6/11/2024
The Language Development and Disorders reading group provides the opportunity to postgraduate students (as well as any interested undergraduate students, faculty) to present research or lead/participate in discussions on theoretical linguistics, experimental linguistics and psycholinguistics based on formal accounts of linguistic analysis.
In the current year the LDD Reading Group will focus on "Aspect, Tense, Mood and Modality". Group members can present work in progress or research proposals, and/or give practice talks for conferences, or lead discussion based on a relevant paper.
Our reading group meetings for the academic year 2024-25 commence in November 2024 and will be held online (via Zoom).
Ōhose interested in joining us, please contact Maria Dimitrakopoulou via email at dimitm@enl.auth.gr.
13/5/2024
Check out our newly funded research project here.
02/10/2023
The Language Development and Disorders reading group provides the
opportunity to postgraduate students (as well as any interested
undergraduate students, faculty) to present research or
lead/participate in discussions on experimental linguistics and
psycholinguistics based on formal accounts of linguistic analysis.
Group members can present work in progress or research proposals,
and/or give practice talks for conferences, or lead discussion based
on a relevant paper. Our reading group meetings for the academic
year 2023-24 commence in early November 2023 and will be held online
(via Zoom).
Ōhose interested in joining us, please contact Maria Dimitrakopoulou
via email at dimitm@enl.auth.gr.
28/11/2022
The Language Development Lab of the School of English invites you to the talk Child L2 acquisition of English in India: a comparison between finiteness and vocabulary development which will be given by Professor Ianthi Maria Tsimpli , Chair of English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, Professor Emeritus of AUTh, on Wednesday 21 December 2022. Venue: Room 417 (4th floor of the New Building of the Faculty of Philosophy) Time: 14.15-15.45 For inquiries please contact Dr. Maria Dimitrakopoulou at dimitm@enl.auth.gr.
14/7/2022
Prof. Ianthi M. Tsimpli, Chair of English and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge, UK, Professor Emeritus, AUTH, will give a talk on “Socioeconomic disadvantages, multilingualism and resilience in school children” on 17 October 2022. Attendance is free but you need to register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/multilingualism-and-diversity-impact-for-education-health-and-society-tickets-302814003837. For more information on the event visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2022/oct/socioeconomic-disadvantages-multilingualism-and-resilience-school-children.
16/5/2022
The Language Development Lab and the Foreign Language Teaching Laboratory of the School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, will be hosting a seminar by Dr Nickolas Komninos (Lecturer in linguistics and communication, University of Udine) on Multimodal Transcription for Critical Thinking on Friday, May 20th, 5:00-6.30 pm, in room 01 (New Wing).
For participation complete the form here. Attendance is free.
Abstract
This seminar will look at the methods and results of two research
projects dealing with Multimodal literacy. It will consider how
greater multiliteracy training through multimodal transcription can
aid critical thinking. It looks at pedagogic strategies employing
SFL based multimodal transcription tools (Multimodal Analysis Image
Software developed by Prof. Kay O’Halloran) and monitoring tools for
student progression (Komninos 2019).
For more information on the event contact Maria Dimitrakopoulou (dimitm@enl.auth.gr).
