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Academic seminar – Prof. Jean-Marc Dewaele

You are warmly invited to attend an online academic seminar organised as part of the collaboration between VISION – European Center for Multilingualism in Teacher Education and Didactic Excellence Office (DEO):

“How many languages can a baby absorb from birth? A case study”

November 3rd, 2026
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM (CET)
Hybrid (room 234, 59 Okopowa Street, Vizja Park – Warsaw/online)– conducted in English

Meeting link:
https://zoom.us/j/99501407370

The keynote will be delivered by Prof. Jean-Marc Dewaele, a leading scholar in multilingualism, and will be attended by members of VISION and representatives of DEO.

Jean-Marc Dewaele is Professor at VIZJA University, Honorary Professor at University College London and Emeritus Professor at Birkbeck, University of London. Prof. Dewaele has published widely on emotion and individual differences in language learning. He is General Editor of the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. He won Research Awards from the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, the International Association of Language and Social Psychology, the European Second Language Association and the International Association for the Psychology of Language Learning. He was ranked as the 2nd most influential linguist in the world in the Stanford rankings 2025.

During the seminar Prof. Dewaele will explore a common misconception that children should grow up with a single language before attempting to learn extra languages later in life. Immigrants are often wrongly advised to drop their home languages in favour of the school language, which they may master imperfectly. In this lecture he will refer to the growing literature on children who acquired multiple languages from birth and flourished. The consistent finding is that early multilingualism does not have negative effects on academic performance nor integration. On the contrary, it is linked to cognitive, social and psychological advantages that last a lifetime. He will illustrate this with the case of his daughter Livia who grew up with four languages from birth (Festman et al., 2017).

The seminar will be conducted in a hybrid mode. It will take place in room 234 (2nd floor) and it will be streamed live and recorded. The recording may be made available on the websites of VIZJA University and on its social media channels. Participation in the event constitutes acknowledgement that the seminar is being recorded. Sharing one’s image and voice is voluntary – participants may take part in the meeting without turning on their camera and/or microphone.

In connection with the above, we kindly ask you to read the information on the processing of personal data for seminar participants.

Link to the information clause: https://vizja.pl/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Information_clause_BDD.docx

We look forward to welcoming you to our upcoming academic forum!

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