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Thursday, 14 April 2020Our recent publication "Linguistic Diversity, Multilingualism, and Cognitive Skills: A Study of Disadvantaged Children in India" was chosen as the cover of the journal Languages.

Thursday, 6 February 2019Dr Lina Mukhopadhyay (Co-investigator at Hyderabad) was invited to give a talk "Does translanguaging in narrative retelling reveal differences in L1 & L2 learning?" at the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism, University of Reading.  

Friday, 14 February 2020Vasim Tamboli, Kankan Das and Lina Mukhopadhyay (Co-investigator at Hyderabad) gave a presentation "Inference generation as part of a child’s Theory of Mind: A study of Indian primary grade learners" at the 2nd International Conference on Indigenous Languages (ICOIL-2), IIT Madras, Chennai.

Saturday, 1 November 2018The Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Dept. of Biological Sciences at BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus and Centre for Neural and Cognitive Sciences (CNCS) at the University of Hyderabad jointly organized a 3-day International symposium on "Bilingualism and Cognition" from 1 to 3 November, 2018.The core themes of the symposium we…

Saturday, 21 September 2019The 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…

Thursday, 12 September 2019Professor Theo Marinis (Co-investigator at University of Reading) gave a keynote speech Multilingual Education in India: Effects of Language of Instruction on the development of Literacy and Mathematical Skills at the 14th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition conference (GALA 14) on 12th September 2019.  The Conf…

Tuesday, 3 September 2019Professor Theo Marinis (Co-investigator at University of Reading) gave a keynote speech Multilingual Education in India: Effects of Language of Instruction on the development of Literacy and Mathematical Skills at the Conference on Multilingualism 2019 (COM2019) on 3rd September 2019.  The Conference was hosted by Leiden Un…

The MultiLila Workshop will be held in November 28-29, 2019, at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge. The workshop will be open to academics and researchers from India and the UK to discuss issues regarding multilingualism in India and the UK educational contexts.  See the program here.  To register (free): mamindia@mml.cam.ac.uk.

Tuesday, 24 September 2019Professor Lina Mukhopadhyay was invited by the Asia-Pacific Multilingual Education Working Group to give a talk on "Translanguaging practices in developing primary grade school skills:  Evidences from challenging Indian contexts" at the 6th International Conference on Language and Education and the 13th Language and Develo…

Monday 22 October 2018Professor Tsimpli presented some preliminary findings of the project in the SLEG seminar. She illustrated the norm of multilingualism in India. However, learning outcomes for many school children appear low and hard to improve. Focusing on the comparison between children from urban slums with those from urban non-slum areas al…

Thursday 3 May 2018Professor Ianthi Tsimpli gave a presentation, "Multilingual children in underprivileged contexts: literacy, numeracy and cognition in primary school children in India" at the May meeting of the Irish Research Network in Childhood Bilingualism and Multilingualism. The Irish Research Network in Childhood Bilingualism and Multilingu…

Monday 5 November 2018Professor Tsimpli gave a presentation, "Literacy, numeracy and cognition in primary school children from underprivileged contexts in India: the role of multilingualism and medium of instruction: in CCLS lecture sereis. The CCLS especially supports students and junior researchers and assists all linguists in practical matters. …

Thursday 14 June 2018Professor Ianthi Tsimpli was invited as Distinguished Speaker by Language@Leeds to give a talk on "Multilingualism and multiliteracy in primary school children in India: Linguistic and cognitive effects" at the University of Leeds. She introduced her project that seeks to understand how structural and language inequalities affe…

Tuesday 25 September 2018Professor Ianthi Tsimpli gave a presentation "Literacy, numeracy and cognition in multilingual children from underprivileged contexts: a study of primary school children in India" at the Prague workshop held at the Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Jan Palach Square, Prague. The Prague workshop on bilingualism flags the …

Friday 27th July 2018Professor Theodoros Marinis gave a keynote speech at the CCD Conference "Current Issues in Child Bilingual Development", organised by the Australian Research Council at Macquarie University.