Integration Conference 2025

2019

Lõimumiskonverents 2019
 

Shared Language: Integration Through Multilingualism

 

Conference programme and speakers’ abstracts in three languages

Welcome and opening remarks

Professor Robert Phillipson
Professor Robert Phillipson
Keynote speech “English, panacea or pandemic”
VIDEO        SLIDES  

Panel 1: Prevalence of English as a challenge to multilingualism

 
Antonella Sorace
Antonella Sorace
The Challenge of maintaining multilingualism in a globalized world
VIDEO  
Sanita Lazdiņa
Sanita Lazdiņa
Language as a Value: from Languaging to Translanguaging in a Multilingual Society
VIDEO        SLIDES  
Mirjam Laurisaar
Mirjam Laurisaar
Multilingualism in international company, case of Pipedrive
VIDEO        SLIDES  
 

Follow-up discussion:
Prevalence of English as a challenge to multilingualism

Panel 2: Multilingualism, identity and integration

 
Nayr Correia Ibrahim
Nayr Correia Ibrahim
Multilingual-identity turn: developing a multilingual set within a language rights perspective
VIDEO  
Sari Pöyhönen
Sari Pöyhönen
Official bilingualism, monolingual integration training and multilingual lives – challenges for integration policies
VIDEO        SLIDES  
Elin Thordardottir
Elin Thordardottir
Multilingual adolescents in two distinct language environments: Effects of exposure, utility, language policy, identity and attitudes
VIDEO  
 

Follow-up discussion:
Multilingualism, identity and integration

Panel 3: Multilingualism in education – policy, threats and opportunities

 
Theo Marinis
Theo Marinis
Language development in multilingual children and challenges as well as opportunities for educational systems
VIDEO        SLIDES  
Kerttu Rozenvalde
Kerttu Rozenvalde
Multilingual language use and ideology of One Language at a Time: Insights into language issues in higher education
VIDEO        SLIDES  
 

Follow-up discussion:
Multilingualism in education – policy, threats and opportunities

Václav Velčovský
Václav Velčovský
Keynote speech “The Czech Republic – Towards New Challenges in Language Education”
VIDEO        SLIDES  

Panel 4: Integration through multilingual education

 
Erika Hoff
Erika Hoff
The nature of dual language skills children at the time of school among children from minority language homes
VIDEO        SLIDES  
Monika S. Schmid
Monika S. Schmid
Language attrition and professional re-immersion
VIDEO        SLIDES  
Claudia Maria Riehl
Claudia Maria Riehl
Why multilingual education makes a difference: Educational programs and their contribution to integration
VIDEO        SLIDES  
 

Follow-up discussion:
Integration through multilingual education

Panel 5: Political debate between Estonian political parties

 

Workshops

 

Monika S. Schmid
“First language attrition and professional re-immersion (in English)

Ministry of the Interior
What is on Your mind, Family migration? (in English)

“Transvaal”
Kristina Norman’s video and discussion (in Estonian/Russian)

Ministry of Culture
“Integrating Estonia 2030” (in Estonian, simultaneous translation to English)