Hub for Education & Language Diversity (HELD) collection

These papers are very closely linked to the work of the Hub for Education & Language Diversity (www.kcl.ac.uk/held – see ‘Useful Links’).

    WP319 Participatory ESOL: Taking stock

    Cooke, Rampton, Winstanley, Bryers, Belecova, Blackman, Griffiths, Jadallah, Jowett, Malakouti & Whitehouse
    2023
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    Building on sustained discussion among eleven people actively engaged in teaching English to adult speakers of other languages (ESOL), this paper asks what ‘participatory’ approaches to ESOL now look…
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    WP317 Linguistic Citizenship

    Christopher Stroud
    2023
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    This paper explores the notion of Linguistic Citizenship, a term coined by Chris Stroud at the turn of the millennium in Southern Africa to draw attention to ‘grassroots’ engagements…
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    WP308 ESOL and Linguistic Citizenship: Practical actions amid policy neglect

    Cooke, Rampton & Simpson
    2023
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    This paper describes national policy for teaching English to adult migrants in England, and asks what ESOL teaching can do to overcome the fragmentation and hostility it finds, opening…
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    WP300 Sectors and the workplace in language teaching: Differences, links and alliances?

    Rampton, Bryers, Chick, Cooke, Griffiths, Highet, Leung, Peutrell, Richardson, Tomei, Solomon & Winstanley
    2022
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    How much do language educators working in schools, Further Education (FE), not-for-profit organisations and universities really have in common? Can we really talk about the professional identity of teachers…
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