28.3859, Calls: Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Lang Documentation, Psycholing, Socioling/China

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Subject: 28.3859, Calls: Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Lang Documentation, Psycholing, Socioling/China

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Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 14:48:02
From: Elaine Lau [cambridgecuhklab at gmail.com]
Subject: The International Conference on Bilingualism: Language and Heritage

 
Full Title: The International Conference on Bilingualism: Language and Heritage 

Date: 18-Dec-2017 - 19-Dec-2017
Location: Hong Kong, China 
Contact Person: Virginia Yip
Meeting Email: cambridgecuhklab at gmail.com
Web Site: http://cuhk.edu.hk/lin/conference/bilingualism2017/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Language Documentation; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 16-Oct-2017 

Meeting Description:

The International Conference on Bilingualism: Language and Heritage will be
held on 18 - 19 December 2017 at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. It is an
inaugural conference that officially launches the newly established University
of Cambridge - Chinese University of Hong Kong Joint Laboratory for
Bilingualism (JLB). We aim to provide an international forum to promote and
disseminate research in bilingualism across the lifespan from infancy to early
childhood and adulthood with a focus on the acquisition of Chinese across
linguistically diverse bilingual and multilingual contexts. The theme of the
conference features bilingualism through the lens of the intricate
relationship of language and heritage, in particular, the acquisition of
language as a way to preserve and maintain a speaker and community's heritage
and the challenges posed to language learners, researchers and educators.

Keynote Speakers include: 

Boping Yuan, University of Cambridge
Margaret Deuchar, University of Cambridge
Yongcan Liu, University of Cambridge
Esuna Dugarova, United Nations
Audrey Li, University of Southern California
Gigi Luk, Harvard University
Maria Polinsky, University of Maryland
Virginia Yip, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Yang Zhao, Peking University

The conference also features two panels that will be of interest to a wide
spectrum of audience from diverse disciplines as well as the general public.
The panels bring together researchers and practitioners from different
countries including Australia, UK, USA, Hong Kong and Singapore to give an
international perspective on issues in nurturing bilingualism in early
childhood and heritage bilingualism across diverse contexts.

Panel I: Bilingualism in early childhood education: research and practice:

This panel focuses on issues in early childhood bilingualism and education,
with the guiding assumption that research and practice can mutually inform
each other. Panelists will highlight the importance of infant and child
bilingualism research using methods from psycholinguistics and cognitive
neuroscience and explore implications for developing programs and for
practitioners in the classroom. The panel will be of interest to educators and
language professionals concerned with bilingualism research and best practices
in the local and international communities.

Panel II: Heritage bilingualism, education and society:

This panel focuses on Chinese as a heritage language in overseas communities
where English is the language of the community. As the learning and teaching
of heritage Chinese has grown rapidly in recent years across many countries,
the speakers will address issues in developing education programs for school
age children and adult learners in diverse learning contexts. A key issue to
be discussed is how knowledge of Chinese as a heritage language can be
nurtured in English-dominant environments and how heritage bilingualism is
vital to preserving the heritage and identity of the speaker.

For further information of the conference, please refer to the conference
website: http://cuhk.edu.hk/lin/conference/bilingualism2017/


Call for Papers:

We are inviting abstract submissions for poster presentations at the
Conference. Submissions are invited on any of the following topics:

- Childhood bilingualism and multilingualism
- Second language acquisition
- Third language acquisition
- Heritage Chinese
- Heritage bilingualism
- Language contact and bilingualism
- Language shift and maintenance                              
- Bilingual education 
- Bilingual language policy

Submission Guidelines:

All abstracts must be submitted in pdf format via the online abstract
submission portal at the conference website.

Abstracts are limited to 300-400 words, including references and 3 keywords,
not exceeding one A4 page.

Font size is 12 point Times New Roman font, single-lined, margins set to 2.54
cm (1 inch) all around.

Important Dates:
 
Abstract submission deadline: 16 October 2017
Notification: by 30 October 2017




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