Sixth MC & WGs Meeting:
Location: Berlin (Germany)
Date: 14–16 May 2012
Program
1st day of Meeting: Monday, May 14th, 2012
8:30
8:55
Registration
Welcome (Einsteinsaal)
Parellel Sessions: WG1
WG1: Session 1 (Einsteinsaal)
09:15
09:30
9:55
10:20
10:40
Intro & aims of meeting
Clitics: Tour Group: new data on French clitics, Mo-TD, Mo-SLI, Bi-TD, Bi-SLI
Clitics: Kapia, E. & Kananaj, A.: Comparison of typical monolingual and bilingual production of clitics in 6-7 year old Albanian speaking children in Albania and Greece
Clitics: Sviatlana Karpava and Kleanthes Grohmann: Clitic Placement in Bilingual Russian–Cypriot Greek Children: A Comparison of COST A33 vs IS0804 Tools
Clitics: Jasmina Vucsanovic: mono- and bilingual Serbian
11:00
COFFEE BREAK
11:30
12:00
Clitics: Discussion (General discussion (testing procedure, coding issues; vulnerability for (BI)-SLI))
On-line experiments
13:00
Poster Session with Lunch
(Einsteinsaal)
13:30
Assessment committee Conference room 1
WG1: Session 2 (Conference room 1)
SV Agreement
Case
Parellel Sessions: WG2 and WG3
WG2: (Einsteinsaal) Results/Findings
WG3: (Conference room 1) CDI study workshop
14:30
14:50
15:10
15:30
Daleen Klop, Monique Visser, Helena Oosthuizen: Results of 20 bilingual normally developing 6-7 year old South African children
14:30
Ianthi Tsimpli, Enkeleida Kapia, Anila Kananaj, Maria Andreou: Acquisition of narratives: Insights from 6-7 years old Greek-Albanian children
14:45
15:15
Natalia Gagarina, Katrin Reichenbach, Antje Skerra, Regina Zilin: Telling and Retelling in Russian-German bilingual preschool children
Koula Tantele, Kleanthes Grohmann: Results and Implications from the COST Narrative Tool - Monolingual and Bilingual children in Cyprus
Presentation of preliminary results from cross-linguistic bilingual CDI study by Ciara O'Toole and Daniela Gatt
Presentation on the use of CDIs with bilinguals by Annick De Houwer (invited expert)
General discussion: Wrap up and agree plan for final stages of the project
16:00
COFFEE BREAK
WG2: (Einsteinsaal) Results/Findings
16:30
16:50
17:10
17:25
17:35
17:45
Sviatlana Karpava: The Cat and Fox Stories. First results from Russian-Greek Bilingual Children in Cyprus
Susie Joffe, Natalia Meir, Carmit Altman, Shira Farby, Joel Walters: Initial Findings for Macrostructure, Mental States and Comprehension in English-Hebrew and Russian-Hebrew 5 year olds
Natasha Ringblom, Ute Bohnacker: Testing Bilingual Children in Sweden: here we are so far
Martin Haiden, Alfred Knapp: Lessons from the French pilot
İlknur Mavis, Natalia Gagarina, MügeTuncer, ÖzlemÜnal, DuyguYelegen, Didem Akyildiz, Deniz Akpinar: Administering the Tell (Baby Birds /Baby Goats) & Re-tell (Cat /Dog) Stories to Turkish-German Bilingual children living in Germany
Discussion
WG3: (Conference room 1) WG3 NWR
16:30
16:40
17:10
17:40
18:10
Shula Chiat: Introduction
Pascale Engel & Christophe dos Santos: Language bias in nonword repetition - towards a culture fair nonword repetition task
Jakub Szewczyk: 'Subject- and item-related predictors of nonword repetition performance, based on the Polish NWR test'
Ineta Dabašinskienė & Eglė Krivickaitė: Lithuanian nonword repetition test: Data from monolingual and Lithuanian-English bilingual children
Planning Wednesday session and informal working groups
19:00
Reception (Wintergarten, BBAW, Jägerstr. 22/23, 10117 Berlin)
20:00
SG meeting (ZAS Schuetzenstr. 18, 10117 Berlin)
2nd day of Meeting: Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
Parellel Sessions: WG1
WG1: Session 1 (Einsteinsaal) Sentence Repetition
09:00
09:20
09:40
10:00
10:20
SR: Gisela Håkansson: Placement of Swedish negation in main and subordinate clauses
SR: Alexandr Kornev: pilot data in Russian
SR: Sviatlana Karpava, Kleanthes Grohmann: A First Administration of the Russian Sentence Repetition Task to Bilingual Russian–Cypriot Greek Children
SR: Kapia, E. Kananaj, A.: The development of the sentence repetition task in typically developing monolingual and bilingual 6-7 year old children in Albania and Greece
SR: Ineta Dabašinskienė: SR in Lithuanian
WG1: Session 2 (Conference room 1)
09:00
09:20
09:40
10:00
10:20
Exhaustivity: German eL2 children (Petra, Magda)
Exhaustivity: Turkish as L1 (Belma & FFM)
Exhaustivity: French/German (Vicky)
Exhaustivity: French (Tours)
Exhaustivity: Swedish (Frankfurt/Umea)
10:40
COFFEE BREAK
11:00
11:30
SR: Turkish Sentence repetition task in language impaired/SLI and TD monolingual children
11:00
SR: General discussion about designs, scoring, trouble shooting
11:40
Exhaustivity: General discussion (testing procedure, coding issues; vulnerability for (BI)-SLI)
Relative clauses:
Gisela Håkansson – Swedish
12:00
LUNCH
13:00
Management committee meeting (Non-MC members are welcome to join) Einsteinsaal
Parellel Sessions: WG2 and WG4
WG2: (Conference Room 2) Methodological Issues: Transcription/Coding/Scoring
WG4: (Conference room 1)
14:00
14:20
14:35
14:50
15:05
15:20
Agnieszka Otwinowska-Kasztelanic, Dorota Kiebzak-Mandera: Methodological issues in investigating narrative skills of Polish monolinguals and Polish-English bilinguals
14:00
14:30
Eva Valcheva, Elena Tribushinina, Natalia Gagarina
Evaluating relational coherence in elicited narratives of bilingual Russian-German children: methodological issues
15:00
Enkeleida Kapia, Anila Kananaj,
Paper vs computer version in narratives in 6-7 year old monolingual Albanian children
Daleen Klop: A comparison of the fold-out method and the 2x2x2 picture presentation mode
Elena Peristeri, Ianthi Tsimpli: Storytelling and retelling in Greek monolingual and bilingual children with SLI: a pilot of the computerized method
DISCUSSION
Anne Baker & Kristine Jensen de Lopez: Welcome & Agenda for WG4
Anne Baker: Executive Functions in MoSLIchildren– an overview and critical discussion
Kristine Jensen de López & Hanne Søndergaard Knudsen: Gains from piloting WG4Executive Function tasks with typically developing and MoSLIDanish children
16:00
COFFEE BREAK
16:30
16:45
17:00
Maja Roch, Chiara Levorato: Some issued related to the scoring procedure of the telling and retelling tasks
16:30
DISCUSSION
Natalia Gagarina, Joel Walters: Methodological Summary: From Data Collection to Transcription, from Transcription to Coding, from Coding to Scoring, and from Scoring to Analyses
17:00
17:30
Kristine Jensen de López& Hanne Søndergaard Knudsen: Is there a tendency towards improved working memory (assed by Odd-one out) among Farosen bilingual children, and what are the challenges in assessing bilingualism through the Beirut-Tours Questionnaire
Zofia Wodniecka, Joanna Kołak, Anna Marzecova, Jadwiga Wrońska& Marta Białecka-Pikul: Executive functioning in children with and without risk of learning difficulties
General Discussion of today’s presentations
19:00
Boat trip (departure sharp at 19:00) Schiffbauerdamm 12, 10117 Berlin
20:00
Dinner (Universitätsstr. 4, 10117 Berlin)
3rd day of Meeting: Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
Parellel Sessions: WG3 and WG4
WG3: (Luisensaal) Lexical Tasks
WG4: (Room 122)
09:00
09:15
09:30
10:30
Ewa Haman: WG3 lexical tasks construction: an update.
09:00
Hanne Gram Simonsen, Marianne Lind and Pernille Hansen: Collecting AoA data for Norwegian: an alternative method.
Ewa Haman & Magdalena Łuniewska: Workshop on composing lexical tasks for various languages using Complexity Index & AoA
General Discussion
Anne Baker & Kristine Jensen de Lopez: Executive Functions, Bilingualism and Language Impairment: How do they relate and not relate
11:00
COFFEE BREAK
11:30
12:30
NWR
11:30
Workshop on nonword rep tests and results
Wrap-up on nonword rep studies and plans for final presentations
Anne Baker & Kristine Jensen de Lopez: Where to go from what we know so far? Discussion
13:00
LUNCH BREAK
14:30
15:00
15:30
16:00
16:30
17:00
Luisensaal
WG1 Presentation
WG2 Presentation
COFFEE BREAK
WG3 Presentation
WG4 Presentation
COFFEE BREAK
Discussion
End
17:30
18:00
19:00
Questionnaire update & Assessment committee