Sébastien Lucas, teacher in CM2 at the French School in Oslo, has been invited to give a talk at the International Conference “Multilingual Awareness and Multilingual Practices” which takes place at Tallinn University, 22-23 November 2018
Sébastien Lucas has been a teacher at the French School in Oslo for the past 12 years. He already had 2 diplomas, one as a teacher and the other in language sciences when he decided to study for a Masters at the University in Rouen in Normandy. While working on his Masters he was still able to continue teaching at the school.
Since completing his Masters, he is now pursuing his doctorate at the University in Rouen. His studies are focused on Franco-Norwegian bilingualism, family language policy and the way bilingual children consider language and phrases while speaking French.
For some time now he has been working with 33 families from the French school in Oslo in order to understand the “cross-linguistic influence”. These children are now studying in 6ème and 5ème
Sébastien Lucas has been invited to give a talk on his studies at the International Conference “Multilingual Awareness and Multilingual Practices” which takes place at Tallinn University, 22-23 November 2018. His talk: “Metasyntactic Awareness and Cross-linguistic Influence, A Cross-sectional Study of School-aged French-Norwegian Bilingual Children” was selected by an internationally renowned scientific committee.
We wish him luck and we are delighted to be able to share with you 3 book recommendations he has provided on the topic:
- BAKER C., 2017, Foundations of bilingual education and bilingualism, Clevedon, Multilingual matters.
- GROSJEAN F., 2015, Parler plusieurs langues : le monde des bilingues, Paris, Albin Michel.
- HARDING-ESCH E. & RILEY P., 2003, The bilingual family : A handbook for parents, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.