Stadt: Wuppertal

Frist: 2018-06-15

Beginn: 2018-10-08

Ende: 2018-10-10

URL: https://www.romanistik.uni-wuppertal.de/tagungenconferences.html

Round Table 1: Language Dominance in Multilingual Children: Measurement and Effects – Discussant: Cornelia Hamann

Multilingual children use their languages for different purposes and with different people. A central theme in the study of early child multilingualism therefore is how the different uses can be described. The term language dominance is often employed to capture the idea that the multilingual child uses one of her/his languages more than the other language(s). But does this also mean that s/he is less proficient in her/his language which is used less, when it comes to syntactic knowledge? And what does it exactly mean to be a balanced or a dominant multilingual child? How can we measure language dominance, especially if the child acquires more than two languages?

We invite abstracts of original research to be submitted to Natascha Müller (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, nmueller@uni-wuppertal.de) no later than 15th of June 2018. The topic will be discussed within the conference “The view from the multilingual child: Linguistic theory, language use and language strategies in and outside school” (8th – 10th of October 2018, Bergische Universität Wuppertal) in the form of a round table together with experts in the field.

Round Table 2: Language Strategies for Multilingual Families – Discussant: Katja Cantone

Research studies on early child multilingualism have detected different strategies applied by parents who want to foster and maintain multilingualism in their children’s language acquisition in early years and beyond. These strategies also express the parents’ expectations regarding their children’s language use. Especially in the case of simultaneous acquisition of more than two languages from birth, these strategies have been of major importance. At present, parental discourse strategies and their effects on the child’s language development and maintenance of multilingualism are widely understudied. Thus, several questions have to be addressed, such as: What kind of parental strategies do precisely exist and how do they effect language acquisition and, in particular, language use? Are some strategies more effective than others? How is the choice of a certain strategy related to the parents’ own language biography and skills? Are there strategies which help the child to maintain multilingualism when entering school in a monolingual setting?

We invite abstracts of original research to be submitted to Natascha Müller (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, nmueller@uni-wuppertal.de) no later than 15th of June 2018.

The topic will be discussed within the conference “The view from the multilingual child: Linguistic theory, language use and language strategies in and outside school” (8th – 10th of October 2018, Bergische Universität Wuppertal) in the form of a round table together with experts in the field.

More information is available at https://www.romanistik.uni-wuppertal.de/tagungenconferences.html

Beitrag von: Karen Wimmel

Redaktion: Marcel Schmitt