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2019

Shared Language: Integration Through Multilingualism
Conference programme and speakers’ abstracts in three languages
Welcome and opening remarks

Panel 1: Prevalence of English as a challenge to multilingualism


Sanita Lazdiņa
Language as a Value: from Languaging to Translanguaging in a Multilingual Society
VIDEO SLIDES
Language as a Value: from Languaging to Translanguaging in a Multilingual Society
VIDEO SLIDES

Follow-up discussion:
Prevalence of English as a challenge to multilingualism
Panel 2: Multilingualism, identity and integration

Nayr Correia Ibrahim
Multilingual-identity turn: developing a multilingual set within a language rights perspective
VIDEO
Multilingual-identity turn: developing a multilingual set within a language rights perspective
VIDEO

Sari Pöyhönen
Official bilingualism, monolingual integration training and multilingual lives – challenges for integration policies
VIDEO SLIDES
Official bilingualism, monolingual integration training and multilingual lives – challenges for integration policies
VIDEO SLIDES

Elin Thordardottir
Multilingual adolescents in two distinct language environments: Effects of exposure, utility, language policy, identity and attitudes
VIDEO
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
Language development in multilingual children and challenges as well as opportunities for educational systems
VIDEO SLIDES
Language development in multilingual children and challenges as well as opportunities for educational systems
VIDEO SLIDES

Kerttu Rozenvalde
Multilingual language use and ideology of One Language at a Time: Insights into language issues in higher education
VIDEO SLIDES
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
Keynote speech “The Czech Republic – Towards New Challenges in Language Education”
VIDEO SLIDES
Keynote speech “The Czech Republic – Towards New Challenges in Language Education”
VIDEO SLIDES
Panel 4: Integration through multilingual education

Erika Hoff
The nature of dual language skills children at the time of school among children from minority language homes
VIDEO SLIDES
The nature of dual language skills children at the time of school among children from minority language homes
VIDEO SLIDES


Claudia Maria Riehl
Why multilingual education makes a difference: Educational programs and their contribution to integration
VIDEO SLIDES
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)