The Bilingualism Matters Symposium (BMS) is an interdisciplinary conference organised by Bilingualism Matters. It is open to researchers as well as practitioners, irrespective of their affiliation with Bilingualism Matters. The BMS aims to stimulate a productive dialogue between researchers in different academic disciplines and practitioners in different sectors of society. BMS will take place in Edinburgh from March 24-25, 2025.

If you are an early childhood educator, teacher, and/or professional working with young children, we are looking for you.

Call for papers - Multilingual Childhoods 2025

New event for families on the 23rd of November in Maison des Sciences Humaines, Black Box

On Friday 27 September, join Bilingualism Matters at the Institut français d’Ecosse to celebrate the European Day of Languages with European consulates and cultural organisations!

Avant Assessment is welcoming participants with an interest in language education to a free, interactive learning session for the European Day of Languages with speakers from Bilingualism Matters and beyond

To celebrate the European Day of Languages 2024, ALTE and Bilingualism Matters are inviting you to our free, online panel discussion on ‘Exploring approaches to heritage language testing’.

Join Professor Antonella Sorace for a fascinating workshop on learning new languages as an adult for the RSE Curious Festival this September.

Event for families. Conference about the current research-based knowledge on the use of music and music therapy practices to support multilingualism in the form of a joyful workshop. Parents and children of all ages are welcome!

Join Professor Antonella Sorace as she performs her ‘More than another language!’ show at the Stand Comedy Club for Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024

Hybrid event about supporting multilingualism at home

In Southern California, many languages and dialects are in the air. They are spoken on their own and in mixtures in every possible form that might be imagined. Despite the naturalness of language mixing, there is a mythology that switching from one language to the other or allowing all known languages to enter into discourse is marked and not the norm. In this mini conference, we hope to begin to dispel this mythology by coming together to discuss the varied contexts in which languages are mixed. Note that this mini-conference sponsored by Bilingualism Matters in California will precede the Fifteenth Heritage Language Research Institute that will be held at UCI from June 10-June 13:

Join our brilliant team of Bilingualism Matters volunteers at the 3rd annual Festival on Saturday 11th May 2024!

Join Bilingualism Matter’s Professor Antonella Sorace and Dr Katarzyna Przybycień for this exciting interactive talk at the Festival of Freedom, Edinburgh

Symposium followed by a Panel discussion: Conditions for promoting multilingualism in ECEC

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.

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

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.

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.

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)

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!