[Corpora-List] Announcement: Workshop on Readability and Multilingualism at SCL 2008, Uppsala 1-3 October

[Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis]

*Announcement:*

*
Workshop: Readability and Multilingualism at the 23rd Scandinavian
Conference of Linguistics,
1-3 October 2008
*

http://www.lingfil.uu.se/personal/anjusaxena/scl/pgm/rmindex.html

This workshop will cover the subject ”Readability and Multilingualism”.
Heavy focus is today put on texts for different purposes that they must
be readable and even in some cases easy-to-read and understand. This is
partly dependant upon the fact that we live in a society where
information is intensive and where it is getting more and more important
to find the information and to retrieve the information available
especially on the Internet. That some texts in certain situations have
to be easy-to-read and understand is due to the fact that the
information has to be accessible for everyone irrespective of
educational background or mother tongue. Texts in this situation are
often directed to adults concerning information from the government, the
society, news, social and medical care etc.
Similar demands on readability are raised for texts directed to children
and youth, where texts might be literature and school textbooks and
texts in different kinds of test situations.

In this workshop we will be discussing issues concerning readability on
a more general level where multilingualism is the common denominator.
The issue of readability will be treated from a broad perspective
covering both adults, children and youth.


*Participation*:
The program is already set and participation in the workshop is included
in the conference registration fee.

*Organizer*:
Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis (sofie at svenska.gu.se), Institute for
Swedish as a Second Language, Språkbanken, Department of Swedish,
Gothenburg University

*Program*:
*Katarina Mühlenbock*: Legible, readable or plain words - presentation
of an easy-to-read Swedish corpus.
*Åsa Wengelin*: Reading your own emergent text or someone else’s
finished text -- with and without reading and writing difficulties --
which is easiest?
*Caroline Liberg*, Eva Forsbom: Text and Language in Assessment of
Mathematics and Science
*Caroline Liberg*, Åsa af Geijerstam & Jenny Folkeryd: Testet under lupp
- konstruktion av läsförståelse i internationella läsundersökningar
*Inger Lindberg, Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis*: A survey of words in
Swedish Secondary School Textbooks and Multilingual students’
understanding. Presentation of a theory on word type grouping and
working towards computer-based estimation of a student’s vocabulary.




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