Research Projects

The Institute for Research on Multilingualism examines the complexities of multilingualism in the educational, social, cultural, cognitive, and professional domains. It investigates questions related to language policies, multilingual practices, and language acquisition from a variety of backgrounds, using different traditions, including sociolinguistics and applied linguistics, conversational and discourse analysis, and writing acquisition studies.

Current Research Projects:

• DisPOSEG - Disentangling postcolonial encounters in globalisation: a sociolinguistic-ethnographic study of Lusophone migrant workers’ positionings in third space (Bernardino Tavares)
• DigiFam - Digital Media as Language and Literarcy Learning Spaces in Multilingual Families (Maria Obojska)
• COVID-KIDS II - Children’s voices during the Covid-19 pandemic - insights into their learning experiences, perceptions and well-being (Claudine Kirsch)
• COMPARE - Collaboration with parents and Multiliteracy in early Childhood Education (Claudine Kirsch)
• CALIDIE - Capitalising on Linguistic Diversity in Education (Adelheid Hu)
• GRASP - Effects of Grammatical Reflection on Spelling among multilingual pupils (Constanze Weth)
• LALAPP - LALA early reading app (Pascale Engel de Abreu)

Past Research Projects:

• COVID-Kids I - Understanding the influence of COVID-19 on children’s and adolescents’ school experience and subjective well-being (2020-2021)
• OLAP - Oral Language Development and its Predictors in Language-Minority Children from Low Income Families (Ariana Ferreira Loff)
• POLILux - A Preschool Oral Language Intervention for Language-Minority Children: A Randomised Controlled Trial (Pascale Engel de Abreu)
• iTEO - Examining the use of the App iTEO for teaching and learning languages in primary schools (Claudine Kirsch)
• RECTEC - Reconnaître les compétences transversales en lien avec l'employabilité et les certifications (Ingrid de Saint-Georges)
• MuLiPEC - Developing multilingual pedagogies in Early Childhood (Claudine Kirsch)
• LALA - Lauter lëschteg Lauter (Pascale Engel de Abreu)