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<p class="MsoNormal">[apologies for cross-posting]</p>
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<b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">SAVE THE DATE</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">3 – 4 December 2020</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Online Symposium of the German Research Cluster</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Language Education and Multilingualism</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Location: Zoom</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear colleagues and friends,
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">From 2013-2020 the research cluster
<i>Language Education and Multilingualism</i> aimed to increase knowledge about language development and learning under the multilingual conditions of a migration society. Following the United States and Saudi Arabia, Germany is the country with the third highest
number of international migrants. An increasing number of young people thus grow up speaking a language other than or alongside German in their families. Moreover, all young people in this globalized society are expected to acquire foreign-language skills
in education. So, what are the consequences of multilingualism for development, education, and skills?
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the 21 projects of the cluster have focused on fundamental questions concerning multilingualism as a resource for learning, and
have tested the effectiveness of their research findings in educational practice.
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">On 3-4 December, we plan to share internationally the design and research results of the projects, and to discuss the implications of these findings for multilingual development.
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">You can look forward to presentations on the following topics:
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings">v</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt">
</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The integration of multilingualism in preschool education</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings">v</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt">
</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Professional support for teachers of heterogeneous learner groups</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings">v</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt">
</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Multilingualism as a cognitive resource in foreign-language acquisition</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings">v</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt">
</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Fostering multilingualism for regular subject (i.e. non-language) learning</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The interrelation between writing skills in the L1 and L2 of bilingual pupils</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Intercultural school development</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings">v</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt">
</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Longitudinal observations on bi- and multilingual development in education</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We will send a link for registration as well as the full symposium program (including presentations titles, presenter names & times) in the coming weeks. In the meantime, you can read more about
the research cluster here: </span></b><a href="http://www.kombi-hamburg.de/index.html?lang=en" target="_blank">http://www.kombi-hamburg.de/index.html?lang=en</a>.<br>
<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the conference hosts:
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Coordination Office for Multilingualism and Language Education
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(aka KoMBi) </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Prof. Ingrid Gogolin, Antje Hansen, Dr. Sarah McMonagle</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Faculty of Education, University of Hamburg, Germany
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Email: <a href="mailto:kombi@uni-hamburg.de" target="_blank">
kombi@uni-hamburg.de</a></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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