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A truly global summer/winter school on language acquisition
/L+/ is a free virtual school dedicated to fostering the exchange of expertise among students and early-career researchers working on language development in monolingual and multilingual contexts. By bringing together participants from diverse linguistic, cultural, and academic backgrounds, /L+/ aims to create a truly global community of scholars in language acquisition.
A survey of diversity in leading language acquisition journals (Kidd & Garcia, 2022) revealed that only 2% of the world's more than 7,000 languages are represented in the published literature. To help address this imbalance and empower researchers worldwide to contribute to the field, we launched the First and Second Truly Global /L+/ Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition in 2021 and 2023.
These editions brought together participants, instructors, and organizers from across the globe, including Sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and Central and South America. More information about the outcomes and impact of the first edition can be found in this paper.
Although much remains to be done to promote inclusivity in linguistic research, we hope our school will contribute to empowering researchers to investigate and publish on language acquisition in their home languages.
(Adapted from: Aravena-Bravo et al., 2023)
A cross-university collaboration
Full list of organizers
Alejandra Raisman (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM, México)
Alejandra Sadaniowski (Universidad Católica de las Misiones, Argentina)
Alma Luz Rodriguez Lazaro (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM, México)
Ana Estrada
Bhuvana Narasimhan (University of Colorado Boulder)
Caroline Rowland (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands)
Elisa Gottardi
Eva Huber (University of Cologne, Germany)
Fei Ting Woon (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Felix Kpogo
Grace Ennim (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Ivan Bondoc (University of Toronto, Canada)
Janina Vargas (Universidad del País Vasco, Spain)
Lara Hamburger (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Lara Lanús Granada
Lawrence Mwangi Nduati (Aga Khan University, Kenya)
Leonardo Piot (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Leticia Schiavon Kolberg (University of Grenoble Alpes, France)
Line Kippe (University of Douala, Cameroon)
Magdalena Krysztofiak (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Maria Montefinese (Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, United States; University of Padova, Italy)
Michelle White (University of Oslo, Norway; Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
Nancy Estévez Pérez (Cuban Neurosciences Center)
Naomi Havron (University of Haifa, Israel)
Natalie Boll-Avetisyan (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Nurtimhar Shahaji (Western Mindanao State University)
Rida Ahmed (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Rodolphe Prosper Maah (University of Douala, Cameroon)
Rowena Garcia (Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS Berlin), University of the Philippines Manila)
Silvia Benavides-Varela (University of Padova, Italy)
Funding
The L+ Summer/Winter School is co-funded by the University of Potsdam (KoUP Cooperation Funding) and University of Padua (“Shaping a World-class University - Seed funding for Digitalization & Innovation”).
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