{"id":386,"date":"2017-12-23T14:48:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T14:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-language\/?p=386"},"modified":"2021-10-12T14:47:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T14:47:29","slug":"official-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-language\/2017\/12\/23\/official-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Official launch of the Consortium"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Heritage Language 2 Consortium was formally established on December 19, 2017.<\/p>\n

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed at a ceremony in Lisbon to officially launch the Consortium. The launch event featured statements by the Secretary of State for the Portuguese Communities, Dr Jos\u00e9 Lu\u00eds Carneiro, by the Secretary of State for Education, Professor Jo\u00e3o Costa, by the President of the Cam\u00f5es Institute, Ambassador Lu\u00eds Faro Ramos, and by the Consortium\u2019s Director, Professor Patrick Rebuschat, Lancaster University.<\/p>\n

The new Heritage Language 2 Consortium gives researchers from many disciplines \u2013 linguistics, education, psychology, and computer science \u2013 access to more than \u00a0130,000 learners worldwide to investigate language development from many different aspects. Ten departments and research units across the Consortium partners will play a central role.<\/p>\n

The Consortium Director, Professor Patrick Rebuschat, said: \u201cThis strategic partnership provides us with a unique opportunity \u2013 no other country maintains such a significant heritage language network overseas, and we will have privileged access to substantial, yet completely unexplored data.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Consortium is a major international initiative which uses Portuguese as a \u2018test case\u2019. The insights gained from this project will be applicable to other languages, of course. Our research will help us understand how children and adults learn new languages and identify those factors that make some of us particularly good language learners. We can then use these insights to improve language teaching.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Consortium will also organize impact and outreach initiatives to engage with parents, teachers, and policy makers across Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n

The idea for the partnership was born earlier this year when the Portuguese Secretary of State for Education, Professor Jo\u00e3o Costa, visited Lancaster University to deliver a keynote at a conference<\/a> organized by Professor Rebuschat.<\/p>\n

The event focused on bilingualism and heritage language education across Europe.<\/p>\n

It brought together policy makers from the Portuguese Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Education, leading academics, journalists, school teachers and parents to discuss current trends and challenges in heritage language research and education.<\/p>\n

We look forward to begin working on this exciting and important initiative.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Caption:\u00a0A Memorandum of Understanding was signed at a ceremony in Lisbon to officially launch the Consortium. From left to right: Ambassador Lu\u00eds Faro Ramos, President of the Cam\u00f5es Institute; Dr Jos\u00e9 Lu\u00eds Carneiro, Secretary of State for Portuguese Communities; Professor Jo\u00e3o Costa, Portuguese Secretary of State for Education; Professor Susana Trov\u00e3o, NOVA University Lisbon; Dr Patrick Rebuschat, Lancaster University; Professor Maria de F\u00e1tima Marinho, University of Porto; Professor Detmar Meurers, T\u00fcbingen University; Professor Paulo Farmhouse Alberto, University of Lisbon; Professor Cristina Flores, University of Minho.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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