FINAL CONFERENCE

After more than three years, the MultiMind project come to an end. For this occasion we organised the final project conference to present the main findings of the project.

 

The conference took place from 27-29 June 2022 in a hybrid format in Konstanz, Germany.

The conference consists of two parts, one for non-academic stakeholders on the 27th June and one for academic audiences on the 28th and 29th June. On the 1st day the policy reports for speech and language therapists, psychiatrists, and teachers were presented. On the 2nd and 3rd day, the 15 MultiMind early-stage researchers presented their most important results followed by a discussion on each day. The conference was concluded with a round table on further directions on the 3rd day.

 

The complete programme can be found below and downloaded here. 

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Programme 

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Mon, 27 June

9.00-9.10: WELCOME AND OPENING OF THE MULTIMIND FINAL CONFERENCE

Theodoros Marinis, Coordinator of the project (University of Konstanz)

9.10:9.30: WELCOME ON BEHALF OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Anna Sole Mena, Senior Expert, DG Education, Youth, Sport and Culture

9.30-10.30:  POLICY REPORT FOR SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPISTS - PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION

Maria Luisa Lorusso (Scientific Institute IRCCS E. Medea)

10.30-11.00: Break

11.00-12.00: POLICY REPORT FOR PSYCHIATRISTS - PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION

Azucena Garcia-Palacios (Universitat Jaume I)

12.00-13.00: Lunch

13.00-14.30: POLICY REPORTS FOR TEACHERS -PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION

Tanja Rinker (Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt) & Despina Papadopoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

14.30-15.00: Break

15.00-16.00: Wrap up and discussion

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Tue, 28 June

9.15-9.30: WELCOME TO THE ACADEMIC PART OF THE MULTIMIND FINAL CONFERENCE

Theodoros Marinis, Coordinator of the project (University of Konstanz)

9.30-11.00: SESSION 1

Chair: Niels Schiller (University of Leiden)

9.30-10.00: Daniela Avila-Varela & Nuria Sebastian-Galles: Cross-language phonological overlap in bilingual toddlers

10.00-10.30: Jasmijn Bosch & Francesca Foppolo: Predictive processing in bilingual children: effects of language dominance, cross-linguistic influence and literacy

10.30-11.00: Grazia Di Pisa, Jason Rothman, & Theodoros Marinis: Gender and Number Agreement in Italian as a Heritage Language: A Self-Paced Reading Study

11.00-11.30: Break

11.30-13.30 SESSION 2

Chair: Zofia Wodniecka (Jagiellonian University)

11.30-12.00: Sarah Von Grebmer Zu Wolfsthurn, Leticia Pablos Robles, & Niels O. Schiller: When your native language does (not) matter: Neural correlates of language similarity in non-native language comprehension and production

12.00-12.30: Theresa Bloder, Valerie Shafer, & Tanja Rinker: Voice Onset Time in bilingual Italian-German children. Evidence from perception and production

12.30-13.00: Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares, Yanina Prystauka, Vincent DeLuca, Jason Rothman, & Tanja Kupisch : Type of bilingualism conditions individual differences in the oscillatory dynamics of inhibitory control

13.00-13.30: Michal Korenar, Jeanine Treffers-Daller, & Christos Pliatsikas: Structural neural correlates of habitual code-switching practices in bilinguals

13.30-14.30: Lunch

14:30-16.00: SESSION 3

Chair: Nuria Sebastian-Galles (Pompeu Fabra University)

14.30-15.00: Jia’en Yee, Ngee Thai Yap, Christos Pliatsikas, & Doug Saddy: Implicit statistical learning as a function of multiliteracy

15.00-15.30: David Gyorgy, Doug Saddy, & Julie Franck: Rhythmic priming of syntactic processing in Jabberwocky: a short-lived effect

15.30-16.00: Sofía Castro, Marcin Bukowski, Juan Lupiáñez, & Zofia Wodniecka: Bilingualism is related to the expression of fewer stereotypes: The role of cognitive flexibility and motivation

16.00-16.30: Break

16.30-17.30: GENERAL DISCUSSION

Discussant: Jeanine Treffers-Daller (University of Reading)

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Wed, 29 June

9.30-11.00: SESSION 4

Chair: Julie Franck (University of Geneva)

9.30-10.00: Juhayna Taha, Desire Carioti, Natale Stucchi, Elisa Granocchio, Daniela Sarti, Marinella De Salvatore, & Mariateresa Guasti: Identifying multilingual children with reading difficulties through linguistic and non-linguistic measures

10.00-10.30: Maren Eikerling & Maria Luisa Lorusso: The MuLiMi web app - A modifiable, computerized system to identify the risk of Developmental Language Disorder in Spanish-Italian bilingual children

10.30-11.00: Isabel Ortigosa, Azucena García-Palacios, Irene Jaén, Jon Andoni Duñabeitia, Víctor Costumero, Diana Castilla, Núria Sebastián-Gallés, & Albert Costa: The effect of foreign language in emotion regulation

11.00-11.30: Break

11.30-13.00: SESSION 5

Chair: Maria-Teresa Guasti (University Milano Bicocca)

11.30-12.00: Konstantina Olioumtsevit, Despina Papadopoulou, & Theodoros Marinis: L2 Greek narrative abilities in refugee children

12.00-12.30: Solange Santarelli, Federico Faloppa, & Anna Bucca: Linguistic autobiography as a didactic tool in multilingual and multilevel classrooms of adult migrant learners

12.30-13.00: Jasmijn Bosch, Konstantina Olioumtsevits, Solange Santarelli, Federico Faloppa, Francesca Foppolo, & Despina Papadopoulou: Teachers' perspectives on multilingual classrooms: a cross-cultural investigation

13.00-14.00: Lunch

14.00-15.00: GENERAL DISCUSSION

Discussant: Sharon Armon-Lotem (Bar Ilan University)

15.00-16.00: ROUND TABLE - FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN MULTILINGUALISM

with Anna Sole Mena (Senior Expert, DG Education, Youth, Sport and Culture European Commission)
Julie Franck (University of Geneva)
Federico Faloppa (University of Reading)

Maria-Teresa Guasti (University Milano Bicocca)

Niels Schiller (University of Leiden)

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About the location

The conference took place in the Wolkensteinsaal in the Kulturzentrum in Konstanz, German (Wessenbergstraße 43, 78462 Konstanz). ​

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