Multilingualism and Literacy

[Francis Hult]

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WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT

Title: Multilingualism and Literacy
Date: 22-Jul-2013 - 27-Jul-2013
Location: Geneva, Switzerland

URL: <http://www.cil19.org/en/workshops/multilingualism-and-literacy/>

DEADLINE: 15-Jul-2012

DESCRIPTION:
One of the visible aspects of globalisation and politico-economic 
upheavals in the third millennium is the increased mobility of 
populations, resulting in children growing up with, and adults being 
exposed to, a variety of languages. Ensuing are linguistic systems that 
display a range of proficiency levels across the four macroskills, 
namely listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Usually it is the 
reading and writing skills for one or all the languages spoken by 
multilinguals that lag behind - or in some cases are never developed. 
This workshop will explore the impact of multilingualism on literacy 
development of both children and adults. In particular, we will focus on 
whether, and if so how, literacy skills or the lack thereof in one 
language impact on the development of literacy in the other language(s) 
and on cognitive skills more generally.

Specific topics may include but are not limited to:

The acquisition of multiple literacies by multilinguals:
- Cognitive processes
- Pathways and best practice
- Challenges
- Outcomes and implications

The cost of illiteracy in the home or heritage language, specifically in 
the following domains:
- Cognitive
- Academic
- Social
- Economic
- Identity formation, wellbeing, and health

Specific populations, e.g.:
- Emergent literacy in multilingual children
- Literacy and emergent second language acquisition (i.e. in sequential 
multilingualism)
- Literacy and multilingualism in children with interrupted schooling
- Acquisition of literacy in the language of schooling or work in the 
absence of literacy in the home language

[Note: For the purposes of this workshop, multilingualism in particular 
comprises bilingualism.]

WORKSHOP ORGANISERS:
Susana Eisenchlas
Diana Guillemin
Andrea Schalley

The workshop is organised as part of the International Congress of 
Linguists to be held in Geneva July 22-27, 2013.

Linguistic Subfields: Language Acquisition
Psycholinguistics
Sociolinguistics
Applied Linguistics
Cognitive Science

CALL FOR PAPERS:
We invite abstracts of no more than 500 words for presentation at the 
workshop. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously. Please remove all 
author information from the abstract. Please send your abstract via 
email to s.eisenchlas(at)griffith.edu <https://pearl1604.utsa.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://griffith.edu> (dot)au by 15 July 2012.

Presentations consist of a 20-minute presentation followed by 10 minutes 
for discussion. 

We look forward to receiving your contributions!


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