In our talk at 'Globalizing Sociolinguistics 3' we discussed two issues: (a) how sign language choice is constructed in multilingual sign language communities in 🇪🇪 🇭🇺 🇦🇹 & 🇩🇪 & (b) how sign language choice is related to language inequality. EVKUR - Estonian Sign Language Research Lab Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Tallinn University School of Humanities 🇺🇦

London cohort: 11yo (SAT) multilingual learners lagged significantly behind monolinguals, but simultaneous multilinguals did not. 16yo (GCSE) simultaneous multilinguals outperformed monolinguals significantly and multilingual learners had caught up with monolinguals.

Welcome back! Hope you have had a nice summer. We are looking for 25 more profoundly/severely deaf four-year-old children starting Reception. Please share or contact us at [email protected]. Have a wonderful school year and happy learning!

Last night was amazing! 📷Check out highlights from Rachel O'Neill and Dr Audrey Cameron’s 175th Anniversary Lecture, "Exploring the History and Current Research of British Sign Language at Moray House." A huge thank you to everyone who helped make the event such a success!

I lost a mate to suicide yesterday. Please watch this. Hug your mates. And reach out to those who may need it

Peter Zalan Romanek at #ICL2024 aimed 1) to share some findings from the interviews with 12 L1 sign linguists on grammar description approaches from his PhD, and 2) to present an emerging practice with a grammar description corpus to describe the Estonian SL at EVKUR - Estonian Sign Language Research Lab. Deaf Studies, Sign Languages & Interpreting Berlin

A very insightful article about the impact of REF in the UK - a game all academics have to play but what are the implications?

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It's sad to think that my monolingual mum stopped my paternal grandmother from speaking in French and Maltese to me when I was a toddler, because mum didn't know any better in late 1960s Australia (she believed it would confuse me and would be bad for my language development) :-(

SAVE THE DATE: The next International Conference on he Evolution of Language #Evolang will take place 7-10 April 2026 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria! The organizers have prepared a video to whet your appetite: tinyurl.com/evolang2026

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This anti-lecture sentiment is dire for higher Ed, and honestly for critical thinking. A good lecture is dynamic and interactive, shows how to build and make an argument, is compelling, is a space to think

I regularly Google for word definitions. I have been teaching at schools or universities for 34 years.

New linguistic evidence that the variety of International Sign investigated in this study is sufficiently shared to be called 'International Sign Language'. I've seen deaf signers vehemently disagree about whether it should be called 'IS' or 'ISL': interesting times!

It’s really useful to know a little American Sign Language, but I don’t think I’ll ever get used to how some ASL signers do their sign for ‘two’.

BSL/English interpretation is included.