Network Activities

As linguistic diversity is growing in classrooms across Europe, and as language has been identified as key to educational success, it is imperative that researchers in the field communicate and collaborate. Network 31 is an ideal forum for such communication and collaboration to take place. We especially encourage young researchers to take the opportunity to network with and gain feedback from experts and peers within our network. Following activities are underway to support young researchers:

• encouraging young researchers to submit poster proposals as a way to showcase their research interests to others, and to become involved in the network
• offering the assistance of experienced researchers in finding partners for organizing symposia
• planning workshops
• organizing meetings between the ECERs

A special issue for EERA journal related to minority languages is in process. Additionally, we are planning another special issue related to linguistically responsive and multilingual pedagogies.

We are planning a summer school in 2025. We will apply EERA funding for it.

Coordination Office for Multilingualism and Language Education (KoMBi) in Germany
https://www.kombi.uni-hamburg.de/

Multilingual Childhoods SIG (MC SIG)
European Early Childhood Education Research Association
https://multilingualchildhoods.wordpress.com/

Reading Literacy and Associated Reading Interventions for High-Risk Children IRN
World Education Research Association
https://www.weraonline.org/page/ReadLiteracy