Full Title: 14th International Workshop on Writing Systems and Literacy
Short Title: AWLL14

Date: 10-Nov-2023 - 12-Nov-2023
Location: Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy
Contact Person: Terry Joyce
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: http://faculty-sgs.tama.ac.jp/terry/awll/workshops.html

Linguistic Field(s): Writing Systems

Call Deadline: 10-Jul-2023

Meeting Description:

Extending the Association of Written Language and Literacy’s (AWLL) tradition of international conferences devoted to writing systems, AWLL14 will convene to facilitate researchers from various backgrounds in exploring together their shared interests in understanding how the complex interface between writing and reading plays out across the diversity of writing systems.

2nd Call for Papers:

Writing/reading interface
14th International Workshop on Writing Systems and Literacy
10-12 November, 2023
Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy

Extending the Association of Written Language and Literacy’s (AWLL) tradition of international conferences devoted to writing systems, AWLL14 will convene to facilitate researchers from various backgrounds in exploring together their shared interests in understanding how the complex interface between writing and reading plays out across the diversity of writing systems. In that spirit, this call invites abstract submissions that address relevant research questions, including (but not limited to) the following:
- What are the roles of phonological awareness and morphological awareness in both learning to write (encode) and read (decode) in different writing systems?
- To what extent can cross-linguistic studies help differentiate between universal and language-specific aspects of visual word recognition and processing?
- What historical conventions, sociolinguistic practices or technological aspects shape the writing/reading interface at different levels of written language?
- How can awareness of the interface between writing and reading benefit the teaching of both reading and writing?
- How do the developmental processes of written text production and comprehension influence each other?
- How will novel AI technologies influence the writing/reading interface?

The 3-day program will feature three keynote talks, a series of oral and poster sessions, AWLL’s business meeting and conclude with a panel discussion.

Keynote speakers:
Vito Pirrelli, CNR Pisa, Italy
Kathy Rastle, Royal Holloway University of London, UK
David Share, University of Haifa, Israel

Organizers: Terry Joyce (Tama University, Japan; Temple University Japan), Lynne Cahill (University of Sussex, UK), Dorit Ravid (University of Tel Aviv, Israel)
Program committee: Terry Joyce, Lynne Cahill, Dorit Ravid

Important dates:
Second call for papers: 10 June 2023
Submission deadline: 10 July 2023
Notification of acceptance†: 10 August 2023

Submission guidelines:
Applicants for both oral and poster presentations should submit anonymized abstracts of no more than 300 words (not including up to 3 references) and an indication of presentation preference as a Word file. Oral presentation will be up to 30 minutes (inclusive of time for questions and discussion).

Point of contact: [email protected]
AWLL website: http://faculty-sgs.tama.ac.jp/terry/awll/index.html

†Accommodation arrangements:
Temple University Rome inform us that the demand for hotel accommodation in Rome is high this year. Accordingly, prospective participants are advised to make accommodation reservations (with cancellation options) early.