ConnectM3 is an international and interdisciplinary conference that aims to bridge the gap between multiple disciplines (linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, and education) by connecting researchers from Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand in Malaysia, a multilingual and multicultural society.

Submission Guidelines

Call for abstract submission DEADLINE 17th June

• Types of presentations: 1) paper, 2) poster, 3) Research Proposal
• Length of abstracts: paper or poster or researtch proposal (450 words max – excluding references and title of paper).

We welcome submissions for papers, posters or research proposals on research surrounding ‘Bilingualism/Multilingualism across the lifespan’, including but not limited to:

• The development of language and/or literacy in multilingual children/adults and factors that lead to individual variability
• Impact of language background on Executive Function
• Factors that contribute to literacy attainment, including cognitive factors (e.g. phonological awareness), environmental factors (e.g. home language and literacy environment), and pedagogical factors (e.g. methods of literacy instruction)
• Pedagogies in the multilingual classroom, including the use of home languages and the use of translanguaging in the classroom
• Language assessment for multilingual populations, including indigenous children/adults
• Language Attrition in older adults and/or in indigenous languages
• Language Assessments for Aphasia and/or Dementia in mulitlingual adults

Plenary Sessions

• Language Assessment: will focus on language assessment for children growing up in multilingual societies, how to develop language assessments for multilingual populations across the lifespan and will also focus on the impact of bilingualism/multilingualism on cognitive function.
• Reading and Writing across the lifespan: will focus on multilingualism in and outside of the classroom and will address issues of individual variability in bilinguals/multilinguals across the lifespan
• Language acquisition and attrition: will focus on how language develops in children and adults growing up/living in multilingual societies, how they maintain the languages they speak, under which conditions we see effects of language attrition, and how language declines as a result of a stroke or dementia.  It will also include talks on methods for the documentation of indigenous languages.

Roundtable Discussions

• Best practice tips for online data collection, how research has been affected by COVID-19
• Development of bi/multilingual assessment tools
• Language attrition in clinical populations (e.g.,  aphasia and dementia)

Knowledge Transfer Workshops

• Effective Grant proposal writing
• Research Methods: Corpus Linguistics
• Research Methods: Open Science
• Research Methods: Online Data Collection

Organizing Committee

• Dr Jess Price, University of Nottingham Malaysia
• Dr Siti Haman, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
• Dr Rachel Pye, University of Reading Malaysia
• Dr Daisy Powell, University of Reading

Keynote Speakers

• Prof Arpita Bose, University of Reading
• Dr Julia Lee Ai Cheng, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
• Prof Susan Rickard Liow & Dr Lee Lay Choo, National University of Singapore

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to ConnectM3.Online@gmail.com