BiL1-2-Programme-

(I) Date: May 15, 2010 (Sat.) 13:30-17:30

(II) Place: Kwansei Gakuin University, Osaka Umeda Campus (K.G. Hub Square Osaka) Room 1005

 (10th floor of Applause Tower, 19-19 Chayamachi, Kita-ku, Osaka city, 530-0013)

 (Phone: 06-6485-5611   Fax: 06-6485-5612   Web: http://www.kwansei.ac.jp/kg_hub/

 *We have arranged sign language interpreters.

(III) Programme

1. Opening address (13:30-13:40) YAMAMOTO, Masayo (Kwansei Gakuin University)

2. Guest lecture

13:40~14:50 "Brain Science Studies and Bilingualism"   IKARI, Yukio (Osaka City University)

[Break: 14:50〜15:00]

3. Presentations

15:00~15:30 "Japanese Sign Language (JSL) – Japanese Bilingual Family in Japan: A Case Study of Deaf Parents and their Three-Year-Old and Five-Year-Old Hearing Children"   SHIBUYA, Tomoko (JSPS, The University of Tokyo)

15:30~16:00 "Codeswitching of Japanese-English Speaking Children in Canada: Analysis of Interaction with Mothers"  TOKITA, Tomoko (Toyo University)

4. Post-graduate presentations

16:00~16:40 "Code-switching among Students at a German School in Japan" IMAMURA, Keisuke (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

16:40~17:20 "English Literacy Retention in Three Pairs of Japanese Returnee Siblings"   TANIGUCHI, Joy (The University of Tokyo)

5. Closing address (17:20-17:30) TAURA, Hideyuki (Ritsumeikan University)

(IV) Fee : 500 yen

(V) Participation: Simply turn up on the day. There is no need to RSVP.

(VI) Dinner party: We're planning dinner after the research roundtable at a restaurant nearby (18:00-20:00 at a cost of about 5,000 yen). Details will be announced later, but let us know by e-mail to namba@cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp by May 6th, if you'd like to come to the dinner. In the e-mail message, please write 1) your name, 2) affiliation, 3) e-mail address and put the title of the message as “Application for BiL1 dinner party”.