35.2075, Calls: Bilingualism Matters Symposium 2025

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Subject: 35.2075, Calls: Bilingualism Matters Symposium 2025

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Date: 18-Jul-2024
From: Anna Balas [abalas at amu.edu.pl]
Subject: Bilingualism Matters Symposium 2025


Full Title: Bilingualism Matters Symposium 2025
Short Title: BMS 2025

Date: 24-Mar-2025 - 25-Mar-2025
Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Katarzyna Przybycien
Meeting Email: bms at bilingualism-matters.org
Web Site: https://www.bilingualism-matters.org/events/bilingualism-mat
ters-symposium-2025

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Clinical Linguistics;
Language Acquisition; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2024

Meeting Description:

The Bilingualism Matters Symposium (BMS) is an interdisciplinary
conference organised by Bilingualism Matters. It is open to
researchers as well as practitioners, irrespective of their
affiliation with Bilingualism Matters. The BMS aims to stimulate a
productive dialogue between researchers in different academic
disciplines and practitioners in different sectors of society. BMS
will take place in Edinburgh from March 24-25, 2025.

BMS25 is a hybrid conference. The main focus will be on in-person
presentations but online participation and discussion will be
possible.

The BMS25 plenary speakers are:

Jubin Abutalebi (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Italy) Claudine
Kirsch (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Viorica Marian
(Northwestern University, USA)

The affiliated programme of events includes a language-focused mini
tour of Scotland; a conference dinner, a Bilingualism Matters training
and networking event with Prof Antonella Sorace and a master class
with study visits on “Heritage language policy and practice in
Scotland” with Prof Rob Dunbar.

Call for Papers:

BMS2025 themes

The upcoming Bilingualism Matters Symposium (BMS) intends to bring
scholars and practitioners together around the theme of heritage and
minority languages. Contributions are welcome from different
perspectives pertaining to: the acquisition, development and
maintenance of heritage and minority languages in both neurotypical
and neurodivergent bilinguals, educational aspects, such as heritage
language education or the education of children with a heritage or
minority language background, policy issues related to heritage and
minority languages, social attitudes and perceptions. All
methodological and theoretical approaches are welcome.

Besides soliciting submissions from researchers, we specifically
encourage the submission of classroom studies, small and large
community projects, best practice examples, and experience-based
reports from practitioners. A practitioner is defined as any
individual working only outside academic institutions (e.g. teachers,
policymakers, speech-language therapists).

Different submission and review criteria apply for researchers and
practitioners (see guidelines below).

Submission Guidelines for Researchers:

Abstracts will be considered for two types of presentation: oral
presentation (20 min) or poster. All abstracts must be submitted in
English. Abstracts cannot exceed the limit of 500 words, excluding
tables and references. Describe in your abstract how your research is
relevant to the needs of the general public, professionals (health,
education, etc.), policymakers and others Figures, tables, etc. may be
added (.jpeg, .jpg, .png, .gif, .webp only. Authors can indicate a
preference for an oral or poster presentation. However, the Programme
Committee reserves the right to decide on the final format Abstracts
must be submitted directly to the Oxford Abstracts:
https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/75805/submitter

Reviewing criteria:

Our panel of expert reviewers will choose abstracts based on the
following criteria:

Originality - Does the research make a contribution to knowledge?
Academic rigour - Is the theoretical background clearly described? Are
the arguments sound, clear, and logical?
Availability of results - What is the stage of the research? Are
results available?
Presentation - Is the writing clear? Is it appropriately organised? Is
the length appropriate?
Social relevance - Does the research have the potential to be relevant
to non-academic audiences? Is it explained clearly?

Submission for Practitioners:

Abstracts will be considered for two types of presentation: oral
presentation (20 min) or poster. All abstracts must be submitted in
English. Abstracts cannot exceed the limit of 500 words, excluding
tables and references. Figures, tables, etc.s may be added (.jpeg,
.jpg, .png, .gif, .webp only).Authors can indicate a preference for an
oral or poster presentation. However, the Programme Committee reserves
the right to decide on the final format Please submit your abstract to
Oxford Abstracts:
https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/75804/submitter

Reviewing criteria for practitioners:

Our panel of expert reviewers will choose abstracts based on the
following criteria:

Relevance to the conference theme
Presentation - Is the writing clear? Is it appropriately organised? Is
the length appropriate?
Social relevance - Does the abstract have the potential to be relevant
to wider audiences? Is it explained clearly?

Important dates

Submission deadline: 15th September 2024 23:59 CET
Notification of acceptance: 31st October 2024
Registration open: 20th June 2024
Conference date: 24th & 25th March 2025



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