Type: Arqus Plurilingual and Intercultural Hub
Format: Online
We invite you to join the next session of The 9 Months, 9 Universities series, organised within the framework of the Arqus Plurilingual and Intercultural Hub. The session titled “How family, school and society shape bilingual development: A French–Polish case study” will be broadcast live on YouTube on 24 March at 13:30 CET.
This time, experts will explore how bilingualism develops in children growing up in multilingual environments and how family practices, educational settings and broader social contexts interact in shaping language development.
The presentation will focus on the bilingual experience of three French–Polish siblings raised in a mid-to-high socioeconomic family using a one-parent-one-language strategy and enrolled in a state bilingual programme in France. Through a detailed family language biography, the study investigates how children experience and actively shape bilingualism, highlighting the richness of their linguistic environment.