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<b>Workshop on ‘The impact of internal and external factors in child
second language acquisition’ at DGfS 2010, Berlin<br>
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This workshop is part of the 32<sup>nd</sup> 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.<br>
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<b>Call for Papers<br>
</b> <br>
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. <br>
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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. <br>
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The following research questions will be addressed:<br>
· How do the properties
of the L1 and the L2 interact in child L2 acquisition? <br>
· Are transfer effects
limited to production or do they also appear in comprehension and
processing strategies?<br>
· 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? <br>
· Are child L2
acquisition of morphology, syntax, and semantics affected in the same way
by these internal and external factors?<br>
· Can individual
variation in children be explained on the basis of external factors?<br>
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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.<br>
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Abstract submission guidelines:<br>
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Abstracts are for 20-minute talks (plus 10 minutes for discussion).<br>
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Abstracts should be one A4 page max. (Times New Roman, 12pt,
single-spaced, one-inch-margins), including tables, figures and
references.<br>
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Abstracts must be in pdf format.<br>
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Abstracts should contain the title of the talk, but not the authors.<br>
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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.<br>
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Please send abstracts to dgfs2010@childbilingualism.org. The subject line
should include ''abstract submission''.<br>
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Important Dates:<br>
Abstract submission deadline: September 6th, 2009.<br>
Notification of acceptance: October 15, 2009.<br>
Conference dates: February 23-26, 2009.<br>
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The workshop organizers:<br>
Theodoros Marinis (t.marinis@reading.ac.uk)<br>
Sharon Unsworth (s.unsworth@uu.nl)<br><br>
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