On December 19, 2020, The 1st Forum on Language and Cognitive Sciences for Graduate Students was successfully held by the Graduate Association of Beijing Language and Culture University's Center for the Cognitive Science of Language. Nearly 300 doctoral and master students from 76 colleges and universities in 17 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions including Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Macau participated in this forum on-site and online.
Professor Zhang Baojun, vice president of Beijing Language and Culture University, delivered a speech at the opening ceremony of the forum. President Zhang fully affirmed the holding of the Graduate Academic Forum. He proposed that graduate students should establish lofty academic ambitions, aim at the international academic frontiers, and contribute to improving my country’s scientific research and innovation capabilities in the field of language cognitive science; at the same time, encourage graduate students from various universities to carry out interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary academic research through interdisciplinary Integration to promote the construction and development of new liberal arts and interdisciplinary subjects.
The theme of this postgraduate forum is "Bilingual (multilingual) acquisition, cognition and bilingual brain research". After more than a month of public solicitation, the forum received more than 170 submissions, including 131 full texts and more than 40 abstracts. The thesis covers multiple research fields such as second language acquisition, cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive neuroscience and language ontology, and fully reflects the development direction of disciplinary integration. The number of submitted papers is large and the quality is high. A total of 15 excellent papers (3 for the first prize, 5 for the second prize, and 7 for the third prize) were selected by the conference affairs team invited by experts inside and outside the school, and 8 of them were read out as the conference report .
The forum also invited four well-known experts from the State Key Laboratory of "Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning" from Beijing Normal University, Professor Ding Guosheng, Professor Feng Liping from the School of Chinese Culture, Beijing Normal University, Professor Shi Chunhong from the School of Linguistics, Beijing Language and Culture University, and Professor Zhang Hui from Nanjing Normal University. A one-on-one comment was made on the conference report. Commenting experts fully affirmed the innovativeness of the report, and also put forward professional suggestions for revision. Expert comments were wonderful, online interaction was enthusiastic, and the meeting atmosphere was enthusiastic.
The forum also organized 16 group reports. Graduate students learned from each other in the group and conducted in-depth exchanges and discussions.
