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The Next Generation Literacies international research network hosts a free 2-day research symposium devoted to language diversity and participation across generations and contexts.

When: December 10 and 11, 2021
Where: online (register your attendance here)
Who: Researchers in education and language in social life

Language diversity is a feature of all contemporary differentiated societies around the globe. Due to migration, globalization and new communication technologies, individuals need to cope with and be able to use multiple languages in order to actively participate in society. This symposium contextualizes the potential of multiliteracy throughout an individuals’ lifespan in multiple contexts (academia, education, home and workplace). The symposium looks at the development and support of multiliteracy in the family, educational pathways, and integration in the work place. More specifically, the talks give insight into how families use digital media and how professionals in school deal with and foster multiliteracy. Across the lifespan, as individuals get older, multilingual skills may become an asset for professional success, including in academic settings.

Day 1: Friday, December 10, 08:00 am – 12:15 am CEST

08:00 – 08:45 am CEST, Keynote lecture

Laura Smith-Khan, University of Technology Sydney, Believe it or not: Linguistic diversity and credibility in asylum procedures

09:00 – 09:55 am CEST, Network meeting (by invitation only)

10:00 – 11:00 am CEST, Session 1 “Inclusion in academic publishing”

  • Ingrid Piller, Macquarie University, Does the language of publication change research content?
  • Yongyan Zheng, Fudan University, You’ve got to keep above the water not to drown: The translingual journey of a multilingual scholar’s academic publishing practices

11:15 – 12:15 am CEST, Session 2 “Access to the work place”

  • Lucy Taksa, Centre for Workforce Futures, Macquarie Business School, Language diversity and access to the workplace: reflecting on different forms of communication and approaches to teaching and learning
  • Eva Markowsky & Miriam Beblo, Universität Hamburg, Multiple languages and their return on the labor market

Day 2: Saturday, December 11, 12:00 am – 02:00 pm CEST

12:00 – 1:00 pm CEST, Session 1 “Empowering vulnerable groups in education”

  • Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer, Universität Hamburg, Coping with the dynamics of language and inequality in a primary school in Germany
  • Josh Prada, Indiana University, Translanguaging as a pedagogy of empowerment: insight from a composition course for bilingual Latinxs in a US university

1:00 – 2:00 pm CEST, Session 2 “Multilingual potential across the life span”

  • Ingrid Gogolin, Universität Hamburg, Yes, they can! Development of multiliteracy in secondary education
  • Jannis Androutsopoulos, Universität Hamburg, Digital polycentricity and diasporic connectivity: engagement in multilingual families

Please register your attendance here.

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