The Community and Lesser-Taught Languages Conference at the City Inn Hotel was a real success.
Please find attached the presentations from both days of the Conference.
Wednesday 18th November:
- The development of a strategy for promoting community and lesser-taught languages in the North West, by Sharon Handley (Routes into Languages, NW)
- Valorising Community Languages, by Professor Itesh Sachdev (SOAS)
- A strategy for the development of the teaching and learning of all World Languages, by James O'Donoghue and David Mallows (TDA)
- Bilingual pupils and MFL: a report on pupil perceptions, with implications for practice, by Pura Ariza (MMU)
- Our Languages: promoting community cohesion through diversity, by Sarah Cartwright (CiLT)
- Language, identity and belonging in Lancashire and Mirpur, by Anthony Capstick (Lancaster University)
- Complementary and Mainstream School Partnerships: A Case Study, by Craig Brown (Chatham Grammar School for Boys) and Nilufar Chowdhury (Bengali Complementary School)
- What are Supplementary Schools?, by Mohamed Elhaddad (University of West England)
- Urdu in HE market research: process and results, by Stephen Toal (Aspect MR Manchester)
- Signall II: Raising the profile of Signed Languages within Europe, John Walker (University of Sussex)
- Language applicants to HE: analysing the statistical evidence, Jo Wiggans (Aimhigher)
- Parental attitudes to language learning in Arabic and Chinese supplementary schools: a case study, by Amy Wang (MMU) and Stella Bullo-Alos (Routes into Languages North West)
- Triple your uptake! How NVQ language units can motivate, inspire and raise attainment, by Juliet Park (Lead Practitioner for the SSAT, Regional Advisor for ALL)
Thursday 19th November:
- Promoting diversity in language learning: the role of teacher education, by Gee Macrory (IoE, MMU)
- Developing Chinese classrooms in the UK: some implications for teacher education, by Feixia Yu (UCLan), Amy Wang (MMU) and Gee Macrory (IoE, MMU)
- Supporting the Italian Studies curriculum: the holistic approach of Manchester, by Elena Polisca (University of Manchester), supported by Charles Pybus and Caroline Foster (University of Manchester, Routes Steering Group)
- Visual e-Lingua: how to empower new e-Learning technologies to support visual based learning and teaching of COLT languages, by Mourad Diouri (University of Edinburgh)
- Students' attitudes and cultural awareness through learning Chinese, by Qi Zhang (MMU)
- Towards a critical model of teacher education for Languages of the Wider World, by Joanne Eastlake and Ian Newby (SOAS-UCL)
- Creativity in the community languages classroom, by Jim Anderson and Yu-Chiao Chung (Goldsmiths, University of London)
- Using film for teaching community and lesser taught languages: multiliteracies through film, by Carmen Herrero (MMU)
- Showcasing good practice in teaching and community languages, by Naresh Chandla (Wolverhampton Local Authority)
- To film or not to film? A case study of using 'Little Red Flowers' on a Chinese GCSE Day, by Amy Wang, Robert Hamilton and Qi Zhang (MMU)
- Community Language Learning: from three different perspectives, by Emine Cakir Surmeli and Julien Boast (SOAS)
- The Context of COLT, by Richard Towell (Routes into Languages Chair)
