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WP360. Preparing teachers to work multilingually: A Gambian pilot project
2026
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 equipping pre-service and in-service teachers with the …
Key words: multilingualism, teacher education, The Gambia
WP346 Relinking with ubuntu multilingualism through bilingual science learning: Parents’ perspectives
2025
This paper contributes to the sparse literature on parents’ views on language in education policy in Southern Africa. The children of the parents interviewed in this study participated in a bilingual learning intervention in their Grade 4 science …
Key words: bilingual education, decoloniality, multilingualism, South Africa, ubuntu
WP344 Changing conceptions of literacies, language & development: Implications for the provision of adult basic education in South Africa
2025
This text is the introduction to a thesis by publication which was published in 2009. The thesis prefigures several contemporary debates in multilingual language and literacy education, notably southern and decolonial approaches which advocate …
Key words: adult basic education, adult literacy, agency, citizenship, critical applied linguistics, development, multilingualism, reflexivity, resemiotisation, voice
WP325. On language and the planetary: Édouard Glissant’s philosophy of multilingual Relation
2025
This article explores the lessons for antiracism provided by Édouard Glissant’s philosophy of language. The late Martinican scholar (1928-2011) writes extensively about language in correspondence to core concepts in his thought, in particular …
Key words: anti-racism, Édouard Glissant, multilingualism, opacity, philosophy of language, Relation, the planetary, Whole-World
WP317 Linguistic Citizenship
2023
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 with language (specifically multilingualism) as a dynamic of …
Key words: decolonisation, education, language ideology, Linguistic Citizenship, multilingualism
WP307 Decolonising language in the city: Multilingual repertoires, institutional practice and civic engagement in a UK urban setting
2023
In this paper I examine how multilingual spaces emerge within institutions across a number of sectors in the city. Drawing on their repertoires of linguistic resources actors (institutional agents and clients) assume agency to change practice and …
Key words: civic engagement, decolonisation, higher education, language policy, multilingualism
WP300 Sectors and the workplace in language teaching: Differences, links and alliances?
2022
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 and their freedom for manoeuvre without …
Key words: language education, multilingualism, sectors
WP265 Decolonising Higher Education: Multilingualism, Linguistic Citizenship & Epistemic Justice
2020
This paper explores in what ways language ? and multilingualism in particular ? can be rethought in order to further epistemic justice. In order to situate the question of language in a broader decolonial project, it starts by critically reviewing …
Key words: education, multilingualism
WP260 What do we mean by multilingual? Linguistic repertoires
2019
Instead of seeing multilingualism as a plurality of ?named languages?, this sociolinguistics briefing note argues that we should approach it as a repertoire of styles and linguistic resources, tuned to particular communicative settings and spheres of …
Key words: multilingualism
WP256 Call for a Multilingual Cities Movement
2019
We are academics and practitioners committed to multilingualism. Shared language is vital to social life, but linguistic diversity also plays a central role, and both the individual and society are enriched by language skills. We call on colleagues …
Key words: multilingualism
WP227 Language management and language work in a multilingual call center: An ethnographic case study
2017
Drawing on long-term ethnography and interviews, this paper investigates language work and language management in the context of a multilingual call center. It looks at how language issues are managed on a day-today basis, specifically in three areas …
Key words: language management, multilingualism
WP200 At the nexus of vulnerability: Multilingualism in development
2016
The majority of the world?s nations are multilingual, although many of the languages spoken have little or no official recognition in the conduct of everyday affairs of State, nor do they figure in any major way in development discourses. For …
Key words: multilingualism
WP182 Promoting multilingual creativity: Key principles from successful projects
2015
There are now over 1 million pupils in UK schools who speak English as an additional language (EAL). In intensely diverse contexts such as London this has thrown up new hybrid ways of using language. Rather than languages living neatly side by side, …
Key words: multilingualism, pedagogy
WP174 Multilingual classrooms in times of superdiversity
2015
In this paper, we discuss multilingual classrooms and superdiversity. More specifically we address the consequences that a revised understanding of language, based on the concept of language repertoires,? has for language education, as well as for …
Key words: education, multilingualism, superdiversity
WP166 Multilingualism and good citizenship: The making of language celebrities in Chinese media
2015
This paper examines the media representation of two otherwise ordinary Chinese citizens speaking multiple foreign languages.? It argues that the figure of good citizenship is being articulated via a valorization of? multilingual competence that is …
Key words: multilingualism
WP147 Text trajectories in a multilingual call centre: The linguistic ethnography of a calling script
2015
Call centres have been widely criticised as standardized workplaces, and the imposition of calling scripts is often characterised as dehumanizing and deskilling. But these accounts lack close analysis of how scripts are actually produced, taken up …
Key words: multilingualism
WP129 Mandarin Chinese in London education: Language aspirations in a working-class secondary school
2014
s the Council of Europe is shifting its traditional focus on learning European languages towards emphasizing the importance of speaking other languages of the wider world, an increasing number of schools are offering Mandarin as part of their …
Key words: institutional neoliberalization., language ideology, language policy, Mandarin language education, multilingualism
WP119 Urban vernaculars in contemporary northern Europe: Innovative variants of V2 in Germany, Norway and Sweden
2014
It has been relatively clear over the last years that multilingual settings support new linguistic variation and the emergence of new linguistic patterns. Contemporary urban vernaculars have emerged among adolescents in multilingual settings in large …
Key words: multilingualism
WP74 Standardisation, diversity and enlightenment in the contemporary crisis of EU language policy
2011
Contemporary EU multilingualism policy is in something of a crisis at the moment. The 2008 Final Report of the High-Level Group on Multilingualism, a group of eleven senior European academics convened in 2006, spells out some of the reasons (these …
Key words: multilingualism