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Paper about the development of the RVS in Child Language Teaching and Therapy:
Schaefer, B., Bowyer-Crane, C., Herrmann, F., & Fricke, S. (2016). Development of a tablet application for the screening of receptive vocabulary skills in multilingual children: A pilot study. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 32(2), 179–191. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265659015591634
CLTT video.m4vPaper about a study using the RVS to screen receptive vocabulary in different languages and discussing this data in the context of lexical acquisition theories in Child Language Teaching and Therapy:
Schaefer, B., Ehlert, H., Kemp, L., Hoesl, K., Schrader, V., Warnecke, C., & Herrmann, F. (2019). Stern, gwiazda or star: Screening receptive vocabulary skills across languages in monolingual and bilingual German–Polish or German–Turkish children using a tablet application. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 35(1), 25–38. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265659018810334
App Launch Event
App Launch Event
The Receptive Vocabulary App was launched at The University of York on Friday, 24th March 2017, 12:00-16:00. The event took place in The Treehouse (Berrick Saul Building). Apart from a chance to try the app, attendees met the team behind the app and heard about the exciting possibilities for applications in professional practice. We were pleased to have two distinguished Guest Speakers joining us on the day: Prof Victoria Murphy and Prof Courtenay Norbury. There was lunch on arrival, as well as afternoon refreshments.
Event Programme
12:00 Registration and lunch
13:00 Introduction
13:15 Keynote address: Professor Victoria Murphy
13:45 Keynote address: Professor Courtenay Norbury
14.15 An introduction to the Receptive Vocabulary app
14.45 Coffee and a chance to explore the app
15.30 Discussion session
15.45 Summary and Next Steps
16:00 Close
More information on our Guest Speakers
Victoria Murphy is a Professor of Applied Linguistics and the Director of the Department of Education, University of Oxford. She was the Chair of NALDIC (National Association for Language Development in the Curriculum) between 2018-2021. Victoria’s area of research lies mainly within the realm of child L2/FL learning, vocabulary, and literacy development. She has published in a wide range of Applied Linguistics journals and is the author of Second Language Learning in the Early School Years: Trends and Contexts published by Oxford University Press (2014), as well as the lead editor of Early childhood education in English for speakers of other languages published by the British Council (2016).
Courtenay Norbury is Professor of Developmental Disorders of Language and Communication at the division of Psychology and Language Sciences of University College London. She is the Director of the Literacy, Language and Communication (LiLaC) Lab and is a qualified speech-language therapist. Cortenay’s research focuses on language disorders in a range of neurodevelopmental conditions, including developmental language disorder and autism spectrum disorders. She is currently leading, SCALES, a population study of risk for language disorder at school entry, with a particular focus on identifying common co-morbidities in a population cohort. Courtenay is also interested in language profiles that cross diagnostic boundaries and has published extensively on social communication disorders and their relations with autism and specific language impairment.
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