34.2089, FYI: R Slabakova, Why do we need a native speaker control group in our experimental studies?

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Date: 30-Jun-2023
From: Maria J Arche [m.j.arche at greenwich.ac.uk]
Subject: R Slabakova, Why do we need a native speaker control group in our experimental studies?


Why do we need a native speaker control group in our experimental
studies?

Professor Roumyana Slabakova, University of Southampton, Norwegian
University of Science and Technology

Date: Friday 7th July 2023

Time: 3:00-4:00pm BST

Location: Online via Zoom, https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/69263224222

This open lecture will close the third edition of the Online
Multilingualism Summer School organised by the Centre for Research in
Language and Heritage (University of Greenwich), the Centre for
Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research, (University
of Southampton), with the collaboration of the Center for Language
Science from Pennsylvania State University (USA).

Abstract

There has been renewed debate recently (see https://www.frontiersin.or
g/research-topics/13914/the-notion-of-the-native-speaker-put-to-the-te
st-recent-research-advances) on whether we need control groups of
native speakers in second language acquisition research, and what
purposes they serve. In my presentation, I will review some opposing
viewpoints and focus on the view from generative SLA. I will provide
an extended example from an unpublished study on L2 Mandarin, which
supports the view that control groups are necessary for two purposes:
to validate the property under discussion and the test instrument. I
will also argue that employing native speaker control groups does not
constitute “monolingual comparative normativity” (Rothman et al.
2022).

About the speaker

Professor Roumyana Slabakova is the Chair of Applied Linguistics at
the University of Southampton and Head of Research of the Modern
Languages and Linguistics department. Professor Slabakova’s research
is grounded in generative linguistic theory and explores the second
language (L2) acquisition process. Her theoretical focus is the
acquisition of grammatical structure and its interaction with meaning.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Clinical Linguistics
                     Cognitive Science
                     Computational Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Semantics
                     Syntax




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