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Babylon - Centre for Studies of Multlingualism in the Multicultural Society

Part of Universiteit van Tilburg
Address Dante Building, Warandelaan 2, 5037 AB Tilburg
Postal address 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg
Phone +31-13-4662668
Fax +31-13-4662892
URL http://www.uvt.nl/babylon/
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Mission Babylon focuses on the study of linguistic, cultural and religious diversity, as characteristics of the multicultural society. At this, Babylon investigates questions at the borderline of science and society. Within this mission, the main activities Babylon performs are: the obtaining and performing of internally and externally financed research; the development and support of (contract) education; the use and dissemination of obtained knowledge. Babylon mainly focuses on the following themes: identity and ethnicity, acculturation, multilingualism, religious experience and forming, intercultural communication, citizenship, processes of migration, globalisation, family socialisation and education.
People (top)
bullet Professor Prof.dr. J. Blommaert
bullet Extraordinary professor Prof.dr. R.S. Gowricharn
bullet Management Prof.dr. J. Blommaert
bullet Management Prof.dr. A.J.A.G. Extra
Current research programs (top)
(the most recent program is at the top)
bullet Secretariat Multiculturalism and religious pluralism
bullet Secretariat Multiculturalism, acculturation and identity
bullet Secretariat Multilingualism in the multicultural society
Current research projects (top)
(the most recent program is at the top)
bullet Secretariat Self-ascribed and other-ascribed identities in multicultural classrooms
bullet Secretariat Bilingual development of Turkish children in the Netherlands
bullet Secretariat Development of morphological structure in the mental lexicon of children learning Dutch as a first and second language
bullet Secretariat Academic language development of 3-6 year-old Moroccan-Dutch children in communicative contexts at home and in school
bullet Secretariat Language contact and language change amongst Turkish youngsters in the Netherlands
bullet Secretariat Literacy acquisition in different writing systems in multilingual Eritrea: a comparative analysis
bullet Secretariat The development of school language skills of Turkisch children from 3-6 years old in communicative contexts at home and in school
bullet Secretariat Adaptive structuralization of (digital) teaching material for the (second) language teaching
bullet Collaboration Efficacy of fortified products on improving long term cognitive performance in school children in India
Completed research projects (top)
bullet Completed research: Dutch Research Database (NOD)
Classification (top)
bullet D36000 Language and literature studies
bullet D60000 Socio-cultural sciences
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