Taking advantage of staying at home with your children during the COVID-19 crisis

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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 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.

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.

HaBilNet offers a consultation service to families who have questions or doubts about their bilingual journey or just need someone with expertise in this field to talk things through. If you wonder what a consultation might look like, get to know the team and read some feedback we've received in this blog post.

This past May (2022) HaBilNet organized its second Colloquium in Frankfurt, Germany. The 55 participants from around the world had a great time and found the colloquium truly inspiring. Read all about it in our blog article, divided into two parts: this first one about the colloquium as a whole.

Congratulations to Sally Rachel Cook and Nishita Grace Isaac for receiving HaBilNet Travel Awards to attend the 2020 Georgetown University Round Table, even though it ended up taking place virtually.

The projects of the Book Pirates aim at enabling children and young people to experience literature creatively and independently. One of their numerous projects is about bilingual picture books written by children and for children.

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.

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.