{"id":7294,"date":"2017-05-22T09:43:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T08:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=7294"},"modified":"2017-05-22T09:43:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T08:43:48","slug":"vikki-janke-at-the-sign-language-colloquium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/05\/22\/vikki-janke-at-the-sign-language-colloquium\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikki Janke at the Sign Language Colloquium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/staff\/janke.html\">Dr Vikki Janke<\/a>, Lecturer in Linguistics in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/index.html\">Department of English Language &amp; Linguistics<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0will be delivering\u00a0a guest lecture at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ru.nl\/mlc\/public-outreach\/public-outreach-0\/@1094031\/sign-language-colloquium-june-9th-2017\/\">Sign Language Colloquium<\/a> at the Max Planck Institute, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ru.nl\/english\/\">Radboud University<\/a>, Nijmegen on 9 June 2017,\u00a0on the role of gesture and the acquisition of sign language as a second language.<\/p>\n<p>Vikki will be presenting work undertaken with <a href=\"https:\/\/iris.ucl.ac.uk\/iris\/browse\/profile?upi=CRMAR95\">Dr Chloe Marshall<\/a> (Institute of Education, UCL), which examines what learners of sign language start out with in terms of their manual gesture, by gathering data from 30 sign-na\u00efve gesturers on an elicitation task requiring them to locate objects in space using their hands and no voice. Their results suggest that a key challenge when learning to express locative relations in sign is to reduce from a potentially very large set of handshapes rather than to supplement a restricted one.<\/p>\n<p>Having detailed knowledge of what learners start out with in terms of their gestural inventories allows identification of contenders for both negative and positive transfer. Thus, by providing an intricate illustration of gesturers\u2019 potential toolkit, this study establishes further connections between what a learner produces when acquiring sign and the source from which the production first stemmed. A positive outcome is that teachers might better anticipate and potentially circumvent confounds that hinder learning whilst exploiting those aspects of gesture that can bootstrap learning.<\/p>\n<p>Further details of the\u00a0Sign Language\u00a0Colloquium and the full programme are available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ru.nl\/mlc\/public-outreach\/public-outreach-0\/@1094031\/sign-language-colloquium-june-9th-2017\/\">www.ru.nl\/mlc\/public-outreach\/public-outreach-0\/@1094031\/sign-language-colloquium-june-9th-2017\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Vikki Janke, Lecturer in Linguistics in the Department of English Language &amp; Linguistics,\u00a0\u00a0will be delivering\u00a0a guest lecture at the Sign Language Colloquium at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/05\/22\/vikki-janke-at-the-sign-language-colloquium\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":7296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[135857,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7294"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7398,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7294\/revisions\/7398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}