7.1732, FYI: European summer school on lg acq

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Subject: 7.1732, FYI: European summer school on lg acq
 
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Date:  Mon, 02 Dec 1996 10:44:49 +0100
From:  svens at ling.gu.se (Sven Stroemqvist)
Subject:  European summer school on lg acq
 
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Date:  Mon, 02 Dec 1996 10:44:49 +0100
From:  svens at ling.gu.se (Sven Stroemqvist)
Subject:  European summer school on lg acq
 
 
 
 
 
 
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                     EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL
 
       "The cross-linguistic study of language acquisition:
 
                   - an integrated approach"
 
                       August 13-22 1997
 
Sponsors: The Nordic Academy for Advanced Study and the European
  Commission DG XII Science, Research and Development, TMR Programme
Location: Kystgaarden, Nyborg, Fyn, Denmark
Time: August 13-22 1997
Participation: the summer school is planned for around 30 participants.
  Student participation is open to young researchers, both post-graduate
  students and post-docs, 15 from the Nordic countries and 15 from
  other countries in Europe
Structure and content: theoretically oriented seminars in the morning,
  methodologically oriented workshops in the afternoon (longitudinal
  data collection designs; experimental designs; the usage of tools
  for computer aided data collection and analysis; field work)
  and presentations and discussion of the participants' own on-going
  research in the evenings. The focus is on child first language
  acquisition, especially language for talking about space and time,
  but issues of bilingual development, narrative development and
  the development of writing are also included.
Teaching staff: at this point not fully determined, but includes
  prof Werner Deutsch
   Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany;
  prof Harriet Jisa
   Dynamique du Langage, Maison Rhone-Alpes de Sciences de l'Homme,
   France;
  prof Hrafnhildur Ragnarsdottir,
   University College of Education,
   Reykjavik, Iceland;
  Dr Elizabeth Lanza and Dr Hanne Gram Simonsen,
   Dept of Linguistics and Philosophy,
   University of Oslo, Norway;
  Dr Chris Sinha,
   Institute of Psychology,
   University of AArhus, Denmark;
  Dr Magdalena Smoczynska,
   Jagiellonian University,
   Krakow, Poland;
  prof Sven Stroemqvist
   Dept of Linguistics,
   University of Goeteborg, Sweden
Technical staff: 1 programmer/systems manager (participants are
   encouraged to bring their own laptop, if they have one (Mac/PC))
 
Organizer:
  prof Sven Stroemqvist (scientist in charge of the proposal)
   Dept of Linguistics,
   University of Goeteborg, Sweden
   412 98 Goeteborg, Sweden
   Fax +46 31 7734853
   sven at ling.gu.se
  prof Hrafnhildur Ragnarsdottir (co-organizer)
   University College of Education,
   Reykjavik, Iceland;
   Fax +354 5 633833
   hragnars at ismennt.is
 
Application procedure: Please send your application to
  prof Sven Stroemqvist or
  prof Hrafnhildur Ragnarsdottir
  by e-mail, fax or mail at the above addresses.
  Your application should include a short Curriculum Vitae
  and a brief description of your current research (as a
  post-graduate student or post-doc).
Deadline of application: April 1, 1997
Terms: The summer school will cover your living expenses during
  the period of the summer school and reimburse you for your travel
  costs within reasonable limits
 
>>From the proposal abstract:
"The past 15 years has seen major developments in the study of
first language acquisition, especially in its methodological
and empirical foundations. This situation makes possible the
advancement of an integrated approach to first language
acquisition. The first foundation of this integrated approach
is the crosslinguistic study of language acquisition: to seek
to understand how the diversity of the languages of the world
shapes the diversity of developmental paths and language
acquisition careers. The second foundation is a truly broad
time window on the developmental process: from perceptual
preferences in infancy at one end to narrative skills and
language dependant rhetoric in adolescence and adulthood at
the other.
 
The proposed summer school project "The cross-linguistic study
of language acquisition: an integrated approach" would contribute
to scientific advancement along these lines, especially in view of
the linguistic diversity of Europe. The different language groups
of Europe (Germanic, Slavic, Romance, Finno-Ugric, Turkic etc)
provide an excellent basis for studying acquisition both across
and within groups of languages. The advancement of the proposed
line of research can also be expected to have important implications
for the teaching of European languages as first languages and as
second or foreign languages, and it also has a potential for a
deeper understanding of the diversity of typologically determined
language learning careers as a basis for problems and solutions in
the areas of translation and interpretation.
 
...The study of language acquisition is a multi-disciplinary
field with the participation of linguists, psychologists,
phoneticians, cognitive scientists, social psychologists,
anthropologists, and educational scientists. Institutionalized
fora, however, for acquisition research are very rare, and
the proposed summer school represents an important event which
would attract the participation of young researchers and other
researchers from target groups. The organizing committee will
encourage participation that reflects the linguistic diversity
of Europe, so as to reinforce the cross-linguistic rationale for
the event. We are confident that the summer school will mean an
important impetus to the advancement and propagation of knowledge
of language acquisition, especially of its cross-linguistic
foundations. We are also confident that there is a growing demand
for this type of knowledge in Europe, which is in the process of
getting increasingly integrated."
 
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