Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science

Category: Consortium

Lisbon symposium on heritage language learning and education

Heritage language learning and education: Cross-disciplinary perspectives

Faculdade de Letras, University of Lisbon, December 18, 2017

Greatly enjoyed participating at the inaugural event of the new Heritage Language Consortium at my alma mater. The symposium provided a snapshot of the exciting work conducted by some of our members in the domain of heritage and second language learning. Nice range of approaches (experimental, computational, and corpus-based), all of them essential to move forward our understanding of heritage language learning. And particularly pleased that we share the same mission: Understand the fundamentals of language and language learning, then apply this to boost educational effectiveness and improve language education.

Thanks again to Ana Lúcia Santos for organizing and to CLUL for hosting us. You can download the program, including abstracts, by clicking on this link.

 

 

Heritage Language Consortium: Website now online!

Thrilled to announce that the website of our new Heritage Language Consortium is now online.

The Heritage Language Consortium, is a strategic partnership between Lancaster University, the University of Lisbon, the University of Minho, NOVA University Lisbon, the University of Porto, Tübingen University, and Camões: Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Very honored to serve as Director of this important initiative, and very grateful to colleagues in Braga, Lancaster, Lisbon, Porto and Tuebingen for their help in getting this off the ground.

Please click on this link to learn more about the Consortium: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/heritage-language/

The launch is set for December 19, when our Memorandum of Understanding is signed during an official cerimony in Lisbon. On the day before, the University of Lisbon (my alma mater…) will organize a symposium to celebrate the occasion (click here for program). Thanks to Ana Lúcia Santos and CLUL for hosting us.

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