Introduction
The establishment of the Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre (CBRC) in 2008 marks an important milestone in the development of research in language acquisition and bilingualism at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). CBRC was launched in 2008 with an inaugural international Conference on Bilingual Acquisition in Early Childhood. It is the first Centre of its kind in Asia dedicated to the study of childhood bilingualism and multilingualism in diverse environments and communities with a focus on the development of Cantonese, Mandarin and English. The Centre has been supported by the Focused Investment Scheme from CUHK and research grants from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council.
Invitation
Our research is supported by parents, kindergartens and schools in the local community. If you are in charge of a local nursery/ playgroup/ kindergarten/ primary school, or you are a parent or a guardian, and would like your children to take part in our projects, you are very welcome to contact us. Thank you!
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Workshop
Workshop on Bilingualism and Language Acquisition: Distinguished Speakers Lecture Series
Date: 17 March 2010 (Wednesday)
Venue: Cho Yiu Conference Hall, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Welcome to the team
Emily Yiu joined CBRC as research assistant from early November till the end of December 2009. Emily is currently a PhD student in Linguistics at the 
University of Alberta, Canada. During her stay at CBRC, she is involved in corpus-based research. She is interested in bilingual acquistion and language typology.
Welcome
We’d like to extend our warm welcome to a new advisor joining CBRC’s Advisory Board:
Dr. Gerald Chan, Director of Morningside Foundation
Professor Virginia Yip’s invited lecture at HKIED on 13 November 2009:
Do bilingual children acquire two languages like monolingual children?
Date: 13 November 2009 (Friday)
Time: 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Venue: B4-LP-06 The Hong Kong Institute of Education (Tai Po Campus)
An interview with Virginia Yip in IASCL Child Language Bulletin
Topics: bilingual first language acquisition, child second language acquisition, and the acquisition of Chinese in bilingual and multilingual contexts Click here!
For past conferences and talks, click here!