LAMiNATE Newsletter 2024.1
Welcome to the lates edition of the LAMiNATE newsletter!
We are delighted to present the recent developments and achievements within our community. This edition highlights a series of insightful talks, productive writing sessions, awards, and new grants. Join us as we reflect on a successful spring and prepare for an inspiring autumn.
Happy reading!
Marianne Gullberg & Jonas Granfeldt (Platform leaders)
Henriette Arndt & Frida Splendido (Platform coordinators)
Contents
- LAMiNATE Talks
- Shut up and Write
- Grants and Awards
- LAMiNATE at EuroSLA
- LAMiNATE Membership
- Recent Publications
LAMiNATE Talks
The spring Talks series covered a diverse range of LAMiNATE-related topics. It began with Panos Athanasopoulos discussing conceptual integration in bilingual memory, followed by Annick De Houwer's talk on supporting language diversity in schools. The first thematic block focused on reference tracking, with Josefin Lindgren and Jorrig Vogels exploring how model stories affect Swedish-speaking children's narrative skills, and Jennifer Arnold examining discourse-level language processing. The second thematic block delved into the neural foundations of language switching, featuring Christos Pliatsikas on bilingualism and neuroplasticity, and Roger Johansson on neurocognitive methods for studying temporal dynamics in switching between language systems. The series concluded with Marianne Gullberg and Jonas Granfeldt introducing the RJ Programme Transdisciplinary approaches to learning and multilingualism (TEAM).
We start again on 10 September with a talk by Tanja Kupisch and Ilaria Venagli on reading in L2 learners with and without dyslexia. The autumn will include one thematic session on foreign language anxiety, organised by Henriette Arndt, and one “TEAM theme” organised by participants in the RJ programme. The autumn series concludes with a presentation by Jeanine Treffers-Daller on 17 December.
Shut up and Write!
A small group of LAMiNATErs have been getting together online to “shut up and write” during the spring. Sessions were held weekly, on Fridays 13–15, and will resume on August 23. New participants are welcome to join at any time during the term for as many or as few sessions as they wish. Send an e-mail to Frida (frida.splendido@nordlund.lu.se) if you would like the Zoom link.
Grants and Awards
We are very pleased to announce that Professor Alastair Henry, professor of Language Education at the Centre for Languages and Literature, LAMiNATE member, and a PI in the RJ-funded research programme TEAM, has been honoured with the Distinguished Scholar Award by the International Association for the Psychology of Language Learning (IAPLL). The award was presented during the Psychology of Language Learning conference (PLL5) held in Madrid this past May. Congratulations, Professor Henry!
More good news: Marianne Gullberg, Jonas Granfeldt, and Alastair Henry have successfully secured funding from the prestigious LMK Foundation. This generous grant will support the creation of a second LAMiNATE-related postdoctoral position. The postdoctoral position will be advertised shortly. Stay tuned!
LAMiNATE at EuroSLA
The 33rd edition of EuroSLA will be hosted by Université de Montpellier 3-6 July 2024 and we know that many of you will be there. If you are presenting, let us know by sending an email to Frida.Splendido@nordlund.lu.se. We want to give you a shoutout on "the platform formerly known as Twitter" and direct attendees your way. Let's make a splash at EuroSLA together!
LAMiNATE Membership
Each LAMiNATE member’s contribution to the platform is important. Here’s a small reminder of what you can do:
- actively participate in our activities, such as the upcoming LAMiNATE Talks series.
- use the LAMiNATE symbol (download here) on slides when presenting on topics relevant to LAMiNATE at conferences and outreach events.
- invite colleagues/students to join the Talks series.
- link your research output and activities to LAMiNATE in LUCRIS, when these are clearly related to the topics of language acquistion, multilingualism and language teaching. LAMiNATE should automatically appear under "contributors and affiliations"; if not, you can click on "add organisational unit". Do not forget to untick any publication or activity unrelated to LAMiNATE.
- propose and organize a theme for the LAMiNATE Talks with speakers to invite.
- let us know when you have a new publication so that we can add it to the news page.
Recent Publications
Jonas Granfeldt's new paper: Granfeldt, J. (2024). Bortom det uppenbara: Språkutbildningar i det nära förflutna och tankar om framtiden. In M. Cronqvist, U. Oredsson, & L. Åkesson (Eds.), Framtidskompasser: en akademisk tankesmedja tar ut riktningarna (pp. 129-154). Makadam förlag.
Jonas Granfeldt, Susan Sayehli, Malin Ågren and colleagues' new paper: Granfeldt, J., Erickson, G., Bardel, C., Sayehli, S., Ågren, M. & Österberg, R. (2024). Hur långt kommer eleverna i sin muntliga språkfärdighet? TAL, LMS – Lingua, 2, p. 21-26.
Alastair Henry and colleagues' new paper: Elgemark, A., Henry, A., & Jansson, P. (2023). An affordance-focused approach for working with authentic materials: A practice-research initiative. In G. Erickson, C. Bardel & D. Little (Eds)., Collaborative research in language education: Reciprocal benefits and challenges (pp. 41-46). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110787719
Alastair Henry and colleauge's new paper: Henry, A. & Liu, M. (2023). Can L2 motivation be modelled as a self-system? A critical assessment. System 119 103158 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2023.103158
Maria Graziano and Marianne Gullberg's new paper: Graziano, M., & Gullberg, M. (2024). Providing evidence for a well-worn stereotype: Italians and Swedes do gesture differently. Frontiers in Communication, 9 (1314120). https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1314120
Marianne Gullberg and colleauges' new paper: Nirme, J., Gulz, A., Haake, M., & Gullberg, M. (2024). Early or synchronized gestures facilitate speech recall — a study based on motion capture data. Frontiers in Psychology, 15 (1345906). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1345906
Marianne Gullberg and colleauges' new paper: Arbona, E., Seeber, K., & Gullberg, M. (2024). The role of semantically related gestures in the language comprehension of simultaneous interpreters in noise. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2346924.
Marianne Gullberg's new paper: Gullberg, M. (2024). Gesture and second/foreign language acquisition. In A. Cienki (Ed.), The Cambridge handbook of gesture studies (pp. 398-422). Cambridge University Press.
Marianne Gullberg and colleagues' new paper: Janke, Vikki, Aumônier, Lizzy, Hofweber, Julia, Gullberg, Marianne and Marshall, Chloë. "From gesture to Sign? An exploration of the effects of communicative pressure, interaction, and time on the process of conventionalisation" Linguistics, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2023-0121
The publications above are those that LAMiNATE authors have sent to us. Do you have a new article or book chapter out? Let us know!
