British Academy - GCRF project investigating multilingualism and education in Botswana, Tanzania, and Zambia.

Joined October 2019
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It was brilliant to have you and your team! Thanks for your positive energy!! Great discussions!
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Beth concluding with these important points from John Clegg @ElizabethErling #BTOI2022
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Delighted to have @ElizabethErling join us online to deliver our keynote this morning! (with suitable plugs for her co-edited volume with John Clegg, Casmir Rubagumya and @ColinFReilly included!)
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A great opportunity to have stimulating in person conversations around multilingualism and the terms we use in our research #BTOI2022 @UofGEducation
And we're off! @Lavinia_Hirsu opening the conference with her keynote "An exhausted paradigm? The rhetorical problem of multilingualism and possible ways forward" #BTOI2022
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Great new books from @Multi_Ling_Mat on display at the conference #BTOI2022
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Excited to be speaking on #multilingual #Africa and #language #policy at #BTOI2022 @bringing_in at the U of Essex.
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And we're off! @Lavinia_Hirsu opening the conference with her keynote "An exhausted paradigm? The rhetorical problem of multilingualism and possible ways forward" #BTOI2022
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Registration for our conference is now open! We'll be sharing out exciting programme shortly. www1.essex.ac.uk/online_shop…
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We can very happily now confirm our fantastic keynote speakers for the conference: Budzani Gabanamotse-Mogara @UBBotswana Elizabeth Erling (@rocketbeth25) @univienna Lavinia Hirsu (@Lavinia_Hirsu) @UofGlasgow Still time to get your abstracts in! Deadline 31st May.
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Project member @itsthegibson recently making an appearance on @BBCWorld!
Check out Hannah Gibson @itsthegibson of @EssexLang_Ling being interviewed on @BBCWorld talking about the addition of 10 African languages to Google translate. Read more about Hannah's research here bit.ly/39tAh0t @ResearchEssex @LeverhulmeTrust
A productive couple of days @Uni_of_Essex for the project's Essex team. Unbelievably the first time we have all been in the same place since late 2019! Lots of exciting progress on conference organising, data analysis, policy outputs, a book project, consumption of ice creams.
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We are very excited to announce our upcoming conference! "Bringing the outside in: multilingual realities and education" is hosted in collaboration with @BAAL_LIA_SIG 15th-16th July 2022 @Uni_of_Essex CFP out now. Abstracts due 31st May. multilingual-learning.com/br…
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3) How are boundaries enforced or disrupted between the home and the classroom? 4) How do political issues affect multilingual education? 5) How do we effectively research multilingualism?
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6) What evidence of best practice already exists and how can we learn from this across different contexts? We invite contributions that cover a range of countries and contexts!