Saturday, 21 September 2019
The 2nd Bilingualism Matters Research Symposium (BMRS2019) was held on Saturday 21st September 2019 at the Outreach Centre, University of Edinburgh Holyrood Campus. Around 80 researchers from around the world attended, giving wide-ranging oral and poster presentations on the latest research into bilingualism and language learning. Professor Ianthi Maria Tsimpli was invited as a keynote speaker and gave a lecture entitled "Multilingualism in underprivileged contexts: effects on cognition and school skills".