Hong Kong Second Language Acquisition Research Forum 2022

Hong Kong Second Language Acquisition Research Forum 2022

Date:

5 March 2022

Time:

9:20AM - 3:15 PM

ZOOM Link:

https://eduhk.zoom.us/j/97973116406

Target Audience:

Research Academics

Programme:

Programme

日程安排

Time Speaker Topic
9:20AM	Welcoming Speech
9:30-11.00	Aline Godfroid (Michigan State University)	Keynote Speech: Eye tracking in Second Language Acquisition: An overview
11:00-11:30	Jookyoung Jung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)	The effects of pragmalinguistic support on collaborative suggestion-giving task
11:30-12:00	Gavin Bui (The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong)	Creativity, functional adequacy, and linguistic performance in young learners’ EFL writing: The case of L1 input and content familiarity
12:00- 1:00PM	Lunch Break
1:00-1:30	Scott Aubrey (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)	Dynamic fluctuations in engagement during computer-mediated collaborative writing tasks. Does communication mode matter?
1:30-2:00	Xuyan Qiu (Hong Kong Metropolitan University)	The impact of task complexity on second language learner engagement under face-to- face and computer-mediated communication conditions
2:00-2:30	Gaia Chiuchiú (University of Portsmouth & Accademia Lingua Italiana Assisi) Alessandro Benati (The University of Hong Kong)	Comparing the effects of structured input and textual enhancement in the acquisition of Italian subjunctive of doubt forms: An online analysis of accuracy time response and processing of two type of instructional interventions
2:30 - 3:00	Pauline Mak (The Education University of Hong Kong)	Providing and receiving peer feedback in second language writing: Perspectives of elementary students in Hong Kong
3:00	Closing

Keynote Speech

Eye tracking in Second Language Acquisition: An overview

Aline Godfroid (Michigan State University)

The recording of eye movements, or eye tracking, has become an important tool for language researchers to probe real-time cognitive processes in first and second language speakers. Researchers turn to eye tracking for its millisecond precise temporal information and its high spatial resolution. As an exquisitely versatile tool, eye tracking has many applications across SLA disciplines and inspires new work, as well as new takes on old questions each year (see Godfroid, 2019, 2020; Godfroid & Hui, 2020; Godfroid, Winke, & Conklin, 2020, for reviews).

When participants engage in a language task, their eye gaze may provide a measure of their attentional allocation and linguistic processing (Godfroid, Boers & Housen, 2013; Just & Carpenter, 1980; Reichle, Pollatsek, & Rayner, 2006; Smith, 2012). This technology can be used to capture both conscious and unconscious processing in language learning and processing, which opens up new avenues for research in linguistics, psycholinguistics, instructed second language acquisition, and discourse studies, among many others.

In this keynote address, I will render the depth and breadth of eye-tracking research in second-language research, sampling influential studies across different SLA disciplines and highlighting how each study benefited in unique ways from the use of eye-movement registration. The talk will conclude with a discussion of methodological aspects to consider with a view to promoting sound and reproducible eye-tracking research in the scientific study of language.