ISB15 was a great experience, as always. Many interesting lectures, catching up with wonderful colleagues and got positive feedback on my plenary. Happy!

International Symposium on Bilingualism #ISB15 Great week ahead!

Halfway through our keynote lineup! Meet our next #keynote speaker—more inspiration ahead.

🗣️ Emerita Jasone Cenoz will be talking about multilingualism, minority languages and translanguaging.

🗓️ June 11th 18:00

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Announcing our seventh #keynote speaker—bringing even more depth to our inspiring lineup.

🗣️ Pia Lane (@pialane.bsky.social) will talk about language revitalization after historical trauma: Is language shift inevitable?

🗓️ June 13th 09:00

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Keeping the momentum going—say hello to our fourth #keynote speaker!

🗣️ Rajend Mesthrie will talk about bridging morphemes, bridging languages: a study of bilingual creativity in southern Africa.

🗓️ June 11th 9:00

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Introducing our second #ECR #keynote speaker today 🥳

🗣️ Marie Jacobs will enlighten us with her presentation titled navigating multilingual complexities in the asylum context: disparities, practices, and research reflections.

🗓️ June 11th 14:45

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Today we would like to introduce our first #keynote speaker.

🗣️Janet van Hell will deliver a talk on the neurocognitive signatures of accented speech processing.

🗓️ June 9th 9:00

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Our #ECR series begins with a powerful keynote—be sure to save the date!

🗣️: Ander Beristain (@aberistain.bsky.social) will give a lecture on diversifying articulatory phonetics through a bilingual and migrant lens.

🗓️ June 9th 14:45

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Our keynote lineup continues! Announcing our second #keynote speaker.

🗣️ Anthony Pym (@anthonypym.bsky.social) will give a keynote on the social role of bilinguals in building cross-cultural trust.

🗓️ June 9th 18:00

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The third voice in our #keynote series is here—introducing a speaker you won't want to miss.

🗣️ Laura Bosch will talk about early bilingualism in close-language contexts: commonalities and specificities.

🗓️ June 10th 9:00

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My chapter: The researcher's role in language policy processes – engagement and change

Received my copy of the volume on Language activism. Many interesting contributions! acquiabigstaging.cambridgedev.org/gt/universit...

🔜 Would you like to keep up to date with the upcoming conferences organized by #BCBL?

We have different events planned that are open to the scientific & professional community, where the latest advances in the field of #neuroscience will be shared.

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[2/2] 🗣️ Robert Hartsuiker, from Universiteit of Gent, will share with us his experience in the research of #psycholinguistics, #bilingual sentence processing, syntactic priming and executive control.

📆 June 9-13, 2025

🔗 Do not miss it and register here

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Survey - Minority language use among young adults

A group of students is conducting a survey on the use and learning of European Regional Minority Languages (ERMLs) among young adults. Aim: connect with youth who are using, learning, or wishing to acquire an ERML. Link: nettskjema.no/a/508369

On the first day of the event we will have Laura Bosch from the University of Barcelona. She is a specialist in #speech perception, #language acquisition, #bilingualism and cognitive development. 

📆 June 9-13, 2025

Register here👇

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[2/2] 🗣️ Jasone Cenoz, from @upvehu.bsky.social , is a researcher in multilingual #education, #secondlanguage development, bilingual #cognition and #language policies. 

📆 June 9-13, 2025

🔗 Do not miss it and register here

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We’re thrilled to announce our three ECR keynote speakers:

Ander Beristain
Jean Kaya
Marie Jacobs

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NTNU flagger på Kvenfolkets dag på søndag, og Khrono intervjuet min datter, som bl.a. sier "Jeg håper at andre utdanningsinstitusjoner i Norge følger NTNUs eksempel". Det ville vært fint å se kvenflagget på UiO også!
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👋 Welcome to the official ISB15 BlueSky account!

Conference Info:
🗓 June 9 - 13, 2025
📍 San Sebastián, Spain
🔗 Registration is open! Early bird rates available until March 16:
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The 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism is offering 15 registration fee waivers!

📌 Eligibility: Grad students and postdocs
📌 Deadline: March 1, 2025
📌 Requirement: A letter confirming insufficient funding for registration
📌 Email: isb2025@bcbl.eu

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EuroSLA 34 | UiT Velkommen til UiT, bli bedre kjent med studiehverdagen ved UiT Norges arktiske universitet!

Join us for the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA) conference in beautiful Tromsø. Hope to see you (and the midnight sun) there!

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Nytt studium kan være løsningen på den store mangelen på kvenske oversettere Det finnes for få kvenske oversettere til å møte den økte etterspørselen etter kvenskspråklig materiale. Snart kan et nytt studietilbud gjøre Aili Eriksens hverdag lettere.

"There are too few #Kven translators to meet the increased demand for Kven-language material. Soon, a new translation course may make Aili Eriksen's everyday life easier".

#kvensk #kvenskspråk #kven #kväänit #kvener

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FYI: Call for ECR keynote speakers at the 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism: The 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB15) is seeking nominations for 2-3 early-career scholars to each deliver a keynote address. The ECR keynotes should showcase future directions for the study…

October 2024: Come join us when MultiTrans is organising a Ph.D. course from March 31 to April 4, 2025! | UiT The PhD course focus on qualitative sociolinguistic research methods in multilingualism research, and will take place at UiT.

We are organising a Ph.D. course on qualitative sociolinguistic research methods in multilingualism research from March 31 to April 4, 2025. Please note that the application deadline for non-UiT students is December 1, 2024.
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EuroSLA 34 | UiT University of Tromsø The Arctic University of Norway offers around 30 English-taught Master’s and Bachelor’s degree programmes. Many of the science programmes offer different specializations.

The next EuroSLA conference will be hosted at UiT the Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø 25-28 June 2025. Abstract submission deadline is December 12 2024.

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Transition space: navigating dilemmas between mainstream and minority language classrooms From policymaking to classroom practices, educational language policy implementation is a complex process filled with a cacophony of voices. This article examines policy implementation as it unfolds i...

It is a pleasure to share @lecochic.bsky.social ‘s article ‘Transition space: navigating dilemmas between mainstream and minority language classrooms’. It gives an important glimpse into the implementation of Sami, Kven and Finnish language education policy in Norway:
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Norway apologises to Sami, Forest Finns and Kvens for forced assimilation policy Parliament votes to express ‘deepest regret’ over more than a century of ‘Norwegianisation’ of minorities

Norway apologises to Sami, Forest Finns and Kvens for forced assimilation policy

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