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<span class="normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display";color:black">International Symposium on Bilingualism 14</span></b></span><span class="eop"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display";color:black">- Diversity Now –</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display"">Now Accepting Abstract Submissions</span></b></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display"">The 14th</span></b></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display"">
<b>International Symposium on Bilingualism</b> will take place on <b>26-30 June 2023
</b>at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.</span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display"">The
<b>theme </b>of the conference is <i>Diversity Now</i>. The United Nations General Assembly has declared the period between 2022 and 2032 as the International Decade of Indigenous Languages to draw attention to the critical status of many Indigenous languages
across the world and to<span style="color:#D13438"> </span>encourage action for their preservation, revitalisation, and promotion. ISB14 especially encourages submissions of work involving lesser-studied bilingual communities and interdisciplinary work examining
bilingualism across cultures, societies, and the life-span. <span style="color:#D13438">
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<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display"">ISB14 invites submissions in
<i>all</i> areas of research on bilingualism and multilingualism, including but not limited to: linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, applied linguistics, neuropsychology, language acquisition, clinical linguistics, language and
education, and multilingual societies.</span></span><span class="scxw104371082"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display"">Keynote speakers include:</span></span><span class="scxw104371082"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display""> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display"">Christos Pliatsikas (Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism, School of Psychological and Clinical Language Science,
University of Reading)</span></span><span class="scxw104371082"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display"">Ingrid Piller (Centre for Workforce Futures, Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University)</span></span><span class="scxw104371082"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display"">Kevin Kien Hoa Chung (Department of Early Childhood Education, The Education University of Hong Kong)</span></span><span class="scxw104371082"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display"">Kilian Seeber (Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, University of Geneva)</span></span><span class="scxw104371082"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display"">Leher Singh (Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore)
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</span></span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display"">Ofelia Garcia (Urban Education and Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures, City University of New York)</span></span><span class="scxw104371082"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display"">Sharynne McLeod (School of Education, Charles Sturt University)</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display"">We invite abstracts for two categories of submissions: individual papers and posters.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display"">Individual papers are formal presentations on original research or pedagogy-focused topics by one or
more authors, lasting a maximum of 20 minutes with 5 additional minutes for discussion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display"">Posters on original research or pedagogy will be displayed in sessions that offer the opportunity for
individualised, informal discussion with others in the field. Posters are especially effective for presenting work-in-progress, fieldwork, and results of empirical research for which data can be presented visually. Posters will be available throughout an entire
day of the conference with presenters in attendance for a 90-minute poster session.
</span></span><span class="scxw104371082"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display"">Abstract submission is
<u>now open</u> and will end on</span></b></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display"">
<b>30 November 2022</b>.</span></span><span class="scxw104371082"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display"">Abstracts should be a maximum of 300 words in length, anonymised and submitted in English via the submission
portal </span></span><a href="https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/3999/submitter"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display"">https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/3999/submitter</span></a><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display"">.</span></span><span class="scxw104371082"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display"">Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 28 February 2023.</span></span><span class="scxw104371082"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display"">Enquiries regarding the academic content of submissions should be addressed to the ISB14 Scientific Committee
via </span></span><a href="mailto:ISB14.ScientificCommittee@westernsydney.edu.au" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display";color:#0563C1">ISB14.ScientificCommittee@westernsydney.edu.au</span></span></a><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display"">.
For general inquiries about the conference please email the Organisational Committee at
</span></span><a href="mailto:ISB14@mq.edu.au" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display";color:#0563C1">ISB14@mq.edu.au</span></span></a><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Playfair Display"">.</span></span><span class="eop"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB14)</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Theme: Diversity Now</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Dates: 26-30 June 2023</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Location: Sydney, Australia</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Format: Hybrid</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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