Conference Agenda

Session

Language policy, immigration and multilingualism

Time:

Thursday, 18/June/2026:

11:00am - 12:30pm

Location: TB210

Presentations

11:00am - 11:30am

Cross-linguistic transfer and test bias: lessons for best practices for a multilingual population

Beau Zuercher, Suzanne Springer

Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

11:30am - 12:00pm

Language Tests as Policy Instruments: A Critical Examination of Immigration Regimes

Angel Arias¹, Jamie Schissel²

¹Carleton University, Canada; ²University of North Carolina Greensboro

12:00pm - 12:30pm

Francisation Québec: Imagined, failed, redesigned?

Robin Turner

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States of America