

Introduction to Bilingualism

Introduction to Specific Language Impairment

Gunma Prefectural Women s University, (current position), graduate

Introduction to Second Language Learning and Language Teaching

Introduction to Bilingualism

Hokkaido University, (2007 2008), undergraduate

Academic Writing

Academic Reading

Speaking

Listening

Debate and Discussion

Introduction to Linguistics

University of Essex, (2005 2006), undergraduate

LG105 Foundations of Linguistics

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EFL TEACHING EXPERIENCE

University of Calgary, (2007)

Instructor on the English for Academic Purposes Program

Prepared and taught speaking/listening classes.

AEON Corporation, Japan, (2002 2003)

EFL teacher to adults

Prepared and taught classes for elementary up to advanced groups.

Evaluated students progress by writing monthly reports.

Frequently interviewed prospective students.

Headed a Self-Study Campaign.

Designed materials and posters for the school.

Colchester English Study Centre, UK, (2002)

EFL teacher to adults

Responsible for planning and teaching lessons to intermediate and upper intermediate

groups.

Evaluated students progress by writing reports.

Japanese Exchange and Teaching Programme (JET), Miyagi Prefecture, Japan (1998 2001)

Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) at two senior high schools

Adapted to living and working in Japan.

Created and taught lessons to adults and high school students for 3 years.

Developed communicational skills in English and Japanese.

Worked as a team with Japanese teachers in planning lessons.

Collaborated with Japanese teachers on curriculum development.

Planned events and activities.

Gave presentations at professional conferences and seminars for teachers of English.

Created and distributed my own material to aid the teaching of English using computers.

Pierre Guichard School of Languages, UK, (1997)

EFL teacher to French students

Planned and created lessons plans for a summer school.

Gained understanding into student s needs.

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The Adult Education Centre, Greyfriars College, Colchester, UK, (1995 1996)

Part - time volunteer teacher of English to speakers of other languages

Taught English to a small multilingual group.

Followed and delivered lesson plans.

Planned lessons with other volunteers and teachers.

AWARDS

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) scholarship for postgraduate funding, (2003 2006)

Fellowship for post-doctorate position supported as part of the Province of Alberta s ACCESS grant

in second language learning, (2006 2007)

The acquisition of English article use and tense by Japanese learners after the sensitive period,

supported in part by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) from the Ministry of Education,

Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan. Advisors are Lydia White, David Birdsong and

Andrea Moro. Principal Researcher Noriaki Yusa (Miyagi Gakuin Women's University). Other

project members include Masatoshi Koizumi (Tohoku University), Kim Jongho (Tohoku University)

and Kuniya Nasukawa (Tohoku Gakuin University), (2009 2012)

Attrition in L1 and L2 speakers, supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) from the

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan. Principal Researcher

Makiko Hirakawa (Bunkyo University). Other project members include Yahiro Hirakawa (Tokyo

Engineering University), Hironobu Hosoi (Gunma Prefectural Women's University), Naoko Narita

(Bunkyo University), Michiko Fukuda (Bunkyo University), Yuri Fujisaki (Tokyo International

University), Noriko Okamoto (Tokyo International University) and John Matthews (Chuo

University), (2009 2014)

MEMBERSHIPS

British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL)

American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)

Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA)

Japan Association for Language Teachers (JALT)

ACADEMIC SERVICE TO LINGUISTICS

Reviewer for Applied Psycholinguistics (2011)

Reviewer for Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism (2011)

Member of the Editorial and Advisory Board of the International Journal of Research in

ELT (IJRELT) (online journal from 2011)

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Reviewer for Mable Chan s research proposal, Articles in Cantonese/English Interlanguage

and Pedagogical Implications, which has been submitted to the Research Grant Council

(RGC) of Hong Kong (2011)

Reviewer for J rgen Meisel s festschrift (2010)

Reviewer for Cambridge Handbook on Second Language Acquisition (2010)

Member of the J-SLA Steering Committee from 2009

Member of the Japan Association for Language Teachers National Abstract Reading

Committee from 2009

External examiner for Jun Matoba s Ph.D thesis, University of Queensland, Australia (2008)

Reviewer for Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (2009 2011)

Reviewer for International Journal of Bilingualism (2009/2010)

Reviewer for a special edition of Second Language Research on third language acquisition

(2009)

Reviewer for Language Learning (2009/2010)

Reviewer for Language Acquisition (2009)

Reviewer for Second Language Research (2007 2011)

Ad-hoc reviewer for Second Language Research (2008)

Reviewer for a special edition of Lingua on nativist and emergentist approaches to second

language acquisition (2008)

Reviewer for System (2008/2009)

Editor of Essex Graduate Student Papers in Language and Linguistics (EGSPLL) (2005

2007)

Reviewer for the LangUE 2006 conference at the University of Essex

PUBLICATIONS

Books / Edited volumes

Leung, Y-k. I. and N. Snape. (submitted). Second Language Acquisition: Second Language

Systems. Invited textbook under contract with Palgrave Macmillan SLA textbook series.

Snape, N, Y-k. I. Leung and M. Sharwood Smith (2009). Representational Deficits in SLA. In

honor of Roger Hawkins. edited volume by LALD series: John Benjamins.

Snape, N. (2008). The acquisition of the English determiner phrase by L2 learners: Japanese and

Spanish. Saarbr cken, Germany: VDM Verlag.

Chapters in edited volumes

Kupisch, T., N. Snape and I. Stangen. (under review). Foreign language acquisition in heritage

speakers: The acquisition of articles in L3-English by German-Turkish bilinguals. To appear in J.

Duarte and I. Gogolin (eds), Linguistic Super-Diversity in Urban Areas Research Approaches.

Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Snape, N and N. Yusa. (under review). Explicit article instruction in definiteness, specificity,

genericity and perception. To appear in an edited volume Universal Grammar and the Second

Language Classroom published by Springer.

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Kupisch, T, M. Anderssen, U. Bohnacker and N. Snape. (2009). Article acquisition in English,

German, Norwegian and Swedish. In Ronald W. Leow, H ctor Campos and Donna Lardiere (eds.),

Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 2007 Proceedings. (pp.

223-235). Washington: Georgetown University Press.

Snape, N. (2009). Exploring Mandarin Chinese speakers article use. Representational Deficits in

SLA. In honor of Roger Hawkins. edited volume by LALD series: John Benjamins.

Hawkins R., S. Al-Eid, I. Almahboob, P. Athanasopoulos, R. Chaengchenkit, J. Hu, M. Rezai, C.

Jaensch, Y. Jeon, A. Jiang, I. Leung, K. Matsunaga, M. Ortega, G. Sarko, N. Snape, K. Velasco-

Zarate. (2006). Accounting for English article interpretation by L2 speakers. In Foster-Cohen, S. H.

(ed.), EUROSLA Yearbook, 6: 7-25. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Articles in refereed journals

Snape, N, M. del P. Garc a Mayo and A. G rel (under review). L1 transfer in article selection for

generic reference by Spanish, Turkish and Japanese L2 learners. Submitted to International Journal

of English Studies.

Snape, N. and T. Kupisch. (2010). Ultimate attainment of second language articles: A case-study of

an endstate second language Turkish English speaker. Second Language Research, 26(4): 527-548.

Snape, N. (2008). Resetting the Nominal Mapping Parameter: definite article use and the count

mass distinction in L2 English. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 11(1): 63-79.

Snape, N. (2005). The certain uses of articles in L2-English by Japanese and Spanish speakers.

Durham and Newcastle Working Papers in Linguistics. vol. 11, 155-168.

Snape, N. (2005). The use of articles in L2 English by Japanese and Spanish learners. Essex

Graduate Student Papers in Language & Linguistics. vol. 7, 1-23.

Conference proceedings

Snape, N, M. del P. Garc a Mayo and A. G rel (2009). Spanish, Turkish, Japanese and Chinese L2

learners acquisition of generic reference. In Proceedings of the 10th Generative Approaches to

Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2009), ed. M. Bowles, T. Ionin, S. Montrul and

A. Tremblay, 1-8. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Snape, N. (2007). Japanese Speakers Article Omission in L2 English: Evidence against the

Prosodic Transfer Hypothesis? In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Generative Approaches to

Language Acquisition North America (GALANA), ed. A. Belikova, L. Meroni, and M. Umeda, 394-

405. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Snape, N, Y-k. I. Leung and H-C. Ting (2006). Comparing Chinese, Japanese and Spanish Speakers

in L2 English Article Acquisition: Evidence against the Fluctuation Hypothesis? In Proceedings of

the 8th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2006), ed.

Mary Grantham O Brien, Christine Shea, and John Archibald, (pp. 132-139). Somerville, MA:

Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

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Snape, N. (2006). L2 acquisition of definiteness and specificity in English by advanced Japanese

and Spanish learners. In A. Belletti, E. Bennati, C. Chesi, E. Di Domenico and I. Ferrari (eds.),

Language Acquisition and Development. Proceedings of the Generative Approaches to Language

Acquisition Conference 2005, (pp. 500-504). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press/CSP.

Snape, N. (2006). Do L2 learners have problems (re)-setting parameters? Evidence from the

nominal domain in English. CamLing 2006 Proceedings. 205-212.

Snape, N. (2005). Article use in L2 English: Missing Surface Inflection Hypothesis (MSIH) or

Representational Deficit Hypothesis (RDH)? CamLing 2005 Proceedings. 159-165.

Other

Snape, N, (2010). Accounting for patterns of article choice by EFL learners. Gunma Prefectural

Women s University Bulletin, 30.

Snape, N. (2003). Pronoun case assignment by children with Specific Language Impairment.

Studies in Japanese Language Teaching. vol.10, 49-64.

Works in progress

Snape, N. and H. Hosoi. (in prep). L1 Japanese L2 English acquisition of scalar implicatures.

INVITED TALKS

2012

Language and Speech Laboratory, University of the Basque Country, Spain.

Article use by Japanese speakers: A longitudinal study of 3 sisters.

Centre of Language and Literature (SOL), Lund University, Sweden.

Acquisition of L2 English generics by Japanese and Spanish speakers.

2011

Workshop at J-SLA summer seminar house, Kyoto, Japan.

Second language acquisition: L2 learners interlanguage grammars.

2010

Workshop at Miyagi Gakuin Women's University, Sendai, Japan.

(Problems with the acquisition of articles by Japanese

learners of English).

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2009

Brown Bag talk at Stony Brook University, New York, U.S.A.

The role of the L1 in L2 article acquisition: What transfers?

2008

Faculty of Foreign Languages, Ningbo University, China.

L2 articles: Acquisition of definiteness, specificity and generics.

J-SLA Autumn Seminar, Daito Bunka Meeting Center, Tokyo, Japan.

The acquisition of DP by L2 learners: Types of problems and possible explanations.

Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

Can Japanese, Spanish and Turkish speakers acquire English articles used for generic reference?

2007

Department of Linguistics Colloquium, University of Calgary, Canada.

The Article Choice Parameter and the Fluctuation Hypothesis: The role of L1 transfer.

INTERNATIONAL PRESENTATIONS

SLRF 2011 Annual Conference, Iowa, U.S.A

Hirakawa, M., Y. Hirakawa, N. Snape, H. Hosoi and J. Matthews. Interpretations of tense and

aspect in L2 English by Japanese speakers (oral presentation)

AAAL 2011 Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A

Snape, N., N. Yusa and Y. Sakaguchi. Explicit instruction in article choice and the perception of

the/a/-s (colloquium)

Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies 2010, University of Hamburg, Hamburg,

Germany

Snape, N. and H. Hosoi. L1-Japanese L2-English acquisition of scalar implicatures (poster)

YACQ 2010 Workshop on Applied Generative Second Language Acquisition, University of

York, York, UK

Snape, N. Language acquisition at the interfaces: Implications for L2 article instruction (oral

presentation)

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J-SLA 10th 2010 Annual Conference, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan

Snape, N. and T. Kupisch. Ultimate attainment of L2 articles: A case-study of an endstate L1

Turkish L2 English speaker (oral presentation)

AAAL 2010 Annual Conference, Sheraton Atlanta Hotel, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A

Snape, N. Research on English article acquisition: Implications for ESL/EFL teaching practice. The

issue of L1 transfer in article pedagogy (colloquium)

J-SLA 9th 2009 Annual Conference, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan

Snape, N. and H. Hosoi. L1 Japanese L2 English acquisition of scalar implicatures (poster)

GASLA 2009, Illinois, U.S.A

N. Snape, M. P. Garc a Mayo, A. Gurel, D. Barner, A. Libenson and P. Cheung. Spanish, Turkish,

Japanese and Chinese L2 acquisition of generic reference (oral presentation)

BUCLD 2008, Boston, U.S.A

A. Libenson, P. Cheung, M. Takasaki and N. Snape. Quantifiers as a window into set

representations: Evidence from children learning Japanese and English (poster)

EUROSLA 2008, Aix-en-Provence, France

Snape, N, M. P. Garc a Mayo, A. G rel. Japanese, Spanish and Turkish L2 acquisition of English

generic NPs (oral presentation)

IASCL 2008, Edinburgh, UK

Snape, N, and T. Kupisch. Articles and clitic pronouns in the acquisition of Italian and Spanish

(colloquium)

J-SLA 8th 2008 Annual Conference, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, Kyoto, Japan.

Snape, N, A. G rel, M. P. Garc a Mayo and D. Barner. L2 acquisition of English generic NPs by

Japanese, Chinese, Spanish and Turkish speakers (oral presentation)

PacSLRF 2008, Beijing, China

Snape, N. Fluctuation in L2 article acquisition: Interpreting the findings from L1 Chinese L2

English participants (oral presentation)

GURT 2007, Washington D.C, U.S.A

Kupicsh, T, N. Snape, U. Bohnacker and M. Anderssen. Crosslinguistic variation in the acquisition

of Germanic articles (oral presentation)

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EUROSLA 2006, Antalya, Turkey

Snape, N. Article omission in L2 English: Against the Prosodic Transfer Hypothesis? (oral

presentation)

EUROSLA 2006, Antalya, Turkey

R. Hawkins, S. Al-Eid, I. Almahboob, K. Al-Thubaiti, Y. Hu, C. Jaensch, Y. Jeon, Y-K. I. Leung, S.

NaRanong, M. Ortega, A. Polentas, M. Javad Rezai, K. Roehr, G. Sarko, N. Snape, K. Sarantis:

Knowledge of English resultatives by L2 speakers evidence for UG-constrained interlanguage

grammars? (oral presentation given by R. Hawkins)

GALANA 2006, Montreal, Canada

Snape, N. Japanese speakers article omission in L2 English: Evidence against the Prosodic

Transfer Hypothesis? (oral presentation)

GASLA 2006, Banff, Canada

Snape, N, Y-k I. Leung and H. C. Ting. Comparing Chinese, Japanese and Spanish speakers in L2

English article acquisition: Evidence against the Fluctuation Hypothesis? (oral presentation)

GASLA 2006, Banff, Canada

Snape, N. The syntactic and semantic features of the nominal domain in English: Do Japanese and

Spanish L2 learners have full access to UG? (poster)

EUROSLA 2005, Dubrovnik, Croatia

Hawkins R., S. Al-Eid, I. Almahboob, P. Athanasopoulos, R. Chaengchenkit, J. Hu, M. Rezai, C.

Jaensch, Y. Jeon, A. Jiang, Y-K. I. Leung, K. Matsunaga, M. Ortega, G. Sarko, N. Snape, K.

Velasco-Zarate: Non-target-like article use in L2 English implications for current UG-based

theories of SLA (oral presentation given by R. Hawkins)

GALA 2005, Siena, Italy

Snape, N. L2 acquisition of definiteness and specificity in English by advanced Japanese and

Spanish learners (poster)

J-SLA 5th 2005 Annual Conference, Kwansei Gakuin University, Osaka, Japan.

Snape, N. The use of articles in L2 English by Japanese and Spanish learners (oral presentation)

International Online Conference on Second and Foreign Language Teaching and Research I.

2004

Snape, N. Variability in the use of the English article system by Japanese learners of English (on-

line presentation)

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J-SLA 3rd 2003 Annual Conference, Daito Bunka Meeting Center, Tokyo, Japan.

Snape, N. Variability in the use of the English article system by Japanese learners of English (poster)

REFERENCES

Professor Roger Hawkins

Department of Language and Linguistics

University of Essex

Wivenhoe Park

Colchester,

Essex, CO3 3SQ

UK

abp0x3@r.postjobfree.com

Professor Susanne Carroll

Department of Linguistics

University of Calgary

2500 University Dr.

N.W. Calgary, AB. T2N 1N4

Canada

abp0x3@r.postjobfree.com

Professor Roumyana Slabakova

Department of Linguistics

University of Iowa

557 English Philosophy Building

Iowa City, IA 52242

U.S.

abp0x3@r.postjobfree.com

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