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F. Lowenthal Universite de l'Etat a Mons 24 rue des Dominicains 7000 Mons Belgium series of "Language and Language Acquisition" conferences The was born in Mons in 1977. One day the Dean said to me: "You are doing research in that field, why don't you try to organize a small conference?". I thought about it, tried to contact people, received several answers and finally told the Dean: "There will be so many participants and I need so much money to organize the conference". His answer was a short one: "I told you to organize a SMALL conference". I do not know what he did, but he succeeded in working a miracle: the funds were found and the conference took place. This miracle has been repeated twice: once in Mons (1980) and once in Ghent (1983). The group of people interested in these conferences has become bigger, but the aim of the organizers is still the same: to bring together people working in different fields such as mathematics, philosophy, linguistics, logic, computer, science, education, psychology, medicine, ••• and to give them the possibility to have long discussions even if the time devoted to the presentation of papers has to be reduced.
Contents
Discourse Education and Cognitive Aspect.- Pragmatics and language differences.- Discursive Representation.- Non-verbal communication devices: their relevance, their use and the mental processes involved.- Cognitive pedagogy, or a strict nominalistic approach to pedagogy.- Language, Learning and teaching: helping learners to make knowledge their own.- Native and Second Language Acquisition and Learning.- Capacity-sharing interdependence in reading processes.- Time and tense in an English pedagogical grammar.- Choice of directives in spontaneous family interaction.- Register theory and communicative teaching.- Children's ideas about the form and function of questions.- Individual language awareness testing and early reading.- Goals, method, and theory in language instruction.- Mathematics.- On the representation of algorithmic concepts.- A study of pupils reading geometry.- The ob-serving computer.- The character of student knowledge.- Rules in arithemetic. Learning the basic facts.- Language Disorders.- The communicative impact of non-fluent aphasia on the dialog behavior of linguistically unimpaired partners.- Dynamics of interaction in speaking dialogs with deaf children in the classroom.- Evolution of an aphasic child after the introduction of NVCDs.- Synthesis and Future Perspectives.- Synthesis and future perspective.
