EWHA|Child Language Lab

Current and incoming CLL lab members gathered together at the end of the semester lab meeting in the morning. After having lunch together, CLL members and Professor Yim visited the Arario Museum in Space, where they enjoyed the contemporary art collections. 

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Also, some great news, Professor Yim has officially been promoted from her past position of Associate Professor to her current position of Professor!

Congratulations, Professor Yim! 

CLL members threw a surprise teacher's day party for professor Yim! Due to COVID-19, CLL members met off-campus and had a great turn out. It is not easy to see each other exclusively through zoom during the semester, so we appreciated the chance to see professor Yim and lab members in person. Happy teacher's day and we love you, professor Yim!

The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Richmond Street School, located in Los Angeles, USA, and Child Language Lab in the Dept. of Communication Disorders, Ewha Womans University was signed on March 4th, 2020.

Both educational institutions agree to cooperate and provide opportunities available for bilingual research. 

In February 2020, four certificates of the patent by Dr. Yim have been registered at the Korean Intellectual Property Office (특허청).  

The titles of the inventions are listed below.

1. Method and device for measuring language development state of child, recording medium for performing the method

2. Screening method for measuring working memory using non-word repetition task, device and computer readable medium for performing the method

3. Method for fast mapping ability measurement using a quick incidental learning, recording medium and apparatus for performing the method

4.Method for measuring nonverbal working memory using flash pattern of matrix, device and computer readable medium for performing the method

Dr. Yim appeared on the radio show again to answer some common questions that mothers may have about bilingual child's language development. 

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'Real Mom Real Talk'

To listen to Dr.Yim's talk, click the image above(starting from 28'00"~).

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Summary of talk

Major external and internal factors that impact bilingual children

• Five external factors

1. Age, timing, and developmental state of the child when the second language is introduced

- the difference in learning the second language: when the child is exposed to a first and second language at the same time vs. when the child is exposed to the second language after the first language is introduced

2. Input contexts and opportunities

- first language exposed by society and family vs. only family (mother)

3. Social status of the language

- social status of the language: power that language holds in the society

- children naturally choose to speak the language with higher social status

4. L1 and L2 typology

-  depends on how two languages are similar (cognate) or different, language learning can be easier or more difficult

5. Language purpose

-  language usage will develop differently depends on the language purpose  

- ex) academic vs. daily life language usage

•  One internal factor

1. System integrity (brain activation and underlying learning mechanism) and preferences

- They both influence language development.

ex) Some children like to learn the language, and some don’t. Some children don’t care about making mistakes.

Can bilingual children be perfectly balanced in both languages?

• No!

• Language serves the purpose of communication.

• Every setting of communication is different.

• Different amount of language is exposed and used in different settings.

Can we be fluent (proficient) in both languages?

• Yes!

• But you cannot be perfectly balanced in both languages in every communication setting.

Red flags for bilingual children parents to look out for their children

• Children with health, developmental, and educational factors.

• Children with other speech and language-related issues; voice, chewing, hearing, motor skills disorders.

• Getting an assessment is critical!

• You don’t want to miss the golden time for the evaluation.

• Researchers have found that parents are very accurate in evaluating their children.

• If you have any family concerns, go for instinct and follow up with the evaluation.

How can parents support bilingual children?

• Interact with the child by using the mother tongue

• Follow the child’s lead

• Be salient and specific when speaking with children

• Have fun

• Stay tuned

If the parents are proficient in both languages, which one they must use?

• Based on the understanding that their children also know both languages, parents can speak both languages to their children but importantly, stick to your mother tongue!

Research regarding Language and moms

• "Health Service Needs using Big Data Analysis to Improve Multicultural Family Life's Service"

• Results show Mothers from multicultural family are having a challenging time due to the language usage between mother and child because family force the mother to learn and speak Korean to their children.

- Due to this issue, the child has a higher probability of having their language development delayed.

- Mothers think it is their fault due to communication difficulties.

- We cannot make them monolingual by forcing them to speak the social language.

- We need to respect their language and culture.

- Language coveys so many things: share feelings, beliefs as children get older.

- Bilingualism is not a choice but just a natural description of their life.

Dr. Yim appeared on the MBC TV show "What is Study" as an expert panel. 

She provided consultations to parents with a child who learned six different languages through Youtube. 

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To watch the short video of Dr. Yim's appearance on the TV show, click the image above! 

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​Professor Yim hosted the 2019 year-end party on December 20th, 2019. It was a wonderful turnout with 18 current and 14 former members of CLL. We had a valuable opportunity to get to know each other and share the latest news. 

CLL researchers attended the 2019 ASHA Convention at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. The convention was held during November 21-23, 2019. Five poster presentations and two oral presentations were asked to be presented.

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Researchers gathered multiple times before the conference day to prepare and practice presentations. 

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The list and time of the presentations are written below:

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November 21st

1:30 pm

• Han, J., Mun, J., Kang, D., Lee, S., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Does Better Working Memory Lead To Better Language Outcome? Approach from A Longitudinal Study. Poster presentation. The annual ASHA convention. Orlando, USA. November 2019.​

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4:00 pm

• Park, W., Song, E., Choi, J., Choi, H., Kim, E., Song, D., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Visual World Paradigm in Picture Book Reading: Focus on The Preschooler’s Processing Capacity and Processing Speed. Oral presentation. The annual ASHA convention. Orlando, USA. November 2019.

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7:00 pm

• Kim, S., Yang, Y., Kim, E., Cho, Y., Kang, D., Lee, S., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Parents' Language Use and Bilingual Children's Language Proficiency Assessed by Parents. Poster presentation. The annual ASHA convention. Orlando, USA. November 2019.

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November 22nd

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1:30 pm

• Lee, S., Choi, S., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Analysis of Nouns Versus Verbs Proportion in Korean Caregivers Speech During Play & Reading Activities. Poster presentation. The annual ASHA convention. Orlando, USA. November 2019.

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4:30 pm

• Yang, Y., Hong, Y., Cho, Y., Mun, J., Choi, J., & Yim, D. (2019, November). The Implementation of Inherent Strategies on Children with Language Impairment: SNARC Effect And Chunking Effect. Poster presentation. The annual ASHA convention. Orlando, USA. November 2019.

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November 23rd 

8:00 am

• Kim, S., Park, W., Son, J., Kang, D., Choi, H., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Crosslinguistic Approach for Finding Differences Between Korean And English Phonological Awareness. Oral presentation. The annual ASHA convention. Orlando, USA. November 2019.

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9:30 am

• Yang, Y., Song, E., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Exploring the Relationships Among the False-Belief Understanding, Executive Function, And Language Ability in Preschool-Aged Children. Poster presentation. The annual ASHA convention. Orlando, USA. November 2019.​

Before the 
 

Tune in everybody!

Dr. Yim appeared on the radio show again to answer some common questions that mothers may have about their child's language development.

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'Real Mom Real Talk'

To listen to Dr.Yim's talk, click the image above(updated 11/18, starting from 28'22"~).

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Summary of talk

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What's the relationship between language and cognition and what can we say about kids' language development?

• Early language input builds neural networks in an infant's brain.

• Language development and cognition are tightly linked

  • Cognitive ability?: Attention, inhibition, memory, and etc. 

• The function of the child's social brain is important in language development

  • Social brain?: Child learn language only by interacting with a human being as a communicative partner

• Thus, parents' input matters for good language development.

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How would you describe the importance of parents?

• Infant-directed speech is critical. 

  • Infant-directed speech? : exaggerated intonation, longer pauses b/w words, vowel elongation, and slow speech. 

  • it is perceptually salient.

• Mothers really have to look at their child carefully and follow their child's eye movement, and point it to their child for better understand 

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Talk 'with' your children, and not talk 'to' them

• Talk 'with' children: having room to listen and pay attention to what the child wants to talk about

• For infants: talking a lot to them

• For toddlers: mapping on something that they try to talk

• For older kids: balancing communicative turns depending on your child's maturity

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How much put on effort to correcting kids(ungrammatical sentence)?

• Don't!

• Not at all!

• Instead, providing good language input by adding one or two words right after what she just said.

  • ​(child) she 'go' home.

  • (parent/caregiver) yes. she 'goes' home.

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What kind of impact does 'bedtime story' have?

• A child can focus on what a parent says during a bedtime story with a visual aid(illustration) without any interruption from other sources.

• It's a perfect environment for parents to give good language input in a controlled setting.

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Some tips for book reading

• Parents should know that books are not tools for teaching knowledge. It's a tool for interaction.

• Try to pick a book that the child wants

• Try not to read a book verbatim

• Let the child lead

• Try to read your own language

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Reading in mother language confusing children?

• Not at all

• Children's brain is fascinating because of brain plasticity

• Code-switching is not a bad thing. It happens based on communicative purposes.

• Children know whether a communication partner can understand them or not.

The 6th joint conference of the Korean Speech-Langauge & Hearing Association and the Korean Academy of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology was held on November 9th, 2019 at the Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea.

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This year, Dr. Yim was a moderator for the department of child language impairment. Also, one poster presentation and one oral presentation received the best research award!

Two theses are:

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-Han, J., Kang, D., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Step-by-step word learning: Finding the optimal amount of word exposure. Oral presentation.The 6th KSHA & KASA conference. Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea. November 9th.

-Han, J., Song, E., Lee, S., Han, J., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Comparison of word learning between latent groups: Focusing on the role of selective attention. Poster presentation. The 6th KSHA & KASA conference. Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea. November 9th.

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Child Language Lab is presenting 4 posters and 3 oral presentations under Dr. Yim's supervision. The list of 4 posters are written below:

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• Yang, Y., Mun, J., & Yim, D. (2019, November). The Implementation of Inherent Strategies on Children with and without Language delay: SNARC effect and Chunking effect. Poster presentation. The 6th KSHA & KASA conference. Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea. November 9th.​

• An, H., Yun, S., Jeon, J., Hwang, S., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Overall Satisfaction of the Primary Caregivers based on the Vocabulary skills in Multicultural Children. Poster presentation. The 6th KSHA & KASA conference. Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea. November 9th.​

• Lee, S., Kim, H., Kim, T., Han, J., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Comparison of Idiom Comprehension Ability and Its Relationship to Executive Functions in School-Aged Children with and without Vocabulary Delay: Does Contextual Picture Paint Thousand Words?. Poster presentation. The 6th KSHA & KASA conference. Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea. November 9th.

• Han, J., Kang, D., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Step-by-step word learning: Finding the optimal amount of word exposure. Poster presentation.The 6th KSHA & KASA conference. Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea. November 9th.​

Any young participants in our research are able to receive one of the most exclusive CLL t-shirts to say "thank you".

If you are interested in participating in current research at CLL, please contact us at ewha.cll@gmail.com

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Thank you for your participation! 

​CLL researchers will attend the 2019 ASHA Convention at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. The convention will be held during November 21-23, 2019. Five poster presentations and two oral presentations were asked to be presented.

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The list and time of the presentations are written below:

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November 21st

1:30 pm

• Han, J., Mun, J., Kang, D., Lee, S., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Does Better Working Memory Lead To Better Language Outcome? Approach from A Longitudinal Study. Poster presentation. The annual ASHA convention. Orlando, USA. November 2019.​

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4:00 pm

• Park, W., Song, E., Choi, J., Choi, H., Kim, E., Song, D., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Visual World Paradigm in Picture Book Reading: Focus on The Preschooler’s Processing Capacity and Processing Speed. Oral presentation. The annual ASHA convention. Orlando, USA. November 2019.

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7:00 pm

• Kim, S., Yang, Y., Kim, E., Cho, Y., Kang, D., Lee, S., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Parents' Language Use and Bilingual Children's Language Proficiency Assessed by Parents. Poster presentation. The annual ASHA convention. Orlando, USA. November 2019.

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November 22nd

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1:30 pm

• Lee, S., Choi, S., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Analysis of Nouns Versus Verbs Proportion in Korean Caregivers Speech During Play & Reading Activities. Poster presentation. The annual ASHA convention. Orlando, USA. November 2019.

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4:30 pm

• Yang, Y., Hong, Y., Cho, Y., Mun, J., Choi, J., & Yim, D. (2019, November). The Implementation of Inherent Strategies on Children with Language Impairment: SNARC Effect And Chunking Effect. Poster presentation. The annual ASHA convention. Orlando, USA. November 2019.

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November 23rd 

8:00 am

• Kim, S., Park, W., Son, J., Kang, D., Choi, H., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Crosslinguistic Approach for Finding Differences Between Korean And English Phonological Awareness. Oral presentation. The annual ASHA convention. Orlando, USA. November 2019.

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9:30 am

• Yang, Y., Song, E., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Exploring the Relationships Among the False-Belief Understanding, Executive Function, And Language Ability in Preschool-Aged Children. Poster presentation. The annual ASHA convention. Orlando, USA. November 2019.​

​The 6th joint conference of the Korean Speech-Langauge & Hearing Association and the Korean Academy of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology will be held on November 9th, 2019 at the Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea.

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This year, Child Language Lab is presenting 4 posters and 3 oral presentations under Dr. Yim's supervision. The list of 4 posters are written below:

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• Yang, Y., Mun, J., & Yim, D. (2019, November). The Implementation of Inherent Strategies on Children with and without Language delay: SNARC effect and Chunking effect. Poster presentation. The 6th KSHA & KASA conference. Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea. November 9th.​

• An, H., Yun, S., Jeon, J., Hwang, S., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Overall Satisfaction of the Primary Caregivers based on the Vocabulary skills in Multicultural Children. Poster presentation. The 6th KSHA & KASA conference. Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea. November 9th.​

• Lee, S., Kim, H., Kim, T., Han, J., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Comparison of Idiom Comprehension Ability and Its Relationship to Executive Functions in School-Aged Children with and without Vocabulary Delay: Does Contextual Picture Paint Thousand Words?. Poster presentation. The 6th KSHA & KASA conference. Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea. November 9th.

• Han, J., Kang, D., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Step-by-step word learning: Finding the optimal amount of word exposure. Poster presentation.The 6th KSHA & KASA conference. Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea. November 9th.​

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The list and time of oral presentations are written below:

14:​40~14:55

• Yim, D., Kim, S., Han, J., Park, W., & Song, E (2019, N0vember). Contribution of reading strategies and word intensity to word learning during storybook reading. Oral presentation. The 6th KSHA & KASA conference. Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea. November 9th.

14:55~15:10

• Han, J., Song, E., Lee, S., Han, J., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Comparison of word learning between latent groups: Focusing on the role of selective attention. Oral presentation. The 6th KSHA & KASA conference. Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea. November 9th.

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16:30~16:45​

• Park, W., Choi, J., Song, D., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Eye Movement Dynamics with Processing Capacity and Speed during Picture Book Reading. Oral presentation. The 6th KSHA & KASA conference. Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea. November 9th.University, Chuncheon, Korea. November 9th.​​

The Commencement Ceremony of Fall 2019 was held on August 30th. CLL researchers, Su yeon Park, Ye eun Hong, So mang Yoon, and Su yeon Lee graduated with a MA degree in communications disorders. Congratulations! 

• The Effect of Word Exposure Intensity during Storybook Reading on the Vocabulary Learning of Children with and without   Specific Language Impairment (Suyeon Park)

• Influence of Chunking Mechanism and Orthographic Fast-mapping on Early Literacy Development in Preschool Children (Yeeun Hong)

• Quick Incidental Learning of Children with and without Specific Language Impairment (SLI) Using Eye-Tracker and the Relations with Sustained Attention (Somang Yoon)

Congratulations to Wonjeong Park! 

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PhD student Wonjeong Park has been selected for the 2019 Global PhD fellowship project under the supervision of Dr. Yim. This project was first implemented in 2011 and it is a national major talent training program that helps PhD students attend graduate schools in Korea while concentrating on their studies and research without having to worry about tuition and living expenses.

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Wonjeong's research topic is as follows,

• A Study on the Development of Child Vocabulary Database Using Crowded Sourcing Technology: Development of an Interim System for Evaluating the Development of Vocabulary for Children Based on a Mobile Platform.

Department of Communication Disorder at Ewha Womans University hosted homecoming event on May 18th, 2019. Many of graduated CLL members attended the event and visited with Professor Yim and current CLL members. 

Professor Yim and CLL members held our weekly lab meeting outside on a sunny spring day. We shared picnic meals and welcomed a new member of our lab! 

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CLL members threw a surprise teacher's day party for professor Yim at her new office! We truly appreciate Professor Yim's teaching, passion, and love. Happy teacher's day and we love you!

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The Commencement Ceremony was held on February 25th. This semester, CLL researcher Yun Hee Kim graduated with a MA degree in communications disorders. Congratulation!

• Vocabulary Acquisition Abilities by Reading Types of Children with Specific Language Impairment and Typically Developing Children During Shared Book Reading 

Professor Yim and her research team conducted research which was funded by National Health Insurance Service. The title of research work was "Research Study on Health Service Needs using Big Data Analysis to Improve Multicultural Family's Life Quality" and her remarkable research work have been mentioned in the Munhwa Ilbo newspaper article published on December 27th, 2018. The research found that language assessment and language support were the most needed service in international marriage women in multicultural families .

Professor Yim hosted the 2018 year end party at Ansic on December 14th, 2018. It was a wonderful turnout with 18 current and 12 former members of CLL. We had a valuable opportunity to get to know each other and share latest news. 

CLL researchers attended the Annual ASHA Convention at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, November 15-17, 2018.  Seven poster presentations and two oral presentations were asked to be presented.

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• The clinical usefulness of parent report of 27 months old toddlers and their post 7 months follow up

• Relationship between lexicon and syntactic development between children with TD and LI using Wordbank

• The effect of linguistic experiences and phonotactic probability on nonword repetition and fast mapping ability

• A follow-up study of phonological neighborhood density in 18- to 35-month-old children

• What is happening during storybook reading? : Using eye-tracking technology

• Transfer effect of parent training of an interactive book reading to a free play setting

• Do bilinguals change their voices? Relationship between paralinguistic changes and voice attractiveness

• Influence of mother tongue exposure on linguistic and non-linguistic eposodic buffer in culturally and linguistically diverse children

• Usage of onomatopoeic and mimetic words in Vietnamese-Korean bilingual children compared to Korean monolingual families

Dr. Yim did a phone interview on the TBS eFM radio show "Real Mom Real Show" (38'19" ~ 49'11")

She answered critical questions regarding bilingual language development including transfer effect, language use, and language delay.

For more details, click button below(link).

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Summary of talk

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Home language choice

• Use the most comfortable and confident language-first language(L1)-when interacting with child

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Language transfer

• Learned ability in Korean transfers to different context in English, vice versa

  (e.g. writing letters in Korean (learned ability) enables child to write letters in English without explicit teaching).

•  Grammatical rule transfer (e.g. apply Korean-specific honorific grammatical marker -yo(요) at the end of English phrase. e.g. Thank you-yo)

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Cause of Language delay

• Both nature and nurture factors contribute to language delay

The annual convention of Korean Academy of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology was held on Sep. 15th.

9 posters were presented and the topics covered preschool language development and bilingual language development. This year, 3 out of 9 posters were based on the student project outcomes, which were done in professor Yim's class in last spring semester, Communication in culturally and linguistically diverse children class.

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• Kim, M., Kim, E., Son, J., Yoon, H, & Yim, D. (2018, September). Flexibility of speaker's sentence structure in Korean-English bilingual children. The Annual KASA Convention, Gwangju, Korea.

• ​Kim, A., Kim, Y., Kim, Y., Ha, N., Hong, Y.,  & Yim, D. (2018, September). The effect of using mother's native language on children's language skills and self-esteem. The Annual KASA Convention, Gwangju, Korea.

• ​Park, S., Park, J., Shin, M., Lee, M., Lee, S., & Yim, D. (2018, September).  Comparative study on Korean word accent according to similarity of mother tongue between foreign language learners. The Annual KASA  Convention, Gwangju, Korea.

• Kim, S., Han, J., Kim, S., & Yim, D. (2018, September). The relationship among language abilities of preschool children assessed by SLP. language skills checked by teacher, and temperament checked by parents. The Annual KASA  Convention, Gwangju, Korea.

• ​Yang, Y., Park, S., Hong, Y.,  & Yim, D. (2018, September). A follow-up study for phonological neighborhood density in 18- to 35-month-old children. The Annual KASA Convention, Gwangju, Korea.

• ​Yim, D., Kim, S., Han, J., Park, W., Song, E., Lee, S., Kim., & Yoon, S. (2018, September). Positive storybook parent training effect on parent-child storybook reading activity. The Annual KASA Convention, Gwangju, Korea.

• Yim, D., Han, J., Kim, S., & Song, E. (2018, September). Children's eye movement during storybook reading. The Annual KASA Convention, Gwangju, Korea.

Dr. Yim was on the air, SBS TV show "Finding Genius", for consultation.

She highlighted the role of mother tongue foundation  in second language learning.

See more on the video clip!

The Commencement Ceremony was held on August 31st. This semester, CLL researchers Minding Lee, Haeun Chung, and Sangeon Lee graduated with a MA degree in communications disorders. Congratulation!

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• Quick incidental learning of words by children with and without SLI: an EyeTracking study (Haeun Chung)

• Caregivers' Question Use and the Contributions of Children with Specific Language Impairment and Typically Developing Children During Shared Book-Reading (Sangeon Lee)

Dr. Yim invited former and current lab members and hosted 2018 summer workshop. We had lots of fun preparing for upcoming conference and going over last semester's achievements. Wishing everyone good luck on the new semester!  

CLL members threw a surprise party for professor Yim to celebrate the teacher's day. 

Thank you professor Yim for sharing your knowledge with us and taking care of us!

Happy teacher's day!

One of CLL researchers, Wonjeong Park gave a oral presentation at the CHI 2018 convention. The research title was "BebeCODE: Collaborative Child Development Tracking System". It was collaborative work with researchers from KAIST.

Abstracts are as follows,

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Continuous tracking young children's development is important for parents because early detection of developmental delay can lead to better treatment through early intervention. Screening tests, often based on questions answered by a parent, are used to assess children's development, but responses from only one parent can be subjective and even inaccurate due to limited memory and observations. In this work, we propose a collaborative child development tracking system, where screening test responses are collected through collaboration between parents or caregivers. We implement BebeCODE, a mobile system that encourages parents to independently answer all developmental questions for a given age and resolve disagreements through chatting, image/video sharing, or asking a third person. A 4-week deployment study of BebeCODE with 12 families found that parents had approximately 22% disagreements about questions regarding their children's developmental and BebeCODE helped them reach a consensus. Parents also reported that their awareness of their child's development, increased with BebeCODE.

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction.

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I am in Montreal to attend CHI. I have always wanted to visit this place ever since I learned French!!! Great to be here....I hear French everywhere and such a great feeling to be able interact with strangers in French!!! No wonder why bilingual research is so much done from this area.

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-Dr.Yim

Professor Yim and CLL members have study meeting outside on a shiny spring day!

It was nice to read recent articles in JSLHR and share thoughts about how we conduct evidence-based practice. 

Dr. Yim invited Dr. Micheal Frank, associate professor, from Department of Psychology at Stanford university. Dr. Yim and Dr. Frank worked together on the Wordbank project during her sabbatical year in 2017. Dr. Frank's study children's language learning and how it interacts with their developing understanding of the social world. He uses behavioral experiments, computational tools, and novel measurement methods like large-scale web-based studies, eye-tracking, and head-mounted cameras. Dr. Frank introduced his researches on cross-linguistic vocabulary development in young children. It was so valuable time to get to know other related field of study for all CSD student! 

The Commencement Ceremony was held on February 26th. 

3,693 students (Doctoral 138, Masters 1,225, Bachelors 2,330) received their degree.

This semester, CLL researchers Eun Song, Yunjung Lee, Jeewon Yoo, Gyeongran Bae, Sinae Kang, and Yumi Kim graduated with a MA degree in communication disorders :)

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• Reading comprehension and reading processing of school-aged children with specific language impairment using  eye tracker (Sinae Kang)

• Relative Clause Sentence Processing and Executive Function in Children with and without Specific Language Impairment (SLI) (Jeewon Yoo)

• The effect of language type and phonotactic probability on nonword repetition and fast mapping(Gyeongran Bae)

• The effect of parental education during storybook reading on utterances and communication skills of children with delayed language development and their  parents(Eun Song)

• Differences of Early Semantic Relatedness between Late Talkers and Typically Developing Children(Yumi Kim)

• Comparison of Construction AAC Graphic Symbol Sequences by Preschool children with 
  Delayed Language Development and Typical Development (YunjungLee)

Dr. Yim invited Dr. Gabriel Doyle, assistant professor, from Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Language at San Diego State University. Dr. Yim and Dr. Doyle worked together with Dr. Micheal Frank's Lab in Stanford University during her sabbatical year. Dr. Doyle is a computational psycholinguist and gave a talk on Jan 12th to CSD graduate students. The title of the talk was  "Adults adapt to their conversational partners, especially if they're talking to children", and it was so meaningful time to know different approach to study child-parent interaction. 

Dr. Yim hosted all former and current lab members to farewell 2017 and celebrate new year's coming. 

Professor Yim taught 'communication in culturally and linguistically diverse children' course in Fall 2017 and  students presented their research projects. Total of 8 posters were presented, and three of them were presented by  CLL researchers.

The annual ASHA convention took place at LA convention center from 9th-11th. Shinyoung Kim, Jiyun Han, Sangeon Lee, Haeun Chung, and former researchers (Jiyeon Lee and Soyeon Chun) went to the convention as presenters.

The CLL researchers presented 8 posters. All works were very popular and lots of SLPs and researchers stop by our posters . We all had a great time to mingle with other researchers in different countries and freely exchanged our thoughts and ideas on various topics one another.

The 5th annual conference of KSHA & KASA took place on November 4th at Busan Bexco.

The CLL researchers presented 5 posters titled

• Applicability of ALDeQ as a Language Screening Measure

• Influence of Phonological and Semantic Neighborhood Density on Vocabulary Development in Infants and Toddlers Aged 9-35 Months

• The Relationship between Executive Function and Quick Incidental Learning in Preschool-aged children with and without Language Delay

• Different Reading Strategies for Better Word Learning Outcome", and "Executive Functions and Reading Skills in School-aged children with Vocabulary Delay

The fall semester of 2017 has started!  Starting new semester means that we start to work on research project with a fresh mindset!

Before CLL members begin a new chapter in CLL, all of labmembers gathered to celebrate professor Yim's comeback. Professor Yim and CLL members caught up with one another and talked about new research trends in child language development & disorders. 

Wishing all lab members a happy and productive semester!

Congratulation!!

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The child language lab has submitted 8 poster pretensions to 2017 ASHA Convention, and one of our presentations titled, "Brief Parent Report Measures of Language Development in Monolingual Children with Language Delay", has been designated as a Meritorious Poster Submission!

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The Meritorious Poster Submission recognition is for proposals judged by the Convention Program Committee to show extraordinary, exceptional, and innovative work. Each Topic Committee has the option of recommending one or two top-rated posters for this special distinction. Only 55 poster presentations out of 1895 poster submissions in 2017 were selected for meritorious recognition. Our poster presentation is among those posters that received the highest ratings from Topic Committee reviewers across both submission categories of professional education and research.

The Meritorious Poster Submissions are noted in the Convention Program Book with a ribbon icon and identified in the Poster Hall with a ribbon displayed on the poster board sign. For those of you who attend 2017 ASHA Convention, please stop by our poster to see what we've discussed in the presentation!

Presentation details are as follows,

Topic Area: Language in Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers
Session Number: 8623 Poster Board Poster Board 434
Title: Brief Parent Report Measures of Language Development in Monolingual Children with Language Delay
Day: Friday, November 10, 2017
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Los Angeles Convention Center
Room: West Hall A
Author(s): Dongsun Yim, Jiyun Han, Shinyoung Kim, Sangeon Lee, Haeun Chung

My research life at Stanford was truely amazing and I appreciate the intellectual collaboration with Michael Frank. Discussion on interesting research topics with other students was also valuable for my future research path. As always, I have learned a lot and truely it was fun being around hard working follks.

Our research collaboration on word bank has been completed and we have uploaded the data on http://wordbank.stanford.edu/. Thanks to the grant (National Research Foundation of Korea, A Crosslinguistic Study on Korean and English Word Learning via Web BasedWordbank Development.),  we were able to complete this project.

Mike threw a fairwell party for me and we shared our ongoing and future research collaboration.

The Stanford Language and Cognition Lab was such a memorable place for me and I hope to visit this lab again soon.

I will be back at Ewha next month. See you all.

Hello,

I am on my sabbatical from Sept. 2016 to August. 2017 and I will be spending my time at Stanford University.

I will be working with Michael Frank at the Language and Cognition Lab.

I am very excited to be here again at Stanford and I have to say that the weather is really nice here!

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The lab is still up and running many different projects, so please keep an eye on the projects you are interested.

CLL researchers attended the Annual ASHA Convention at the Philadelphia Convention Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 17–19, 2016.  Three poster presentations and one oral presentation were asked to be presented.

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-Effects of mother tongue on the second and third language acquisition and self-esteem: based on school-aged Korean-Chinese bilingual children.

-Implicit Learning Considering Item Frequency & Predictive Probability in Children With Specific Language Impairment.

-The Relationship Between Phonological Processing Abilities in L1 & L2 in English-Korean Learners. 

-Effects of Exposure to Foreign Language During Kindergarten on Cognitive Abilities in Early Elementary Children.

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CLL researchers attended the KASA(The Korean Academic of Speech-Language Pathology Audiology) 2016 at Ewha Womans University, Seoul on September 10th. Ten poster presentations were asked to be presented. Two research papers were awarded as the best paper of this year. 

• Attention Networks in Linguistically Diverse Children with Primary Language Impairment (PLI). (Jiyun Han and Dr. Yim)

• The ability of Korean and English Novel Bound-Morpheme Generalization (NBMG) tasks on Korean English Bilingual children.(Yeonjoo Jo and Dr. Yim)

The signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Croma Cristian International School and the Dept. of Communication Disorders, Ewha Womans University was held on 21st April 2016.

CLL researchers attended  2016 ASHA Connect Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, July 8-9, 2016. Two poster presentations were asked to be presented in this year.

• Non-word repetition as a diagnosing tool for identifying bilingual children with language impairment.

• The effect parental education using utterance-analyzing application on initiation,response, and turn-taking in conversation of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and their Parents.

Dr. Yim  gave an invited talk for Professional Developmen on "Speech and Language Disorders" at North London Collegiate School Jeju.

Dr. Yim and CLL members celebrated the end of the Spring 2016 semester.

Dr. Yim & CLL members celebrated teacher's day with a surprise party and delivered lovely post cards from all of CLL members

On April 18th Dr. Yim gave an invited talk titled "Finding Predictors of Language Learning in Children" at KAIST school of Computing for Spring Colloquium.

Spring 2016 Commencement Ceremony was held on August 26th. 1,949 students (Doctoral 131, Masters 786, Bachelors 1,032) received their degree.

This semester, Aram Kwak, Sunghye Cheon, Yeonjoo Jo, Woojoo Han graduated with a MA degree in communication disorders!

• Relationship Among Complex Sentence Production, Implicit Learning, and Working Memory based on Structural Priming Method in Children with Specific Language Impairment.  (Woojoo Han)

• Morphological Awareness and Implicit Learning Ability of Children with Reading disabilities and Typical development. (Aram Kwak)

• The effect parental education using utterance-analyzing application on initiation,response, and turn-taking in conversation of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and their Parents. (Seonghye Cheon)

• he performance on the Novel Bound-Morpheme Generalization (NBMG) task in Korean-English bilingual Children. (Yeonjoo Jo)

Fall 2015 Commencement Ceremony was held on Febuary 29th. 

3,797 students (Doctoral 130, Masters 1,190, Bachelors 2,477) received their degree.

This semester, Jiyun Han graduated with a MA degree in communication disorders :)

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• Attention networks in linguistically diverse children with Primary Language Impairment (PLI)

The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Richmond Street School, located in Los Angeles, USA, and Child Language Lab in the Dept. of Communication Disorders, Ewha Womans University was signed on March 4th, 2020.

Both educational institutions agree to cooperate and provide opportunities available for bilingual research. 

In February 2020, four certificates of the patent by Dr. Yim have been registered at the Korean Intellectual Property Office (특허청).  

The titles of the inventions are listed below.

1. Method and device for measuring language development state of child, recording medium for performing the method

2. Screening method for measuring working memory using non-word repetition task, device and computer readable medium for performing the method

3. Method for fast mapping ability measurement using a quick incidental learning, recording medium and apparatus for performing the method

4.Method for measuring nonverbal working memory using flash pattern of matrix, device and computer readable medium for performing the method

Dr. Yim appeared on the radio show again to answer some common questions that mothers may have about bilingual child's language development. 

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'Real Mom Real Talk'

To listen to Dr.Yim's talk, click the image above(starting from 28'00"~).

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Summary of talk

Major external and internal factors that impact bilingual children

• Five external factors

1. Age, timing, and developmental state of the child when the second language is introduced

- the difference in learning the second language: when the child is exposed to a first and second language at the same time vs. when the child is exposed to the second language after the first language is introduced

2. Input contexts and opportunities

- first language exposed by society and family vs. only family (mother)

3. Social status of the language

- social status of the language: power that language holds in the society

- children naturally choose to speak the language with higher social status

4. L1 and L2 typology

-  depends on how two languages are similar (cognate) or different, language learning can be easier or more difficult

5. Language purpose

-  language usage will develop differently depends on the language purpose  

- ex) academic vs. daily life language usage

•  One internal factor

1. System integrity (brain activation and underlying learning mechanism) and preferences

- They both influence language development.

ex) Some children like to learn the language, and some don’t. Some children don’t care about making mistakes.

Can bilingual children be perfectly balanced in both languages?

• No!

• Language serves the purpose of communication.

• Every setting of communication is different.

• Different amount of language is exposed and used in different settings.

Can we be fluent (proficient) in both languages?

• Yes!

• But you cannot be perfectly balanced in both languages in every communication setting.

Red flags for bilingual children parents to look out for their children

• Children with health, developmental, and educational factors.

• Children with other speech and language-related issues; voice, chewing, hearing, motor skills disorders.

• Getting an assessment is critical!

• You don’t want to miss the golden time for the evaluation.

• Researchers have found that parents are very accurate in evaluating their children.

• If you have any family concerns, go for instinct and follow up with the evaluation.

How can parents support bilingual children?

• Interact with the child by using the mother tongue

• Follow the child’s lead

• Be salient and specific when speaking with children

• Have fun

• Stay tuned

If the parents are proficient in both languages, which one they must use?

• Based on the understanding that their children also know both languages, parents can speak both languages to their children but importantly, stick to your mother tongue!

Research regarding Language and moms

• "Health Service Needs using Big Data Analysis to Improve Multicultural Family Life's Service"

• Results show Mothers from multicultural family are having a challenging time due to the language usage between mother and child because family force the mother to learn and speak Korean to their children.

- Due to this issue, the child has a higher probability of having their language development delayed.

- Mothers think it is their fault due to communication difficulties.

- We cannot make them monolingual by forcing them to speak the social language.

- We need to respect their language and culture.

- Language coveys so many things: share feelings, beliefs as children get older.

- Bilingualism is not a choice but just a natural description of their life.

Dr. Yim appeared on the MBC TV show "What is Study" as an expert panel. 

She provided consultations to parents with a child who learned six different languages through Youtube. 

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To watch the short video of Dr. Yim's appearance on the TV show, click the image above! 

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​Professor Yim hosted the 2019 year-end party on December 20th, 2019. It was a wonderful turnout with 18 current and 14 former members of CLL. We had a valuable opportunity to get to know each other and share the latest news. 

CLL researchers attended the 2019 ASHA Convention at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. The convention was held during November 21-23, 2019. Five poster presentations and two oral presentations were asked to be presented.

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Researchers gathered multiple times before the conference day to prepare and practice presentations. 

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The list and time of the presentations are written below:

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November 21st

1:30 pm

• Han, J., Mun, J., Kang, D., Lee, S., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Does Better Working Memory Lead To Better Language Outcome? Approach from A Longitudinal Study. Poster presentation. The annual ASHA convention. Orlando, USA. November 2019.​

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4:00 pm

• Park, W., Song, E., Choi, J., Choi, H., Kim, E., Song, D., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Visual World Paradigm in Picture Book Reading: Focus on The Preschooler’s Processing Capacity and Processing Speed. Oral presentation. The annual ASHA convention. Orlando, USA. November 2019.

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7:00 pm

• Kim, S., Yang, Y., Kim, E., Cho, Y., Kang, D., Lee, S., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Parents' Language Use and Bilingual Children's Language Proficiency Assessed by Parents. Poster presentation. The annual ASHA convention. Orlando, USA. November 2019.

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November 22nd

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1:30 pm

• Lee, S., Choi, S., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Analysis of Nouns Versus Verbs Proportion in Korean Caregivers Speech During Play & Reading Activities. Poster presentation. The annual ASHA convention. Orlando, USA. November 2019.

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4:30 pm

• Yang, Y., Hong, Y., Cho, Y., Mun, J., Choi, J., & Yim, D. (2019, November). The Implementation of Inherent Strategies on Children with Language Impairment: SNARC Effect And Chunking Effect. Poster presentation. The annual ASHA convention. Orlando, USA. November 2019.

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November 23rd 

8:00 am

• Kim, S., Park, W., Son, J., Kang, D., Choi, H., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Crosslinguistic Approach for Finding Differences Between Korean And English Phonological Awareness. Oral presentation. The annual ASHA convention. Orlando, USA. November 2019.

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9:30 am

• Yang, Y., Song, E., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Exploring the Relationships Among the False-Belief Understanding, Executive Function, And Language Ability in Preschool-Aged Children. Poster presentation. The annual ASHA convention. Orlando, USA. November 2019.​

Before the 
 

Tune in everybody!

Dr. Yim appeared on the radio show again to answer some common questions that mothers may have about their child's language development.

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'Real Mom Real Talk'

To listen to Dr.Yim's talk, click the image above(updated 11/18, starting from 28'22"~).

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Summary of talk

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What's the relationship between language and cognition and what can we say about kids' language development?

• Early language input builds neural networks in an infant's brain.

• Language development and cognition are tightly linked

  • Cognitive ability?: Attention, inhibition, memory, and etc. 

• The function of the child's social brain is important in language development

  • Social brain?: Child learn language only by interacting with a human being as a communicative partner

• Thus, parents' input matters for good language development.

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How would you describe the importance of parents?

• Infant-directed speech is critical. 

  • Infant-directed speech? : exaggerated intonation, longer pauses b/w words, vowel elongation, and slow speech. 

  • it is perceptually salient.

• Mothers really have to look at their child carefully and follow their child's eye movement, and point it to their child for better understand 

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Talk 'with' your children, and not talk 'to' them

• Talk 'with' children: having room to listen and pay attention to what the child wants to talk about

• For infants: talking a lot to them

• For toddlers: mapping on something that they try to talk

• For older kids: balancing communicative turns depending on your child's maturity

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How much put on effort to correcting kids(ungrammatical sentence)?

• Don't!

• Not at all!

• Instead, providing good language input by adding one or two words right after what she just said.

  • ​(child) she 'go' home.

  • (parent/caregiver) yes. she 'goes' home.

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What kind of impact does 'bedtime story' have?

• A child can focus on what a parent says during a bedtime story with a visual aid(illustration) without any interruption from other sources.

• It's a perfect environment for parents to give good language input in a controlled setting.

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Some tips for book reading

• Parents should know that books are not tools for teaching knowledge. It's a tool for interaction.

• Try to pick a book that the child wants

• Try not to read a book verbatim

• Let the child lead

• Try to read your own language

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Reading in mother language confusing children?

• Not at all

• Children's brain is fascinating because of brain plasticity

• Code-switching is not a bad thing. It happens based on communicative purposes.

• Children know whether a communication partner can understand them or not.

The 6th joint conference of the Korean Speech-Langauge & Hearing Association and the Korean Academy of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology was held on November 9th, 2019 at the Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea.

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This year, Dr. Yim was a moderator for the department of child language impairment. Also, one poster presentation and one oral presentation received the best research award!

Two theses are:

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-Han, J., Kang, D., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Step-by-step word learning: Finding the optimal amount of word exposure. Oral presentation.The 6th KSHA & KASA conference. Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea. November 9th.

-Han, J., Song, E., Lee, S., Han, J., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Comparison of word learning between latent groups: Focusing on the role of selective attention. Poster presentation. The 6th KSHA & KASA conference. Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea. November 9th.

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Child Language Lab is presenting 4 posters and 3 oral presentations under Dr. Yim's supervision. The list of 4 posters are written below:

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• Yang, Y., Mun, J., & Yim, D. (2019, November). The Implementation of Inherent Strategies on Children with and without Language delay: SNARC effect and Chunking effect. Poster presentation. The 6th KSHA & KASA conference. Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea. November 9th.​

• An, H., Yun, S., Jeon, J., Hwang, S., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Overall Satisfaction of the Primary Caregivers based on the Vocabulary skills in Multicultural Children. Poster presentation. The 6th KSHA & KASA conference. Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea. November 9th.​

• Lee, S., Kim, H., Kim, T., Han, J., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Comparison of Idiom Comprehension Ability and Its Relationship to Executive Functions in School-Aged Children with and without Vocabulary Delay: Does Contextual Picture Paint Thousand Words?. Poster presentation. The 6th KSHA & KASA conference. Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea. November 9th.

• Han, J., Kang, D., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Step-by-step word learning: Finding the optimal amount of word exposure. Poster presentation.The 6th KSHA & KASA conference. Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea. November 9th.​

Any young participants in our research are able to receive one of the most exclusive CLL t-shirts to say "thank you".

If you are interested in participating in current research at CLL, please contact us at ewha.cll@gmail.com

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Thank you for your participation! 

​CLL researchers will attend the 2019 ASHA Convention at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. The convention will be held during November 21-23, 2019. Five poster presentations and two oral presentations were asked to be presented.

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The list and time of the presentations are written below:

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November 21st

1:30 pm

• Han, J., Mun, J., Kang, D., Lee, S., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Does Better Working Memory Lead To Better Language Outcome? Approach from A Longitudinal Study. Poster presentation. The annual ASHA convention. Orlando, USA. November 2019.​

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4:00 pm

• Park, W., Song, E., Choi, J., Choi, H., Kim, E., Song, D., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Visual World Paradigm in Picture Book Reading: Focus on The Preschooler’s Processing Capacity and Processing Speed. Oral presentation. The annual ASHA convention. Orlando, USA. November 2019.

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7:00 pm

• Kim, S., Yang, Y., Kim, E., Cho, Y., Kang, D., Lee, S., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Parents' Language Use and Bilingual Children's Language Proficiency Assessed by Parents. Poster presentation. The annual ASHA convention. Orlando, USA. November 2019.

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November 22nd

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1:30 pm

• Lee, S., Choi, S., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Analysis of Nouns Versus Verbs Proportion in Korean Caregivers Speech During Play & Reading Activities. Poster presentation. The annual ASHA convention. Orlando, USA. November 2019.

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4:30 pm

• Yang, Y., Hong, Y., Cho, Y., Mun, J., Choi, J., & Yim, D. (2019, November). The Implementation of Inherent Strategies on Children with Language Impairment: SNARC Effect And Chunking Effect. Poster presentation. The annual ASHA convention. Orlando, USA. November 2019.

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November 23rd 

8:00 am

• Kim, S., Park, W., Son, J., Kang, D., Choi, H., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Crosslinguistic Approach for Finding Differences Between Korean And English Phonological Awareness. Oral presentation. The annual ASHA convention. Orlando, USA. November 2019.

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9:30 am

• Yang, Y., Song, E., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Exploring the Relationships Among the False-Belief Understanding, Executive Function, And Language Ability in Preschool-Aged Children. Poster presentation. The annual ASHA convention. Orlando, USA. November 2019.​

​The 6th joint conference of the Korean Speech-Langauge & Hearing Association and the Korean Academy of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology will be held on November 9th, 2019 at the Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea.

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This year, Child Language Lab is presenting 4 posters and 3 oral presentations under Dr. Yim's supervision. The list of 4 posters are written below:

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• Yang, Y., Mun, J., & Yim, D. (2019, November). The Implementation of Inherent Strategies on Children with and without Language delay: SNARC effect and Chunking effect. Poster presentation. The 6th KSHA & KASA conference. Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea. November 9th.​

• An, H., Yun, S., Jeon, J., Hwang, S., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Overall Satisfaction of the Primary Caregivers based on the Vocabulary skills in Multicultural Children. Poster presentation. The 6th KSHA & KASA conference. Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea. November 9th.​

• Lee, S., Kim, H., Kim, T., Han, J., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Comparison of Idiom Comprehension Ability and Its Relationship to Executive Functions in School-Aged Children with and without Vocabulary Delay: Does Contextual Picture Paint Thousand Words?. Poster presentation. The 6th KSHA & KASA conference. Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea. November 9th.

• Han, J., Kang, D., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Step-by-step word learning: Finding the optimal amount of word exposure. Poster presentation.The 6th KSHA & KASA conference. Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea. November 9th.​

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The list and time of oral presentations are written below:

14:​40~14:55

• Yim, D., Kim, S., Han, J., Park, W., & Song, E (2019, N0vember). Contribution of reading strategies and word intensity to word learning during storybook reading. Oral presentation. The 6th KSHA & KASA conference. Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea. November 9th.

14:55~15:10

• Han, J., Song, E., Lee, S., Han, J., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Comparison of word learning between latent groups: Focusing on the role of selective attention. Oral presentation. The 6th KSHA & KASA conference. Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea. November 9th.

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16:30~16:45​

• Park, W., Choi, J., Song, D., & Yim, D. (2019, November). Eye Movement Dynamics with Processing Capacity and Speed during Picture Book Reading. Oral presentation. The 6th KSHA & KASA conference. Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea. November 9th.University, Chuncheon, Korea. November 9th.​​

The Commencement Ceremony of Fall 2019 was held on August 30th. CLL researchers, Su yeon Park, Ye eun Hong, So mang Yoon, and Su yeon Lee graduated with a MA degree in communications disorders. Congratulations! 

• The Effect of Word Exposure Intensity during Storybook Reading on the Vocabulary Learning of Children with and without   Specific Language Impairment (Suyeon Park)

• Influence of Chunking Mechanism and Orthographic Fast-mapping on Early Literacy Development in Preschool Children (Yeeun Hong)

• Quick Incidental Learning of Children with and without Specific Language Impairment (SLI) Using Eye-Tracker and the Relations with Sustained Attention (Somang Yoon)

Congratulations to Wonjeong Park! 

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PhD student Wonjeong Park has been selected for the 2019 Global PhD fellowship project under the supervision of Dr. Yim. This project was first implemented in 2011 and it is a national major talent training program that helps PhD students attend graduate schools in Korea while concentrating on their studies and research without having to worry about tuition and living expenses.

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Wonjeong's research topic is as follows,

• A Study on the Development of Child Vocabulary Database Using Crowded Sourcing Technology: Development of an Interim System for Evaluating the Development of Vocabulary for Children Based on a Mobile Platform.

Department of Communication Disorder at Ewha Womans University hosted homecoming event on May 18th, 2019. Many of graduated CLL members attended the event and visited with Professor Yim and current CLL members. 

Professor Yim and CLL members held our weekly lab meeting outside on a sunny spring day. We shared picnic meals and welcomed a new member of our lab! 

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CLL members threw a surprise teacher's day party for professor Yim at her new office! We truly appreciate Professor Yim's teaching, passion, and love. Happy teacher's day and we love you!

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The Commencement Ceremony was held on February 25th. This semester, CLL researcher Yun Hee Kim graduated with a MA degree in communications disorders. Congratulation!

• Vocabulary Acquisition Abilities by Reading Types of Children with Specific Language Impairment and Typically Developing Children During Shared Book Reading 

Professor Yim and her research team conducted research which was funded by National Health Insurance Service. The title of research work was "Research Study on Health Service Needs using Big Data Analysis to Improve Multicultural Family's Life Quality" and her remarkable research work have been mentioned in the Munhwa Ilbo newspaper article published on December 27th, 2018. The research found that language assessment and language support were the most needed service in international marriage women in multicultural families .

Professor Yim hosted the 2018 year end party at Ansic on December 14th, 2018. It was a wonderful turnout with 18 current and 12 former members of CLL. We had a valuable opportunity to get to know each other and share latest news. 

CLL researchers attended the Annual ASHA Convention at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, November 15-17, 2018.  Seven poster presentations and two oral presentations were asked to be presented.

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• The clinical usefulness of parent report of 27 months old toddlers and their post 7 months follow up

• Relationship between lexicon and syntactic development between children with TD and LI using Wordbank

• The effect of linguistic experiences and phonotactic probability on nonword repetition and fast mapping ability

• A follow-up study of phonological neighborhood density in 18- to 35-month-old children

• What is happening during storybook reading? : Using eye-tracking technology

• Transfer effect of parent training of an interactive book reading to a free play setting

• Do bilinguals change their voices? Relationship between paralinguistic changes and voice attractiveness

• Influence of mother tongue exposure on linguistic and non-linguistic eposodic buffer in culturally and linguistically diverse children

• Usage of onomatopoeic and mimetic words in Vietnamese-Korean bilingual children compared to Korean monolingual families

Dr. Yim did a phone interview on the TBS eFM radio show "Real Mom Real Show" (38'19" ~ 49'11")

She answered critical questions regarding bilingual language development including transfer effect, language use, and language delay.

For more details, click button below(link).

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Summary of talk

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Home language choice

• Use the most comfortable and confident language-first language(L1)-when interacting with child

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Language transfer

• Learned ability in Korean transfers to different context in English, vice versa

  (e.g. writing letters in Korean (learned ability) enables child to write letters in English without explicit teaching).

•  Grammatical rule transfer (e.g. apply Korean-specific honorific grammatical marker -yo(요) at the end of English phrase. e.g. Thank you-yo)

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Cause of Language delay

• Both nature and nurture factors contribute to language delay

The annual convention of Korean Academy of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology was held on Sep. 15th.

9 posters were presented and the topics covered preschool language development and bilingual language development. This year, 3 out of 9 posters were based on the student project outcomes, which were done in professor Yim's class in last spring semester, Communication in culturally and linguistically diverse children class.

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• Kim, M., Kim, E., Son, J., Yoon, H, & Yim, D. (2018, September). Flexibility of speaker's sentence structure in Korean-English bilingual children. The Annual KASA Convention, Gwangju, Korea.

• ​Kim, A., Kim, Y., Kim, Y., Ha, N., Hong, Y.,  & Yim, D. (2018, September). The effect of using mother's native language on children's language skills and self-esteem. The Annual KASA Convention, Gwangju, Korea.

• ​Park, S., Park, J., Shin, M., Lee, M., Lee, S., & Yim, D. (2018, September).  Comparative study on Korean word accent according to similarity of mother tongue between foreign language learners. The Annual KASA  Convention, Gwangju, Korea.

• Kim, S., Han, J., Kim, S., & Yim, D. (2018, September). The relationship among language abilities of preschool children assessed by SLP. language skills checked by teacher, and temperament checked by parents. The Annual KASA  Convention, Gwangju, Korea.

• ​Yang, Y., Park, S., Hong, Y.,  & Yim, D. (2018, September). A follow-up study for phonological neighborhood density in 18- to 35-month-old children. The Annual KASA Convention, Gwangju, Korea.

• ​Yim, D., Kim, S., Han, J., Park, W., Song, E., Lee, S., Kim., & Yoon, S. (2018, September). Positive storybook parent training effect on parent-child storybook reading activity. The Annual KASA Convention, Gwangju, Korea.

• Yim, D., Han, J., Kim, S., & Song, E. (2018, September). Children's eye movement during storybook reading. The Annual KASA Convention, Gwangju, Korea.

Dr. Yim was on the air, SBS TV show "Finding Genius", for consultation.

She highlighted the role of mother tongue foundation  in second language learning.

See more on the video clip!

The Commencement Ceremony was held on August 31st. This semester, CLL researchers Minding Lee, Haeun Chung, and Sangeon Lee graduated with a MA degree in communications disorders. Congratulation!

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• Quick incidental learning of words by children with and without SLI: an EyeTracking study (Haeun Chung)

• Caregivers' Question Use and the Contributions of Children with Specific Language Impairment and Typically Developing Children During Shared Book-Reading (Sangeon Lee)

Dr. Yim invited former and current lab members and hosted 2018 summer workshop. We had lots of fun preparing for upcoming conference and going over last semester's achievements. Wishing everyone good luck on the new semester!  

CLL members threw a surprise party for professor Yim to celebrate the teacher's day. 

Thank you professor Yim for sharing your knowledge with us and taking care of us!

Happy teacher's day!

One of CLL researchers, Wonjeong Park gave a oral presentation at the CHI 2018 convention. The research title was "BebeCODE: Collaborative Child Development Tracking System". It was collaborative work with researchers from KAIST.

Abstracts are as follows,

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Continuous tracking young children's development is important for parents because early detection of developmental delay can lead to better treatment through early intervention. Screening tests, often based on questions answered by a parent, are used to assess children's development, but responses from only one parent can be subjective and even inaccurate due to limited memory and observations. In this work, we propose a collaborative child development tracking system, where screening test responses are collected through collaboration between parents or caregivers. We implement BebeCODE, a mobile system that encourages parents to independently answer all developmental questions for a given age and resolve disagreements through chatting, image/video sharing, or asking a third person. A 4-week deployment study of BebeCODE with 12 families found that parents had approximately 22% disagreements about questions regarding their children's developmental and BebeCODE helped them reach a consensus. Parents also reported that their awareness of their child's development, increased with BebeCODE.

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction.

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I am in Montreal to attend CHI. I have always wanted to visit this place ever since I learned French!!! Great to be here....I hear French everywhere and such a great feeling to be able interact with strangers in French!!! No wonder why bilingual research is so much done from this area.

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-Dr.Yim

Professor Yim and CLL members have study meeting outside on a shiny spring day!

It was nice to read recent articles in JSLHR and share thoughts about how we conduct evidence-based practice. 

Dr. Yim invited Dr. Micheal Frank, associate professor, from Department of Psychology at Stanford university. Dr. Yim and Dr. Frank worked together on the Wordbank project during her sabbatical year in 2017. Dr. Frank's study children's language learning and how it interacts with their developing understanding of the social world. He uses behavioral experiments, computational tools, and novel measurement methods like large-scale web-based studies, eye-tracking, and head-mounted cameras. Dr. Frank introduced his researches on cross-linguistic vocabulary development in young children. It was so valuable time to get to know other related field of study for all CSD student! 

The Commencement Ceremony was held on February 26th. 

3,693 students (Doctoral 138, Masters 1,225, Bachelors 2,330) received their degree.

This semester, CLL researchers Eun Song, Yunjung Lee, Jeewon Yoo, Gyeongran Bae, Sinae Kang, and Yumi Kim graduated with a MA degree in communication disorders :)

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• Reading comprehension and reading processing of school-aged children with specific language impairment using  eye tracker (Sinae Kang)

• Relative Clause Sentence Processing and Executive Function in Children with and without Specific Language Impairment (SLI) (Jeewon Yoo)

• The effect of language type and phonotactic probability on nonword repetition and fast mapping(Gyeongran Bae)

• The effect of parental education during storybook reading on utterances and communication skills of children with delayed language development and their  parents(Eun Song)

• Differences of Early Semantic Relatedness between Late Talkers and Typically Developing Children(Yumi Kim)

• Comparison of Construction AAC Graphic Symbol Sequences by Preschool children with 
  Delayed Language Development and Typical Development (YunjungLee)

Dr. Yim invited Dr. Gabriel Doyle, assistant professor, from Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Language at San Diego State University. Dr. Yim and Dr. Doyle worked together with Dr. Micheal Frank's Lab in Stanford University during her sabbatical year. Dr. Doyle is a computational psycholinguist and gave a talk on Jan 12th to CSD graduate students. The title of the talk was  "Adults adapt to their conversational partners, especially if they're talking to children", and it was so meaningful time to know different approach to study child-parent interaction. 

Dr. Yim hosted all former and current lab members to farewell 2017 and celebrate new year's coming. 

Professor Yim taught 'communication in culturally and linguistically diverse children' course in Fall 2017 and  students presented their research projects. Total of 8 posters were presented, and three of them were presented by  CLL researchers.

The annual ASHA convention took place at LA convention center from 9th-11th. Shinyoung Kim, Jiyun Han, Sangeon Lee, Haeun Chung, and former researchers (Jiyeon Lee and Soyeon Chun) went to the convention as presenters.

The CLL researchers presented 8 posters. All works were very popular and lots of SLPs and researchers stop by our posters . We all had a great time to mingle with other researchers in different countries and freely exchanged our thoughts and ideas on various topics one another.

The 5th annual conference of KSHA & KASA took place on November 4th at Busan Bexco.

The CLL researchers presented 5 posters titled

• Applicability of ALDeQ as a Language Screening Measure

• Influence of Phonological and Semantic Neighborhood Density on Vocabulary Development in Infants and Toddlers Aged 9-35 Months

• The Relationship between Executive Function and Quick Incidental Learning in Preschool-aged children with and without Language Delay

• Different Reading Strategies for Better Word Learning Outcome", and "Executive Functions and Reading Skills in School-aged children with Vocabulary Delay

The fall semester of 2017 has started!  Starting new semester means that we start to work on research project with a fresh mindset!

Before CLL members begin a new chapter in CLL, all of labmembers gathered to celebrate professor Yim's comeback. Professor Yim and CLL members caught up with one another and talked about new research trends in child language development & disorders. 

Wishing all lab members a happy and productive semester!

Congratulation!!

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The child language lab has submitted 8 poster pretensions to 2017 ASHA Convention, and one of our presentations titled, "Brief Parent Report Measures of Language Development in Monolingual Children with Language Delay", has been designated as a Meritorious Poster Submission!

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The Meritorious Poster Submission recognition is for proposals judged by the Convention Program Committee to show extraordinary, exceptional, and innovative work. Each Topic Committee has the option of recommending one or two top-rated posters for this special distinction. Only 55 poster presentations out of 1895 poster submissions in 2017 were selected for meritorious recognition. Our poster presentation is among those posters that received the highest ratings from Topic Committee reviewers across both submission categories of professional education and research.

The Meritorious Poster Submissions are noted in the Convention Program Book with a ribbon icon and identified in the Poster Hall with a ribbon displayed on the poster board sign. For those of you who attend 2017 ASHA Convention, please stop by our poster to see what we've discussed in the presentation!

Presentation details are as follows,

Topic Area: Language in Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers
Session Number: 8623 Poster Board Poster Board 434
Title: Brief Parent Report Measures of Language Development in Monolingual Children with Language Delay
Day: Friday, November 10, 2017
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Los Angeles Convention Center
Room: West Hall A
Author(s): Dongsun Yim, Jiyun Han, Shinyoung Kim, Sangeon Lee, Haeun Chung

My research life at Stanford was truely amazing and I appreciate the intellectual collaboration with Michael Frank. Discussion on interesting research topics with other students was also valuable for my future research path. As always, I have learned a lot and truely it was fun being around hard working follks.

Our research collaboration on word bank has been completed and we have uploaded the data on http://wordbank.stanford.edu/. Thanks to the grant (National Research Foundation of Korea, A Crosslinguistic Study on Korean and English Word Learning via Web BasedWordbank Development.),  we were able to complete this project.

Mike threw a fairwell party for me and we shared our ongoing and future research collaboration.

The Stanford Language and Cognition Lab was such a memorable place for me and I hope to visit this lab again soon.

I will be back at Ewha next month. See you all.

Hello,

I am on my sabbatical from Sept. 2016 to August. 2017 and I will be spending my time at Stanford University.

I will be working with Michael Frank at the Language and Cognition Lab.

I am very excited to be here again at Stanford and I have to say that the weather is really nice here!

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The lab is still up and running many different projects, so please keep an eye on the projects you are interested.

CLL researchers attended the Annual ASHA Convention at the Philadelphia Convention Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 17–19, 2016.  Three poster presentations and one oral presentation were asked to be presented.

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-Effects of mother tongue on the second and third language acquisition and self-esteem: based on school-aged Korean-Chinese bilingual children.

-Implicit Learning Considering Item Frequency & Predictive Probability in Children With Specific Language Impairment.

-The Relationship Between Phonological Processing Abilities in L1 & L2 in English-Korean Learners. 

-Effects of Exposure to Foreign Language During Kindergarten on Cognitive Abilities in Early Elementary Children.

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CLL researchers attended the KASA(The Korean Academic of Speech-Language Pathology Audiology) 2016 at Ewha Womans University, Seoul on September 10th. Ten poster presentations were asked to be presented. Two research papers were awarded as the best paper of this year. 

• Attention Networks in Linguistically Diverse Children with Primary Language Impairment (PLI). (Jiyun Han and Dr. Yim)

• The ability of Korean and English Novel Bound-Morpheme Generalization (NBMG) tasks on Korean English Bilingual children.(Yeonjoo Jo and Dr. Yim)

The signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Croma Cristian International School and the Dept. of Communication Disorders, Ewha Womans University was held on 21st April 2016.

CLL researchers attended  2016 ASHA Connect Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, July 8-9, 2016. Two poster presentations were asked to be presented in this year.

• Non-word repetition as a diagnosing tool for identifying bilingual children with language impairment.

• The effect parental education using utterance-analyzing application on initiation,response, and turn-taking in conversation of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and their Parents.

Dr. Yim  gave an invited talk for Professional Developmen on "Speech and Language Disorders" at North London Collegiate School Jeju.

Dr. Yim and CLL members celebrated the end of the Spring 2016 semester.

Dr. Yim & CLL members celebrated teacher's day with a surprise party and delivered lovely post cards from all of CLL members

On April 18th Dr. Yim gave an invited talk titled "Finding Predictors of Language Learning in Children" at KAIST school of Computing for Spring Colloquium.

Spring 2016 Commencement Ceremony was held on August 26th. 1,949 students (Doctoral 131, Masters 786, Bachelors 1,032) received their degree.

This semester, Aram Kwak, Sunghye Cheon, Yeonjoo Jo, Woojoo Han graduated with a MA degree in communication disorders!

• Relationship Among Complex Sentence Production, Implicit Learning, and Working Memory based on Structural Priming Method in Children with Specific Language Impairment.  (Woojoo Han)

• Morphological Awareness and Implicit Learning Ability of Children with Reading disabilities and Typical development. (Aram Kwak)

• The effect parental education using utterance-analyzing application on initiation,response, and turn-taking in conversation of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and their Parents. (Seonghye Cheon)

• he performance on the Novel Bound-Morpheme Generalization (NBMG) task in Korean-English bilingual Children. (Yeonjoo Jo)

Fall 2015 Commencement Ceremony was held on Febuary 29th. 

3,797 students (Doctoral 130, Masters 1,190, Bachelors 2,477) received their degree.

This semester, Jiyun Han graduated with a MA degree in communication disorders :)

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• Attention networks in linguistically diverse children with Primary Language Impairment (PLI)