This multiplier event of “LANGUAGE TREE” project is a hybrit international symposium hosted by Institution for Turkish Studies, Integration and Research. The symposium will focus on bilingualism and language teaching of immigrants. In the papers selected to be presented at the symposium, priority will be given to studies on the language needs of bilingual Turkish youth in Europe and young immigrants in Türkiye, who are also the target group of the project. In addition, “Speaking Skills Needs Analysis for Bilingual Turkish Youth in Europe and Young Immigrants in Türkiye" and "Curriculum of Interactive Speaking Activities", which are among the results of the project, will be presented and discussed in two special sessions in this symposium.

• Teaching/acquiring Turkish as a second/foreign/heritage language
• Teaching Turkish to children/young learners/adults as a second/foreign/heritage language
• Pedagogical implementations in teaching Turkish as a second/foreign/heritage language
• Task-based approaches to teaching Turkish as a second/foreign/heritage language
• The assessment and evaluation of teaching Turkish as a second/foreign/heritage language
• Using technology in teaching Turkish as a second/foreign/heritage language
• Using AI in teaching Turkish as a second/foreign/heritage language
• Development of a curriculum and syllabus teaching Turkish as a second/foreign/heritage language
• Current practices, problems, and solutions in teaching Turkish as a second/foreign/heritage language
• Empirical studies in teaching Turkish as a second/foreign/heritage language
• Sociolinguistic approaches to teaching Turkish as a second/foreign/heritage language
• Psycholinguistic approaches to teaching Turkish as a second/foreign/heritage language
• Corpus linguistic approaches to teaching Turkish as a second/foreign/heritage language
• Language policies in teaching Turkish as a second/foreign/heritage language
• Bilingualism, multilingualism, multiculturality, and interculturality
• The future of teaching Turkish to bilinguals
• Teaching Turkish to immigrants
• Language training for bilinguals, immigrants, and NGOs
• Bilingualism/ multilingualism, and language policies in the family
• Teaching Turkish as a heritage language in Europe