Eighth International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism.

Universitat Jaume I Castelló (Spain) 13-15 September 2012

Call for Papers

The Eighth International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism will be held at the University Jaume I of Castelló, Spain, on 13th-15th September 2012. We welcome original and previously unpublished papers on research on the acquisition or use of three or more languages. The language of the conference is predominantly English, but shall also consider contributions in other languages.

Abstracts for parallel session papers and symposia should be sent in English or in the language of presentation accompanied by an English translation.

Individual papers will be assigned 30 minutes slots: 20 minutes for the presentation and 10 minutes for questions. Themed symposia have 2 hour slots (4 papers): proposers should include the chair’s name, participants’ names, titles and abstracts for the papers in their symposium after obtaining their agreement to participate.

Topics include multilingualism in relation to:

_ acquisition of 3rd, 4th, 5th… languages;

_ multiple language acquisition in multilingual contexts;

_ psycholinguistics;

_ neurolinguistics;

_ speech processing in multilinguals;

_ affect (attitudes, emotions);

_ multilingual families;

_ mobility and migration of multilinguals;

_ multilingual majorities/minorities;

_ sociolinguistic studies of multilinguals in their communities;

_ multilingual cultures;

8th International Conference on L3 Acquisition and Multilingualism

13‐15 September 2012

Universitat Jaume I ‐ Castelló (Spain)