Fifth MC & WGs Meeting:
Location: St. Paul’s Bay (Malta)
Date: 28–30 November 2011
Program
1st day of Meeting: Monday, November 28th, 2011
8:30-9:00
9:00-9:30
Registration
Welcome
Parellel Sessions: WG2 and WG3
WG2 (Natalia Gagarina & Joel Walters)
Macro structure – Story grammar: Material, Instructions and Procedures
9:30-10:00
10:00
Joel Walters (IL), Natalia Gagarina (DE): Rationale for picture-design, for adaptations
Koula Tantele , Natalia Gagarina : running the experiment
Pilot Results
Enkeleida Leijda, Ianthi Tsimpli: Telling and Retelling in Albanian-Greek 6-7 year olds with TLD
Natalia Gagarina (DE): (Re)telling in RussianGerman 5-6 year olds with TLD
Carmit Altman, Natalia Meir, Joel Walters: Retelling in Russian-Hebrew 5-6 year olds with TLD
WG3 (Ewa Haman and Shula Chiat)
Non-Word Repetition
9:30-9:55
9:30-9:55
10:25-10:30
Review of COST nonword rep framework, exemplifed by tests for English, and brief tour of nonword rep tests that are not being presented: Shula Chiat, Kamila Polisenska
Methods for creating nonwords controlled for multiple variables, exemplified by Polish test: Jakub Szewczyk
Results of Greek Cypriot/Standard Greek test: Maria Kambanaros
10:30-11:00
COFFEE BREAK
11:00-
Dorota Kiebzak-Mandera
10:30-11:00
Ingrida Balciuniene: "Russian-Lithuanian 5-6 olds with TLD"
Koula Tantele
11:30-11:45
Martin Haiden
11:45-12:00
Sari Kunnari/Taina Välimaa
12:00-12:30
Lexical Issues
Ewa Haman, Magdalena Łuniewska, Barbara Pomiechowska et al: Lexical tasks construction: Best Words characteristics in 10 languages
Preparatory study for assessing word difficulty: an update on Age of Acquisition (AoA) study
Frenette Southwood et al: AoA results for Africaans Ewa Haman et al: AoA results for Polish:
Edith Kouba- Hreich, Camille Messara, Guillemette Henry: Pilot version of lexical tasks for Lebanese
12:30-13:30
LUNCH BREAK
WG1
13:30-13:40
13:40-14:00
14:00-14:20
14:20-14:40
14:40-15:00
15:00-15:30
15:30-16:30
16:30-17:00
17:00-18:00
18:00-19:00
20:00-22:00
Theo Marinis & Petra Schulz: Overview & Progress Report for subgroup A
Goals for WG 1 Malta:
Sentence Repetition session: The aims of this session are: 1) to look at results from L2 and SLI children in some languages and what phenomena seem to be sensitive and specific, 2) to look at designs for bilingual tasks, and 3) discuss about language-specific phenomena to include. Please think about phenomena that are relevant for your language and bring a list with you. There will be half an hour for general discussion at the end of the session and we can spend some time have on Tuesday and Wednesday (parallel sessions) to make a list of language-specific phenomena for as many languages as possible with some sample sentences
Theo Marinis: Intro and presentation of results of the English SR task with Mo-TD, Mo-SLI, L2-TD children
Sharon Armon Lotem: Design and data of Eng-Heb and Rus-Heb SR tasks
Laurie Tuller: Design of the Lebanese Arabic SR task
General discussion and next steps
COFFEE BREAK
Agreement/case, relatives and interrogatives: The aims of the Agreement/case session are: 1) to present the tasks, 2) discuss language-specific needs for changes, 3) make an inventory of cells of the inflection paradigm that are vulnerable in children with SLI. There will be one hour to present the tasks and for general discussion. On Tuesday and Wednesday we could have some extra parallel sessions to discuss about how to deal with language-specific issues.
Jan de Jong, Esther Ruigendijk: Update and discussion on Agreement/case tasks
Ianthi Tsimpli: Greek BI-SLI Relatives and interrogatives – presentation of results
Poster session & coffee break
Status of questionnaires
SG Meeting
2nd day of Meeting: Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
Parellel Sessions: WG2 and WG4
WG2 (Natalia Gagarina & Joel Walters)
WG4 (Anne Baker & Kristine de Lopez)
Evaluation of pilot testing: Stimuli (Joel Walters /Natalia Gagarina) Language adaptation: Russian, Polish, Lithuanian, French, Greek, Albanian, German, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew
9:00-9:15
9:15-9:45
Tasks (Dorota Kiebzak-Mandera / Ingrida Balciuniene ) Scoring (Daleen Klop / Sari Kunnari/Taina Välimaa)
9:45-10:15
10:15-10:30
Anne Baker & Kristine de Lopez: Introduction to WG4
Peri Iluz-Cohen: Tasks to measure verbal and non-verbal EFs: the day-night task, the embedded figures task, and the faces task"
Agnes Lukas: Neuropsychological testing of executive and other nonlinguistic functions in Hungarian-speaking preschool children with and without SLI: results from CANTAB.
Racha Zebib: results from a pilot study with bilingual children
10:30-11:00
COFFEE BREAK
11:00-12:00
General discussion Design, Protocol for testing, Instructions, Analyses (macro/micro features), Coordination with WG1, WG3, Finalization
11:00-12:00
Henry Lucy Executive functioning in children with SLI + discussions of recommendations for EF tasks.
12:00-13:00
LUNCH BREAK
WG1
13:00-13:30
13:30-14:00
14:00-14:30
14:30-15:00
15:00-15:30
15:30-15:45
15:45-16:00
16:00-16:15
16:15-16:30
16:30-17:30
17:30-18:00
18:00-19:00
20:00
Theo Marinis & Petra Schultz
Clitics Session: The aim of this session is to present pilot results of the clitics task and discuss the vulnerability for (BI) -SLI
Anna Gavarro: Catalan MON-SLI
Ianthi Tsimpli: Greek BI-SLI (islands and production)
Philippe Prevost: New task and French
Discussion
COFFEE BREAK
Exhaustivity session: The aim of this session is to present results of the exhaustivity task for additional languages and/or for additional acquisition types and discuss the vulnerability for (BI)-SLI
Philippe Prevost: French MON-TD
Frenette Soutwood: MON-TD, BI-TD Afrikaans/isiXhosa-speaking children/adults
Magda Wojtecka and Petra Schulz: German BI-SLI
Discussion
Assessment committee - report & discussion
COFFEE BREAK
MC Meeting
Dinner (self paid)
3rd day of Meeting: Wednesday, May30th, 2011
Parellel Sessions: WG3 and WG4
WG3 (Ewa Haman and Shula Chiat)
WG4 (Anne Baker & Kristine de Lopez)
Non-word Repetition
9:00-9:20
9:20-9:40
9:40-10:00
10:20-10:30
Seyhun Topbas: Turkish test
9:00-9:30
Angela Grimm, Christophe dos Santos, Sandine Ferre: French-German test
9:30-10:00
Alexander Kornev: Russian Test
Kamila Polisenska, Svetlana Kapalkova: Slovak test:
10:00-10:30
Next Steps
Kristine Jensen de López & Hanne Knudsen: BRIEF (Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function): Introduction, how to apply, score and interpretat the BRIEF
Pascal Engel: Executive functions in lowincome multilingual children
Kristine Jensen de López & Lone Sundahl Olsen: Narrative abilities and working memory in children with SLI
10:30-11:00
COFFEE BREAK
11:00-11:30
11:30-11:50
11:50-12:00
Lexical Issues
Ewa Haman et al: Setting the final procedure for WG3 tasks generation for various languages – discussion
11:00-12:00
Picture reviewing workshop
Daniela Gatt & Ciara O’Toole: CDI study: update on progress and discussion on data analysis
Discussion & where to go
12:00-13:00
LUNCH BREAK
13:00-14:00
14:00-15:00
15:00-15:30
15:30-16:30
16:30-17:30
17:30-18:00
18:00-19:00
WG1 – report & discussion
WG2 – report & discussion
COFFEE BREAK
WG3 – report & discussion
WG4 – report & discussion
COFFEE BREAK
General Discussion: Laida Restrepo