Conference: Bringing up bilingual and multilingual children: Friday 19 March 2010

Friday 19 March 2010: 10am–1pm

Venue: Camden Town Hall, Council Chamber, Judd Street, London, WC1H 9JE (two-minute walk from the British Library)
Organiser: Centre for Multilingual and Multicultural Research
Sponsorship: ESRC RES-622-26-0289

This event is free to attend, and seats will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. The venue can seat up to 100 people. Interested parties are advised to arrive early on the day to avoid disappointment.

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If you have any questions, please email Dr Zhu Hua.

Bringing up children multilingually can be challenging at times. The event will help the participants to understand the process and benefits of learning and using two or more languages from young age and to share experience and advice on bringing up children multilingually. It will be open to anyone interested in childhood bilingualism and multilingualism.

The event will bring together international experts from bilingualism, bilingual education, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics and speech and language therapy, as well as parents and grandparents who have had experiences of bringing up children bilingually and multilingually.

The event is free to attend. Please come with your stories and questions. Interested parties are advised to arrive early on the day to avoid disappointment.

Panel speakers

Panel speakers include:

• Professor Antonella Sorace (Director of Bilingualism-Matters.org.uk) (One brain, two langauges, many advantages by)
• Professor Barbara Dodd (Professor of Child Speech, Author of many speech and language assessments)(Three years old reaction to being exposed to a second spoken language)
• Dr Carol Stow and Dr Sean Pert (award-winning bilingual speech and language therapists)(Speech and Language impairment in bilingual children)
• Professor Li Wei (Founder of the International Symposia on Bilingualism and Chair the ISB Steering Committee, Principle Editor of International Journal of Bilingualism and grant holder of ESRC-funded projects on multilingual practices in complementary schools).
• Professor Jean-Marc Dewaele (President of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA) and Convenor of the AILA Research Network: Multilingualism: Acquisition and Use)(Three languages from birth web)
• Dr Lisa McEntee-Atalianis (Established researcher in the fields of Bilingualism and Deaf Studies) (Signing families)

• Dr Raymonde Sneddon (expert on bilingual literacy,  University of East London /Birkbeck College)(Learning to read using dual language books by Dr Raymonde Sneddon)