Event type:

In person

Date & time:

16 Oct 2023, 18:00 – 19:30

Harmonious bilingualism for young children and their families

Join this event to hear Annick De Houwer discuss multilanguage acquisition, teaching and raising children in a multilingual environment.

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Harmonious bilingualism for young children and their families

16 Oct 2023, 18:00 – 19:30

Professor Annick De Houwer

Director of the Harmonious Bilingualism Network

She was trained in linguistics and held professorial positions at the universities of Antwerp and Brussels (Belgium) and at the University of Erfurt (Germany). In the US, she has long been affiliated with the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and was a Visiting Scholar at several top institutions there. She is currently President of the International Association for the Study of Child Language.De Houwer's research has mainly focused on bilingual and monolingual children's language development. She has addressed both linguistic and socio-psychological aspects of language development. Her 1990 Separate Development Hypothesis for early bilingual morphosyntactic acquisition has found confirmation across the globe. She created the now widely cited concept of Harmonious Bilingualism. 

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Cost

Free

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All

Availability

Yes

Organiser

Professor Roberto Filippi

r.filippi@ucl.ac.uk