Conference Themes
Language Assessment focuses on language assessment for children growing up in multilingual societies, how to develop language assessments for multilingual populations across the lifespan, and will also focus on the impact of bilingualism/multilingualism on cognitive function.
Reading and Writing across the lifespan focuses on multilingualism in and outside of the classroom, and will address issues of individual variability in bilinguals/multilinguals across the lifespan.
Language Acquisition and Attrition focuses on how language develops in children and adults growing up/living in multilingual societies, how they maintain the languages they speak, under which conditions we see effects of language attrition, and how language declines as a result of a stroke or dementia. It will also include talks on methods for the documentation of indigenous languages.
Highlights of the Conference
Keynotes
1. ​Levels of Language Assessment in Multilingual Populations: Single Words, Sentences, and Cognitive-Linguistic Processing
(Assoc Prof Susan Rickard Liow & Dr Mary Lee Lay Choo)
2. An Early Reading Assessment Battery for Multilingual Learners in Malaysia
(Dr Julia Lee Ai Cheng)
3. Acquired Language Disorders in Bilinguals of South-Asian Languages: Importance of Language-Specific Diagnostic Markers
(Assoc Prof Arpita Bose)
Oral Presentations
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Poster Presentations
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Roundtables
Best practice tips for online data collection, how research has been affected by COVID-19
Development of bi/multilingual assessment tools
Language attrition in clinical populations (e.g. aphasia and dementia)
Knowledge Transfer Workshops
Effective grant proposal writing
Research methods: Qualitative/corpus linguistics
Research methods: Open science
Research methods: Online data collection
(Limited Spaces: Registration closes once filled)