Our research themes
Multilingual competence
How multilingual children, youth and adults acquire the languages they know, and how this competence changes throughout the lifespan.
Multilingual language practices
How multilingual children, youth and adults use the languages they know, and how language use changes throughout the lifespan.
Management of multilingualism
How social and political power relations influence multilingual acquisition and use across all age groups.
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The Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan (MultiLing) is a research center financed by the Research Council of Norway as a Center of Excellence. MultiLing is located at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies.
Events
News
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MultiLing Summer School 2018
Sep. 19, 2018
This year's Summer School explored experimental approaches to multilingualism. Lecturers were Janet van Hell (Pennsylvania State University) and Barbara Mertins (Dortmund Technical University).
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New staff at MultiLing
Aug. 30, 2018
Doctoral fellow Ingvild Badhwar Valen-Sendstad and postdoctoral fellows Pawel Kazimierz Urbanik and Olga Solovova are the newest members of the MultiLing team.
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Visiting scholar: Nancy Hornberger
June 26, 2018
Professor Nancy Hornberger (University of Pennsylvania) visited MultiLing for several weeks in May. During her stay, she shared her expertise in language policy, ethnography, and education research in many different ways.
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Women and Leadership
June 7, 2018
If you really want to empower women, what do you have to do? At the Women and Leadership round-table last week, students, university staff, and international scholars came together in Oslo to share experiences, and to discuss how we can achieve gender equality at all levels in academia.
