Call for Papers: Workshop on child L2 acquisition, DGfS 2010 meeting, Berlin

[Theodoros Marinis]

Workshop on ‘The impact of internal and external 
factors in child second language acquisition’ at DGfS 2010, Berlin

This workshop is part of the 32nd Annual Meeting 
of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS 2010) at 
the Humboldt University, Berlin, from 23-26 
February, 2010. It aims to bring together 
researchers conducting studies with second 
language (L2) children in order to generate a 
discussion on the impact of internal and external 
factors in comprehension, production, and processing in child L2 acquisition.

Call for Papers

We invite papers investigating the impact of 
internal and/or external factors on child L2 
acquisition of morphology, syntax, and semantics 
using a variety of tasks including production, 
comprehension, and on-line processing.

A considerable amount of research has 
investigated the impact of internal and external 
factors in adult second language (L2) acquisition 
including e.g., transfer effects from the L1 and 
effects of age of onset (internal) and the 
effects of instructed vs. naturalistic exposure 
(external) (White, 2003). Research on child L2 
acquisition is relatively limited compared to 
adult L2 acquisition, but in the last five years 
a growing number of studies has started to 
investigate child L2 acquisition, both in 
comparison to adult L2 acquisition (e.g., Blom, 
Polisenska, & Weerman, 2006; Schwartz, 2003; 
Unsworth, 2005) and to children with Specific 
Language Impairment (SLI) (e.g., Paradis, 2005; 
2008; Paradis & Crago, 2003). Most studies have 
focused on language production, (e.g., Thoma & 
Tracy 2006), with a limited number investigating 
comprehension (Grueter, 2005; Schulz & Wenzel 
2008), and on-line processing (Marinis, 2007; 
2008). This workshop aims to bring together 
researchers conducting studies with L2 children 
from different perspectives in order to generate 
a discussion on the impact of internal and 
external factors in comprehension, production, 
and processing in child L2 acquisition.

The following research questions will be addressed:
·         How do the properties of the L1 and the 
L2 interact in child L2 acquisition?
·         Are transfer effects limited to 
production or do they also appear in comprehension and processing strategies?
·         How does age of onset, years of 
exposure, quantity and quality of input affect 
child L2 acquisition and how do these factors 
interact with the age of the learners?
·         Are child L2 acquisition of morphology, 
syntax, and semantics affected in the same way by 
these internal and external factors?
·         Can individual variation in children be 
explained on the basis of external factors?

This workshop is relevant for researchers working 
on L2 acquisition in typically-developing 
children and children with SLI. We hope it will 
provide a rich forum to address the impact of 
internal and external factors in L2 acquisition in a systematic way.

Abstract submission guidelines:
·            Abstracts are for 20-minute talks 
(plus 10 minutes for discussion).
·            Abstracts should be one A4 page max. 
(Times New Roman, 12pt, single-spaced, 
one-inch-margins), including tables, figures and references.
·            Abstracts must be in pdf format.
·            Abstracts should contain the title 
of the talk, but not the authors.
·            Abstracts should be submitted by 
e-mail. Names, affiliations and contact details 
of the authors and the title of the abstract 
should be included in the body of the e-mail. 
Abstracts should be in the attachment.

Please send abstracts to 
dgfs2010 at childbilingualism.org. The subject line 
should include ''abstract submission''.

Important Dates:
Abstract submission deadline: September 6th, 2009.
Notification of acceptance: October 15, 2009.
Conference dates: February 23-26, 2009.

The workshop organizers:
Theodoros Marinis (t.marinis at reading.ac.uk)
Sharon Unsworth (s.unsworth at uu.nl)


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