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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">We are pleased to announce the Workshop on Language
Impairment in Bilingual and Multilingual Societies to take place at Bangor
University on July 21, 2012. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers,
academics, speech and language therapists and health professionals who work
with children with typical and atypical language development. The emphasis will
be on language development in a bilingual and/or a multilingual setting.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">We are happy to host talks by distinguished
researchers in the field of bilingualism and language impairment, such as Prof.
Fred Genesee (McGill University, Canada), Prof. Shula Chiat (City University
London, UK), Dr. Sharon Arnom-Lotem (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), Prof. Elin Thordadottir
(McGill University, Canada), Dr Carolyn Letts (Newcastle University, UK) and
Dr. Kamila Polisenska (Manchester University, UK). The talks will cover a range
of issues such as bilingual development, bilingual literacy, language
assessments for bilingual children, and diagnostic tools of language impairment
in bilingual children.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">****CALL FOR POSTERS – EXTENDED DEADLINE: June 10th**</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">We are organising a poster session on topics
related to the theme of the workshop, i.e. typical and atypical language
development in bilingual children, language assessments for bilingual children
and diagnostic tools for language impairment in bilingual children. Please send
a 300-word abstract on any of these of issues to Vicky Chondrogianni at <a href="mailto:v.chondrogianni@bangor.ac.uk">v.chondrogianni@bangor.ac.uk</a> <a href="mailto:v.chondrogianni@bangor.ac.uk"><mailto:v.chondrogianni@bangor.ac.uk></a>
by <b>June 10th</b>. References and tables are not included in the final word count.
Please state the author(s) name(s), affiliation(s) and contact details in the
body of the email. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out shortly after.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">You can find more information about the workshop
under the following link: </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">To register please fill in the registration form
available on the workshop’s website and return it to Vicky Chondrogianni at <a href="mailto:v.chondrogianni@bangor.ac.uk">v.chondrogianni@bangor.ac.uk</a>
by July 1st. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">This workshop is funded by the European COST Action
IS0804 "Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society" and the
College of Arts and Humanities of Bangor University, UK.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><pre class="moz-signature" cols="72"><font>-- <br>Dr Vasiliki Chondrogianni <br>Lecturer in Bilingualism<br>Bangor University<br>School of Linguistics and English Language <br>Bangor Gwynedd LL57 2DG, UK<br>
Tel.: +44-(0)1248-382267<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:v.chondrogianni@bangor.ac.uk">v.chondrogianni@bangor.ac.uk</a><br>Website: <a href="http://www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics/about/v_chondrogianni.php.en">www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics/about/v_chondrogianni.php.en</a><br>
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