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HL2C – Heritage Language Consortium

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Description

The Heritage Language Consortium, is a strategic partnership between Lancaster University, the University of Lisbon, the University of Minho, NOVA University Lisbon, the University of Porto, Tübingen University, and Camões: Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The objective of the Consortium is to promote research on language learning in a variety of settings (from naturalistic development to classroom-based instruction) and across different age groups (children, adolescents and adults). The focus of our research will be on the acquisition of Portuguese in multilingual settings, though the insights gained from Consortium projects will be applicable to other languages.
Our research will help us understand how children and adults learn new languages and identify those factors that make some of us particularly good language learners. We can then use these insights to improve language education.
Consortium projects involve leading researchers from a range of disciplines (theoretical linguistics, education, computational linguistics, cognitive psychology, language pedagogy, corpus linguistics, second language research) and a range of methodological approaches. Please visit the People page to learn more about the Steering Committee, the Scientific Advisory Board, and the Consortium Members.
In addition, the Consortium also participates in impact and outreach activities to engage with parents, teachers and policy makers. An early example of such an outreach initiative can be found here.

(Retrieved from the website of the project.)

Collaborators from CLUNL

João Costa
Maria Lobo
Susana Correia
Ana Madeira
Alexandra Fiéis

Participating entities

Full information at: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/heritage-language/about-us/

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