CHILD-LANGUAGE LABORATORY

@ 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.

People at EWHA CLL
Executive function

A set of cognitive processes that are necessary for the cognitive control and language learning

Language impairment

A specific impairment in the processing of linguistic information. including grammar, morphology, syntax, and the functional aspects of language, such as semantics and pragmatics

Bilingualism

The use of two languages, either by an individual speaker or by a community of speakers

Intervention

Evidence-based methods to improve speech and language skills

Eyetracking

The process of measuring either the point of gaze or the motion of eyes for investigating the visual system

News
  • August 21, 2023

    CLL did a workshop on fNIRS(functional near-infrared spectroscopy) to prepare for our upcoming research.

  • July 18, 2023

    CLL members attended a workshop and had fun in Pohang.

  • July 17, 2023

    CLL had a joint workshop with Human centered Intelligent System lab at the POSTECH. We shared on our ongoing research projects and planned our continuous collaborations.

  • July 07, 2023

    Dr. Yim's K-MOOC Children's outstanding language learning abilities-approach from bilinguals was selected as the best course and was awarded the blue ribbon for four consecutive years.

  • June 15, 2023

    CLL is looking for research assistants who are willing to work on multiple projects in the areas of child language development.

  • May 11, 2023

    Dr. Yim invited Dr.McMurray, an F.Wendell Miller professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Iowa. The title of the talk was 'The slow development of real time spoken and written word recognition.'

  • April 21, 2023

    Dr. Yim delivered a session at the Early Childhood Learning Center. She talked about language development and language characteristics of bilingual children to teachers at ECLC.

  • April 07, 2023

    Dr. Yim gave a talk at Science Touch on Friday, which was hosted by the National Research Foundation and the Federation of Busan Science and Technology. The title of the talk was Characteristics of the brain that only humans possess-What are the cognitive domains that we need to learn a language?

  • March 27, 2023

    Dr. Yim gave a talk at the Asia Pacific Society of Speech Language and Hearing's meeting. The title of the talk was Importance of Maintaining Mother Tongue in the Face of Bilingual Children's Dynamic Language Shift.

  • December 15, 2022

    CLL had the year-end party at ISayLab. Current lab members and former members came. We shared gifts, and the latest news, and congratulated students graduating this semester. It was great to meet members in person and have time to catch up. Thank you, Professor Yim, for hosting the year-end party!

Current Projects