HaBilNet Travel Awards to attend GURT

At the suggestion of HaBilNet Advisory Board Member Lourdes Ortega HaBilNet is pleased to award HaBilNet Travel Awards in order to attend the Georgetown University Round Table, GURT 2020, on "Multilingualism: Global South and Global North Perspectives".

The awards go to two junior scholars, Sally Rachel Cook and Nishita Grace Isaac, whose respective papers contribute to HaBilNet's mission to support and stimulate scientific research into harmonious bilingualism.

Because GURT 2020 did not actually take place, the planned award ceremony was replaced by this little video featuring Lourdes Ortega and HaBilNet Director Annick De Houwer.

GURT 2020 took place virtually, via a private FaceBook page.

Nishita Grace Isaac contributed a powerpoint presentation on A Tribal Child's Schoolscape: From Politics to Pedagogy. You can find the abstract here.

Sally Rachel Cook contributed a video to explain more about her co-authored paper on The Healing Role of a LX in Survivors of Sexuality-Persecution. You can find the abstract here.

Together with Dr. Ortega, HaBilNet hopes that the travel award recipients will be able to still travel to Georgetown later this year to present their work in person.

What is GURT?

Every spring, the Department of Linguistics of Georgetown University hosts the Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT). This is a peer-reviewed conference that accepts researchers in Linguistics from around the world. A select number of papers from GURT are published in a conference proceedings. Topics vary from year to year.

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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.

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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.

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