Multilingualism, global communication, and social media

Professor Moore and a small group of scholars from the Educational Linguistics Division (ELX) of Penn GSE and the Centre for Language, Discourse and Communication (School of Education, Communication & Society) at King’s College London (KCL) will convene for a three-day planning session in Philadelphia during summer 2019. The planning session’s objective is to design a five-day summer school to be held at Penn GSE in the summer of 2020 under the joint sponsorship of Penn and KCL, on the theme “Multilingualism, global communication, and social media.” The chosen theme builds upon recent and ongoing research in a cluster of related fields—sociolinguistics, applied/educational linguistics, and linguistic ethnography—in which the two institutions have been playing leadership roles in research, teaching, and curriculum development since the 1990s.