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Guest

11:15am-11:45pm

8:15am-8:45am

From KAL to LASER via LO.

Knowledge About Language (KAL) has been promoted in our schools since 1984, but actually it is very rare, in spite of the National Curriculum introduced in 1990, because most teachers are not trained to teach it. There are three major exceptions:

compulsory grammar teaching for all primary children (since 2013) leading to a test at age 11
an optional course in Years 12 and 13 in English Language (since 1983)
the UK Linguistics Olympiad (since 2010).
An important part of KAL is LA: Language Analysis. Encouraged by the popularity of the olympiad, a group of linguists have created LASER (Language Analysis for Schools: Education and Research) and are actively promoting LA.

Richard Hudson

11:45am-12:15pm

8:45am-9:15am

Eye tracking sentences in language education


The present talk reports and discusses the use of eye tracking qualitative data (static and dynamic gaze plots and heatmaps) in reading workshops in a middle school and in Generative Syntax and Sentence Processing courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Both endeavours take the sentential level as the proper object to be metacognitively explored in language education in order to develop innate science forming capacity and knowledge of language. In both projects non-discrepant qualitative eye tracking data collected and quantitatively analyzed in psycholinguistic studies carried out in Lapex (Experimental Psycholinguistics Laboratory of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) were displayed to students as a point of departure, triggering discussions. Active, problem-solving based methodologies were employed with the objective of stimulating student participation. The talk also discusses the importance of developing full literacy, epistemic vigilance and intellectual self-defense in an infodemic world.

Marcus Maia

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Title 

Author(s)

1:00pm-1:30pm

10:00am-10:30am

A Study of Metacognition and Problem Solving Skills with Participants from the Brazilian Linguistics Olympiad

WEISSHEIMER, Janaina

L'ASTORINA, Bruno  

FINGER, Ingrid 

1:30pm-2:00pm

10:30am-11:00am

Enchantment, autonomy, relations: a threefold approach to an olympic pedagogy and the case of the Brazilian Linguistics Olympiad

L'ASTORINA, Bruno

2:00pm-2:30pm

11:00am-11:30am

Similarities and differences between the Brazilian and United Kingdom Linguistics Olympiads

MARTINS, Eduardo

2:30pm-3:00pm

11:30am-12:00am

Students’ development in four olympic activities: the experience of the Autumn Linguístics School

TIRADENTES, Rodrigo Pinto

3:00pm-3:30pm

12:00am-12:30am

The teacher perspective on linguistics in the classroom

CALINDRO, Ana Regina
CORR, Alice

3:30pm-4:00pm

12:30am-1:00pm

BREAK

4:00pm-4:30pm

1:00pm-1:30pm

Linguistics in the modern languages curriculum: opportunities and perceived barriers

SHEEHAN, Michelle
CORR, Alice 

4:30pm-5:00pm

1:30pm-2:00pm

Linguistic Theory tools and grammar teaching: the case of complex sentences

SOUZA de PAULA, Wellington

5:30pm-6:00pm

2:30pm-3:00pm

Grammar as a scientific inquiry tool

RODRIGUES, Patrícia

FOLTRAN, Maria José 

ALMEIDA, Jéssica Beatriz