ECIS MLIE Conference

Jim Cummins is a Professor Emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. His research focuses on literacy development in educational contexts characterized by linguistic diversity. In numerous articles and books he has explored the nature... Read More →

My research focuses on the dynamic effects of individual differences in multilingual language use and acquisition, with a focus on personality and emotion. I am also strongly committed to social justice. I fight monolingual ideologies and try to get rid of the deficit view of foreign... Read More →

Fred Genesee is Professor Emeritus in the Psychology , McGill University. He has conducted extensive research on alternative forms of bilingual/ immersion education for language minority and majority students, the academic development of at-risk students in bilingual programs. language... Read More →

Dr Judit Kormos is a Professor in Second Language Acquisition in the Department of Linguistics and English Language. Her research interests are psychological aspects of second language learning, motivation, learner autonomy in foreign language contexts, and language learners with... Read More →

Paul Kei Matsuda is Professor of English and Director of Second Language Writing at Arizona State University, where he works closely with doctoral students specializing in second language writing from various disciplinary perspectives. Paul is Founding Chair of the Symposium on Second... Read More →

Victoria Murphy is Professor of Applied Linguistics and the Deputy Director of the Department of Education, University of Oxford. She is the research group convener of the Applied Linguistics, and the R.E.A.L. (Research in English as an Additional Language) research groups. Victoria’s... Read More →

Monika's main topic of research is the loss of the native language, also called First Language Attrition. Please refer to her personal websiteon this topic at https://languageattrition.org. Monika received her PhD in English Linguistics from the University of Duesseldorf, Germany... Read More →

Dr. Kate Seltzer is an Assistant Professor of Bilingual/TESOL Education whose interests include humanizing approaches to educating language minoritized students, English Language Arts education, and translanguaging. A former high school English teacher in New York City, Dr. Seltzer... Read More →

I am a teacher and researcher at the University of Edinburgh.My main focus is on language education and global mobility: I am particularly interested in young people's migration trajectories and the experiences they bring with them to school. I also study how teachers and schools... Read More →

Antonella Sorace is Professor of Developmental Linguistics at the University ofEdinburgh. She is a world leading authority in the field of bilingual languagedevelopment across the lifespan, where she brings together methods fromlinguistics, experimental psychology, and cognitive science... Read More →

Marco Tamburelli is a Reader in Bilingualism at Bangor University where he works on simultaneous bilingualism and teaches a variety of courses in bilingual acquisition, bilingual phonology, and language contact phenomena. He obtained a PhD from University College London where he researched... Read More →

Li Wei is Director & Dean of the UCL Institute of Education, and Chair Professor of Applied Linguistics at University College London (UCL) and Director of the UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics. His research covers different aspects of language contact, bilingualism and multilingualism... Read More →