We would like to invite you to an open lecture by Prof. Theo Marinis (University of Konstanz) on “Multilingual child language acquisition: Comparing the development of the heritage and the majority language” to be held online on 28th April 2022 at 5 pm CET. This will be the seventh lecture of the IAS Invited Lecture Series in Bilingualism and Multilingualism organised in 2021-22 by the Faculty of English and Bilingualism Matters@Poznań and convened by prof. Magdalena Wrembel and prof. Anna Ewert.
Prof. Theo Marinis (University of Konstanz)
“Multilingual child language acquisition: Comparing the development of the heritage and the majority language”
Abstract: Children who grow up speaking one language in the home (home or heritage language) that is different from the language of the society they live in (societal or majority language) are a very heterogeneous group in terms of language outcomes in the two languages. The heterogeneity depends to a large extent on the amount of language exposure and use in a formal and an informal environment, which changes dynamically when children start attending kindergarten and school and engage more in activities that require the use of the majority language.
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