Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS)
Schützenstraße 18, 10117 Berlin (Mitte), Tel. +49 30 - 20 19 24 01
COST Action A33
COST Training School in Language Acquisition Methods
Berlin, 30th March - 3rd April 2009
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Preliminary Program [last changes: 9th March 2009]
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Monday, 30th March 2009
8:00-9:00 Registration  
9:00-9:45 Introduction
Methods in Language Acquisition
Dr. Natalia Gagarina
9:45-11:15 course 1
ERP: method and data
Claudia Männel
15’ Break  
11:30-13:00 course 1
ERP: method and data
Dr. Regine Oberecker
13:00-13:30 Discussion; work-out of concrete experiment designs  
13:30-15:00 Lunch  
15:00-16:30 course 2
Eyetracking
Tom Fritzsche
Oda Brandt
15’ Break  
16:45-18:15 course 2
Eyetracking
Tom Fritzsche
Oda Brandt
Tuesday, 31st March 2009
9:30-11:00 course 1
ERP: Children with Specific Language Impairments
Dr. Beate Sabisch
15’ Break  
11:15-12:45 course 1
ERP: Children with Specific Language Impairment
Dr. Beate Sabisch
12:45-13:15 Discussion; work-out of concrete experiment designs  
13:15-14:15 Lunch  
14:15-15:45 course 2
Eyetracking
Tom Fritzsche
Oda Brandt
15’ Break  
16:00-17:30 course 2
Eyetracking
Tom Fritzsche
Oda Brandt
17:30-18:00 Discussion; work-out of concrete experiment designs  
19:00 Joint Conference Dinner  
Wednesday, 1st April 2009
9:30-11:00 course 3, lecture 1
Word monitoring, Self-paced reading/listening
Dr. Theo Marinis
15’ Break  
11:15-12:45 course 3
Cross modal priming, Self-paced listening + picture verification
Dr. Theo Marinis
12:45-14:00 Lunch  
14:00-14:45 course 3, practical 1
Word monitoring, Self-paced reading/listening
Dr. Theo Marinis
14:45-15:30 course 3, practical 2
Cross modal priming, Self-paced listening + picture verification
Dr. Theo Marinis
15:30-16:00 Final discussion Dr. Theo Marinis
15’ Break  
16:15-17:45 course 4
Experimental methods with visual stimuli
Dr. Natalia Gagarina
Dr. Nina Kazanina
15’ Break  
18:00 Joint sightseeing  
Thursday, 2nd April 2009
9:30-11:00 course 4
Experimental methods with visual stimuli
Dr. Natalia Gagarina
Dr. Nina Kazanina
15’ Break  
11:15-12:45 course 4
Experimental methods with visual stimuli
Dr. Natalia Gagarina
Dr. Nina Kazanina
12:45-13:15 Discussion; work-out of concrete experiment designs  
13:15-14:15 Lunch  
14:15-15:45 course 5
Testing children's language
Dr. Ewa Dabrowska
15’ Break  
16:00-17:30 course 5
Testing children's language
Dr. Ewa Dabrowska
17:30-18:00 Discussion; work-out of concrete experiment designs  
Evening Individual museum visits:
Thursday evening: four hours before closing [i.e. 6:00-10:00 p.m.] all visitors have free admission for the permanent exhibitions in several museums, like for instance the Pergamon Museum
Friday, 3rd April 2009
9:30-11:00 course 5
Testing children's language
Dr. Ewa Dabrowska
15’ Break  
11:15-12:45 course 6
Elicitation experiments in language acquisition
Dr. Sonja Eisenbeiss
12:45-13:45 Lunch  
13:45-15:15 course 6
Elicitation experiments in language acquisition
Dr. Sonja Eisenbeiss
15’ Break  
15:30-17:00 course 6
Elicitation experiments in language acquisition
 
17:00-17:30 Discussion; work-out of concrete experiment designs Dr. Sonja Eisenbeiss
15’ Break  
17:45-18:45 Final round table: What did we learn? Open questions. Food for thought. Take-home knowledge