sites.psych.ualberta.ca/ISB12 The Next Generation @ISB12YEG International Symposium on Bilingualism 12 The Next Generation June 23-28 University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Conference Program sites.psych.ualberta.ca/ISB12 The Next Generation @ISB12YEG Letter of Welcome to ISB 2019 Bienvenue à Edmonton! Welcome to Edmonton! Don’t miss out on the social events: We are pleased to be hosting the 12th Welcome Reception (Sunday). Light snacks and International Symposium on Bilingualism at the cash bar. Features local musicians Roger Dallaire University of Alberta. 2019 is the International and Daniel Gervais. Sponsored by Cambridge Year of Indigenous Languages according to University Press. UNESCO and marks the 50th anniversary of official bilingualism in Canada. The theme of this Opening ceremony (Monday). Stanley Peltier, year’s conference is The Next Generation. We indigenous elder and knowledge keeper, and Dr. build on this theme in two ways. First, we have Laura Beard, Vice President Research office. extended a particular welcome to presentations that recognize the importance of children’s Reception (Monday). Jazz musicians, cash bar. language learning for language maintenance Sponsored by John Benjamins Publishing. and survival. Second, we have welcomed early career scholars for presentations, including two Excursions and tours (Wednesday afternoon). talented and visionary early career scholars to Possibilities include: deliver lectures showing the future of research on bilingualism over the next generation. Elk Island/Ukrainian Village (paid) Over the next few days, we have a busy schedule. Institute for Innovation in Second In addition to keynotes, oral presentations, and Language Teaching (free) posters, we have the following academic events: Visit to the Legislative Assembly (free) Workshop on how to publish in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (Monday at lunch) Ghost tour (free) Launch of the Current Issues on Bilingualism Banquet (Thursday). At the beautiful Hotel (Tuesday morning) Macdonald downtown. La journée CSJ, a chance to visit the French- Closing ceremony (Friday). Warrior Woman (an language campus of the University of Alberta Indigenous drummer) and bannock. (Thursday) Please visit the exhibitors (Cambridge University Business meeting (Thursday afternoon) Press, John Benjamins, Multilingual Matters, Routledge, Springer). A big thank you to all our Featured speaker on the acquisition of Klingon sponsors. as a foreign language (Thursday) ISB12 Organizing Committee: Laurent Cammarata, Conversation on why outcomes differ for Monique Charest, Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain, Tracey bilingual children in different communities Derwing, Bill Dunn, Martin Guardado, Kaori Kabata, and with different language pairs (Erika Hoff, Elena Nicoladis (chair), Kim Noels, Johanne Paradis, Johanne Paradis, Sharon Unsworth and Virginia Leila Ranta, Anne-José Villeneuve Yip; Friday at lunch) ISB12 Staff: Krithika Govindarajan, Bryce Hoy, and EJ Meneses THE NEXT GENERATION | 2 sites.psych.ualberta.ca/ISB12 The Next Generation @ISB12YEG Conference Information Wi-fi Ukrainian Village/Elk Island Excursion and Use either eduroam or Guest@UofA. Banquet All tickets for these events have been sold! Wednesday excursions Space is limited for the excursions to the Institute Local dining guide for Innovation in Second Language Teaching, the See the dining guide on-line by our own resident Legislative Assembly, and the Ghost tour. Please foodie, Jennie Dailey-O'Cain sign up early at the registration desk. Click here for the guide! Journée Campus St. Jean Space is limited for the parallel sessions at the Other information Campus St. Jean, the French language campus Volunteers (in their distinctive blue t-shirts) of the University of Alberta, on Thursday. Please and the local organizing committee members sign up early at the registration desk. (perhaps in their TNG sweatshirts) will be happy to answer questions. THE NEXT GENERATION | 3 sites.psych.ualberta.ca/ISB12 The Next Generation @ISB12YEG Local tips and tidbits Edmonton is a hockey town; you are visiting 10211 83 Avenue will be located on the southside during one of the rare weeks when no games are of 83 Avenue (because the address is odd, not scheduled. even) between 102nd Street and 103rd Street. The Oilers and the Oil Kings play hockey (not ice Addresses will sometimes have NW or SW added hockey). on; it is extraordinarily unlikely that you will go to the SW part of Edmonton. The Oilers suck and there’s no hope for them for next year, but we are pretty impressed with the Oil Riding a local bus within the city limits costs Kings. (Well, Connor McDavid decidedly does not the same regardless of how far you go. Fare for suck.) 90 minutes in any direction for an adult is $3.25 cash, exact change (drivers do not give change) It is football season: the Edmonton Eskimos or an ETS ticket (available at the registration play in the Canadian Football League (which is desk). different from the American NFL; there are only three downs in the CFL so it is a much more Edmonton is generally a safe city. interesting game). Tipping is usually around 15%. Edmonton is a grid: streets run north-south and avenues run east-west. Street numbers go up as There is a 5% federal Goods and Services Tax you go west; avenue numbers go up as you north. (GST) on, get this, goods and services. Addresses are therefore transparent: for example, There is no provincial sales tax in Alberta. THE NEXT GENERATION | 4 sites.psych.ualberta.ca/ISB12 The Next Generation @ISB12YEG The West Edmonton Mall is called WEM /wɛm/. dîner en français at Café Bicyclette! Self-guided trip to the West Edmonton Mall (cost There are no provincial requirements for a second of the bus to get there and back). language in schools. Space is limited on the free excursions: make Do not assume that Edmontonians speak French. sure to sign up at the registration desk as soon Some do. Many don’t. as you can. It is a safe assumption that Edmontonians speak A British journalist once disparagingly nicknamed English. Edmonton “Deadmonton”. Edmontonians have embraced and transformed the nickname (the Canada has been on the metric system since the annual Halloween haunted house is called 1970s. Edmontonians will know temperatures in Deadmonton). Celsius, distances in kilometres, and gas prices per litre. Nonetheless, most will know their height Whyte Avenue (said, “Whyte Ave”) is 82nd Avenue. and weight only in imperial measures. The interesting part of Whyte Ave is between 109th Street and about 102nd St. YEG is the code for the Edmonton International Airport and has increasingly come to mean If you are staying in Edmonton for the weekend, Edmonton. check out the Old Strathcona farmers market, located one block north oh Whyte Ave between The city is known on Twitter as #yeg, as in @ 103rd St (Gateway) and 104th St (Calgary Trail). ISB12YEG. Feel free to spontaneously use Open on Saturdays from 8am to 3pm. this as a hashtag prefix--#yegfood, #yegarts, #yegrivervalley--the one you’re thinking of using Bars stay open till 2am. probably already exists. Restaurant outdoor patios are only open for Edmonton and Calgary have the sort of rivalry about three months of the year: enjoy them now!! only found among geographically proximate cities that are more similar than either of them The sun will set eventually. wants to admit. The secret treasure of Edmonton is the river The North Saskatchewan River is a social and valley. Take time to take a walk (and get lost)! psychological barrier even more than it is a physical one (although it is all of those things). You may see beavers, coyotes, deer, porcupines, skunks, and even occasionally a moose in the Earlier this year, the UK-based newspaper The river valley. Please leave them lots of space. Independent wrote a review of Edmonton’s dining scene that pronounced it “Canada’s most exciting There are no rats or venomous snakes in Alberta. culinary city.” (Please see our dining guide on the conference website for tips on how to best enjoy If you want an emotional reaction from it!) Edmontonians, ask about magpies! You can find delicious maple syrup here from Le repas du matin est le déjeuner, le repas du eastern Canada (there are no sugar maples in midi le dîner, et le repas du soir le souper. Alberta). Try some local birch or saskatoon berry syrup, too! The francophone community in Edmonton is small and active. Venture to the Bonnie Doon You are visiting at a time when Canadians are neighbourhood and you can order your lunchtime coming to terms with the long-standing and THE NEXT GENERATION | 5 sites.psych.ualberta.ca/ISB12 The Next Generation @ISB12YEG systemic cultural genocide of First Nations and renovations. Fort Edmonton has a replica of Métis peoples. Reconciliation will be a long, hard the fur-trading fort, originally established in road. 1795 to supply European dandies with beaver skin hats. At community, formal, and professional events, locals often begin by acknowledging The coldest day ever recorded in Edmonton the Indigenous inhabitants of the area and was on January 26, 1972. The temperature the treaty between them and the settlers that was -48.3° with a wind-chill dropping it to Edmontonians still live under today. When you are -61°. That’s Celsius, not that it matters when attending ISB, you are on Treaty 6 territory. temperatures are that low. Edmonton is one of the sunniest cities in Canada: More than 30 species of mosquitoes live in there are nearly 2,300 hours of sunshine a the Edmonton area. You may experience all of year. Edmonton is home to Canada’s largest them, especially at dusk. living history museum: Fort Edmonton Park. Fort Edmonton Park is currently closed for THE NEXT GENERATION | 6 sites.psych.ualberta.ca/ISB12 The Next Generation @ISB12YEG Conference Schedule THE NEXT GENERATION | 7 sites.psych.ualberta.ca/ISB12 The Next Generation @ISB12YEG Conference Sponsors Language, Communication, and Culture Signature Area THE NEXT GENERATION | 8 sites.psych.ualberta.ca/ISB12 The Next Generation @ISB12YEG ISB 2019 Scientific Committee Elena Nicoladis Katy Borodkin, Umit Boz Roswita Dressler Monique Charest Coralie Hervé Anne-Jose Villeneuve Pui Fong Kan Dustin Crowther Jorge R.