24 & 25 March 2025
Our annual interdisciplinary research conference is on again this year, with a two-day programme packed with the latest bilingualism research and practice. The conference is held at the University of Edinburgh, UK and online. Call for proposals opening soon!
11-May-2024
Join our brilliant team of Bilingualism Matters volunteers at the 3rd annual Festival on Saturday 11th May 2024!
12-May-2024
Join Bilingualism Matter’s Professor Antonella Sorace and Dr Katarzyna Przybycień for this exciting interactive talk at the Festival of Freedom, Edinburgh
20 March 2024
Join us for this free, online learning workshop designed to help teachers working in complementary and heritage language schools to develop strategies that support learning within a group of mixed ability learners.
24-May-2024
Symposium followed by a Panel discussion: Conditions for promoting multilingualism in ECEC
22 February 2024
Join us for this free, online learning workshop designed to help teachers working in complementary and heritage language schools to develop successful strategies to engage and motivate learners both online and in the classroom
4 Dec, 2023
Convegno dal titolo “Background migratorio e valorizzazione del patrimonio linguistico-culturale “ organizzato dall’Ufficio V Ambito territoriale di Bologna USR E-R, in collaborazione con l’Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna nell’ambito del Festival della Cultura Tecnica.
31 January 2024
Join Bilingualism Matters and SCILT online on 31 January 2024 for ‘The Bigger Picture’ - a free, online event designed to give teachers working in complementary and heritage language schools a deeper insight into the role that teachers can play in bilingual language development
20 & 21 October 2023
Our annual interdisciplinary research conference is on again this year, with a two-day programme packed with the latest bilingualism research. The conference is held at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA and online. Registrations OPEN NOW.
14 Oct, 2023
L’incontro vuole raccontare del progetto regionale e della ricerca connessa e condotta dall’Università di Bologna che coinvolge nidi e scuole dell’infanzia della Regione e che fa emergere dati significativi.
27-28-October 2023
Join an international group of researchers for a two-day conference on the acquisition, learning and teaching of Tense, Aspect and Modality (TAM) in second languages (L2)
22 Sep, 2023
7 Sep, 2023
Does comparing monolinguals and bilinguals really matter? Professor Antonella Sorace explores this and more in her upcoming talk for The Royal Society of Edinburgh's Curious Festival (04-17 September 2023)
Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
We are opening as a branch of Blingualism Matters and will be offically launching this new research outreach group on 4th April 2023. Please join us via Zoom to help us to celebrate this new partnership. We welcome all community members, teachers, and all interested bilingual, multilingual or plurilingual education to join us and let us know how we can share our research with you and your communities. The launch will involve talks from our researchers at Monash and the Director of the Bilingualism Matters consortium Professor Antonella Sorace. We look forward to seeing you online!
25 August 2023
Bilingual, trilingual, quadrilingual, pentalingual – does your brain change for the better the more languages you know? Join Antonella Sorace in this CODI Fringe show to find out.
17 August 2023
Antonella Sorace debates if knowing only one language still possible in today’s world and Chris Cummins explores how linguistics can help us detect lies, in this new CODI show for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
24 May 2023
The annual BM KE Forum is an opportunity for all to meet and learn about the work led by Bilingualism Matters members across the world of research, practice and media.
27 April 2023
The last of three workshops in the Scotland’s Saturday Language Schools Series, organised by Bilingualism Matters and SCILT
05 April 2023
The next in-person meeting of the Bilingualism Matters Centre at the University of Edinburgh is on Wednesday 5 April 2023, 12.30-13.30 (UK time). This event is open to current and prospective members of Bilingualism Matters Edinburgh.
23 Feb, 2023
Link Zoom: https://bit.ly/3YCR5GJ Meeting ID: 824 3441 2330 Passcode: 677925
20-February-2023
Join us online on Monday 20 February, 16.00-17.30, for a showcase of up-to-date work on children and adults learning Gaelic for World Gaelic Week | Seachdain na Gàidhlig.
11 Nov, 2022
11-November-2022
Join us in our new online format. Live and online with Q&A, chat & Expo + 3 months to catch up on anything you miss.
25 & 26 October 2022
Our annual interdisciplinary research conference is on again this year, with a two-day programme packed with the latest bilingualism research. Registrations open.
24 August 2022
Does anyone really speak only one language? At what point do you know enough of another language to call yourself bilingual? Join Antonella Sorace in this CODI Fringe show to find out.