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In person

Date & time:

17 Oct 2022, 18:00 – 19:30

Socioeconomic disadvantages, multilingualism and resilience in school children

Join this event to hear Professor Ianthi M.Tsimpli discuss how multilingualism and linguistic diversity interact with language and cognition in school children from disadvantaged backgrounds and in children with autism.

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Socioeconomic disadvantages, multilingualism and resilience in school children

17 Oct 2022, 18:00 – 19:30

Professor Ianthi M.Tsimpli

Professor of English and Applied Linguistics

University of Cambridge

Her expertise is language development and language impairment in monolingual and multilingual children and adults. Her research examines the role of language of education and multilingualism on the cognitive, linguistic and school skills development of children in Europe but also in highly linguistically diverse societies such as India.

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Free

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All

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Yes

Organiser

Roberto Filippi

r.filippi@ucl.ac.uk