Activities for Young Researchers
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
Publications
Our network has been working on a special issue about heritage language instruction for EERA journal.
Future Plans
Our network established an online colloqium for PhD students which will support them in networking and getting feedback on their work. We are also planning to apply funding for a summer school and for a meeting to plan our work.
Our Partners
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
NW 31 runs a mailing list and invites researchers to join. To join the mailing list, send a blank message to nw31-subscribe(at)lists.eera-ecer.de