{"id":918,"date":"2021-10-15T11:39:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T11:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-language\/?p=918"},"modified":"2021-11-16T11:29:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T11:29:38","slug":"webinar-raising-a-bilingual-child-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-language\/2021\/10\/15\/webinar-raising-a-bilingual-child-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Webinar: Raising a Bilingual Child Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday 6th October, 2021, the challenges and opportunities surrounding language learning and bilingual development were discussed by a panel of leading experts. These included Paul Dunne, Headmaster of St. John Bosco College in Battersea; Patrick Rebuschat, Professor of linguistics and cognitive science at Lancaster University and Director of the Heritage Language 2 Consortium; Federica Piedimonte, Teacher of Italian language and culture teacher; and Agnieszka Derleta, \u00a0Head of Polish\/English as an Additional Language (EAL) Department at St Thomas More in Bedford.<\/p>\n<p>Both the presentations and audience&#8217;s contributions\u00a0 were very insightful and the webinar offered some very exciting leads to further discussions.<\/p>\n<p>The event was a joint initiative of St. John Bosco College, the Embassy of the Republic of Poland, the Cam\u00f5es Instiute, and the Italian General Consulate in London.<\/p>\n<p>Please see the YouTube link below to watch the webinar in full.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IuXCEUjgMxs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday 6th October, 2021, the challenges and opportunities surrounding language learning and bilingual development were discussed by a panel of leading experts. These included Paul Dunne, Headmaster of St. John Bosco College in Battersea; Patrick Rebuschat, Professor of linguistics and cognitive science at Lancaster University and Director of the Heritage Language 2 Consortium; Federica [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34],"tags":[38,39,25],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outreach","tag-camoes-institute","tag-lancaster","tag-outreach","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9cul2-eO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/heritage-language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}