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’).

    WP360. Preparing teachers to work multilingually: A Gambian pilot project

    Ancarno, Bah, Ceesay, Ceesay, Colley, Jammeh, Konteh, & Secka
    2026
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    This report presents the outcomes of a pilot teacher training initiative designed to support the integration of multilingual pedagogy in teacher education in The Gambia. The pilot focused on…
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    WP359 Madrasa ideologies of English: Questioning ELT aid and the post-9/11 deployment of English to de-Islamize madrasas

    Chowdhury
    2026
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    External donors growingly promote English as a notionally value-neutral language of socioeconomic advancements in the Muslim South, overlooking local ideological diversities. Furthermore, national and Western forces deploy English as…
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    WP354 Practice, theory & the researcher-teacher in a bidialectal Singlish programme

    Lu
    2026
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    This paper is an exercise in reflection on my role as a university academic adopting the part of a school-teacher – as a researcher-teacher rather than teacher-researcher – while…
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    WP352 Heritage language schools in Cambridge

    Friedrich
    2026
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    In Cambridge, there is a well-developed network of community heritage language schools that are dedicated to the teaching and learning of some of the many minority languages spoken by…
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    WP351 Language teachers amidst increasing insecuritisation: Concepts, experiences, practical actions

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    2026
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    In what ways are language teachers being affected by intensifying anti-immigrant rhetoric and the rise of the far right?  And what practical strategies can they develop to resist the…
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    WP341 Around and beyond the DfE’s Curriculum & Assessment Review: Working across sectors for the future of language education

    Rampton
    2025
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    Animated by general agreement that language education in England is too narrow, this article introduces a multi-layered approach to policy development, and outlines six tenets guiding the recently formed…
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    WP333 Migrant language education and participatory pedagogy in a Nation of Sanctuary

    Mike Chick
    2025
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    Recent reports and research evidence on the organisation and provision of language education for migrants in the UK have illuminated numerous shortfalls. Challenges have been identified not only in…
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    WP323 Founding Statement for a Coalition for Language Education

    Coalition for Language Education
    2024
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    This Coalition for Language Education is committed to developing the communicative capacities of individuals, groups and institutions and the range of languages and linguistic styles – the ‘linguistic repertoires’…
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    WP321 A new coalition for language education? Report on an initial consultation

    Rampton
    2023
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    This document reports on an informal consultation with 50+ people involved with different subfields of language education in the UK (EAL, ESOL, EAP, EFL, CLs, MFL, Early Years, mainstream…
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    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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