The 2024 KASA conference

October 12, 2024

Dr. Yim and CLL members attended the 2024 KASA conference. The conference was held on October 12. One oral presentation and eleven posters were presented. 1) The Effects of Vocabulary, Working Memory, and Text Modality on Reading Comprehension: From Grades 1-6. 2) The Influence of Heritage Language Proficiency and Home Language Environment on Bilingual Children's Vocabulary. 3) The Association Between Language Ability and Rhythm Skills in School-aged Children. 4) Semantic association processing in Korean monolingual and Korean-English bilingual children. 5) Differences in Narrative Skills Across Languages in Korean-English Bilingual Children. 6) Narrative Production Skills and Their Relationship with Cognitive and Language Skills. 7) Understanding Growth in Verbal and Nonverbal Episodic Buffer From Preschool to 6th Grade. 8) Comparison of children's communicative behaviors depending on the language used by their mothers using Still-Face paradigm. 9) Prefrontal Activation According to Working Memory Loads: A Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study. 10) The Reliability Analysis of L2 Verbal Proficiency of Bilingual Speakers. 11) The Effect of Executive Functions on Children's Internalizing and Externalizing Problems: Examining the Moderating and Mediating Role of Pragmatic Skills. 12) Prefrontal Cortex Activation and Executive Function in Young Adults: A Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study.