SIG MULTILINGUALISM celebrates a meeting every second month. This is the list of events held in 2025.
August 1st , 2025
SIG Multilingualism held its third virtual seminar on August 1, 2025. Professor Yamina El Kirat El Allame from Mohammed V University in Rabat Morocco and Professor Yassine Boussagui from Ibn Zohr University in Agadir Morocco discussed Multilingualism in Morocco: The Incongruency of Policy and Practice.
June 6, 2025
SIG Multilingualism held its second virtual seminar on June 6, 2025. Professor Paulo Feytor Pinto from the Centre for Studies in General and Applied Linguistics at the University of Coimbra in Portugal discussed Language Diversity in Portugal: Practices, Law and Attitudes.
April 4, 2025
SIG Multilingualism held its first virtual seminar on April 4, 2025. The seminar was the presentation of a new publish book titled: Researching Multilingually: Conceptual and Methodological Failures, Struggles and Success edited by Dr. Brian Seilstad and Dr. Bridget Goodman. The presenters discussed what 'researching multilingually' means in practice and theory drawing on different chapters in the book.
10th International Conference on Pluricentric Languages and their Non-Dominant Varieties
SIG Multilingualism actively participated in and contributed to the 10th International Conference on Pluricentric Languages and Their Non-Dominant Varieties, held online and hosted by the University of Leipzig, Germany, on August 23–24, 2023.
“Multilingualism and Pluricentricity in Postcolonial Guinea-Bissau" by Paulo Feytor Pinto.
"Moroccan Linguistic Landscape Revisited in the Context of Postcolonial Pluricentricity and Globalization" by Yamina El Kirat El Allame.
Their contributions enriched the discussions on multilingualism and pluricentricity, shedding light on postcolonial contexts and the dynamics of language in diverse sociolinguistic settings. https://pluricentriclanguages.org/conferences/ndvconf-online-2023/
State policies for multilingualism and education vs Individual multilingual practices
The first ARLE SIG Multilingualism seminar was held online on July 15th and 16th. Its primary objective was to discuss the structure and implementation of a survey on multilingualism, featuring two distinct questionnaires:
State Policies for Multilingualism and Education: Exploring governmental approaches and frameworks for supporting multilingualism in educational contexts.
Individual Multilingual Practices: Examining personal experiences and practices in multilingual settings.
This seminar served as a platform for collaborative discussions and planning to advance multilingualism research from institutional and individual perspectives.
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