董燕萍教授和博士生陈小聪赴爱尔兰参加第11届双语国际研讨会
实验室主任董燕萍教授和2014级博士研究生陈小聪受邀参加6月11-15日在爱尔兰利默里克大学举办的第11届双语国际研讨会。
本次研讨会吸引了来自各国的900多名研究者，从社会学、心理学、教育学等多个学科角度深入探讨了与双语有关的各项研究议题。董燕萍教授于12日下午在口译专题的小组讨论会上报告了实验室关于口译优势的最新研究成果，吸引了许多与会者的兴趣和讨论。同时，董燕萍教授与参会的其它口译研究者就口译研究的现状、问题和未来方向进行了探讨。陈小聪于15日下午报告了关于各种英语语料库词频对二语英语词汇加工预测力的比较研究，并和现场的听众就二语的词频选择问题进行了讨论。
Prof. Yanping DONG and PhD candidate Xiaocong CHEN attended the ISB11
Prof.Yanping DONG and PhD candidate Xiaocong CHEN participated in the 11th International Symposium of Bilingualism (ISB 11), which was held by the University of Limerick in Ireland from June 11 to 15, 2017.
With over 900 participants from different countries, this symposium covered a wide range of research topics on bilingualism, with a full discussion of these topics from different disciplines. On June 12, Prof. Yanping DONG attended the colloquium on the interpreting research, and reported the lab’s recent work on interpreters’ advantage in cognitive control, which aroused the interests of many attendees. In addition, Prof. Dong also discussed other relevant issues on the interpreting research with scholars in the field. On June 15, Xiaocong CHEN reported his work on the comparison of the predictive power between different English corpus-based frequency norms on the L2 lexical processing, and discussed the choice of frequency norms in L2 research with other participants.
