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14th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition conference (GALA 14), University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

5 March 2020

Thursday, 12 September 2019 Professor 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...

Conference on Multilingualism 2019 (COM2019), Leiden University (The Netherlands)

5 March 2020

Tuesday, 3 September 2019 Professor 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...

MultiLila Workshop, 28-29 November 2019, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge

29 October 2019

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@...

13th Language and Development Conferences, Bangkok, Thailand

15 October 2019

Tuesday, 24 September 2019 Professor 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...

SLEG seminar at Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge

20 March 2019

Monday 22 October 2018 Professor 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...

Irish Research Network in Childhood Bilingualism and Multilingualism, Trinity College Dublin

20 March 2019

Thursday 3 May 2018 Professor 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...

CCLS (Cologne Center of Language Sciences) Lecture Series, University of Cologne

20 March 2019

Monday 5 November 2018 Professor 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...

Language@Leeds

20 March 2019

Thursday 14 June 2018 Professor 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...

Prague Workshop on Bilingualism

20 March 2019

Tuesday 25 September 2018 Professor 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...

CCD Conference 2018, Australian Research Council

14 August 2018

Friday 27th July 2018 Professor 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.