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Sharon
Armon-Lotem |
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Chair The Department of English Room 206, Building 404 (03) 5318238 Fellow The Gonda
Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center Bar-Ilan University Israel |
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http://www.biu.ac.il/faculty/armon-lotem/ My
website at the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain
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Fields of Interest
Bilingual Specific Language Impairment
(BISLI) Language Acquisition Early Bilingualism Child Second Language Acquisition Specific Language Impairment |
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My
research The research at my lab
focuses on language acquisition by bilingual children who have been diagnosed
for Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and combines my work on monolingual
and bilingual typical acquisition with my interest in children with Specific
Language Impairment. My research focuses on the one hand on the linguistic
and cognitive phenomena which characterize language impairment and bilingualism
in children, and on the other hand on the gap between the linguistic
abilities of children and those of adults, all this against the background
assumption that there is an innate language capacity which children make use
of in the acquisition of language. My research interests met in two ISF funded research projects on “Morphological,
Syntactic, and Pragmatic Representation and Processing in Bilingual Children
with Specific Language Impairments” and “Specific Language Impairment in
Bilingual Children - A longitudinal study” which aimed at targeting the
relative contribution of the linguistic impairment and the bilingual
situation to the unique linguistic profile of these children. This already
led to identifying indicators of SLI in English-Hebrew bilingual children and
have been expanded to bilingual Russian-Hebrew children in a BMBF funded project on “Language Acquisition as a Window
to Social Integration among Russian Language Minority Children in Germany and
Israel”, which adds a sociolinguistic aspect to the issue, and a GIF study of “How can a teacher tell if a
bilingual child has language impairment: A study of the language of
Russian-Hebrew and Russian-German migrant children in preschool and school
years?”. My research is carried in coordination with COST Action IS0804
“Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the
Road to Assessment” which offers a cross European research network. |
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