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From https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2019/03/new-research-center-to-support-chicagos-bilingual-population/

New research center to support Chicago’s bilingual population
Bilingualism Matters Chicago will support schools, parents and the community
by Mohamed Abdelfattah
March 14, 2019

Bilingualism Matters, an international research and information center, will launch its Chicago chapter on Tuesday, March 19, hoping to bring the science of bilingualism to the wider Chicago community, including schools and parents.

...“Bilingualism Matters Chicago represents the first consortium of multiple universities in North America dedicated to the advocacy, education and support for issues surrounding bilingualism, multilingualism and linguistic diversity,” said Viorica Marian, a professor in Northwestern University’s School of Communication and the principal investigator in the Bilingualism and Psycholinguistics Research Group.

...Bilingualism Matters Chicago will bring together scientists and linguists from five universities in the Chicago area, including Northwestern, DePaul, Loyola University Chicago, University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago. 

“We will talk to parents, teachers, healthcare providers and community groups about the cognitive and social advantages of bilingualism, about the models of bilingual education that we know work best for kids, and about how to raise bilingual children in the face of pressure to abandon any language but English,” said Kim Potowski, professor in the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and an expert on heritage language development.

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