LLED welcomes all to our upcoming Research Seminar.
Date: Thursday, April 30, 2015.
Time: 12:30 – 1:30 pm
Location: Digital Literacy Centre, Ponderosa Annex F
Investigating the potential role of picture books in tense and aspect learning for children learning English
Dr. Carla Hudson Kam, Canada Research Chair in Language Acquisition, Dept of Linguistics, UBC
Almost all languages require speakers to situate the events and states they are describing in time, often through tense and aspect affixes attached to verbs – things like -ed and -ing. In English, for example, we indicate whether something is happening now, has already happened in the past or will happen in the future (tense); and we relate events to other events, indicating, for instance, that one event happened before another or while another event was unfolding (aspect). Children have to learn which of a variety of possible temporal meanings their language encodes and how the meanings are encoded (e.g., what the specific affixes are and what they mean). However, we have little idea how they learn this information. The speech children hear is not very useful in this regard. We often talk to children about objects that are physically present at the time of speaking, but when discussing actions or activities, we rarely describe something as it is happening, so mapping from form to meaning is more complicated than it is for nouns and objects. However, there is one source of input many children get (that we know is helpful for leaning other aspects of language) where the mapping problem is potentially solved for them – books. Children’s picture books often have illustrations showing the event being described in the text, illustrations that could help children learn tense and aspect contrasts in their language. In this talk I will describe a new research program I am just starting (in collaboration with Lisa Matthewson), the goal of which is to explore whether (and how) picture books can help children learn tense and aspect.
All welcome! Feel free to bring your lunch.
The Department of Language & Literacy Education has opportunities for FOUR part-time Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) appointments in the Vancouver Summer Program for Summer 2015 in the UBC Vancouver Summer Program.
Application deadline for all positions: Friday May 8, by 4pm
The Department of Language & Literacy Education has an opportunity for a part-time Sessional Lecturer or Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) appointment in the Teacher Education program for Summer Session 2015, teaching LIBE 465 – Organization of Learning Resources.
Updated CV and cover letter can be sent as a PDF or Word attachment to lled-posting.educ@ubc.ca. Please indicate in the subject line the course you are applying for “LLED Posting …”
Application deadline for all positions: Thursday, April 30th by 4pm
This course is cross-listed with LLED 480B/061
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LLED 570 |
| Section: |
061 |
| Title: |
Theory and Research in English Language Education |
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3 |
| Term: |
2 |
| Start/End Date: |
01/04/2016 – 04/08/2016 |
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| Time: |
04:30 pm – 07:30 pm |
| Location: |
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| Instructor: |
Sandra Zappa-Hollman |
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Course Link:
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This course will provide an opportunity for students from multiple sites to engage in the comparative study of issues associated with the education of Indigenous peoples and communities on an international scale with an emphasis on the role of language and culture through a review of educational practices, theories, methodologies, and epistemologies that have emerged from a variety of sources. This will be of special interest to educators in schools serving Indigenous and heritage language students regarding cultural understandings and change in a historical and contemporary context. Students will engage in the comparative study of issues associated with education of Indigenous peoples and communities on an international scale with an emphasis on the role of language and culture. In addition to face-to-face class meetings, students will participate in a hybrid course with other students and faculty in the United States (University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Arizona, Diné College, University of Hawai`i Hilo) and New Zealand (Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuirāngi-Whakatane) via video-conferencing on a weekly basis.
| Code: |
LLED 565D |
| Section: |
061 |
| Title: |
Indigenous Language and Cultural Education: Local and Global Perspectives |
| Credit: |
3 |
| Term: |
1 |
| Start/End Date: |
09/08/2015 – 12/04/2015 |
| Day(s): |
T |
| Time: |
06:00 pm – 09:00 pm |
| Location: |
SCARFE 308A |
| Instructor: |
Candace Galla |
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