Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine
Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance
Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust
Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine
Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History
Luxembourg Centre for European Law
Luxembourg Centre for Socio-Environmental SystemsOrganisation: Research Institute of Multilingualism
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Core Research Projects
Digital Media as Language and Literacy Learning Spaces in Multilingual Families – DigiFam
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Research Projects Pages
DisPOSEG – Disentangling postcolonial encounters in globalisation: a sociolinguistic-ethnographic study of Lusophone migrant workers’ positionings in third space
Learn moreLusofonia embraces diverse groups and individuals. If they share the Portuguese language, on the one hand, they do not share the same historical positions on the other. This sociolinguistic-ethnographic project investigates labour encounters of Lusophone migrants in Luxembourg, an officially trilingual country with its own complex entanglement of migration at the border with three neighbouring…
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Core Research Projects
DisPOSEG – Disentangling postcolonial encounters in globalisation: a sociolinguistic-ethnographic study of Lusophone migrant workers’ positionings in third space
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Research Projects Pages
COMPARE – Collaboration with parents and Multiliteracy in early Childhood Education
Learn moreInternational assessment studies continue to show that children of ethnic minority background and low socioeconomic status are more likely to have poor literacy skills and weak academic achievements. Preliteracy skills are strong predictors of literacy development, and, therefore, it is essential that parents and early childhood educators engage children in literacy activities from an early…
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Core Research Projects
COMPARE – Collaboration with parents and Multiliteracy in early Childhood Education
Learn moreThis project examines the multiliteracy practices in crèches as well as partnership building in Luxembourg.
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Study Programmes
Master in Learning and Communication in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts
Learn moreThe programme focuses on the phenomena of linguistic and cultural diversity and the ways these play out in the areas of education, professional and workplace communication, and in the media.