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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SV"></span><b><span lang="SV">Announcement:</span></b></p>
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Workshop: Readability and Multilingualism at the 23rd Scandinavian
Conference of Linguistics,<br>
1-3 October 2008<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">This workshop will
cover the subject
”Readability and Multilingualism”. Heavy focus is today put on texts
for
different purposes that they must be readable and even in some cases
easy-to-read
and understand. This is partly dependant upon the fact that we live in
a
society where information is intensive and where it is getting more and
more
important to find the information and to retrieve the information
available
especially on the Internet. That some texts in certain situations have
to be
easy-to-read and understand is due to the fact that the information has
to be
accessible for everyone irrespective of educational background or
mother tongue.
Texts in this situation are often directed to adults concerning
information from
the government, the society, news, social and medical care etc.<br>
Similar demands on readability
are raised for texts directed to children and youth, where texts might
be literature
and school textbooks and texts in different kinds of test situations.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">In this workshop we
will be
discussing issues concerning readability on a more general level where
multilingualism
is the common denominator. The issue of readability will be treated
from a
broad perspective covering both adults, children and youth.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>Participation</b>:<br>
The program is already set and participation in the workshop is
included in the conference registration fee.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>Organizer</b>: <br>
Sofie
Johansson Kokkinakis (sofie at svenska.gu.se), Institute for Swedish as
a Second Language, Språkbanken, Department of Swedish, Gothenburg
University<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>Program</b>:<br>
<span lang="SV"><b>Katarina Mühlenbock</b>: Legible, readable or plain
words - presentation of an easy-to-read Swedish
corpus.<br>
</span><span lang="SV"><b>Åsa Wengelin</b>: </span><span lang="EN-GB">Reading
your own emergent
text or someone else’s finished text </span><span
style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";" lang="EN-GB">--</span><span
lang="SV"> with and without reading and writing
difficulties -- which is easiest?<br>
<b>Caroline Liberg</b>, Eva Forsbom: </span><span lang="EN-GB">Text
and
Language in Assessment of Mathematics and Science<br>
</span><span lang="SV"><b>Caroline Liberg</b>, Åsa af Geijerstam &
Jenny Folkeryd: Testet
under lupp - konstruktion av läsförståelse i internationella
läsundersökningar<br>
<b>Inger Lindberg, Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis</b>: </span><span
lang="EN-GB">A survey of words in <st1:place u1:st="on"><st1:placename
u1:st="on">Swedish</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype u1:st="on">Secondary School</st1:placetype></st1:place>
Textbooks and Multilingual students’ understanding. Presentation of a
theory on
word type grouping and working towards computer-based estimation of a
student’s
vocabulary.</span></p>
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