Justin Trudeau: Call for a National Day of Mourning for the Lost Children of Residential School - Sign the Petition! chng.it/zfzdZNC9 via Change.org Canada

Delighted to announce that Dr. Krista Byers-Heinlein will be giving the 2021 Mercator European Research Centre Multilingualism Lecture, about the role of language exposure in early #MultilingualDevelopment! 📆 26th November 2021 ⏰ 16.15 CET 💻 Zoom (free but registration is required) 🔗 bit.ly/MercatorMultil…

New paper out on #attitudes towards childhood #multilingualism! We asked two RQs: RQ1. Do these attitudes constitute a unitary factor or do they have different evaluative dimensions? RQ2. What variables constitute potential predictors? doi.org/10.1177/026192… 🧵(1/4)

Delighted that the next paper in our series about #Quebec-based parents raising #multilingual kids is now out in JMMD—it examines #resources as a form of language management. Free e-prints here: tandfonline.com/eprint/QS7RBD4… #FamilyLanguagePolicy #HeritageLanguages #multilingualism

📢 New publication by Mercator researcher Ruth Kircher and her colleagues from McGill University | Faculty of Education and Department of Psychology - Concordia University: it looks at #FamilyLanguagePolicies among #Quebec-based parents raising #multilingual infants/toddlers. Free e-prints here: tandfonline.com/eprint/QS7RBD4…

Interested in finding out more about our exciting project about #Quebec-based parents raising #multilingual infants/toddlers (with Dr. Krista Byers-Heinlein, Linda Polka, @susanballinger9, Erin Quirk, Melanie Brouillard & Alexa Ahooja)? I will be giving a Zoom talk at ALDS Carleton on Wednesday!👇

Excited to share this new pre-print about Quebec-based parents' concerns about their children's #MultilingualDevelopment—co-authored with Erin Quirk Melanie Brouillard Alexa Ahooja @susanballinger9 Linda Polka & Dr. Krista Byers-Heinlein! #multilingualism #Quebec #families psyarxiv.com/583ge/

Attending #ICIS2022? Check out the posters about (1) the concerns & (2) the language practices of parents raising #multilingual kids in Quebec — presented by Erin Quirk & Nicky Phillips, based on our project w Alexa Ahooja, @susanballinger9, Melanie Brouillard, Dr. Krista Byers-Heinlein & L Polka!

📢 "A corpus-assisted discourse study of parental concerns regarding multilingual child-rearing" — new preprint based on our #multilingual families in #Quebec project, w Erin Quirk, Melanie Brouillard, Alexa Ahooja, @susanballinger9, Linda Polka & Dr. Krista Byers-Heinlein! psyarxiv.com/udm6v/

Delighted that this paper about #Quebec-based parents' #concerns regarding their kids' #multilingual development — based on our project with Erin Quirk, Melanie Brouillard, Alexa Ahooja, @susanballinger9, Linda Polka & Dr. Krista Byers-Heinlein — is out now! Free e-copies: doi.org/10.1080/147907…

Bonjour/Hi! A snapshot of our 1st day here in Montréal where we're here for the week to build a partnership with colleagues from McGill University through the Welsh Government Wales-Quebec collaboration. We'll be documenting our journey here Katharine Young Cardiff Metropolitan University @susanballinger9

Sma'i o Montréal lle dani'n gwario wythnos yng nghwmni cydweithwyr o brifysgol McGill University fel rhan o gydweithrediad Cymru-Quebec. Byddwn yn dogfennu ein siwrne yma. Prifysgol Metropolitan Caerdydd Cardiff School of Sport & Health Sciences Katharine Young @susanballinger9 Alexa Ahooja Llywodraeth Cymru

Delighted to be in Ottawa for the LPPConference! I'll present @MirjamVellinga's & my work on #LPP for #NewSpeakers of #Frisian, and Erin Quirk will present our work (w/A.Langevin, S.Blumer, Alexa Ahooja, @susanballinger9, Melanie Brouillard, L.Polka & Dr. Krista Byers-Heinlein) on #FLP in QC!

Congratulations to Alexa Ahooja and Hannah Keim on winning Graduate Student Awards at the 2024 Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics (Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics) conference! 🏅🏅 Read their story here⬇️ mcgill.ca/plurilingualla…

Delighted that this is now out as part of a volume! doi.org/10.1080/147907… If you don't have access to the International Journal of Multilingualism — here is a free preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf.i… #Multilingualism #HeritageLanguages #IntergenerationalLanguageTransmission

Delighted that this paper is finally out as part of a volume! doi.org/10.1080/014346… If you're interested but don't have access to JMMD, there's also a non-paywalled preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf.i… #FamilyLanguagePolicy #LanguageManagement #HeritageLanguages #Multilingualism

❓What #concerns can be found in parents who are raising #MultilingualKids? And are there differences between #parents who are transmitting dominant societal langs vs. heritage langs? ‼️Find out in our new paper! 🔗doi.org/10.1080/014346… #multilingualism #MinorityLanguages #FLP