2021 Corpus Roundtable Talks by Author
Child Directed Print Corpora: Understanding the Resource
Virtual Roundtable
30th June, 1st July, 2nd July 2021
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TalkTogether Team
Cross-linguistic lexical properties of child-directed print corpus: Implications for Filipino and Kannada assessments
Day 1 | Duration: 18:14 | Tags: Corpus Building & Analysis, Kannada, Filipino, TalkTogether
Speaker: Sunila John, Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Description: This talk presents an overview of the TalkTogether child-directed print corpora and describes the variety of language found in Kannada and Filipino children's books. The talk considers the potential of books as a source of rich language experience.
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Implications of morphological awareness for Filipino language and literacy assessment
Day 1 | Duration: 19:13 | Tags: Morphosyntax, Corpus Building & Analysis, Filipino, TalkTogether
Speakers: Mary Ann Bacolod, Jem Javier, and Portia Padilla, University of the Philippines
Description: The TalkTogether team examines the role that morphology plays in Filipino by analysing the frequency and characteristics of affixes found in children's books. The team argues for the consideration of morphology in the development of Filipino language and literacy assessments.
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Structural properties of child-directed print corpus in Kannada: Implications for child language assessments
Day 1 | Duration: 18:39 | Tags: Morphosyntax, Corpus Building & Analysis, Kannada, TalkTogether
Speakers: Shivani Tiwari, Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Description: The TalkTogether team presents its analysis of the Kannada child-directed print corpus through the description of word tokens by their structural and morphological properties, including affixes. Implications on the selection of items for Kannada language and literacy assessments based on children's books are considered.
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Which word properties are related to age-of-acquisition ratings in Kannada and Filipino?
Day 2 | Duration: 10:11 | Tags: Morphosyntax, Behavioural Research, Kannada, Filipino, TalkTogether
Speakers: Katrina May Dulay, University of Oxford; Deekshitha Kotian, The Promise Foundation; Margaret Mary Rosary Carmel Fua & Marie Grace Reoperez, University of the Philippines
Description: How can age-of-acquisition studies provide a window to understand the course of children's language development? The TalkTogether team shares key ideas and design features of its age-of-acquisition studies in Kannada and Filipino, as well as linguistic and practical challenges faced in word selection and study implementation.
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Folk-Inspired Kannada Intervention: The Promise Audio Corpus
Day 3 | Duration: 16:07 | Tags: Corpus Building & Analysis, Behavioural Research, Kannada, TalkTogether
Speaker: Shriya Kuchibhotla & Gideon Arulmani, The Promise Foundation
Description: The TalkTogether team describes the collation of folk audio materials from Karnataka, India, forming the Promise Audio Library. The collated material has been used to develop language games and lessons for a home intervention programme. The presentation covers a description of the audio corpus, the structure of the folk-based intervention, and results of a pre-pilot for the home programme.
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Of heights and limits: A children’s book levelling experience
Day 3 | Duration: 19:25 | Tags: Corpus Building & Analysis, Kannada, Filipino, TalkTogether
Speaker: Portia Padilla, University of the Philippines
Description: The TalkTogether team presents the development of a book levelling protocol which aims to standardize ratings across multiple publishers of Filipino and Kannada books. The team outlines the guidelines and exclusion criteria of the levelling tool and considers both the potential and limits of using qualitative expert ratings to match books with children's language and literacy levels at 3 to 10 years old.
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Readers and text complexity: an emerging framework for assessment
Day 3 | Duration: 16:29 | Tags: Corpus Building & Analysis, Filipino, TalkTogether
Speakers: Leonor Diaz, Margaret Mary Rosary Carmel Fua, & Kathrina Lucasan, University of the Philippines
Description: The Education Research Program (ERP) presents the various tools and programmes developed to address low levels of reading achievement in the Philippines, including a test battery (MLAF), a linguistic analyser (SukatWika), and a text complexity framework that seeks to identify appropriate reading materials for kindergarten to Grade 12 students based on a quantitative and qualitative assessment of texts.
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