Programme:
| 9:00-9:30 | Arrival, tea, coffee | |
| 9:30-10:30 | Plenary lecture: Bilingualism: connecting policies and communities Prof. Antonella Sorace, University of Edinburgh and Bilingualism Matters Clore Building, Birkbeck College, 25-27 Torrington Square, Bloomsbury, London, WC1E 7JL |
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| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Workshops (Rooms 101, 102 and 407; Birkbeck College, 30 Russell Square, Bloomsbury, London, WC1B 5DT) |
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| Workshop 1: Multilingual children and language brokering (Dr. Sarah Crafter, The Open University and Kim Armstrong, Mothertongue) |
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| Workshop 2: Multilingual children in foster care (Prof. Alison Phipps, University of Glasgow; Joanna Mungai, Mothertongue; Stephanie Yorath/Mor Dioum, Victoria Climbié Foundation) | White paper | |
| Workshop 3: Bilingualism and speech impairment (Vicky Chondrogianni, University of Edinburgh and Bilingualism Matters) | ||
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Workshops (Rooms 101, 102 and 407; Birkbeck College, 30 Russell Square, Bloomsbury, London, WC1B 5DT) |
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| Workshop 4: Language, emotion and therapy (Dr. Beverley Costa, Mothertongue; Prof. Jean-Marc Dewaele, Birkbeck College) | Slides | |
| Workshop 5: Citizenship, language and identity (Prof. Monika S. Schmid, University of Essex; Dr. Melanie Cooke, King’s College London) | Slides Cooke, Slides Schmid | |
| Workshop 6: Language attrition and problems of intergenerational transmission of the minority language (Prof. Antonella Sorace, University of Edinburgh and Bilingualism Matters) | ||
| 16:00-17:00 | Plenary lecture: Once a Native, Always a Native? – First language attrition among multilingual migrants Prof. Monika S. Schmid, University of Essex Clore Building, Birkbeck College, 25-27 Torrington Square, Bloomsbury, London, WC1E 7JL |
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Language Attrition 