This is to announce the 7th Research Roundtable for Bilingualism as a First Language (BiL1): Focus on bilingual children’s language development
Anyone interested in this topic is welcome to join us.
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The 7th Research Roundtable for Bilingualism as a First Language (BiL1)
“Focus on bilingual children’s language development”
(I) Date: May 25th 2013 (Sat.) 13:30-17:10
(II) Place: Room 1005, Kwansei Gakuin University, Osaka Umeda Campus
(K.G. Hub Square Osaka) (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
M.C. TAURA, Hideyuki (Ritsumeikan University)
1. General Meeting
13:30-13:50 “The 2nd annual general meeting”----- This meeting is for the members of BiL1.
2. Opening Address
14:00
YAMAMOTO, Masayo (Kwansei Gakuin University)
3. Special Lecture
14:10-15:20 "A Case Study of the First Language Development and Education of a Bilingual Child in the Simultaneous Acquisition Process of Chinese and Japanese"
LIU Xiangying (Fukuyama City University)
Break
15:20-15:35
3. Presentations
15:35-16:15 "Bilingualism in Japanese-Korean Mixed Marriage Families: Japanese and Korean Language Proficiency in Preschool and First Year School Children in Japan"
KANG, Akiko (M.A. from Graduate School of Letters, St. Andrew’s University)
16:20~17:00 "A Study of Print Cognition and Receptive Vocabulary Development of Children Raised in a Bilingual Environment"
NORITSUGU, Fumiko (Hannan University)
5. Closing address
17:00 IKARI, Yukio (Oosaka City University)
(IV) Fee : 1000 yen (members : free)
(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 (17:30-19:30 at a cost of about 5,000 yen). Details will be announced later, but let us know by e-mail to tairaeiji (a) kwansei.ac.jp by Monday, May 11th 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”.