Bimult Conference

21/11/2021

Tune in for the last plenary speaker's talk now!

Jason Rothman "Lingualism" as a spectrum: Consequences and methodological insights when it includes more than one language!

20/11/2021

The conference has started with the first keynote speaker Prof. Kleanthes K. Grohmann talking about Grammatical Gender in Young Australian Heritage Greek Speakers.

12/11/2021

And here's the final program of the conference with our keynote speakers, presenters and Chairs!

Register in advance to receive the meeting link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe_b-VsDJNfphOYBDJc65Au7OKqi8u-fa_PCuB2_EKtZkXHHw/viewform

See you all next week!

25/10/2021

The BiMuLT conference program is ready and we are looking forward to all the talks listed!

13/10/2021

📢 The Preliminary Conference Program has been sent today to all conference presenters.

Several interesting talks on various topics promise an exciting event on November 20th-21st!

Stay tuned for the publication of the final program soon!

05/09/2021

Don't forget to register for the conference!

Presenters and attendees are both welcomed!

This is the registration form for the New Approaches to Bilingualism and Multilingualism and Language Learning/Teaching Conference (BiMuLT), which will take place online at the University of Cyprus on November 20-21, 2021. There is no registration fee for the conference. Please fill out the followin...

19/07/2021

The Scientific Committee contributing to the BiMuLT conference:

Kyriakos Antoniou (Cyprus University of Technology)

Spyros Armostis (University of Cyprus)

Constantina Fotiou (University of Cyprus)

Valantis Fyndanis (Cyprus University of Technology)

Petros Karatsareas (University of Westminster)

Dimitra Karoulla-Vrikki (European University Cyprus)

Tanja Kupisch (Universität Konstanz)

Anika Lloyd-Smith (Universität Konstanz)

Theo Marinis (Universität Konstanz)

Agnieszka Otwinowska-Kasztelanic (Uniwersytet Warszawski)

Phoevos Panagiotidis (University of Cyprus)

Michael T. Putnam (Penn State University)

Elena Theodorou (Cyprus University of Technology)

Stavroula Tsiplakou (Open University of Cyprus)

Yulia Rodina (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)

17/07/2021

The deadline for the abstracts has passed! Thank you for those submitting their abstract. We will contact you with updates when the review process has been completed.

13/07/2021

Two days left before the abstract submission deadline! Thank you to those who submitted an abstract already and we are looking forward to welcoming more submissions!

22/06/2021

Call for abstracts: Deadline July 15, 2021

The conference will take place on November 20-21, 2021.

Conference Description:

Multilingual environments have attracted the interest of those working on language acquisition (Rothman et al., 2019; Schmid and Kopke, 2019), variation and learning (Martin-Jones et al., 2015; Singleton and Aronin, 2019) as well as multiliteracy, home language development, education and language policy (Wright et al., 2017; Montanari and Quay, 2019; Schalley and Eisenchlas, 2020; Breuer et al., 2021). Some of the common questions raised in this research are related to the issues in understanding the nature and processes of bilingualism/multilingualim, the exposure and influence on a particular population by a dominant language, the age of exposure to input from the dominant language, the grammar properties affected by it, and the overall competence of the bilingual/multilingual speaker (Deluca et al., 2019, Lohndal et al., 2019). Heritage language acquisition as another bilingual/mutilingual context raises the question of the input conditions during acquisition (Montrul, 2016; Polinsky, 2018; Domínguez et al., 2019). Scientific considerations on these issues rely on a variety of methodologies in the study of acquisition and the application of these theories in teaching. Data from multilingual speakers are also important since they involve grammars that often interact in interesting ways that a theory of possible mental grammars needs to incorporate. These mental grammars identify the linguistic properties that characterize multilingual speakers in societies within a broader concept of ‘comparative lingualities’ (Grohmann and Kambanaros, 2016) focusing on their recognition and study for the advancement of linguistic theory.

We aim for the conference to take place in Nicosia, Cyprus. However, a final decision will be made in September 2021 on the basis of the assessment of the COVID-19 pandemic in Cyprus and internatio…

26/05/2021

The conference announcement can also be found on the AItLA website (Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata – Italian Applied Linguistics Society)

Sito ufficiale dell'Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata