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Winter Semester Lecture Series:
We are pleased to offer two lecture series again this winter. "Focus on the Learner" is pedagogically oriented, and "Theoretical and Experimental Innovations in Bilingualism Research" focuses on language acquisition research that takes place outside of the classroom.
Lectures will be held in the Language Research Centre (Craigie Hall D419) on the following Fridays from 2:00 until 3:00 p.m.

"Focus on the Learner"
February 10, 2012
Rahat Naqvi (Associate Director, Language Research Centre and Faculty of Education) and Sarah Clark (M.Ed., Faculty of Education): "Transcending Cultural Boundaries: Reading Harry Potter in Nepali and Swedish"
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March 9, 2012
Nina Sudra (Film maker): "Growing up among Strangers"
Click here for the trailer to the film.

March 16, 2012
Horst Mastag (Department of Germanic, Slavic and East Asian Studies): "German through Music: How to Learn German Vocabulary and Grammar via Songs"

"Theoretical and Experimental Innovations in Bilingualism Research"
January 20, 2012
Debra Titone (Department of Psychology, McGill): "What the Eyes Tell us about Bilingual Language Processing"
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February 3, 2012
Susan Graham (Department of Psychology): "Preschoolers' Resolution of Reference: Evidence from Eye Movements"
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March 30, 2012
Susanne Carroll (Department of Linguistics and Language Research Centre): "Name and Naming in L2 Acquisition"

Graduate Student Poster Symposium
Graduate students from across campus are encouraged to submit an abstract for our annual poster symposium, scheduled to take place on May 1, 2012, in the Language Research Centre. Please note the date change. Abstracts are due along with this form by March 5, 2012.

Featured Event:
CIHR Science Cafe on the Benefits of Multilingualism

On Thursday, January 19, 2012,  we held a CIHR-sponsored Science Cafe entitled "'But our children need to speak English': Cognitive benefits of lifelong language learning." Jürgen Meisel (Universities of Hamburg and Calgary) discussed the benefits of childhood bilingualism, Debra Titone (McGill) talked about how adults benefit from knowing more than one language, and David Hogan (University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine and Hotchkiss Brain Institute) focused on how multilingualism helps the elderly, especially in light of recent research with Alzheimer's patients. The poster for the event can be found here.

Mary O'Brien (LRC) with panelists David Hogan, Jürgen Meisel and Debra Titone

    

                         Kevin McQuillan (Dean, Faculty of Arts)                            Tom Strong (Associate Dean, Research, Faculty of Education)

        

Jürgen Meisel with members of the audience                                Question period from the audience