Please join us for the 2024 RISLUS Research Forum!

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Conference Program

RISLUS Research Forum 2024

Skylight room, The Graduate Center 

Friday October 18, 2024

9:00 AM- 9:20 AM	Registration/Reception
9:20 AM- 9:30 AM	Opening Remarks
Session 1: Issues in Bilingual Literacy and Education – Part 1
9:30 AM- 10:00 AM	Cristina Lozano Arguelles & Aída Martínez-Gómez Pathways to Bilingual Mastery: Impact of Translation and Interpreting Training on Spanish-English Proficiency
10:00 AM- 10:30 AM	Alberta Gatti, Syelle Graves & Daniela Castillo Mapping the Writing Proficiency of Bilingual Young Adult Learners Enrolled at Minority-Serving Institutions
10:30 AM- 11:00 AM	Alberta Gatti, Maria Julia Rossi & Syelle Graves Effective Pedagogies for Heritage Language Development in Minority-Serving Institution Contexts
11:00 AM- 11:15 AM	Break (15 minutes)
Session 1: Issues in Bilingual Literacy and Education – Part 2
11:15 AM- 11:45 AM	Lisa Auslander, Wanda Tejada Lizardo & Gayle Maslow Setting up SLIFE and Newcomer Learners for Success in Secondary Classroom Mathematics [invited]
11:45 AM- 12:15 PM	Maite T. Sánchez, Kate Menken & Ivana Espinet  School District Leaders as Key Language Policy Arbiters in New York City [invited]
12:15 PM- 12:45 PM	Carolina Barrera-Tobón & Sunny Park-Johnson The Gentrification of Dual Language Education in Chicago
12:45 PM- 1:45 PM	Lunch (1 hour)
Session II: Multilingualism in Urban Contexts – Part 1
2:00 PM- 2:30 PM	Tshering Yangzom Dorji Feeling Home: Multilingual Social Worlds of Undocumented Bhutanese Women Living in Queens, NY
2:30 PM- 3:00 PM	Abdoulaye Laziz Nchare Language Contact and Codeswitching in Cameroon
3:00 PM- 3:15 PM	Break (15 minutes)
Session II: Multilingualism in Urban Contexts – Part 2
3:15 PM- 3:45 PM	Marta Musugu Yenge & Isabelle Barrière The Acquisition of Polish Gender Morphology in Bilingual English-Polish Speaking Children
3:45 PM- 4:15 PM	Isabelle Barrière Quantity versus Consistency in the Input and Transfer across Languages in Monolingual and Bilingual Development  [invited]
4:15 PM	Closing Remarks
Poster Session/Reception
4:20 PM- 5:30 PM	Mariusz Rutkowski How does a City tell about History? Daniela Castillo Morphophonological Effects in the Acceptability and Processing of Code-Switching Jennifer Chard Multilingual Literacy Assessment for Newcomers Pamela Franciotti  The Role of Morphosyntax in the Processing of Object Relative Clauses: Evidence from L2 Italian Abdoulaye Laziz Nchare and Hagay Schurr Consolidating Literacy and Language Development Programs in Schools Serving Students of African Origins in New York City Ilaria Porru Pronoun Interpretation and Use in Turkish Heritage Speakers. A Comparative Study in Germany and the US LeeAnn Stover  Individual Language Experience Impacts L2 Scope Ambiguity Among Mandarin-English Bilinguals Reid Vancelette Acquisition and Predictive Processing of Structural, Lexical, and Inherent Cases in Russian L2 Learners