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.
Multilingualism, ideologies and language policies
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.
News
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Visiting scholar: Ritu Jain
May 29, 2019
Ritu Jain (PhD), lecturer at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, visited MultiLing this May. Here she writes about her experience at the Center.
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Multilingual practices from antiquity to the present day
May 13, 2019
Many are under the misconception that the widespread multilingualism in our modern and increasingly globalized world is a fairly new development. This round-table conference, organized by Aneta Pavlenko and Pia Lane, aimed to show that practices of multilingualism have been common and necessary for centuries, even millennia.
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Annual meeting with the Scientific Advisory Board
May 6, 2019
The annual meeting with MultiLing’s Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) was held this week, on May 2-3. Among the themes of the meeting this year were career planning and grant application processes, with a particular focus on applications to the European Research Council (ERC).
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Visiting scholar: Lenore Grenoble
Dec. 19, 2018
Lenore Grenoble (The University of Chicago) just spent three months at MultiLing as a US Fulbright Arctic Chair grantee. We asked her to tell us a bit more about her stay in Oslo, and her current research:
