@ EWHA WOMANS UNIVERSITY, SEOUL
We study how children learn language and also how language learning can break down. We take the perspective of language learning as part of a larger cognitive-linguistic learning profile. Thus, we examine how language learning and nonlinguistic cognitive processing are linked within fundamental learning mechanism and whether and how limitations in this mechanism potentially affect language difficulties in children. We invite both bilingual and monolingual children with and without language difficulties to help us answer our research questions. Our aim is to broaden our perspective on cognitive-linguistic theories of language learning and to achieve more accurate assessment and more effective intervention services for children who have language difficulties.
A set of cognitive processes that are necessary for the cognitive control and language learning
A specific impairment in the processing of linguistic information. including grammar, morphology, syntax, and the functional aspects of language, such as semantics and pragmatics
The use of two languages, either by an individual speaker or by a community of speakers
Evidence-based methods to improve speech and language skills
The process of measuring either the point of gaze or the motion of eyes for investigating the visual system
CLL researchers attended the 2023 ASHA convention at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in Boston, Massachusetts. The convention was held November 16-18. Four oral presentations and one poster pesentation were presented.
CLL research team received the Outstanding Research Award at the 8th KSHA & KASA conference 2023.
The paper written by Dr. Yim's research team 'Story comprehension skills in school-aged children according to text type and story modality' won the Best Paper Award from the Korean Speech-Language Hearing Association.
Dr. Yim was invited as a guest speaker at the 8th conference of the korean speech-language & hearing association and the Korean academy of speech-language pathology and audiology. The title of the talk was 'a focused attention to pragmatic skills in children-thanks to covid'.
The 8th conference of the korean speech-language & hearing association and the Korean academy of speech-language pathology and audiology was held on November 11th, at the Daegu Catholic university, Korea.
Dr. Yim gave a talk at the University of Colorado.
Dr. Yim and lab members are having a bi-weekly journal group. We are reading interesting papers to discuss various subjects on child language disorders.
A doctoral student Wonjeong graduated and her Ph.D. dissertation titled 'A diachronic study of child vocabulary acquisition and the development of a vocabulary assessment tool using multi-source data' received the best paper award.
CLL did a workshop on fNIRS(functional near-infrared spectroscopy) to prepare for our upcoming research.
Ewha Womans University
