Truly global / L+/ International summer/winter school on language acquisition
Welcome!
We are thrilled to announce the first edition of the truly global /L+/ international summer/winter school on language acquisition.
The first truly global /L+/ international summer/winter school on language acquisition aims to promote knowledge about first language acquisition and establish a global network of collaboration with mutually beneficial exchanges for researchers and students. Students will acquire knowledge regarding current theories and controversies in language acquisition, and will learn basic experimental methods to implement in their own research studies.
This 5-day event will consist of pre-recorded lectures and live discussion sessions and practicals with internationally recognized speakers across three time zones (see Speakers and Program).
We will offer an identical schedule of this summer/winter school in 3 different time zones, namely:
1. UTC (GMT) (Africa/Europe-friendly)
2. UTC+8 (Singapore time) (Asia/Australia-friendly)
3. UTC-4 (Amazon time) (South and North-America-friendly)
Lectures are pre-recorded and can be viewed at any time starting from August 1st.
Discussions and Practicals will be live - following the schedule below.
There will also be a number of activities for networking and exchanging about academic career development - stay tuned!
Timeframe
16 - 20 August 2021
Location
online
Language
English
Target group
Students at all levels (BA – PhD.) and early career researchers from all regions, but particularly Sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and South and Central America, are encouraged to participate.
There are no prerequisites in terms of specific knowledge or skills.
Fee
free of charge
Organization Team
- Bolanle Elizabeth Arokoyo (University of Ilorin)
- Silvia Benavides-Varela (University of Padua)
- Natalie Boll-Avetisyan (University of Potsdam)
- Paulina Aravena Bravo (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, University of Chile)
- Alex Carstensen (Stanford University)
- Alejandrina Cristia (Ecole Normale Paris)
- Margaret Cychosz (University of Maryland, College Park)
- Rodrigo Dal Ben (Concordia University)
- Yatma Diop (Michigan State University)
- Ilse van den Dobbelsteen (Max Planck Institute-Nijmegen)
- Rowena Garcia (Max Planck Institute-Nijmegen)
- Mulat Asnake Goshu (Addis Ababa University)
- Naomi Havron (University of Haifa)
- Leticia Schiavon Kolberg (State University of Campinas)
- Hiromasa Kotera (University of Potsdam)
- Ronel Laranjo (University of Philippines Diliman)
- Catherine Mbagaya (Maseno University)
- Bhuvana Narasimhan (University of Colorado)
- Ramona Kunene Nicolas (Wits University)
- Paul Okyere Omane (University of Potsdam)
- Jayson Petras (University Philippines Diliman)
- Caroline Rowland (Max Planck Institute-Nijmegen)
- Andrew Ssemata (Makerere University)
- Suzy Styles (Nanyang Technological University)
- Catherine Urban (Ecole Normale Paris)
- Fei Ting Woon (Nanyang Technological University)
Speakers
Phonological Stream
Silvia Benavides-Varela
Natalie Boll-Avetisyan
Liquan Liu
Marina Kalashnikova
Titia Benders
Lexical Stream
Sarah C. Kucker
Nivedita Mani
Ramona Kunene Nicolas
Michael C. Frank
Julien Mayor
Morphosyntax stream
Caroline Rowland
Kamil Ud Deen
Evan Kidd
Irina Sekerina
Theo Marinis
Environment Stream
Anne Fernald
Elena Lieven
Alejandrina Cristia
Suzy Styles
Thea Cameron-Faulkner
This summer school is co-funded by:
The University of Potsdam (KoUP Cooperation Funding)
University of Padua (“Shaping a World-class University - Seed funding for Digitalization & Innovation”)