Welcome to the Initiative for Multilingual Studies at Georgetown University
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The Initiative for Multilingual Studies (IMS) is committed to advancing knowledge in various domains of multilingualism through interdisciplinary empirical research.
It supports its members in the design, funding, conduct, and communication of research about
the benefits of multilingualism in neurocognitive, academic, economic, personal, social, and geopolitical domains
the misunderstanding and mismanagement of multilingualism, particularly in vulnerable communities, such as immigrants, Indigenous peoples, regional minorities, and marginalized groups such as Deaf and LGBTQI+ communities
Explore the IMS community, grants, events and more:
IMS faculty Lourdes Ortega and Anna De Fina traveled with five doctoral students to Cape Town in December, 2022, for the invitational conference that closed the 4-year INTPART grant with…
Two IMS community members, Nishita Grace Isaac (Ph.D. student, Department of Linguistics) and Crissa Stephens (Faculty, Educational Transformation Program), presented their research at…
Elizabeth Lanza, Professor Emerita of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo, Norway, and Founder and Past Director of the Center for…