LINGUIST List 21.2550
Wed Jun 09 2010
Confs: Applied Ling, Socioling/UK
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Bloomsbury Round Table on Communication, Cognition & Culture
Message 1: Bloomsbury Round Table on Communication, Cognition & Culture
Date: 07-Jun-2010
From: Ruxandra Comanaru <rcoman01students.bbk.ac.uk>
Subject: Bloomsbury Round Table on Communication, Cognition & Culture
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Bloomsbury Round Table on Communication, Cognition & Culture
Date: 24-Jun-2010 - 25-Jun-2010 Location: London, United Kingdom Contact: Jean Marc Dewaele Contact Email: j.dewaelebbk.ac.uk Meeting URL: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/linguistics/about-us/our-events/round-table
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistics
Meeting Description:
The Bloomsbury Round Table on Communication, Cognition & Culture is an annual, international event, jointly hosted by adjacent colleges of the University of London, led by Birkbeck College, where researchers at different stages of their career are invited to present the latest work in the broad fields of Language, Communication and Cognition. This year the event will be co-organised by the International Association of Multilingualism, the AILA Research network Multilingualism: Acquisition and Use' and Birkbeck's Centre for Multilingual & Multicultural Research. The Thematic Focus will be on 'The Multiple Faces of Multilingualism.'
Bloomsbury Round Table Timetable 2010
Thursday 24/6
9:30 Registration, Malet Street, ROOM B04
10:00 Opening
10:15 Li Wei (Birkbeck College, University of London): Creativity, Criticality and Multilingual Practices of Minority Ethnic Children
10:50 Gessica De Angelis (University of Bolzano, Italy) & Ulrike Jessner (University of Innsbruck, Austria): Writing Across Languages
11:25-11:40 Break
11:40 Anne Pauwels (SOAS): 'Being Cool': Gender and Language Practicesin Multilingual Settings
12:15 - 13:45 Lunch break (own initiative - addresses will be provided)
13:45-14:30 Poster Session in ROOM B04
Session A Malet Street, ROOM B04
14:30 Tsafi Timor (Kibbutzim College of Education, Israel): The Use of Mother Tongue in Foreign Language Acquisition
14:55 Rebecca Mitchell (University of Cambridge): Notre langue, c'est nous-mêmes': Language, Identity and Cultural Conflict in Gabon
15:20 Ji Meng (Tohoku University, Japan): East Asian Model of Multilingualism in the Making: A Comparative Study of Five East Asian Countries
15:45-16:00 Break
16:00-16:25 Shahnaz Kazemi, Islamic Azad University, Iran The Effect of Setting Reading Goals on the Vocabulary Retention of Iranian EFL Learner
16:25-16:50 Kellie Goncalves (University of Berne, Switzerland): "It's so Much More Comfortable to Speak the Local Language than to Speak High German when English is Your First Language": Language Practices within Intercultural Couples in a Multilingual Setting
16:50-17:15 Alma Rodriguez-Tsuda (University of Southampton): Adult English L2 Learning in an English Urban Context: Issues of Gender, Identity and Social Context
Session B Building Malet Street MAL 152
14:30 Habibullah Pathan (University of Glasgow): Languages and Multilingualism in Pakistan
14:55 Mandira Halder (University of Nantes, France): Modelling Grammar Instruction in a Multilingual Classroom
15:20 Martin Pickett (University of Portsmouth): Understanding why English Mother Tongue Speakers Learn Foreign Languages? Bridging the Gap in the Literature and Preparing the Way for New Research beyond the Classroom
15:45-16:00 Break
16:00-16:25 Erida Prifti (University of Vlora, Albania): Designing an Assessment Instrument to Measure Student Performance in Consecutive and Simultaneous Interpreting
16:25-16:50 Maria Kambanaros, European University Cyprus, Bilingual Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI): How do They Compare with Monolingual SLI children
16:50-17:15 Elena Salakhian (University of Tuebingen, Germany): Emergence of Eastern European English: Empirical Findings and Theoretical Considerations
17:15-18:00 Reception
Friday 25/6 Malet Street, ROOM B04,
10:00 Raphaele Berthele (University of Fribourg): Simple Heuristics and Abduction in Receptive Multilingualism
10:40 Larissa Aronin (University of Haifa & Muiris Ó Laoire, Institute of Technology, Tralee): The Multiple Faces of Multilingualism: Language Nominations
11:20-11:35 Break
11:50 John O'Regan (Institute of Education): The Discourse of Intercultural Communication: Aporias of Praxis in the Intercultural Public Sphere
12:30-14:00 Lunch break
14:00 Sian Preece (Institute of Education): Imagining English-medium Universities as Multilingual Spaces
Session A Malet Street, Room B04
14:40 Kyoko Motobayashi, OISE, University of Toronto, Canada, Language Dependency in Bilingual Autobiographic Writing: The Cases of Japanese-English Bilingual Students with Transcultural Experiences
15:05 Katharina Schuhmann (SUNY Stony Brook, USA): Perceptual Learning in Hindi-English Bilinguals
15:30 Maria Pilar Safont Jorda (Universitait Jaume I, Spain): Early Pragmatic Development in Consecutive Third Language Learning
15:55 Michaela Hilbert (Otto-Friedrich-Universität, Germany): The Importance of Imitation: Non-standard Inversion as a Learner Phenomenon in English Contact Varieties
16:20 Marie Werndin (Stockholm University, Sweden): Understanding the Young and their Language Practices and Representations in the Research Context
Session B Malet Street Building MAL B30
14:40 Mahmoud A. Al-Khatib (University of Science & Tech., Irbid, Jordan): Language and Cultural Shift among the Kurds of Jordan
15:05 Gopa Nayak (University of Oxford): Can E-books Play any Role in Developing Reading Skills in Young Chinese ESL Learners in Hong Kong?
15:30 Karim Siebeneicher Brito (Universidade Federal do Paranco, Brazil): Inferencing Word Meaning by Multilinguals: the Role of Previously Learned Languages
15:55 Bissera Gorgatchev (Université Paris 13): Foreign Language Acquisition and L1 Interference
16:20 Sara Mansoori (Islamic Azad University-Najafabad, Iran): Error Analysis: A Case of Second Language Writing
16:45 General discussion on issues that have arisen
17:00 End of Workshop
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