Final MC & WGs Meeting:
Location: Kraków (Poland)
Date: 27–29 May 2013
Program
1st day of Meeting: Monday, 27th, 2013
07:30
9:00-9:45
WG1
9:45-10:45
10:45-11:15
WG1
11:15-12:30
12:30-14:30
WG2
14:30-15:45
15:45-16:15
WG4
16:15-17:30
17:30-18:30
18:30-19:30
Registration
Presentation of research results: COST Action IS0804 and IBE (Educational Enthusiasts project)
WELCOME and INTRODUCTION
Welcome from local organizers
(UJ & IBE)
Introduction: LITMUS (Language Impairment Testing in Multilingual Setting)
Sharon Armon-Lotem, the chair of COST Action IS0804
Acquisition of syntax and its relation to morphological and semantic competence
COST discussant: Johanne Paradis IBE discussant: Magdalena Smoczyńska
Developing tasks on the interface between syntax, morphology, and semantics to assess bilingual children with SLI Theo Marinis
Discussion by experts, including Magdalena Smoczyńska (IBE). Problems with assessing morphological competence of Polish speaking children in the context of work on the Test of Language Development
COFFEE BREAK
Complex syntactic constructions
COST discussant: Johanne Paradis IBE discussant: Magdalena Smoczyńska
Differences between typically developing children and children with SLI in a bilingual context. Part I: Clitics Philippe Prévost Part II: Exhaustivity Petra Schulz
Discussion by experts, including Magdalena Smoczyńska (IBE). Problems with assessing syntactic competence of Polish-speaking children in the context of work on the Test of Language Development.
LUNCH
POSTER SESSION I (during lunch)
Presentation of research: COST Action members, IBE members, other researchers.
Language production: narrative and discourse
COST discussant: Lisa M. Bedore IBE discussant: Grażyna Krasowicz-Kupis
Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN)
Natalia Gagarina et al.
Discussion by experts, including Grażyna Krasowicz-Kupis (IBE). Difficulties in the acquisition of narrative competence in the context of research on school entrance skills.
COFFEE BREAK
Language production: narrative and discourse
COST discussant: Lucy Henry IBE discussant: Piotr Rycielski
The role of Executive Functions in Multilingualism and Language Impairment Anne Baker, Kristine Jensen de Lopez, Peri Iluz-Cohen & Ágnes Lukács
Discussion by experts, including Piotr Rycielski (IBE). The link between executive functions and language skills of children at the age of 6 – IBE research results.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Treating Bilingual Children with Primary or “Specific” Language Impairment: Evidence and Options Kathryn Kohnert
FINAL COFFEE
2nd day of Meeting: Tuesday, May 28th, 2013
08:30
WG3
9:00-11:00
11:00-11:30
11:30-12:30
12:30-14:30
14:30-15:45
15:45-16:15
16:15-17:30
17:30-18:30
Registration
COST Action IS0804: Diagnosis of bilingual children and children with SLI.
Presentation of IBE research (Educational Enthusiasts project)
Phonological and lexical processing in bilingual children
COST discussant: Virginia Gathercole IBE discussant: Grażyna Krasowicz-Kupis
Nonword repetition tests for assessing bilingual children Shula Chiat, Sandrine Ferré and Christophe dos Santos & Angela Grimm
Parent report of early lexical production in bilingual children across varied contexts Daniela Gatt & Ciara O’Toole
Cross-linguistic Lexical Tasks (CLT) assessing word knowledge and lexical processing in bilingual children Ewa Haman & Magdalena Łuniewska
Discussion by experts, including Grażyna Krasowicz-Kupis (IBE). The role of phonological skills in assessing the risk of dyslexia – IBE research results
COFFEE BREAK
ASSESSMENT & DIAGNOSIS 1
Research tools
Sentence Repetition – A comprehensive tool for assessing both languages of a bilingual child Theo Marinis
Polish Test of Skills at the School Entrance Age (TUNSS) as a screening tool for assessment of SLI risk: Polish national sample results Piotr Rycielski
LUNCH
POSTER SESSION II (during lunch)
Presentation of research: COST Action members, IBE members, other researchers.
ASSESSMENT & DIAGNOSIS 2
Questionnaire methods
Session moderator: Piotr Rycielski (IBE)
Parental Questionnaires Laurie Tuller
Assessment of L2 children in the Lebanese multilingual context: Using Parental Bilingual Questionnaire (PABIQ) scores as diagnostic predictors for language impairment Edith Kouba-Hreich, Camille Messarra & Philippe Prévost
The bilingual parents questionnaire (BIPAQ) in a clinical setting
Hadar Abutbul-Oz & Sharon Armon-Lotem
COFFEE BREAK
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
Practical strategies and education policy
Session moderators: Elin Thordardottir & Magdalena Smoczyńska (IBE)
General introduction: cross-linguistic and bilingual research on SLI: the importance of equivalent diagnostic methods Elin Thordardottir
Introduction from Polish point of view: Psychological diagnosis in a multilingual context in Poland Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska
Round table discussion by members of COST IS0804 & IBE experts:
Grażyna Krasowicz-Kupis, Magdalena Szpotowicz, Radosław Kaczan
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Validating Non-Traditional Measures with Traditional Tools: from the DELV (Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation) to Bi-SLI Barbara Zurer Pearson
3rd day of Meeting: Wednesday, May 29th, 2013
9:00-10:30
10:30-11:00
11:00-12:30
12:30-13:30
13:30-14:30
14:30-15:30
15:30-16:00
16:00-17:00
17:00-18:30
Where do we go from there?
COST IS0804 GENERAL MEETING
Summary of the Action results
Assessment of the Action results (COST Office Brussels)
Panel discussion summarising the results
COFFEE BREAK
WORKING GROUP 1
Summary of the results
LUNCH
WORKING GROUP 2
Summary of the results
WORKING GROUP 3
Summary of the results
COFFEE BREAK
WORKING GROUP 4
Summary of the results
COST FINAL MEETING
Where do we go next?
Webpage, grants, workshops, publications, etc.