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- Vluchtelingen en NT2
Extra college in de BA-cursus Onderwijs Nederlands: op woensdag 2 november van 15:15-17:00 uur komt Anne Kerkhoff van de Fontys Hogeschool langs voor een gastcollege. Anne Kerkhoff en Jacomine Nortier … Continue reading
- Multilingualism: ideas and good practices
Do you want to know how business companies can profit from multilingualism? How to handle linguistic barriers between doctors and patients? Or how linguistic diversity can be an eye-catching theme for … Continue reading
- Multilingual Living Magazine
Hundreds of popular articles on all possible aspects of multilingualism. All issues of Multilingual Living Magazine are now free. Topics ranging from “Is it ok for a parent to speak more than one lang … Continue reading
- Drongo 2015
Kom naar Drongo! Op 25 en 26 september 2015 vindt in Utrecht het jaarlijkse Drongo festival plaats waar meertaligheid wordt gevierd. On September 25-26, 2015, multilingualism will be celebrated at the … Continue reading
- LUCIDE Toolkits: translations now online availabe in ten languages
The toolkits have been translated into **ten** different European languages, now online available. The toolkits are useful collections of ideas and good practices on urban multilingualism based on res … Continue reading
- LUCIDE Toolkits Multilingualism
The output of the LUCIDE project is now available! Read more about LUCIDE on http://www.urbanlanguages.eu/ and go to http://www.urbanlanguages.eu/toolkits to take a look at the toolkits that were deve … Continue reading
- What objections could you have against foreign language learning?
I copied this link from Ruxandra Comănaru who attended the conference “No island is an island” at the Language Show last week. The conference was organised by the EC and while it focused on the benefi … Continue reading
- ‘Many languages, one world’: UN launches essay contest to celebrate multilingualism
Interested? Visit this website: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=46265&Cr=multicultural&Cr1=#.Ul_1dtK8Dug Information about the contest, including guidelines for submission, can be … Continue reading
- Multilingualism: ‘The Key Debates’ in Schouwburg De Harmonie, Leeuwarden
12 and 13 September; http://www.nationaleonderwijsgids.nl/universiteit/nieuws/19370-acht-wereldto ppers-in-debat-over-taal.html
- Links
Did you know that we add new links on multilingualism almost daily? Take a look at the Links page! And please, let us know what links on multilingualism you want to be posted.
- Drongo Festival Meertaligheid op 28 september
DRONGO zoekt nog vrijwilligers! Zowel vrijwilligers voor op de dag zelf, als vrijwilligers om te helpen in aanloop naar het festival. Wie wil ons helpen? Meld je aan! http://drongofestival.nl/contact/ … Continue reading
- Werken als vertaler bij de EU?
Werken als vertaler bij de EU? De vertaalafdeling Nederlands van de Europese Commissie is op zoek naar nieuwe collega’s. Tot en met 13 augustus kun je je inschrijven voor het examen. Kijk snel op http … Continue reading
- Summer School on Multilingualism in Barcelona 16-19 September
You might be interested in the 3rd Barcelona Summer School on Bilingualism and Multilingualism, taking place in Barcelona from 16-19 September this year. A major component of it will be concerned with … Continue reading
- Talk Suzanne Aalberse & Francesca Moro 8th July
On Monday 8 Juy at 15:00 uur we will have our final BIMU lecture of this academic year. The room is 0.19 at Trans 10 (A.W.de Grootkamer): Stability in form and function; the case of Mandarin and Malay … Continue reading
- 28 September: Drongo festival on multilingualism – proposals for labs – deadline extended
DRONGO* Festival 2013 Herinnering – Oproep voor LABS N.B. Deadline nadert: 3 juni 2013. Op zaterdag 28 september 2013 vindt in de Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam de tweede editie van het DRONGOFESTIVAL … Continue reading
- Three vacancies in psycholinguistics (two pre-docs, one post-doc) on Multilingualism
Three vacancies in psycholinguistics (two pre-docs, one post-doc)The interface between memory and language in multilingualism. We offer three positions in psycholinguistics in connection to the proje … Continue reading
- Lezing van Goffe Jensma en Nanna Hilton (RUG) over de MA Multilingualism die in september 2013 van start gaat in Groningen
Op maandag 6 mei aanstaande zullen Goffe Jensma en Nanna Hilton (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) hun plannen presenteren rondom de nieuwe opleidingen die deel uit zullen maken van de nieuwe MA Multilingu … Continue reading
- Conference in Friesland 12-14 September, 2013: Multilingualism – The Key Debates
The University of Groningen is launching a new MA programme in Multilingualism in September 2013, in cooperation with University Campus Fryslân (UCF) and the NHL Leeuwarden. To celebrate the launch of … Continue reading
- The Sound of Utrecht
The sound of Utrecht Thank you for your input; comments are welcome!
- Languages in Utrecht
Ivana Brasileiro, Judith Ridder and Jacomine Nortier participate in LUCIDE, a project on multilingualism in 16 European cities. Utrecht is one of these and now the three of us are writing a ‘City Repo … Continue reading
- Journal Club on Language, Brain and Cognition in Utrecht
We are pleased to announce a weekly journal club meeting on language, brain and cognition. Readings will be centered around predictive behavior in language processing, and around bilingualism and cogn … Continue reading
- Talk by Merel Keijzer: March 4th
The causal mechanisms underlying first language reversion in elderlybilingual migrants Due to increased international mobility and longer life expectancies,developed countries are increasingly c … Continue reading
- Language Rich Europe: What is it? Factsheet.
LRE Factsheet Jan 2013 – Go to Links for more info
- Call to participate in research to explore experiences of multilingual people who have undertaken counselling or psychotherapy
Dear multilingual, Mothertongue multi-ethnic counselling service (www.mothertongue.org.uk) and the Applied Linguistics Department of Birkbeck College, University of London (www.bbk.ac.uk/linguistics/) … Continue reading
- Nieuw hulpmiddel bij taaldiagnostiek van meertalige kinderen online: een Wiki met informatie over talen, gericht op logopedisten en klinisch linguisten die de T1 / eerste taal van het kind willen beoordelen, als dat niet Nederlands is.
http://meertaligheidentaalstoornissenvu.wikispaces.com/Welkom
- New platform for researchers in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
We are happy to announce the new CLIL Research Network website for the international community of CLIL researchers: www.clil-ren.org. At this website you will find updates on CLIL related events, publ … Continue reading
- Bilingual schools in the Netherlands: slides form Rick de Graaff’s presentation on January 7th, 2013
Rick de Graaff CLIL slides from 7 January 2013
- Ad Backus 14 January, 2013: Powerpoint on Superdiverse Repertoires
Reading group 14 Jan 2013 on Blommaert and Backus
- Lab meeting 28 January Maria Luisa Canavesio
Maria Luisa Canavesio is a visiting PhD student from Trento University who is affiliated to our institute for the whole of January. Her research centers on bilingual primary education (Italian-English … Continue reading
- Rick de Graaff’s talk starts at 15:00 (not 15:30)!
With apologies for any confusion, the BIMU talk this afternoon (Jan 7) will start at 15:00 — as have all other talks — and not at 15:30 as previously advertised. Hope to see you there!
- BIMU talk in February: Sharon Peperkamp (Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Paris)
Monday Feb 4th, 15:00-16:30, Room 0.19, Trans 10Cognitive and social factors in bilingual phonological processingI will present results from two studies on phonological processing in bilinguals. The f … Continue reading
- Talk on first day back! Rick de Graaff on CLIL (content and language teaching and learning)
Please join us on — what for most of us will be — the first day back after the holidays, for a talk on bilingual education by recently appointed professor, Rick de Graaff. See under events for detai … Continue reading
- Review (in Dutch) of book on urban multilingualism (2009)
Jürgen Jaspers (red.): De klank van de stad. Stedelijke meertaligheid en interculturele communicatie. Leuven: ACCO, 2009. 219 blz. Review by Jacomine Nortier
- Review of book Social Justice through Multilingual Education (2009)
Skutnabb-Kangas, Philipson, Mohanty and Panda (eds.): Social Justice through Multilingual Education (2009)Review by Emmanuelle Vorstman-le Pichon
- News 10 October 2012
BIMU Newsletter 10 October 2012
- News on multilingualism
Links to sites/news on multilingualism: Made and maintained by our colleagues Sharon Unsworth, Manuela Pinto and Ivana Brasileiro: http://www.growingupbilingual.org/ Which do you know/use?http://www.e … Continue reading
- A selection from this week’s links from the (social) media
http://www.nu.nl/wetenschap/2799696/tweetaligheid-nieuwe-kruiswoordpuzzel.html http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/life-bilingual/201205/the-wax-and-wane-languages http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2012/04/ … Continue reading
- Summer School on Multilingualism in Prague
In the attachment you will find an announcement from our colleagues in Prague who organise a Summer School on Multilingualism for PhD students. There are no registration costs but participants have to … Continue reading
- TRAM – promoting multilingualism in EU education
A Comenius training for pedagogical staff