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In spring 2026, the Nordic Network for Educational Linguistics (<a href="https://lnu.se/en/research/research-groups/nordic-research-network-for-educational-linguistics-nordedling/" target="_blank">NordEdLing</a>) is inviting you to online seminars with Hanna Lindfors (Linnaeus
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<b>11 Feb,</b> <b>15.00–16.00</b> (CET) Hanna Lindfors on<i> Children’s Cognitive Processing of Sentences and Picture Sequences: Towards Educational Applications</i></div>
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<span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:14px">This presentation draws on my doctoral research exploring whether cognitive processing is similar across verbal and pictorial domains. Cognitive processing of sentences and picture sequences was examined
 in children with typical language development and in peers with developmental language disorder (DLD). The results point to similarities across domains aligning with emergentist-functionalist frameworks that suggest language processing relies on general cognitive
 mechanisms rather than being specific to the verbal domain. These findings open new discussions on how pictorial materials can support comprehension particularly for children with DLD.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:12pt">Zoom</span><span style="font-size:12pt">:</span><i style="font-size:12pt"> </i><a href="https://lnu-se.zoom.us/j/68332368578?pwd=9D7ELMxTIQwu5JcPuYQbhfF6S9M6u7.1" style="font-size:12pt" target="_blank">https://lnu-se.zoom.us/j/68332368578?pwd=9D7ELMxTIQwu5JcPuYQbhfF6S9M6u7.1</a></div>
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<b>29 Apr,</b> <b>15.00–16.00</b> (CET) Roswita Dressler on <i>German Children’s Books: An Educational Linguistic Perspective</i></div>
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<span style="font-size:14px">North American teachers often create classroom libraries of authentic children’s books for students to read in class or take home to practice reading. If those teachers instruct German as a second language, they have difficulty
 selecting books because there is no straightforward way for them to determine the difficulty of the book. In this talk, I provide an educational linguistic perspective to the problem, demonstrating how interdisciplinary research methods have emerged which
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<span style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Zoom: </span><a href="https://lnu-se.zoom.us/j/69848221398?pwd=kfanpRvmShKdp6aiNiwCaOrSK8sH3t.1" style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt" target="_blank">https://lnu-se.zoom.us/j/69848221398?pwd=kfanpRvmShKdp6aiNiwCaOrSK8sH3t.1</a><span style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> </span></p>
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