Where to find us!
The workshop will be held in Chandler House at University College London.
For information on how to get to Chandler House, see here:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/contact/how-find-chandler-house
Thursday 21st September 2023 - Room 118, Chandler House
Friday 22nd September 2023 - Room G10, Chandler House
Programme
Thursday 21st September 2023 - Room 118, Chandler House
13:00: Workshop registration
13:15: Welcome and opening remarks (Rachael Hulme)
13:25: Short Empirical Presentations (15 mins + Q&A)
1) 13:25: Maria Korochkina, Royal Holloway – Apples and oranges: How does learning context affect novel word learning?
2) 13:45: Yuzhen (Rainy) Dong, University of Oxford – The influence of emotional context on novel word valence learning
3) 14:05: Christopher Edwards, University College London – Lexical and semantic diversity in speech and adult word learning
14:25: Coffee break
14:55: Short Empirical Presentations (15 mins + Q&A)
4) 14:55: Cheng-Yu Hsieh, Royal Holloway – Beyond Quantity of Experience: Exploring the Role of Semantic Consistency in Chinese Character Knowledge
5) 15:15: Jo Taylor, University College London – Anchoring does not boost the benefit of contextual diversity for learning word forms or generalising learned meanings to new contexts
15:35: Break
16:00: Keynote talk 1 (40 mins + Q&A)
Limor Raviv (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) – How variability shapes learning and generalization across domains
16:45: Summary of Key Themes and Selection of Topics for discussion (Jo Taylor, Jenni Rodd)
17:00: Group Discussion & Feedback Session 1 (groups of 5-8 participants)
18:00: Drinks reception
19:00: Dinner
Friday 22nd September 2023 - Room G10, Chandler House
9:15: Workshop registration
9:30: Short Empirical Presentations (15 mins + Q&A)
6) 9:30: Ruth Corps, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics – Can contextual diversity be separated from word frequency during picture-naming?
7) 9:50: Rachael Hulme, Heriot-Watt University – Effects of diversity of narrative context on the learning of word forms and meanings
8) 10:10: Raphaël Fargier, Université Côte d’Azur – Situational variability in narrative contexts facilitates the learning and retention of novel words
10:30: Coffee break
11:00: Short Empirical Presentations (15 mins + Q&A)
9) 11:00: Lauren Schilling, Harvard Graduate School of Education – Grounding early word learning: Examining imageability and contextual diversity in child-directed texts
10) 11:20: Jinyu Shi, University of Oxford – A corpus-based investigation of Chinese classifiers in children’s book and child-directed speech
11) 11:40: Johannes Schulz, University of Oxford – The role of input variability in foreign language construction learning: a primary school intervention
12:00: Lunch break
13:00: Short Empirical Presentations (15 mins + Q&A)
12) 13:00: Gwen Brekelmans, Queen Mary University of London – The role of variability for the learning of non-native phoneme contrasts: A replication
13) 13:20: Candice Frances, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics – Contextual diversity improves new foreign language vocabulary learning: The mediating role of reading measures
13:40: Coffee break
14:10: Keynote talk 2 (40 mins + Q&A)
Rebecca Norman, University College London – The effects of contextual diversity on lexical processing: A scoping review
14:55: Break
15:10: Summary of Key Themes and Selection of Topics for discussion (Jo Taylor, Jenni Rodd)
15:25: Group Discussion & Feedback Session 2 (groups of 5-8 participants)
16:25: Concluding remarks (Jenni Rodd)
