Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World Conference
Short Title: BHL

Date: 12-Jan-2026 - 14-Jan-2026
Location: Reading, United Kingdom

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Linguistic Theories; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): Portuguese (por)
Spanish (spa)

The Organizing Committee of the Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World Conference (BHL) is pleased to announce that the next BHL Conference will be held between 12-14 January 2026 at the University of Reading. We invite researchers, scholars, and industry professionals to submit papers for presentation at this premier academic event.
BHL is a biennial international conference (Leiden University, The Netherlands, 2015, 2019; Florida State University, USA, 2017; Puebla, Mexico, 2024) that brings together researchers working on different aspects of bilingualism/multilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone world to share new insights regarding methodology and extend and strengthen the dialogue on furthering our understanding of bilingualism/multilingualism.

BHL is dedicated to research in any area related to bilingualism/multilingualism, including: bilingual/multilingual acquisition, heritage languages, education, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics.

Topics:
1. Psycholinguistic aspects of multilingualism
2. Second language and bilingual/multilingual acquisition, heritage languages
3. Bilingualism/multilingualism in society and culture (e.g., language contact, language policies, identity, migration, etc)
4. Bilingualism/multilingualism in education (e.g., language acquisition in multilingual children, bilingual education models, teaching strategies in multilingual classrooms, mother tongue in education, etc) and in Technology (language learning apps, inclusion in multilingual digital spaces, etc. )
5. Theoretical linguistics

By bringing together researchers from different perspectives we hope to be able to share new insights regarding methodology and get a better understanding of bilingualism/multilingualism.

The invited speakers for the fifth international conference on Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone world are:
- Sílvia Perpiñán (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, España )
- Tim Laméris (Leiden University, NL)
- Patrick Rebuschat (Lancaster University, UK)
- Laura Dominguez (University of Southampton, UK)
- Cristóbal Lozano (Universidad de Granada, España)
- Nicola Bermingham (University of Liverpool, UK)

Call for papers will be announced soon!
We look forward to welcoming you to Reading, England!

Organizing Committee:
- Fraibet Aveledo (University of Reading, UK)
- Eloi Puig-Mayenco (King’s College London, UK)
- Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
- Antje Muntendam (Florida State University, United States of America)

Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone world (BHL) 2025
Email: [email protected]