Conference Schedule
All times are in MYT (GTC/UTC+08:00)
Day 1: Tuesday 17th August
09:30 - 09:45
Opening Remarks
09:45 - 10:05
LexMal: A Practical and Reliable Lexical Test for Malay Speakers
Leong, C.X.R., Lee, S.T., Price, J. & van Heuven, W
10:05 - 10:25
Multilingualism and Implicit Learning
Yee, J., Yap, N.T., Pliatsika, C. & Saddy, D
10:25 - 10:30
Break
10:30 - 10:50
Modulatory Effects of Linguistic Context on Executive Functioning in Bilinguals
Choo, K.K., Wong, H.K. & Price, J
10:50Â - 11:10
Lexical Test for Malay Speakers (LexMal): The Construction of a Yes/No Vocabulary Test
Lee, S.T., van Heuven, W., Price, J. & Leong, C.X.R
11:15 - 12:15
Workshop: Survey Questionnaire Session
12:15 - 13:30
Lunch Break + Posters via OSF
13:30 - 15:00
Workshop: Open Science
Prof Steve Janssen
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:10
Invited Talk: Parental Language Choices in a Multilingual Society
Hui Min Low
16:10 - 16:50
Invited Talk: Multilingual Assessment of Early Language in Malaysian Context: Taking the Slow Road
Julien Mayor
16:50 - 17:30
Invited Talk: Literacy in Arabic: Research on Predictors of Acquisition, and the Development of Assessment and Screening Tools
John Everatt
17:30 - 18:30
Keynote: Levels of Language Assessment in Multilingual Populations: Single Words, Sentences, and Cognitive-Linguistic Processing
Susan Rickard Liow & Mary LEE Lay Choo
18:30 - 19:00
Roundtable: Development of Bi/Multilingual Assessment Tools
Day 2: Wednesday 18th August
09:30 - 09:45
Opening Remarks
09:45 - 10:05
English Phonological Awareness and Rapid Automatised Naming in Malay- English Biliterate Children: A One-year Longitudinal Study
Wong, T.P., Powell, D. & Pye, R
10:05 - 10:25
Count-Mass Distinction of Novel Aggregates Among Classifier and Non-Classifier Language Speakers: Evidence from Chinese-English Bilinguals and Chinese-Malay-English Trilinguals
Tio, Y.P. & Lakshmanan, U
10:25 - 10:30
Break
10:30 - 10:50
Reading Strategy Use in Secondary Education: An Exploration of the Metacognitive Interdependence between Arabic and English
Razkane, H. & Diouny, S
10:50Â - 11:10
English Lexical Knowledge of Malaysian Children as Measured by Malaysian English Cross-linguistic Lexical Tasks: A Pilot Study
Lew, J.W. & Yap, N.T
11:15 - 11:55
Invited Talk: Developing a Research-informed National Reading Series in New Zealand
Alison Arrow
11:55 - 12:35
Invited Talk: Reading and Writing Across Scripts – Evidence from Singapore
Beth O’Brien
12:35 - 13:30
Lunch Break + Posters via OSF
13:30 - 15:30
Workshop: Corpus Linguistic: Analysing Semantic Prosody
Dr Hajar Abdul Rahim
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00
Keynote: An Early Reading Assessment Battery for Multilingual Learners in Malaysia
Julia A.C Lee
17:00 - 17:30
Roundtable: Best Practice Tips for Online Data Collection, How Research Has Been Affected by COVID-19
17:30 - 19:00
Workshop: Introduction to Gorilla Session 1
19:30 - 21:00
Workshop: Introduction to Gorilla Session 2
Day 3: Thursday 19th August
09:30 - 09:45
Opening Remarks
09:45 - 10:05
Development Model of Teaching Malay Language as a Second Language and Foreign Language
Janan, D
10:05 - 10:25
Are We Really More Anxious when Using English with Caucasians: Ethnic Identity Cues and Perceived Speech Comprehensibility
Chong, K.H., Price, J. & Leong, C.X.R
10:25 - 10:30
Break
10:30 - 10:50
Congruent Lexicalization Code-switching Predict Executive Functions Among
Malaysians
Ramly, B., Yap, N.T & Ilyana Jalaluddin, I
10:50Â - 11:10
Scalar Implacture Computation in L2-English Speakers
Khorsheed, A., Mb Rashid, S., Nimehehisalem, V., Imm, L.G & Price, J
11:15 - 12:45
Workshop: Introduction to Psychopy
12:45 - 14:30
Lunch Break + Posters via OSF
14:30 - 15:30
Workshop: Effective Grant Writing
Dr Zulhamri & Dr Saddy
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:10
Invited Talk: Word Retrieval Deficits in Malay-speaking Adults with Aphasia
Mohd Azmarul A Aziz
16:10 - 16:50
Invited Talk: The Emergence of a Melaka Portuguese-influenced L1 English
Stefanie Pilla
16:50 - 17:30
Invited Talk: Reading Comprehension Across the Life Span: Profiling Learners and People with Language Disorders
Maria Garraffa
17:30 - 18:30
Keynote: Acquired Language Disorders in Bilinguals of South-Asian Languages: Importance of Language-Specific Diagnostic Markers
Arpita Bose
18:30 - 19:00
Roundtable: Language Attrition in Clinical Populations (e.g., Aphasia and Dementia)