Bilingualism Matters at Reading

12/11/2021

Calling Polish families in the UK to take part in this new study. Bilingolab: Jak Bilingwalne Dzieci Uczą się Języka are finding out more about how Polish-English bilingual children learn their two languages. All testing if fun and online!

Chcesz pomóc nam dowiedzieć się więcej o dwujęzyczności i jak dzieci uczą się języków? Ty i Twoje dziecko możecie zapisać się do udziału w naszych badaniach: http://warwick.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cUXZI6nviHZii7I

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Want to help us find out more about bilingualism and how children learn languages? You and your child can now sign up to take part in our study:
http://warwick.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_574qh91H3d6OYnk

30/04/2021

Catch up with the Centre of Literacy and Multilingualism blog. A recent post on language and music in autistic spectrum disorder : https://research.reading.ac.uk/celm/why-do-we-sing-the-alphabet-music-and-language-processing-in-autism-spectrum-disorder-asd/

and a brand new one on language and emergent literacy in Arabic-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder: https://research.reading.ac.uk/celm/early-language-emergent-literacy-skills-and-developmental-language-disorder-what-can-we-learn-from-arabic-speaking-children/

Early language, emergent literacy skills, and developmental language disorder: What can we learn from Arabic-speaking children? 30th April 2021 Blog, Health, Language and Literacy, News, Ian Cunnings By Zakiyah A. Alsiddiqi (PhD Student – School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences) Resear...

12/04/2021

Join us at the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism on Thursday 22/4 at 4pm (UK time) to find out how language use in families has been affected over the last year in the UK, Ireland and Norway. We will be joined by colleagues from UCL and from the MultiLing Center at the University of Oslo.

Plenty of time for Q&A.

The event is free but you need to register: http://bit.ly/3sqVZqc

05/02/2021

Less than 3 weeks to ! Book your place now.

Join us on 22nd February at 6pm at the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism and the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing to celebrate with this exciting talk about translations of children's book and the cultural movement of '68.

This online event is free but please register your interest here: http://bit.ly/2KYp9N6

19/01/2021

Calling parents of Italian-English 4-to-8-year-olds for an online study.

See details below. Amazon vouchers for participants!

13/01/2021

Join us on 22nd February at 6pm at the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism and the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing to celebrate with this exciting talk about translations of children's book and the cultural movement of '68.

This online event is free but please register your interest here: http://bit.ly/2KYp9N6

22/12/2020

Are you a parent/carer of a primary school-aged child? We want to hear about your home-led activities during the .

£50 voucher prize-draw at the end of Dec. To learn more and take part:

Online survey BOS

11/11/2020

Calling all UK families of bilingual children aged between 6 and 12 years old.

Emily Wright, a PhD student at the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism at the University of Reading - supervised by Ludovica Serratrice and Vesna Stojanovik - is looking for participants for her exciting new project on children's language and cognition.

Participants will receive a £10 Amazon voucher.

Please fill in this short online form to express your interest in taking part:

Online survey BOS

11/09/2020

Children in Ireland share their experiences of multilingualism. Great to hear the children's voices for a change!

Listen to the podcast produced by Mothertongues Ireland in collaboraton with RTE here:

Listen to live and catch-up radio, and browse RTÉ Radio schedules and podcast catalogue

11/09/2020

Our study on language use in multilingual families during lockdown was featured in the NewYork/Times!

You can read Sophie Hardach's beautiful piece here:

For some families, the pandemic has meant a return to their native languages.

03/09/2020

Calling all UK families of hearing and deaf children between 6 and 12, both monolingual and multilingual!

Emily Wright, a PhD student at the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism at the University of Reading - supervised by Ludovica Serratrice and Vesna Stojanovik - is looking for participants for her exciting new project on children's language and cognition. Participants will receive a £10 Amazon voucher.

Please check out her project page here and share! Thank you :)

Research Projects on Deaf Children with English as an Additional Language (EAL) 3rd July 2020 Language and literacy, Emily Wright Emily Wright, PhD student, is conducting two projects on deaf children. The projects are being supervised by Professor Ludovica Serratrice and Professor Vesna Stojanovik....