Centre for Research on Bilingualism in Theory & Practice
Past Events
June 2011 - International Symposium on Bilingualism 8 (ISB8) held in Oslo
"Glossing CHAT files using the Bangor Autoglosser" by Kevin Donnelly, Sarah Cooper, and Margaret Deuchar. Please click here.
May 2010
Congratulations to Gwerfyl Roberts for winning a Welsh in Healthcare award.
October 2009
First Bangor Postgraduate Conference on Bilingualism and Bimodalism - October 2nd-3rd 2009
June 2008
Bilingual Language Test for Children
The first ever language test to be developed to measure the language abilities of bilingual children was recently launched by Jane Hutt AM, Minister for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills at WJEC Welsh Conference in Llandrindod Wells. Click here for more
November 2007
Friday 16 November: Press Launch of the Bilingualism Centre with short presentations from the four research theme groups followed by a reception. Find out more...
August 2007
Launch at the Eisteddfod: The Bilingualism Centre was launched in a special presentation on the 8th August at the University of Bangor Stall within the National Eisteddfod of Wales, Flintshire and District.
June 2007
Dyslexia – A Matter of Words: 9 June 2007: The Centre co-sponsored a one-day conference with the Dyslexia Unit of the University of Wales, Bangor. Professor Usha Goswami from the University of Cambridge gave this year's T.R.Miles lecture on Rhyme, Rhythm, Reading and Dyslexia: A Cross Language Analysis. Colin Baker chaired a workshop entitled Teaching and Learning in Two Languages.
May 2007
The 6th International Symposium on Bilingualism at the University of Hamburg: We sponsored a reception at the Conference Dinner in which Margaret Deuchar gave a short presentation on the establishment of the new Centre and welcomed collaboration with bilingualism researchers from around the world.
Presentations by Bangor researchers were given by Dirk Bury, Peredur Davies, Margaret Deuchar, Elen Robert, Jennifer Roberts, Jonathan Stammers, Marie-Josephe Tainturier and Enlli Thomas. Click here [1] [2] [3] for a sample of the Powerpoint presentations.