32.2180, FYI: Open Lecture Fri July 9, 2021 (3pm BST) - Professor Lydia White: Linguistic Competence and How to Access It

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Subject: 32.2180, FYI: Open Lecture Fri July 9, 2021 (3pm BST) - Professor Lydia White: Linguistic Competence and How to Access It

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Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 00:24:24
From: Amy Wallington [A.J.F.Wallington at soton.ac.uk]
Subject: Open Lecture Fri July 9, 2021 (3pm BST) - Professor Lydia White: Linguistic Competence and How to Access It

 
Organised by the Centre for Research and Enterprise in Language (CREL),
University of Greenwich (UK) and the Centre for Linguistics, Language
Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR), University of Southampton (UK)
with the collaboration of the Center for Language Science (CLS) from
Pennsylvania State University (USA):

On behalf of the organisers of the International Summer School on
Multilingualism, co-organised by the above institutions, we are excited to
announce that the final day of the summer school will feature a free open
lecture with Professor Lydia White (James McGill Professor Emeritus of
Linguistics), who will give a talk entitled: 

Linguistic competence and how to measure it

Date: Friday 9th July
Time: 3pm BST
Location: Online (Microsoft Teams) - sign up via Eventbrite below

Abstract:
A distinction between competence and performance (or, more recently,
representation and processing) has been adopted, implicitly or explicitly, in
many different domains of language acquisition, particularly in research
coming from the generative linguistic perspective. At the same time, there are
researchers who do not believe in such a distinction. In this talk, I will
consider what is meant by linguistic competence and argue for the continuing
usefulness of such a concept, as well as discussing different methodologies
that are used to assess it.

About the speaker:
Professor Lydia White is a linguist and educator in the area of second
language acquisition (SLA). She is James McGill Professor Emeritus of
Linguistics. Lydia received her BA in Moral Sciences and Psychology from
Cambridge University in 1969 and PhD in linguistics from McGill University in
1980. In 2010 she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in
the Academy of Arts and Humanities. In 2012, she received the Queen Elizabeth
II Diamond Jubilee Medal. She currently serves on the editorial boards of the
journals Language Acquisition, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, and
Second Language Research.

This lecture is open to all free of charge, and will take place online via
Microsoft Teams. In order to attend, please sign up via the Eventbrite link:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-lecture-linguistic-competence-and-how-to-m
easure-it-tickets-160794593959

 A link to access the lecture will then be emailed to you.

Hope to see many of you on the 9th for what is looking to be a fantastic talk!

Kind regards,

Organisers of the International Summer School on Multilingualism
More information on the summer school here:
https://www.gre.ac.uk/research/activity/las/multilingualism-summer-school
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition





 



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