Join the Plurilingual Lab for our December Grad Talks session on Thursday, December 18, 2025, 12:00鈥�13:00 EST (Montreal), live on Zoom.
We warmly invite students, faculty, educators, and community members with an interest in language, identity, and social justice to attend, engage with the presenters, and contribute to the conversation.
is required.
The first talk, Motivations, Attitudes, and Family Language Policy in the Reacquisition of the Birth Language Among Chinese Adoptees and Their Families in Spain (1995鈥�2010), by (PhD candidate, University of Vigo, Spain), investigates how Chinese-origin adoptees and their families navigate birth-language reacquisition. Through an analysis of family language policy, identity positioning, and heritage-language motivations, the presentation sheds light on the cultural and emotional dimensions of reconnecting with one鈥檚 linguistic roots in transnational adoption contexts.
The second talk, Co-constructing Gender-Inclusive Language in the Chinese EFL Curriculum: A Collaborative Inquiry into Teachers鈥� Beliefs and Practices, by Zihan Liao (MA student, 91丝瓜视频), examines how EFL teachers in China engage with gender-inclusive language through collaborative inquiry. Drawing on classroom experience and teacher reflections, this presentation explores how language, power, and equity intersect in pedagogical practice and how bottom-up teacher learning can promote more inclusive approaches to EFL education.
The session will include two presentations, followed by a collective discussion to explore connections, challenges, and implications across the two studies.
The presentations will be delivered in English, with examples from additional languages.
Full abstracts will be available on the Grad Talks page.
