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Clare Wright will discuss her ongoing work on eyetracking and the learning of Chinese characters, and Chen Yang will talk to us about her PhD plans to examine whether the noun phrase accessibility hierarchy predicts acquisition of Chinese relative clauses. If you would like to attend, please contact Chris Dixon (c.l.dixon@leeds.ac.uk) for a Teams invite.
Effects of code-switching on the processing of emotional words Aleksandra Tomic (UiT - Arctic University of Norway) Many phenomena in psycholinguistics have been studied using artificial paradigms due to laboratory limitations. Code-switching, a highly socially regulated practice, may be one of the phenomena experimentally studied with the least regard for the environment it appears in...
If you would like to attend this talk online, please email language@leeds.ac.uk by the 11th of May at the latest. "Learner corpora and SLA theory: the importance of task design" (abstract to be posted soon) Florence Myles, University of Essex Learner corpora are becoming a significant asset for second language acquisition research, and are becoming...
Collocational Processing in L1 and L2: The Effects of Word Frequency, Collocational Frequency, and Association Dogus Oksuz (School of Education, University of Leeds) This study investigated the effects of individual word frequency, collocational frequency and transitional probabilities on L1 and L2 collocational processing. An acceptability judgment task was administered to advanced L2 and L1 speakers...
The dynamics of reading and listening comprehension: developmental perspectives Prof Kate Cain (University of Lancaster) The product of successful reading (and listening) comprehension is a coherent and accurate representation of the state of affairs described in the text: a mental model. A number of language and cognitive skills support the real-time construction of the mental model; these...
In this workshop, you will learn now to use the intuitive Builder interface PsychoPy, including some of its recently developmed features (e.g. running studies online). This interface aims to be easy enough for use in undergraduate teaching, yet flexible enough for high-precision experimental psychology. Getting started with basic experiments is really easy, but this workshop...
Speaker: Draško Kašćelan, University of Leeds Abstract: A large body of literature has indicated executive function benefits in bilinguals (see Barac et al., 2014 for a review). On the other hand, the same area has been reported as an area of difficulty in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) (Schuh & Eigisti, 2012). Considering these...
Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are thought to be the gold-standard level of proof for running and evaluating language interventions. Increasingly adopted from medical research into the social sciences, RCTs are highly valued since they are designed to eliminate as many sources of bias as possible from the scientific process, allowing maximum confidence in experimental findings....
Research talk by Dr Cat Davies (Linguistics & Phonetics) Inferencing is essential for children’s understanding of extended discourse, but relatively little is known about which experiences might encourage inferencing skills during the preschool years. Using a randomised control trial, we tested the effect of increasing exposure to inferential questions during shared book reading on 4-year-olds’...
EAL learning, pedagogy, and materials A workshop presented by Annina Hessel (University of Oxford) Wednesday 11th of October, from 16:30 to 18:00 University of Leeds (Parkinson SR B.08) The session will start by giving an overview of facts about pupils with English as an Additional Language (EAL), including (i) the relationship between English proficiency and educational...