LINGUIST List 22.2461 Mon Jun 13 2011 Confs: English, Sociolinguistics, Language Acquisition/Germany Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Katharina Lauer , International Fall School Multilingualism Message 1: International Fall School Multilingualism Date: 11-Jun-2011 From: Katharina Lauer <Katharina.Laueruni-hamburg.de> Subject: International Fall School Multilingualism E-mail this message to a friend International Fall School Multilingualism Date: 26-Sep-2011 - 01-Oct-2011 Location: Hamburg, Germany Contact: Monika Schulz Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.lima.uni-hamburg.de/index.php/de/graduierten-training/fall-school Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics Subject Language(s): English Meeting Description: International Fall School Multilingualism: European and Asian Perspectives The world in which we live is increasingly multilingual. Multilingualism in today’s modern societies requires new expertise, skills and leadership to understand and meet the challenges of linguistic and cultural diversity. The forces of post-colonial settings, globalization and increasing levels of migration and mobility have created distinct multilingual realities in European and Asian contexts. This fall school will tackle multilingualism in an interdisciplinary fashion and compare and contrast different and complementary dimensions of multilingualism in Europe and Asia. If you are interested in viewing language from cross-disciplinary perspectives and within a global context, this fall school is what you are looking for. Program: Prof. Dr. Francesco Cavallaro: 'Singapore: Multilingual Society, Bilingual Individuals?' Prof. Dr. Ng Bee Chin: 'Assessing Children in Multilingual Contexts' Prof. Dr. Nicole Baumgarten: 'Non-native English and English as a Lingua Franca in the European context' Prof. Dr. Bao Zhiming: 'Usage, Structure and New English' Workshop: 'Linguistic Diversity and its Management in the Asian Context' Registration: June 13th 2011 - July 31st 2011 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 13-Jun-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.