New Speakers in a Multilingual Europe: Opportunities and Challenges New Speakers in a Multilingual Europe: Opportunities and Challenges The New Speakers Network


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The New Speaker Studio
The New Speaker Studio

The New Speakers Studio is a series of cultural ‘tools’ which aims to engage with people to explore the dynamics involved in becoming a new speaker of a language in the context of a multilingual Europe.

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Our network members publish regularly on the “new speaker” theme. Click here for a list of these publications.
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The New Speakers Network is the web platform of an action plan focusing on the concept of “new speakers” in a multilingual Europe. It is part of an intergovernmental framework for (COST).

Short Term Scientific Missions (STSMs)
Short Term Scientific Missions (STSMs)

An important means for collaboration and are critical for supporting visits of young researchers to more established labs as well as visits of more senior researchers to complete joint publications related to the Action.

The New Speakers Forum
The New Speakers Forum

The New Speakers Forum is an interactive space in which to share ideas, research and best practices related to the opportunities and challenges facing multilingual speakers in contemporary society. 

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Latest Publications

Nance, Claire, Wilson McLeod, Bernadette O’Rourke, and Stuart Dunmore. 2016. “Identity, Accent Aim, and Motivation in Second Language Users: New Scottish Gaelic Speakers’ Use of Phonetic Variation.” Journal of Sociolinguistics 20 (2): 164–91. 
Petit, Kevin. 2016. “Successful Learners of Irish as an L2: Motivation, Identity and Linguistic Mudes.” Studia Celtica Posnaniensia 1 (1): 39–56. 

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Michael Hornsby
01 April 2015
New speakers and 'authentic' Yiddish
As a member of Work Group 1 of the COST New Speaker network, I am particularly interested in the maintenance of (and expansion in) the use of minority languages in connection with those current and po...
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