语言学能：拓展研究范畴国际圆桌论坛

2019年11月8日至11月10日，由北京师范大学语言科学研究中心主办的“语言学能：拓展研究范畴国际圆桌论坛（International Round Table Forum onLanguage Aptitude: Pushing the Boundaries）”将在北京师范大学珠海校区召开。

此次论坛邀请了二十位语言学能研究领域的国内外专家学者，旨在分享和交流最新的研究成果，共同促进语言学能理论、语言学能测量和研究方法、语言学能在教学中的应用等领域的发展。此次圆桌论坛的主要内容包括：语言学能理论新进展、语言学能测试工具的开发和应用、语言学能理论和实证研究成果在教学中的新实践。本次论坛共邀请了六位主旨发言，分别为：

 

Keynote 1

 

Niclas Abrahamsson

Niclas Abrahamsson is a full professor of Swedish as a Second Language and the current director of the Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Stockholm University. His main research interests lie within psycholinguistic and neurocognitive aspects on multilingualism, second language acquisition, and first language attrition, with a specialization towards age effects, maturational constraints, and the critical period hypothesis. [Niclas 2019] A recurrent theme is child-adult differences in language acquisition and loss and their relation to the maturation of the brain and so-called critical periods. Prof Abrahamsson’s current research program includes (1) age of acquisition effects vs. bilingualism effects, (2) the roles of procedural/implicit vs. declarative/explicit memory in near-native grammatical acquisition and processing, and (3) listeners’ perception of non-native speech.

 

Keynote 2

Kenneth Hyltenstam

Kenneth Hyltenstam is Professor Emeritus of Bilingualism at Stockholm University. He has published extensively in the area of second language acquisition, specifically on topics such as age and ultimate L2 attainment, markedness, developmental sequences and variability, but his research also covers other topics within the area of bilingualism such as polyglotism and bilingualism and dementia. In addition, he has contributed to multilingualism in the sociolinguistic and educational fields, where he has engaged in research on language policy and language maintenance and shift with respect to minority languages in Sweden and Norway, and language and education issues in the Nordic context as well as in developing countries, in particular in Mozambique. He served as the Director of the Centre for Research on Bilingualism at Stockholm University 1981–2007 and 2012–2013.

 

Keynote 3

Peter Skehan

Peter Skehan is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London, and has taught at St. Mary's University College, Twickenham, London, Auckland University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, King's College London, and Thames Valley University. Professor Skehan’s research interests and extensive publications are in major areas of applied linguistics, such as L2 task-based language teaching & planning research, as well as individual differences in SLA (especially foreign language aptitude). His many books included ‘A cognitive approach to language learning’ (1998), edited volumes include "Researching pedagogical tasks" (2001) “Investigating a processing perspective on task performance” (2014). Recent volumes include: "Second language task-based performance" (2018) and "Language aptitude: Advancing theory, testing, research and practice" (2019), and "Task based language teaching: Theory and practice" (2019). Prof Skehan is a recipient of the International Association of Task-Based Language Teaching Distinguished Achievement award.

 

Keynote 4

Richard Sparks

Richard L. Sparks is Professor Emeritus at Mt. St. Joseph University in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he taught courses in reading science, learning disabilities, educational assessment, and research/statistics. His research interests are reading and reading disabilities (dyslexia), foreign (second) language learning, second language aptitude, individual differences in language learning, and postsecondary learning disabilities. He has published extensively in the native language, second language, and learning disabilities literature in venues such as Modern Language Journal, Language Learning, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Journal of Educational Psychology, Language Teaching, and Foreign Language Annals, and has published several book chapters in second language volumes. He serves as Consulting Editor for the Journal of Learning Disabilities. Dr. Sparks also has a private practice in which he conducts psychoeducational evaluations and serves as a disability consultant for professional testing agencies and licensing boards.

 

Keynote 5

Chuang Wang  

 Chuang Wang is Distinguished Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Macau. His expertise includes educational research design, statistical data analyses, and program evaluation. He has published 7 books, 19 book chapters, 105 peer-reviewed journal articles, and 12 conference proceedings. Dr. Wang is the recipient of the 2019 International Education Award and the 2018 Harshini V de Silva Graduate Mentor Award at University of North Carolina at Charlotte in the United States. He received the 2008 American Educational Research Association Distinguished Paper Award, 2009 Excellence in Research Award from the College of Education, 2010 Distinguished Research Award from the U.S. Academy of Educational Leadership, and the 2012 College of Education Excellence in Teaching Award. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of two peer-reviewed journals: New Waves – Educational Research and Development and Journal of Applied Educational and Policy Research.

 

Keynote 6

Patrick C. M. Wong

Patrick C. M. Wong is Professor of Linguistics and Professor of Otolaryngology (by courtesy), and serves as the Founding Director of the Brain and Mind Institute at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Prior to joining CUHK in 2013. As a cognitive neuroscientist, linguist, and speech-language pathologist, Wong’s research covers a wide range of basic and translational issues concerning the neural basis and disorders of language and music. His research has appeared in a broad array of interdisciplinary scholarly venues covering both neuroscience and language works including journals such as Nature Neuroscience, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, Journal of Neuroscience, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, and Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

会议召集人为伦敦大学Birkbeck College的Peter Skehan教授、北京师范大学罗少茜教授、澳门理工学院温植胜博士。会议地点为北京师范大学珠海校区国际交流中心二楼第三会议室。论坛的交流语言为英语。欢迎感兴趣的教师同学参加交流。

 

附：会议议程

International Round Table Forum on Language Aptitude: Pushing the Boundaries

Program Rundown

November 8-November 10, 2019

Date	Time	Procedure	Venue/Speaker
8/11/ 2019 Friday	12:00－21:00	Registration	北京师范大学珠海校区国际交流中心 Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai International Center
9/11/ 2019 Saturday	Opening Ceremony           Chair：Luo Shaoqian
	08:30－08:35	Welcoming Speech	Fu Ailan (Chair) Director of Center for Linguistic Sciences Beijing Normal University
	08:35－08:45	Introducing Invited Speakers	Peter Skehan & Edward Wen (Conveners)
	08:45－09:00	Group Photo
	First Session              Chair:  Edward Wen
	09:00－09:40	Personalized learning to optimize Language outcome	Patrick C. M. Wong
	09:40－10:20	Neural deficits in second language reading --(f)MRI evidence from Chinese children with English reading impairment	Ding Guosheng
	10:20－10:50	Tea Break
	Second Session              Chair: Adriana Biedroń
	10:50－11:30	Brain, musicality and language aptitude, a complex interplay: Developmental perspectives on the correlations between stable anatomical and other cognitive predictors for language and speech abilities	Sabrina Turker, Susanne Reiterer
	11:30－12:00	Structural priming as language aptitude: An implicit learning account	Cai Zhenguang
9/11/ 2019 Saturday	Third Session               Chair: Peter Skehan
	14:00－14:40	The elephant in the room: Is language aptitude innate or acquired through experience?	Niclas Abrahamsson
	14:40－15:20	Language aptitude and polyglots	Kenneth Hyltenstam
	15:20－15:50	Tea Break
	Fourth Session               Chair: Richard Sparks
	15:50－16:30	Fifty Plus Years of the MLAT-E	Daniel Reed, Charles Stansfield
	16:30－17:00	Linking the Language Aptitude Test for Chinese FL Learners with the Llama Tests	Zhao Haiyong
	17:00－17:40	Surveying Current Aptitude Tests: Where are we, and what is needed?	Peter Skehan
10/11/ 2019 Sunday	Fifth Session                   Chair:  Cai Zhenguang
	08:30－09:10	Is dependency distance experiencing a process of minimization? A diachronic study based on the State of the Union addresses	Lei Lei
	09:10－09:50	Working memory and the Language Device	Lu Bingfu, Edward Wen
	09:50－10:20	Tea Break
	Sixth Session             Chair: Zhang Runhan
	10:20－11:00	Relationships among listening comprehension, working memory, and language aptitude in an instructed foreign language setting	Şebnem Yalçın, Gulcan Erçetin
	11:00－11:40	Working memory as a factor mediating explicit and implicit knowledge of English grammar	Adriana Biedroń,  Mirosław Pawlak
	11:40－12:10	Inter- and intra-individual differences of language aptitude and working memory capacity in L2 listening development	Chang Pengyun
10/11/ 2019 Sunday	Seventh Session            Chair: Daniel Reed
	14:00－14:40	Relationships among L2 learners’ L1 skills, L2 aptitude, and L2 achievement and proficiency	Richard Sparks
	14:40－15:20	The development of English proficiency in newly arrived Parent-Child Immigrant Pairs: Aptitude, Age, Exposure and Anxiety	Amelia Lambelet
	15:20－15:50	Tea Break
	Eighth Session                Chair: Mirosław Pawlak
	15:50－16:20	Exploring the Relationship between Individual Differences and Implicit L2 Knowledge	Zhang Runhan
	16:20－17:00	College Students’ Writing Self-Efficacy and Writing Self-Regulated Learning Strategies in Learning English as a Foreign Language	Wang Chuang
	Closing Ceremony           Chair: Edward Wen & Peter Skehan
	17:00－17:10	Conclusion	Peter Skehan
	17:10－17:20	Closing speech	Luo Shaoqian
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