Vocabulary studies and language learning psychology: towards greater interdisciplinary collaboration
This one-day workshop will bring together researchers from two thriving research areas within the field of SLA: vocabulary studies and language learning psychology. Each field has a mature and vibrant research literature, yet, while both areas have sought to tap into one another, there has been little meaningful cross-pollination between the two. This is despite explicit calls for greater interdisciplinary collaboration from both sides and has resulted in imperfect and incomplete accounts of the interconnection of both areas into SLA.
Saturday 7th December 2024 (09:00-17:30)
University of Nottingham
Programme
The overarching aim of this workshop is to provide a space where researchers from both disciplines can come together, to reflect on their research practices, to inspire new directions, and to act as a sandpit seeking to bring together future collaborations/research teams. We are pleased to announce the following plenary speakers:
- Prof Stephen Ryan (Waseda University)
- Dr Bea González-Fernández (University of Sheffield)
- Dr Bérénice Darnault (Université Bretagne Sud)
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This one-day workshop will begin with a set of plenary lectures, with speakers reflecting on perennial challenges to interdisciplinary collaboration between these areas and collaborative, practical opportunities to overcome them, speaking from the perspectives of language learning psychology, vocabulary studies and around cross-cutting interdisciplinary potentials, including reflections on implications for pedagogy as pertinent to broader SLA theory and practice.
The day will conclude with an invited roundtable discussion and Q&A. Joining the plenary speakers we are pleased to announce the following two invited discussants:
- Dr Paweł Szudarski (University of Nottingham)
- Dr Ikuya Aizawa (University of Nottingham)
This highly participatory end to the workshop will begin with invited discussants reflecting on their own interdisciplinary work in this space and sharing comments on key themes emerged throughout the workshop and their reflections on critical issues, questions and concerns for future interdisciplinary collaborations in this space. We will welcome the voices of all participants to contribute to what we hope will be a lively concluding debate.
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