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Time and place: , Henrik Wergelands hus, MultiLing meeting room, HWH 421

Fatima Reda (PhD Fellow, University of Oslo) will give a talk on how teachers and newly arrived Arabic-speaking students utilize digital tools during oral communication tasks in the classroom.

Time and place: , Henrik Wergelands hus, MultiLing meeting room, HWH 421 / Zoom

Nina Teigland (PhD Fellow, University of Bergen) will discuss language policy in Norway from a public policy perspective.

Time and place: , Henrik Wergelands hus, MultiLing meeting room, HWH 421 / Zoom

Dr. Tymoteusz Król (Institute of Slavic Studies of Polish Academy of Sciences, The Centre for Regional Studies of University of Ostrava) will discuss the endangered Wymysorys language (Poland) and the significance of multilingualism for Vilamovian identity in the face of 'safe' Polish monolingualism.

Time and place: , Henrik Wergelands hus, MultiLing meeting room, HWH 421 / Zoom

Georgios (George) Georgiou (Assistant Professor, University of Nikosia) will discuss the capacity of bidialectal and monodialectal speakers to perceive second language speech sounds, unveiling a potential advantage for bidialectals, possibly rooted in the development of advanced higher-order abilities linked to their diverse linguistic background.

Time and place: , , Henrik Wergelands hus, MultiLing meeting room, HWH 421 / Zoom

Kerime Eylul Eski (PhD Candidate, University of Genova) and Luca Onnis (Professor, MultiLing) will present on the effect of social networks on linguistic behaviour.

Time and place: , Vilhelm Bjerknes' hus, Auditorium 5

The study of heritage language speakers can shed light on fundamental issues in multilingualism. Professor Marit Westergaard will address some of these issues, with examples from heritage languages in Norway and Norwegian heritage language in North America.

Time and place: , , Henrik Wergelands hus, MutliLing meeting room, HWH 421 / Zoom

Agata Bochynska (Open Research section, University of Oslo Library) will present and discuss assessment of transparency practices in linguistics and provide recommendations and solutions for increasing the transparency of linguistics research.

Time and place: , Henrik Wergelands hus, MutliLing meeting room, HWH 421

Five students in their first year of the MA in Multilingualism will present on how auditory processing aptitude is important when it comes to imitating an unfamiliar L2, but that L2 proficiency is more important in relation to a familiar L2.

Time and place: , , Henrik Wergelands hus, MutliLing meeting room, HWH 421 / Zoom

In this presentation, Frances Kvietok Duenas (Postdoc, MultiLing), Pia Lane (Professor, MultiLing), and Carola Kleemann (Associate Professor, UiT) will share comparative insights about the language reclamation trajectories of new speakers of Sámi, Quechua and Aimara.

Time and place: , , Henrik Wergelands hus, MultiLing Meeting Room, HWH 421 / Zoom

Alastair Pennycook (Professor Emeritus, University of Technology Sydney and Research Professor, MultiLing) presents on how a language assemblage framework shows how languages are put together within local combinations of things, people and places and are also part of wider social and political entanglements.

Time and place: , Henrik Wergelands hus, MutliLing meeting room, HWH 421

Based on long-term engagement with the Provençal case, this talk by James Costa (Professor, Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle) explores why language revitalization often fails.

Time and place: , , Henrik Wergelands hus, MutliLing meeting room, HWH 421 / Zoom

Anne Pauwels (Emerita Professor, SOAS and Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne) presents her research exploring multilingual soundscapes in two cities: Melbourne and Antwerp.

Time and place: , Henrik Wergelands hus, MutliLing meeting room, HWH 421 / Zoom

Jannis Androutsopoulos (Research Professor, MultiLing) outlines a new three-year project within linguistic landscape (LL) studies that explores traces and discourses of inequality in the semiotic landscape of educational spaces (‘schoolscape’).

Time and place: , Henrik Wergelands hus, MutliLing meeting room, HWH 421 / Zoom

Oliwia Szymańska (Postdoctoral Fellow, MultiLing) will present and discuss the results of metaphor training carried out with psychiatrists during an intensive Norwegian course.

Time and place: , Henrik Wergelands hus, Room 225 (Hybrid)

In this talk, Agnieszka Kałdonek-Crnjaković (Assistant Professor, University of Warsaw) will discuss the effect of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) on additional language learning considering theoretical assumptions and her recent research findings.