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Arlington Lecture Series
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The Arlington Lecture Series
on Raising Multilingual Children
Our last lecture in the Arlington Lecture Series held on Feb. 26th was a tremendous success! We would like to thank all those who attended the Noam Chomsky lecture on "Language and Human Nature: What is Language?" We hope you enjoyed it and if you are interested in language acquisiton programs, please come to one of our many open clubs held at our North Cambridge office. You can find more detailed information under the Language Club tab above. Thank you!
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Previous Lectures:
The January 2010 lecture was given by Dr. Suzanne Flynn, MIT Professor of Linguistics & Language Acquisition and a member of the LEX America Board of Directors. This was the inaugural event of the series; the topic was "Raising Multilingual Children."
The March 2010 lecture was given by Dr. Barbara Pearson, linguistics researcher at UMass-Amherst and author of the book Raising a Bilingual Child. The topic of her lecture was "Nature AND Nurture: What parents can (and can't) do to help their children learn one, two, or more languages."
The May 2010 lecture was given by Dr. Maria Polinsky, Harvard Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Polinsky Language Lab. The topic was "Bilingualism and Heritage Language Speakers."
The October 2010 lecture was given by Dr. Marķa Luisa Parra, Harvard Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures. The topic was "The Role of Parents and Teachers in Raising Multilingual Children."
The December 2010 lecture was given by Dr. Catherine Snow, Patricia Albjerg Graham Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education. The topic was "Developing Truly Multilingual Children: The Role of Literacy."
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