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Publication

All presenters are invited to send us papers by February 1st, 2023 and depending on the number and quality of papers we receive , we shall publish them in a special issue of Spanish journal ELIA or as an edited volume. All papers will undergo blind peer review. Submissions should be made though ELIA's website (https://revistas.uned.es/index.php/ELIA/index ).

About

With a view to gaining an insight into the various concepts that intersect with bilingualism, we decided to organise a series of biennial international conferences which would enable researchers to present ground-breaking research and eventually cause positive changes in academia and society at large. 

While the first edition (2018) dealt with the challenges, limits and solutions involved when considering bilingualism and interculturality, and the second edition (2020) addressed the relationship between bilingualism and migration, this third conference will concentrate on the confluence of bilingualism and bilingual education with their immediate and extended social contexts. 
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Bilingualism and Bilingual Education are more than ever present in our society due to an increase in the sensitization of society towards the advantages of developing competences in more than one language. On many other occasions, the adoption of bilingualism and bilingual education in a particular social context may just respond to the fact that bilingualism and multilingualism have become the norm in today’s globalised world. This international conference thus aims to provide a platform for researchers interested in discussing bilingualism and bilingual education against the backdrop of sociolinguistics.

Plenary speakers

Professor Antonella Sorace 
​University of Edinburgh, UK
Connecting the cognitive and social aspects of bilingualism
   Professor Francisco Moreno Fernández            
​University of Heidelberg, Germany
Demografía de las lenguas: el español en minoría

Topics

The sociolinguistics of learning a foreign language 
Linguistic choices and migration 
The interface between learning a language and learning the culture 
Family bilingualism 
Attitudes towards bilingualism and foreign language learning 
Bilingual education in monolingual and bilingual contexts 
Policies towards bilingualism and bilingual education 
Bilingualism in migrant families 
Heritage languages ​ 
The effects of new technologies on bilingualism and bilingual education in relation to the context 
Language variation and language learning 
Language planning 
Bilingualism and demographics 
Colabora:
Departamento de Filologías Extranjeras y sus Lingüísticas
Departamento de Lengua Española y Lingüística General
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