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The third HaBilNet Colloquium took place 4-6 June, 2025, in Donostia/San Sebastián, Spain. HaBilNet Director Annick De Houwer and HaBilNet Advisory Board Member Lourdes Ortega welcomed over 70 people to discuss the colloquium's theme "Bilinguals in Context" in several plenary sessions and poster presentations. Bilingual people and settings in relation to their well-being are central to HaBilNet and its colloquia. Check out 18 posters that participants kindly sent in to be shared.

This blog article aims to address the mental well-being of bilinguals who suffer from a lack of space for using their first language(s). It discusses how a storytelling approach to language maintenance can be beneficial for improving mental well-being and draws on data collected during the research project. The main focus of this blog article is on the procedures used in the project.

When parents/carers are raising multilingual children, they often wish for their children to not only speak the home language, but also to be able to read and write it. The road towards multilingual literacy can be empowering and enriching, or frustrating and demoralizing. This article details the do's and don'ts for a harmonious multi-literacy journey that will help children confidently develop home language literacy skills while bonds between parents and children are strengthened.

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This article is part of a series by HaBilNet, the Harmonious Bilingualism Network. It considers research results about young children's bilingual language development and discusses how these results can be applied in early childhood education and care so that all children may benefit from harmonious bilingual development.