Communication skills meet linguistic ability
Organisers: Alanen, Riikka / Banerjee, Jayanti / Martin, Maisa
U of Jyväskylä · Finland, U of Lancaster · UK, U of Jyväskylä · Finland
The study of second language acquisition (SLA) and language testing (TE) has been conducted as two separate fields. The SLATE network endeavors to combine the two areas. The symposium is dedicated to find ways to map the development of the linguistic properties of learner output to the communicative development.
Contributers to the Symposium:
Bardel, Camilla · Self-assessment, testing and linguistic analysis of Italian L2 oral production (U of Stockholm, Sweden)
Bartning, Inge / Forsberg, Fanny · Looking for linguistic features in relation to the CEFR levels in French L2 (U of Stockholm, Sweden)
Franceschina, Florencia · Interpreting grammatical accuracy increases that accompany global L2 proficiency increases (U of Lancaster, UK)
Jong, Nivja de / Steinel, Margarita / Florijn, Arjen / Hulstijn, Jan / Schoonen, Rob · To what Extend do (psycho)linguistic abilities determine communicative skills? (U of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Martin, Maisa / Mustonen, Sanna / Reiman, Nina · The interplay of the morphological and syntactical development in Finnish as a second language (U of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Prodeau, Mireille / Lopez Irankhah-Ziabar, Sabine · A question of syntax or of lexicon? Or what combination for a L1 or a L2 speaker? (U of Paris VIII, France /U of Paris VI, France)