The topics for this year’s practical sessions and lectures are:

Practical sessions

1. Conducting field research

Confirmed lecturers: Camilla Scaff (University of Zürich, Switzerland);                                          Paul Omane (University of Paris, France)

2. Research methods (naturalistic and experimental)

Confirmed lecturers: Jekaterina Mazara (University of Tübingen, Germany);                                      Eon-Suk Ko (Chosun University, South Korea)

3. Data collection (naturalistic and experimental; tools for experiment creation)

Confirmed lecturers: Martin Zettersten (University of California, USA)

4. Data processing and preprocessing

Confirmed lecturers: Joseph Coffey (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, France); 

                                     Jens Roeser (Nottingham Trent University, UK); 

                                     Shanley Allen (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)

5. Statistical data analysis

Confirmed lecturers: tbd

Lectures

6. Behavioral /quantitative methods on language acquisition

Confirmed lecturers: Marisa Casillas (University of Chicago, USA); 

                                     Katherine Twomey (University of Manchester, UK)

7. Multilingualism

Confirmed lecturers: tbd

8. Cross-linguistic studies

Confirmed lecturers: Sabine Stoll (University of Zürich, Switzerland); 

                                     Thierry Nazzi (University of Paris, France)

9. Atypical development

Confirmed lecturers: Frenette Southwood (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

10. Multimodality

Confirmed lecturers: Aylin Küntay (Koç University, Turkey)

For each day of the school, we will have one practical session of 2 hours per time zone:

1. Asia/Africa/Europe-friendly

2. Africa/Europe/The Americas-friendly

There will also be activities for networking and exchanging about academic career development - stay tuned!