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SUMMARY:What is Special about Immigrant Pupils’ Writing in Cyprus? Inves
 tigating the Writing Challenges Facing Second Language Learners in Bidiale
 ctal Settings - Filio Constantinou\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20120529T120000Z
DTEND:20120529T130000Z
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CONTACT:Moritz Sowada
DESCRIPTION:This talk will focus on the writing challenges facing 11-year-
 old immigrant pupils in the bidialectal community of Cyprus where the Gree
 k Cypriot Dialect (GCD) co-exists with Standard Modern Greek (SMG). GCD an
 d SMG are genetically related varieties occupying distinct domains of usag
 e\; the former is typically used in informal contexts such as in conversat
 ions between friends and relatives while the latter is the medium of writt
 en communication and is generally employed in formal domains such as educa
 tion. The main challenge which immigrant pupils are facing lies in develop
 ing competence in the school written register – a register that differs 
 in various respects from the naturally acquired conversational register 
 – while learning a second language. What makes this challenge more daunt
 ing for immigrant pupils is the fact that the written variety\, namely SMG
 \, is not only typologically different from their mother tongue\, but also
  somewhat structurally distant from the variety which serves as the medium
  of everyday oral communication in the host country. This talk will highli
 ght and discuss the distinctive writing challenges which the target popula
 tion is confronted with\, as these have emerged from a comparison with the
  challenges faced by local pupils.
LOCATION:Room 2S4\, Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 
 Hills Road\, Cambridge
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