The workshop brings together members of the CoCoLaC community at the University of Helsinki and (socio)linguists, language acquisition researchers and language teachers and researchers from across Finland with the goal not to critique the mother tongue / native speaker construct further, but to propose alternative ways of understanding the values and roles of language in repertoires, language use and identification. Our aim is also to ground these new criteria in concrete language ecologies and scale up for comparison, rather than using external, predefined categories and apply them to different settings.
We are happy to confirm the Belgian psycholinguist Annick De Houwer as our keynote speaker.
You can find the Call for papers
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CoCoLaC Workshop
ALL MY TONGUES
REPLACING THE CONCEPT OF MOTHER TONGUE WITH EMPIRICALLY GROUNDED VALUES FOR THE ROLES OF LANGUAGES IN REPERTOIRES, LANGUAGE USE AND IDENTIFICATION
27 August 2026, 09.00-18.00
University of Helsinki Main building
Fabianinkatu 33, Studium 1 (F3020)
Registration until 17 August
09.00 Welcome coffee
09.15 – 10.30
Opening words
Keynote lecture
Annick De Houwer
Language learning and use across the lifespan: the dynamics of changing contexts
10.30 – 11.00
Coffee break
11.00 – 11.40
Iiris Rennicke
Speakers of Portuguese as a heritage language in Finland: native or doubly non-native?
11.40 – 12.20
Tuulia Suvanto
Navigating Basque varieties in family: experiences of Basque parents in the BAC and in Finland
12.20 – 13.30
Lunch break
13.30 – 14.10
Lauri Marjamäki
Elite Multilingualism before 1800: The letters of Johanna Theresia Harrach (1637–1706)
14.10 – 14.50
Maria Fedina
Native languages: how legal and ideological constructs affect living practices
14.50 – 15.10
Coffee break
15.10 – 15.50
Louise Rolland
Understanding language repertoires for trauma processing in psychotherapy
15.50 – 16.30
Daniel Talv
“My tongue has no mother”: rethinking affect and heritage in access-driven EMI repertoires
16.30 – 16.45
Coffee break
16.45 – 17.25
Mélanie Buchart
Acceptability of Linguistic Variation in French: Learners’ Representations, Repertoires, and Reflexive Normativity
17.25 – 18.00
Closing discussion
18.00 – End of Workshop
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