7th roundtable

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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”.