30.2494, Calls: Clinical Ling, Lang Acquisition, Psycholing/Australia

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-2494. Wed Jun 19 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.2494, Calls: Clinical Ling, Lang Acquisition, Psycholing/Australia

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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 21:41:20
From: Weifeng Han [weifeng.han at flinders.edu.au]
Subject: Typical and Atypical Language Development in the Multilingual and Multicultural Context (ALS 2019 Pre-conference workshop)

 
Full Title: Typical and Atypical Language Development in the Multilingual and Multicultural Context (ALS 2019 Pre-conference workshop) 

Date: 10-Dec-2019 - 10-Dec-2019
Location: Sydney, Australia 
Contact Person: Weifeng Han
Meeting Email: weifeng.han at flinders.edu.au
Web Site: https://als.asn.au/Resources/PageContent/Files/68942eef-d469-4836-9ad2-c65730d9aebf.pdf 

Linguistic Field(s): Clinical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 28-Jul-2019 

Meeting Description:

The 50th annual conference of the Australian Linguistic Society will be hosted
by Macquarie University in Sydney, from Wednesday 11 December, 2019 to Friday
13 December, 2019. An associated half-day of pre-conference workshops are
scheduled for Tuesday 10 December, 2019. The theme for the 50th ALS conference
is Celebrating Diversity.

The ALS 2019 Pre-Conference Workshop ''Typical and atypical language
development in the multilingual and multicultural context'' will present the
most recent research on the following topics:

- The interface between typical and atypical multilingual development
- Providing unbiased measures in the multilingual assessment
- Multilingual competence and academic performance among primary schoolers
- Heritage and minority languages education in Australia
- Separating language differences from disorders in Speech-Language Pathology


Call for Papers:

Cultural and linguistic diversity (CALD) is proposed as an important factor in
both typical and atypical language development (Galante, 2016). It is,
therefore, important to recognize the need for increased research regarding
CALD populations to ensure there is the best evidence available for language
research and practice in the multilingual context (Verdon, Blake, Hopf, Phạm,
& McLeod, 2016). For example, in bilingual language disorder studies, it is
pointed out that while some non-target like L2 performances are real disorder,
others are no more than language differences caused by the incongruence
between L1 and L2(Gn, Brebner, & McCormack, 2014; Teoh, Brebner, & McCormack,
2012), especially when considering variables such as multiple L1 knowledge
including the L1 bidialectism (Phạm & McLeod, 2016). Therefore, while typical
and atypical multilingual development is fundamentally different, they may
share similar performances, such as lexical (Shivabasappa, Peña, & Bedore,
2018) and phonological awareness (Buil-Legaz, Aguilar-Mediavilla, &
Adrover-Roig, 2016). As a consequence, monolingual measures are not
appropriate for multilingual assessment (Blumenfeld, Bobb, & Marian, 2016).
Scholars around the world have claimed that it is not only the language right
but also the human right of speakers with multilingual communication needs
(Cruz-Ferreira, 2018; De Luca, 2018; Farrugia-Bernard, 2018; Gallagher,
Tancredi, & Graham, 2018; Simon-Cereijido, 2018). This is especially true for
multilingual speakers who are also multidialectal (Freeman & Staley, 2018).
Therefore, there is an urgent need for normative data sampling and a better
understanding of the dialectal backgrounds among heritage and minority
language users (Chard, 2019), especially considering the interface between
typical and atypical multilingual development (Han, Brebner, & McAllister,
2016).

We invite theoretical and clinical contributions from all subfields of
linguistics and speech-language pathology studies on one of the following
topics, or any other topics directly relevant to typical and atypical language
development in the multilingual and multicultural context. Presentations will
be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion.
 
- The interface between typical and atypical multilingual development
- Providing unbiased measures in the multilingual assessment
- Multilingual competence and academic performance among primary schoolers
- Heritage and minority languages education in Australia
- Separating language differences from disorders in Speech-Language Pathology

Abstracts, including references and data, must not exceed two A4 pages.
Examples, tables, graphs, etc. must be interspersed into the text of the
abstract, rather than collected at the end. 

Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format by Sunday 28 July 2019 to Dr.
Weifeng Han at weifeng.han at flinders.edu.au 
Acceptances notified: early September 2019.

Speakers will be invited to submit a full-length paper after the workshop for
consideration to be published as a chapter in an edited title on typical and
atypical language development in CALD. 




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