Conference 2025

1st AMMS Conference on Multilingualism

University of Warsaw, Faculty of Applied Linguistics

24-25 April 2025

 

The AMMS Students and Faculty are honoured to present their inaugural conference dedicated to exploring diverse perspectives on multilingualism. It is envisaged that the research discussed during the conference will reflect the complex links between language, identities and education. These issues have long been acknowledged, yet many questions relating to the place of diversity in language pedagogy and multilingualism, linguistic variation, literacy practices, are as crucial as ever in the context of (forced) migration and the emergence of new learner communities.

 

Current research in sociolinguistics and educational linguistics, informed by new epistemologies of the post- or de-colonial period, coupled with social and linguistic changes brought about by the realities of globalisation and migration, have impacted the way we perceive not only language teaching but also language as a theoretical construct, resulting in more nuanced theoretical approaches to the dynamic interplay between languages, varieties, but also to ‘language’ as an aggregate of performances.

 

The conference programme will showcase the richness and diversity of our research, as well as the meaningful traffic between theoretical assumptions and premises emerging from the lived realities of diversity, educational inclusion or exclusion, and the quest for equal and transformative literacy opportunities, as well as educational and social justice.

 

The conference themes will entail, but will not be limited to:

• multilingual education (e.g., CLIL, EMI, translanguaging);
• multiple language acquisition;
• early (bi-) multilingual development;
• heritage language development;
• heritage language education;
• language policies and planning;
• minority languages and revitalisation of endangered languages;
• linguistic landscapes;
• speech processing in multilinguals;
• developing literacies;
• digitalisation of multilingualism, etc.

 

Invited Guest Speakers

 

 

 

We would like to cordially invite you to our event, and we hope you will have a very pleasant visit to Poland, which has always been diverse linguistically and culturally.

 

Organising Committee:

 

Lanchukorn Sriwimon

Cui Song

Yuliya Taschavikova

Dilnaz Alimova

Miroslava Dudareva

Aleksandra Olasz

Katarzyna Bieńkowska

Kinga Kostyra

Joanna Tępczyk

Michał Grochowski

Abdul Awal

Linquan Bai

Miłosz Marcjanik

Paweł Ziomek

Piotr Romanowski