call for papers

[Kathrin Schrader]

Please note the following call for papers:

 

The role of phonology in reading acquisition.

Workshop at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS)

 

Location: Bamberg, Germany

Start Date: February 28, 2008 - End Date: February 29, 2008

Organized by: Martina Penke (University of Konstanz) and Kathrin Schrader
(University of Cologne)

Linguistic Subfields: Psycholinguistics, language acquisition

 

A highly controversial issue in reading research is the role of phonology in
visual word identification. Whereas some researchers argue that the decoding
of written words by means of grapheme-phoneme-correspondences is an
essential requirement for access to the mental lexicon, other researchers
posit that words which are familiar, i.e. that have been decoded before, can
be associated with their meaning directly on the basis of their stored
orthographic form.

Although this controversy is important for the issue how reading is taught
in primary schools it still remains unsettled. Thus whereas the whole-word
approach in reading acquisition was based on the assumption that phonology
does not play a crucial role in reading, the now popular phonics approach
relies on the teaching of phoneme-grapheme-correspondences.

A solution of this underlying controversy is crucial for evaluating and
improving the methods applied in reading acquisition. The goal of this
workshop is to contribute to this controversy and discuss the issue which
rule phonology plays in reading acquisition. 

We will therefore discuss for example



-          how reading acquisition proceeds in German speaking children,

-          which conclusions with respect to the above mentioned controversy
can be drawn from reading acquisition data of German children,

-          how and to what extent German and English children differ with
respect to reading acquisition, 

-          how experimental findings may help improving the teaching of
reading in German schools.

 

This workshop is intended for researchers working in the areas of visual
word recognition and reading acquisition either from an experimental,
theoretical or applied perspective. Note, however, that all talks should
address the importance of their findings for German reading acquisition.

 

Presentations will be 20 or 40 minutes plus 10 respectively 15 minutes for
discussion depending on the number of abstracts accepted.  


Workshop organizers: 
Martina Penke, Department of General Linguistics, University of Düsseldorf. 
Kathrin Schrader, Department of General Linguistics, University of
Düsseldorf.


Abstract Submission Guidelines: 
Please submit a one page abstract including the following information: 
(a) Title of the paper 
(b) Name of the author(s) 
(c) Affiliation(s) 
(d) e-mail address(es) 

Send your submissions to: penke at phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de and / or
kathrin.schrader at uni-koeln.de


IMPORTANT DATES 
July 31, 2007: deadline for abstracts 
end of August: notification of acceptance 
February 28-29, 2008: workshop in Bamberg

 

 

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