Program

8:30-9:30

Registration (University of Tartu, Main Building, Ülikooli 18)

9:30-10:00

Opening of the conference (University of Tartu, Main Building, Assembly Hall, Ülikooli 18)

10:00-11:00

Plenary Lecture: Jyrki Kalliokoski (University of Helsinki) Plurilingual competence, styles and variation (Main Building, Assembly Hall, Ülikooli 18)

Main Building, room 139                        Main Building, room 140

Chair: Kenneth Hyltenstam                  Chair: Renate Pajusalu

11:30-12:00

Jens Normann Jørgensen(University of Copenhagen)Who has the right to do what with which language and why (not)?

Marjo Savijärvi (University of Helsinki)Bilingual conversation as an environment for second language learning

12:00-12:30

Patrick Studer (University of Bern) Encounters with language: perspectives and positioning in spontaneous discourses on multilingualism

Geda Paulsen, Hanna Jokela (Åbo Akademi, University of Turku) Võtke minust eesmärki - language strategies of a trilingual child

12:30-13:00

Irene Käosaar, Tõnu Tender(Estonian Ministry of Education and Research) Multilingual pupils in Estonian Schools

 Maria Frick (University of Helsinki)Assessments, evaluation and Finnish-Estonian code-switching

13:00-13:30

Minna Suni, Sirkku Latomaa(University of Jyväskylä,  University of Tampere)Plurilingual pupils in Finnish schools: Swimming or sinking?

Marja Vaba (Tallinn University) Estonian-English code-switching in Tallinn office of Skype: how much and why?

Main Building, room 139

Chair: Jyrki Kalliokoski          

Main Building, room 140

Chair: Jussi Niemi

14:30-15:00

Kenneth Hyltenstam (Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Stockholm University)  "Near-nativeness"  in a second language - a representational or a processing phenomenon?

Marit Helene Kløve (University of Bergen) Code-switching in L1 and transfer in L2

15:00-15:30

Elif Bamyaci, Roelien Bastiaanse (University of Konstanz, University of Groningen) Time reference in Turkish agrammatic speakers

Hanna Lantto (University of Helsinki)The differing code-mixing patterns of the euskaldunberri and euskaldunzahar in the Spanish Basque Country

15:30-16:00

 Lea Nieminen, Minna Suni (University of Jyväskylä)Complexity and interaction: comparing the development of L1 and L2

 Kaarina Mononen (University of Helsinki) Multilingualism and Identity: Ingrian-Finns in the multilingual community

16:00-16:30

Kari K.Pitkänen, Tuula Lehtonen, Roy Siddall, Anu Virkkunen Fullenwider (The University of Helsinki Language Center)Developing Language Support for Non-Native Learning Environments at the Master´s  Level

Larisa Leisiö (Academy of Finland, University of Tampere) Past participle constructions in two dialectal Russian groups in Estonia and in Finland

17:00-18:00

Plenary Lecture: Peeter Torop (University of Tartu) Bilingual communication and translation: semiotic aspects (Main Building, Assembly Hall, Ülikooli 18)

09:00-10:00

Plenary Lecture: Prof Tatiana Chernigovskaya  (St. Petersburg State University) Second Language Acquisition: Brain and Mind (Main Building, Assembly Hall, Ülikooli 18)

Main Building, room 139    

Chair: Karl Pajusalu     

Main Building, room 140

Chair: Nikolai Kuznetsov

10:30-11:00

Anna Verschik (Tallinn University)Old and new multilingualism in the Baltic countries: a comparative perspective

Konstantin Zamyatin (University of Helsinki) Language policies and legal framework for functioning of official languages in the republics of Udmurtia and Mari El

11:00-11:30

Meilutė Ramonienė (Vilnius University) New Trends of Multilingualism in Lithuanian Cities

Svetlana Edygarova (University of Tartu) About the problem of bilingual education in Udmurt Republic of the Russian Federation

11:30-12:00

Anastassia Zabrodskaja (Tallinn University) Multilingual Linguistic Landscape of Today's Estonia

Rabia Redouane (Montclair State University) Tamazight Language in Government Policies and Schools practices: The Case of Morocco

12:00-12:30

Vineta Poriņa (Latvian Language Institute, University of Latvia)Development of individual bilingualism in Latvia

Fatima Badry (American University of Sharjah) Global English or Arabic in the Arabian Gulf Higher Education. Is There Really a Dilemma?

Main Building, room 139 

Chair: Anna Verschik        

Main Building, room 140

Chair: Annekatrin Kaivapalu

13:30-14:00

Ülle Rannut, Mart Rannut (Tallinn University) Urban home languages: Tallinn case

Cecilia Söderholm, Seija Pekkala (University of Helsinki) Word retrieval in mono- and bilingual Finnish Swedish speaking children

14:00-14:30

Laima Kalėdienė (Institute of Lithuanian Language) The evaluation of the language policy of Lithuania: interpreting the data of a sociolinguistic inquiry

Elena Tkachenko (University of Oslo)Patterns of minority language use and the acquisition of verbal morphology in Russian-Norwegian bilingual children

14:30-15:00

Harry Lönnroth (University of Tampere) Swedish speech islands in Finland: past and present

Heidi Rontu(Helsinki University of Technology) Negation in Infant Bilingualism

15:00-15:30

Shahzaman Haque (University of Tampere & LIDILEM) Truncated multilingual repertoire among Indian migrant families in four cities of Europe

Lea Nieminen, Ritva Takkinen (University of Jyväskylä)Evaluative language in CI children's stories: words, signs or paralinguistic expressions?

15:30-16:00

Memet Aktürk Drake (Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Stockholm University) The vitality of Turkish as a minority language in Sweden

Jyrki Tuomainen, Fredrika Juslin, Matti Laine (Åbo Akademi) Action and object naming in Finnish-Swedish 4-year-old bilingual children

Main Building, room 139     

Chair: Madis Arukask    

Main Building, room 140

Chair: Silvi Tenjes

16:30-17:00

Maarika Teral, Mari Allik (University of Tartu) Estonians in Sweden and Denmark: identity and language

Minoo Alemi, Zia Tajeddin (Allameh Tabataba'i University, Iran Language Institute; Sharif University of Technology) The Cognitive Nature of Classroom-embedded L2 Learning at Elementary and Advanced Stages

17:00-17:30

Leelo Keevallik, Karl Pajusalu, Pärtel Lippus (Uppsala University, University of Tartu) Duration and pitch in the quantity distinction of Swedish Estonians

Ewa Donesch-Jezo (Jagiellonian University, Medical College Jagiellonian Centre for Foreign Languages in Krakow) The role of output in second language acquisition: a classroom-based experimental study of grammar acquisition by adult English language learners

17:30-18:00

Elena Ryabina (University of Tartu) Cross-cultural differences in the distribution of colour terms in Ostwald's colour space: Russian, Udmurt and Komi

Natalja Zagura (University of Tartu)Communication strategies in the English of Estonian secondary school leavers