2013년 2월 24일 일요일

The Second World Congress in Extensive Reading


한국외국어교육학회가 2013년 정기학술대회를 연세대(서울)에서 9 13-15에 개최합니다. (13: 주요연사들과 함께 하는 워크샵 / 14-15: 학술대회)
이번 학술대회는 세계다독학회의 제2회 세계대회를 외국어교육학회와 세계다독학회가 공동으로 개최합니다. 다독과 어휘분야의 세계적인 학자인 Paul Nation을 비롯한 국내.외의 저명한 학자들과 함께 하는 2013년 한국외국어교육학회의 학술대회에 많은 참여 부탁드립니다.  (발표 신청: 3 31일까지 erkorea2013@hotmail.com으로 신청)
The Korea Association of Foreign Languages Education(KAFLE) is hosting The Extensive Reading Foundation’s Second World Congress in Extensive Reading to be held at Yonsei University, Seoul on September 13-15, 2013(Workshop: Sep. 13; Conference: Sep. 14-15).
The conference theme is “Extensive Reading: Lighting new ways to language learning”.
Some of the plenary and featured speakers are:
Paul Nation of Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Keiko Koda of Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Kyung-Ae Cha of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea.
Richard Day of University of Hawaii, USA
Marc Helgeson of Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University, Japan
Averil Coxhead of Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Kyungsuk Chang of Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation, Korea
Rob Waring of Notre Dame Seishin University, Japan
Sakil Malik of International Reading Association
Jeong-Won Lee of Chungnam National University, Korea
KAFLE conference committee is receiving domestic proposals for presentations in the areas of extensive reading and its related fields. Deadline of submission is  March 31, 2013. The proposal in a designated form below should be sent to:
Prof. Yoonhee Choe (e-mail: erkorea2013@hotmail.com).
For more information and international presenters, please refer to http://www.er-korea-2013.org/.


Click here to download a form for a presentation proposal 


Call for applications (participation and supported places)



Summer school: Bilingual minds, bilingual machines
Cognition Institute, Plymouth University, 24th-28th June 2013
Call for applications (participation and supported places)

The young human brain copes remarkably well with two or more languages, with early bilingualism often resulting in perfect parallel proficiency. In contrast, automatic translation and language recognition systems remain suboptimal, despite powerful computing resources, large-scale corpora and increasingly sophisticated training algorithms.


The summer school is a unique opportunity for postgraduate students and early-career researchers in psychology and computer science to engage over common issues informed by both disciplines. How can we model bilingual processing? How are two phonologies represented? How is meaning related to word forms? How far can meanings be shared between languages in the human mind and in machines?

The school will feature interactive lectures from world-leading researchers: psychologists investigating early and late bilingualism; cognitive scientists modelling the bilingual mental lexicon, from phonology to semantics; computer scientists and roboticists designing automated translators and language recognition/learning systems. Participants will also gain hands-on experience in computational modelling, cutting-edge robotic technology and advanced techniques of experimental psychology. They will also have the opportunity to submit an abstract for poster session that will take place during the week, with two selected for a 20-minute conference-style presentation.

The school is supported by EUCog (www.eucognition.org). Registration is open to a maximum of 30 participants, with a competitive selection process to award five fully subsidised places (tinyurl.com/bilingualismsummerschool).

Confirmed speakers:

Professor Tony Belpaeme, Plymouth University – developmental robotics
Professor Marc Brysbaert, Ghent University – adult bilingualism
Dr Bill Byrne, University of Cambridge – automatic translation
Professor Angelo Cangelosi, Plymouth University – developmental robotics
Professor Detmar Meurers, University of Tübingen – learner corpora and computational linguistics
Dr Katerina Pastra, Cognitive Systems Research Institute, Athens – embodied machine translation
Dr Patrick Rebuschat, Bangor University – bilingual cognition
Professor Majd Sakr, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar – bilingual robotics
Professor Nuria Sebastian-Galles, Universitat Pompeu Fabra – developmental bilingualism 
Dr Yinjang Wu, University of Sheffield – developmental bilingualism

Application and registration

We are seeking applications from postgraduate students and early-career researchers (i.e., not more than three years post-PhD). Registration fees for the week are £400, which includes accommodation, breakfasts, lunches, refreshments and a full social programme. Places are limited to 30 and fees will be waived for up to five participants. To register your interest, please submit the following documents in PDF format, and indicate whether you wish to be considered for a fee waiver.

- Curriculum vitae (up to two pages), indicating level of English language attainment.
- Description of research interests and potential benefits of participation (one page).

If you wish to be considered for a fee waiver, then please additionally make a case for support with reference to your current funding (not more than one page). Your request for a fee waiver will not affect the outcome of your application to participate in the school.

Please submit your application by 31 March 2013. Selected applicants will be notified of acceptance on 15th April. Applications should be emailed to: bilingualismsummerschool@gmail.com.

Organising committee
Allegra Cattani, School of Social Science and Social Work, Plymouth University
Caroline Floccia, School of Psychology, Plymouth University
Laurence White, School of Psychology, Plymouth University