AHRC Skills development scheme: Skills development for language research and teaching in a multilingual world
'Artwork 'Masala Mandala' by Monica Shanta Brown, www.mixed-other-art.net'
We live and act in a multilingual world. Multilingualism and cultural diversity shape and determine our reality on many levels, from our identity or ethnicity, up to international relations and the intricacies of conflict resolution.
This skills development scheme fosters research into the mechanisms of multilingualism. Exploring those mechanisms is crucial not only for linguistic science and language teaching, but also for research in many fields of the humanities and social sciences, such as history, sociology, globalisation, education, migration, and development.
The scheme consists of training activities and placements for invited participants from SOAS and its partner institutions, the Universities of Lund and Bangor, and of a series of public events: talks and seminars related to the issues of multilingualism.
The scheme will culminate in the Multilingualism Week, a public outreach event, in June 2013.
Skills development workshops (for invited participants only)
| Date | Description |
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| 18-20 Sept 2012 | Workshop on identity and multilingualism, invited speaker: Prof. Itesh Sachdev, SOAS This workshop we will be an introduction to examining aspects of multilingualism in London. London is one of the most ethnolinguistically diverse cities in the world. The workshop will examine some of this diversity to set the scene for the participants to conduct a mini-research project on language use and attitudes. A brief overview of methodologies for data collection will be presented and discussed before the mini-research. The participants will then collect data and report on their findings. They will also learn how to use academic research for outreach activities and how to communicate research results to the general public. |
| 21 & 22 Sept 2012 | SOAS-PLIDAM Doctoral Seminar |
| 10-12 Dec 2012 | Workshop on the sociolinguistic aspects of multilingualism, invited speaker: Prof. Anne Pauwels, SOAS In this workshop we will focus on multilingualism linked to transnational mobility and movement. This type of ‘multilingualism’ is characterized by a high degree of dynamism, often leading to shifts away from the speaker’s original linguistic constellations to new ones associated with the new linguistic environment. We will examine changes in these linguistic constellations and practices both from a macro- and micro- sociolinguistic perspective. Three main issues will be covered:
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| 25-27 Feb 2013 | Workshop on multimodality and multilingualism, invited speaker: Prof. Marianne Gullberg, Lund University |
| 22-24 April 2013 | Workshop on building multilingual corpora, invited speaker: Prof. Margaret Deuchar, Bangor University |
| 17-19 June 2013 | Workshop on multilingualism and interaction, invited speaker: Prof. Lorenza Mondada, Basel University |
| 20-22 June 2013 | Multilingualism Week, a public outreach event |
Enquiries
Enquiries can be sent to: multilingualism@soas.ac.uk
Public Events
11 January 2013 at 3pm
Added-value of multilingualism: 'A social psychological perspective'
Professor Itesh Sachdev
22 January 2012 at 12:00
Can the internet wake up dormant bilinguals?
Prof. Anne Pauwels
27 February 2013 at 12:00
Handling more than one language: Why gestures are relevant to second language acquisition
Prof. Marianne Gullberg, Lund University
24 April 2013 at 12:00
Spanish-Welsh Bilingualism in Patagonia
Prof. Margaret Deuchar, Bangor University
21 June 2013, at 12:00
Multilingualism at work: Multilingual practices in professional settings
Prof. Lorenza Mondada, University of Basel
