31.3711, Calls: Applied Ling/Online

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-3711. Thu Dec 03 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.3711, Calls: Applied Ling/Online

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Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 21:06:26
From: Jeanine Treffers-Daller [j.c.treffers-daller at reading.ac.uk]
Subject: CAN MOTION EVENT CONSTRUAL BE TAUGHT OR RESTRUCTURED? EVIDENCE FROM BILINGUALS AND L2 LEARNERS

Full Title: CAN MOTION EVENT CONSTRUAL BE TAUGHT OR RESTRUCTURED? EVIDENCE FROM BILINGUALS AND L2 LEARNERS 
Short Title: Motion2021 

Date: 16-Apr-2021 - 17-Apr-2021
Location: Zoom, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Jeanine Treffers-Daller
Meeting Email: j.c.treffers-daller at reading.ac.uk
Web Site: https://research.reading.ac.uk/celm/motion-event-workshop/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2021 

Meeting Description:

This event brings together researchers and practitioners interested in
understanding how bilinguals and L2 learners express motion through space in
different languages. The particular focus is on whether motion event construal
can be taught to L2 learners and/or restructured in bilinguals.

Keynote Speakers: 
Panos Athanasopoulos (University of Lancaster). Thinking in multiple
languages: The case of goal-oriented motion events.

Teresa Cadierno (University of Southern Denmark). Motion event construal in
second language learners:  From research findings to pedagogical implications
and implementations.

Alim Tusun (University of Cambridge). Uyghur-Chinese early successive
bilinguals’ acquisition of caused motion expressions.

Call for Papers: 

We invite abstracts for a workshop which will bring together researchers who
have studied how motion event construal is expressed by second language
learners or bilinguals either in naturalistic or experimental settings. It is
well known that there are differences in the ways in which motion is expressed
in different languages. In English, as in Germanic languages, manner of motion
is often expressed in the main verb (Angela ran into the shop) whereas in
French, and other Romance languages, the main verb generally contains the path
of motion and the manner is optionally expressed in a satellite (Angela entre
le magasin (en courant) “Angela entered the shop running”). Restructuring
these patterns in the process of acquisition of another language with a
different set of patterns is known to be very difficult (Cadierno & Ruiz,
2006; Navarro & Nicoladis, 2005). Further evidence for the complexities
involved in restructuring can be found in the bidirectional crosslinguistic
influence in learners’ and bilinguals’ motion event construals, among children
as well as adults (Aveledo & Athanasopoulos 2015).

Although the learning difficulties for L2 learners and bilinguals are well
attested, there is little research which focuses on how a new way to talk
about movement through space can be taught. Pedagogical strategies to teach
motion events are virtually non-existent as this aspect of grammar is
generally neglected in the L2 syllabus. Solutions proposed by the research
community include Bylund and Athanasopoulos’ (2015) suggestion that multimodal
input (film clips with action scenes) helps to restructure motion, while Laws,
Attwood and Treffers-Daller (under review) show that an Input Processing
approach (VanPatten & Cadierno, 1993) has a positive effect. We hope that the
workshop will inspire more researchers to develop new studies with innovative
pedagogical approaches towards the teachability of motion and that findings
from these studies can shed new light on the difficulties involved in
restructuring this domain in the process of L2 learning. We also welcome
papers on motion event construal in languages that have received little
attention in the field so far, and papers which are based on innovative
techniques to investigate this domain.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: Monday, 1 February, 2021. Abstracts can
be submitted for oral presentations and for posters. Abstracts should be
limited to 300 words (excluding references). Please add 3 keywords to the
abstracts. Submission will be via Easychair (details to be provided). Further
information: motionevent2020 at gmail.com

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