Symposium: Building a new life in a new language: Challenges and opportunities for child refugees - LOT – Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics

Utrecht University invites you to attend a symposium on the 26th of September, 2025.

Date: September 26, 2025

Venue: Johanna Hudiggebouw, room 1.27, Achter Sint Pieter 200, 3512 HT Utrecht (https://www.uu.nl/achter-sint-pieter-200)

Programme

9:20-9:30 Welcome

9:30-10:00 Meta van der Linden, Navigating new beginnings: Mixed-methods insights into the social and economic acculturation of recently arrived Syrian and Ukrainian refugees

10:00-10:30 Hend Eltanamly, When the village gets bombed: Parenting in the aftermath of war and refuge

10:30-11:00 Noemi Mena Montes & Luis Miguel Rojas Berscia, Exploring digital engagement and language choices among Ukrainian refugees in the Netherlands

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:00 Mirjam Broersma, Second language acquisition in refugees: Interplay between trauma, wellbeing, cognition, motivation, and participation

12.00-12:30 Elena Tribushinina, Anna Rijkers, Natalia Rekonvald & Hanna Tryfonova, Dutch skills and academic performance in young Ukrainian refugees: Predictors of success

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:00 Manuela Pinto & Shalom Zuckerman, Assessing vocabulary development in Dutch L2: A special test for young newcomers

14:00-14.30 Rianne van den Berghe, Charikleia Sparou, Anouk Wezendonk-Brouwer & Elma Blom, The Babel bear project: Developing a tool to support multilingual kindergartners

14:30-15:00 Marie Steffens, Sergio Baauw & Miranda Renders, Articulate linguistic repertoires: From translanguaging to integrated didactics in the Edina project

15:00-15:30 – Coffee break

15:30-16:00Lianne Stolte & Elma Blom, Translanguaging in primary school: Voices of newcomer students

16.00-16:30 Saskia Mooijman, Jantien Smit & Cindy Kuiper, Multilingual tutors as linguistic and cultural brokers: Exploring their role and impact in secondary newcomer education

Drinks

Participation is free, but you need to register via the following link: https://forms.office.com/e/Yi0y4Ru4S4

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