Profs. Virginia Yip and Stephen Matthews give invited talks at the International Conference on the Transformation and Innovation of Chinese Culture at the National University of Singapore

Posted on December 7, 2016December 7, 2016 by cbrchk

Profs. Virginia Yip and Stephen Matthews give invited talks at the International Conference on the Transformation and Innovation of Chinese Culture at the National University of Singapore, 2-3 December 2016.

Yip, V. 2016. Bilingual and multilingual acquisition of Chinese. Invited talk presented at the International Conference on the Transformation and Innovation of Chinese Culture at the National University of Singapore.

Matthews, S. 2016. Is Cantonese an endangered language? The role of intergenerational transmission. Invited talk presented at the International Conference on the Transformation and Innovation of Chinese Culture at the National University of Singapore.

A warm welcome to Tracy Au and Sophia Yu who join CBRC as full-time members from 3 August 2015.

Posted on August 31, 2015August 31, 2015 by cbrchk

Prof. Stephen Matthews, Co-Director of CBRC will teach The Structure of Cantonese at the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute at the University of Chicago in July 2015

Posted on February 2, 2015February 2, 2015 by cbrchk

Prof Virginia Yip, Director of CBRC will teach the first half of Introduction to Bilingualism at the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute at the University of Chicago in July 2015.

Posted on February 2, 2015February 2, 2015 by cbrchk

Congratulations to Professor Nicholas Evans on the newly established ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language of which he is Director!

Posted on November 17, 2014November 17, 2014 by cbrchk

Prof. Michael Sharwood Smith visited CBRC and gave a linguistics seminar on “Exploring the Multilingual Mind: an account of how languages grow and live together in one individual” on 11 November 2014.

Posted on November 13, 2014November 13, 2014 by cbrchk

Congratulations to Professor Agnes He on the launch of the Center for Multilingual and International Communication!

Posted on September 26, 2014September 26, 2014 by cbrchk

Congratulations to Dr Ruying Qi on the launch of the Bilingualism Resesarch Laboratory of which she is Director! Prof. Yip and Prof. Matthews were invited to give keynote speeches at the 2nd Symposium on Bilingualism and Intercultural Communication at the University of Western Sydney.

Posted on July 29, 2014July 31, 2014 by cbrchk

Prof. Virginia Yip and Prof. Stephen Matthews will give invited lectures in the Distinguished Speaker Series in the 2nd Symposium on Bilingualism and Intercultural Communication, August 7 and 9, Sydney, Australia.

The main purpose of this special workshop supported by the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney and Fairfield City Council for Bilingualism is to highlight the potentials and challenges of raising bilingual children. The presenters are leading international experts whose main area of expertise is childhood and community bilingualism. Participants of this workshop will have the rare opportunity to share their experiences and to learn from distinguished leaders in the field. Local participants will enjoy shared knowledge and insights with UWS academics and students who are future educators and bilingualism workers at this special workshop.