Invited Speakers
The seminar will comprise presentations by members of GRAL and the following six invited speakers (see abstracts below):
Dr. Keiko Koda (Carnegie Mellon University, US)
Title of talk: 'Reading to learn as a framework for an integrated approach to foreign language instruction and assessment'
Dr. Elke Peters (Leuven University, Belgium)
Title of talk: 'Learning vocabulary through audiovisual input: the differential effect of L1 and L2 subtitles'
Dr. Michael Rodgers (Carleton University, Canada)
Title of talk: 'The effects of captioning on discrete facets of listening comprehension of authentic television'
Dr. Danijela Trenkic (University of York, UK)
Title of talk: 'Captioned videos and second language listening: Focus on speech segmentation'
Dr. Robert Vanderplank (Oxford University, UK)
Title of talk: More listening/More reading: purpose and paradox in ways of viewing captioned films in the EURECAP project
Dr. Stuart Webb (Western University, Canada)
Title of talk: 'How does mode of input affect the incidental learning of multiword combinations?'