Share, reflect, and discuss – HaBilNet2 was a hit!
The Second HaBilNet Colloquium Part II
Introduction
This past May (2022) HaBilNet organized its second Colloquium in Frankfurt, Germany. About 55 people from various backgrounds and 14 countries (from Canada over Sweden to South Africa and Singapore) met in order to talk about "Supporting well-being as it relates to growing up and living in a language contact setting". Researchers and practitioners, senior and early career professionals alike accepted their invitation to join and share their experiences, ideas and challenges with regard to bilingualism. HaBilNet Director Annick De Houwer and HaBilNet Advisory Board Member Lourdes Ortega were the conference chairs.
Focus on early careers professionals
One of the main aims of HaBilNet2 was to offer support and networking opportunities to early career professionals working in research and outreach through mentoring sessions with seniors, an exclusive early career participant Happy Hour, and poster sessions focused mainly on work by the early career participants. Here you will find pdf copies of 17 of the 27 posters that participants kindly sent to us for featuring here. Click on the titles below to see and download the pdf!
You can find a list of all the 27 posters and more information about the colloquium in Part I of Share, reflect, and discuss – HaBilNet2 was a hit!
Thank You!
Dr. Till Woerfel (U. of Cologne, Germany), one of the early career participants, made some great sketches during the meeting. We are grateful he allowed us to share them here! They give a great impression of our unforgettable colloquium.
© Till Woerfel
© Till Woerfel
Inga Hilbig, Vitalija Kazlauskienė & Eglė Kačkutė (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
Non-harmonious early bilingualism and mothers' well-being
This study explores Lithuanian migrant mothers' experiences with what they call "unsuccessful bilingualism" in their families, showing that parental psychological and emotional well-being plays an important but often overlooked role in minority language transmission.
Nishita Grace Isaac (Georgetown University, USA)
"It's not good for us": Teachers responding to online education during covid-19 in rural and tribal India
This study explores how teachers working with rural, tribal and first-generation school goers navigated the shift to online education during covid-19 in primary Hindi-medium schools in central India.
Valérie Kemp (Université du Luxembourg, Luxemburg)
Young children's multiliteracy meaning-making: A case study in non-formal ECEC in Luxembourg
This poster illustrates different ways in which three-year-old Etienne uses his whole semiotic repertoire to make meaning in multiliteracy activities, and the multiliteracy practices in a forest-based ECEC facility in Luxembourg.
Marie Leroy & Maria Ringler (Fachzentrum Mehrsprachigkeit, Verband binationaler Familien und Partnerschaften, iaf e.V., Germany)
Fachzentrum Mehrsprachigkeit für Familien und Fachkräfte
Das Poster soll Ziele und Arbeit des Fachzentrums Mehrsprachigkeit vorstellen. Von welchen Erkenntnissen und Bedürfnissen gehen wir aus? Was sind unsere Ziele, unsere Zielgruppen und unsere Maßnahmen?
Mareen Pascall, Nina Schwöbel & Annick De Houwer (HaBilNet, Germany & Belgium)
HaBilNet – the Harmonious Bilingualism Network
HaBilNet is a philanthropic organization that promotes research on Harmonious Bilingualism. It aims at making sure the results of that research are widely disseminated both within and outside of academia. This poster explains how we try to accomplish this mission.
Yeşim Sevinç (Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Language mindsets and negative emotions in multilingual families
This study examines the role of family language pressure, language mindsets (e.g., fixed language mindsets and/or fixed monolingual mindsets) and negative emotions (e.g., anger, blame and anxiety) in family language practices and language development.
He (Sabrina) Sun (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Harmonious bilingual experience and family wellbeing
This study explores the relations between maternal language use, children's language use and competence, and maternal and children's social-emotional wellbeing and discusses the significance of a harmonious bilingual experience for children's and mothers' wellbeing.
Crissa Stephens (Georgetown University, USA)
Gathering the pieces: Narratives of bilingual identity across schools, hospitals, and home
This ethnographic case study traces a mother's experience of navigating the
competing and often conflicting characterizations of one bilingual child's language-related needs with a focus on harmonious bilingualism.
Veronika Timpe-Laughlin (Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ and Bilingual Babies, USA)
From bilingual babies to plurilingual education in preschools
The poster outlines how personal experiences with raising bilingual children can impact and inform a research agenda and ultimately lead to new studies in areas that are very much under-researched.
Ekaterina Tiulkova, Vanda Marijanovic, & Barbara Köpke (University of Toulouse 2, France)
Family attitudes and well-being in bilingual development in Russian-French children
This investigation of the relation between family attitudes to language use and bilingual
development in 37 Russian-French 5-year-olds hopes to furnish a better understanding of harmonious bilingual development in young children growing up in multilingual families.
Marga van Mil (1801 jeugd & onderwijsadvies [1801 Youth and Education Advice], the Netherlands in cooperation with Hilde De Smedt, Foyer, Belgium)
Planting Languages, seeds of success.
This poster describes practical tools for supporting multilingual parents in developing their family languages plan and for stimulating kids' multilingual development and wellbeing from the start. These tools were developed in an international Erasmus+ project.
Final words
The small scale of the colloquium allowed for intense contacts amongst more junior and more senior scholars, and amongst practitioners and researchers. We thank all our participants for making HaBilNet2 into a fun and stimulating academic event!