Professor Ingrid Gogolin (Image credit: Markus Scholz)
***Update Nov 18, 2019: Due to unforeseen circumstances this lecture has been cancelled.***
On Monday, November 25, we’ll host the final Lecture in Linguistic Diversity at Macquarie University. Hot on the heels of the Humboldt Symposium, there will be an opportunity for in-depth engagement with the research of one of our conference keynote speakers, Professor Ingrid Gogolin, Hamburg University.
Where? Macquarie University, Australian Hearing Hub Building, 16UA 1.602 Faculty Seminar Rm
When? Monday, 25 November, 11:00-13:00
Abstract: The research project I would like to present is called “Mehrsprachigkeitsentwicklung im Zeitverlauf (MEZ)” (“Multilingual development over time”). MEZ is a longitudinal study carried out at the University of Hamburg, Germany, by Professor Gogolin and her team. The study followed two parallel cohorts in Year 7 and Year 9 through to the end of Year 9 and Year 11 respectively. Data collection was carried out in four phases (2015-2018). The initial sample includes approximately 2,000 students with German-Turkish, German-Russian, and monolingual German language backgrounds from public schools in several federal states (Bundesländer).
Data collection includes the contextual, personal, and linguistic factors that are relevant for the development of multilingualism. This includes the assessment of participants’ receptive skills (reading and listening) and productive skills (written and oral) in academic language (Bildungssprache), as well as in the heritage languages Russian and Turkish and, where applicable, in the school-taught foreign languages English, French, and Russian. Detailed linguistic findings related to the transfer between languages and on phono-prosodical language production will be presented.
An English-language report about the MEZ research project is available here.
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