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15 Apr 2021
A great new resource to explore the world of languages in a fun and interactive way. Please share and encourage your friends and family to give it a try. @NICILT @scottishcilt @languages_ie @ahrcpress @MotherTonguesIE @BritishCouncil
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13 Apr 2021
Try our new free online games at worldoflanguages.co.uk. Along the way, fun facts will be discovered - over 50% of people in the world are multilingual! - and challenges laid down. What does the mysterious Welsh word “Hiraeth” really mean? @ahrcpress
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24 Oct 2020
'Sounds like Harlesden' shortlisted for a Research in Film award. Backed by @creativelangs and @thedr5 #Research #languages #community #rifa #London
22 Oct 2020
The ‘Inspiration Award’ is open to everyone and looks for the best films that share the importance of arts and humanities research to our lives. Here’s the shortlist:
🔶 A Short Film About Ice
🔶 Nobody’s metaphor
🔶 Sounds Like Harlesden
🔶 To Be A Marma
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16 Oct 2020
What value does culture have to society? Take part in 10 days of free events hosted online by @valuingculture. Workshops & discussions with sector leaders, cultural conversationalists, researchers & more. Join the conversation 2-13 Nov #ValuingCulture
orlo.uk/hzgQF
ALT Blue and red poster reding: Booking is now live! What value culture? 2-13 November 2020. 10 days, 45 speakers, free online events. Question, share, stimulate. Top corners: #valuingculture. Centre for Cultural value logo
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What value does culture have to society? Take part in 10 days of free events hosted online by @valuingculture. Workshops & discussions with sector leaders, cultural conversationalists, researchers & more. Join the conversation 2-13 Nov #ValuingCulture
orlo.uk/4MYgt
ALT Blue and red poster reding: Booking is now live! What value culture? 2-13 November 2020. 10 days, 45 speakers, free online events. Question, share, stimulate. Top corners: #valuingculture. Centre for Cultural value logo
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9 Oct 2020
Following the call for nominations published on 30 July 2020, we are pleased to announce that the new Executive Committee member representing Early Career Academics is Dr Liam Lewis of the University of Liverpool. Welcome, Liam! university-council-modern-la…
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1 Oct 2020
1/3 Delighted to have spoken to @timesradio about how to change attitudes to learning languages in the UK
@melissa_nt @nicolawoolcock; a good start would be to value all the languages spoken in the UK, incl. Gaelic, Welsh & Irish immigrant languages, Polish, Urdu, Punjabi etc.
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30 Sep 2020
(Re)Creating Modern Languages: Conversations about the Curriculum in UK Higher Education — our latest report & toolkit for educators is out now, ed. by @rachbeanz @gorrara67 @KatrinMKohl and @LizWrenOwens1
Read here>> bit.ly/30hGDs3
@ahrcpress @TORCHOxford @cardiffuni
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28 Sep 2020
Are you a French language primary teacher who wants to use music in your lessons? Earlier this year one of our Small Grants, mezzo-soprano Bérengère Battarbee-Mauduit, developed a resource pack for singing fables in schools #MFLtwitterati @ALL4language languageacts.org/related-pro…
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26 Sep 2020
For #EuropeanDayofLanguages, have a listen to this @BBCFreeThinking episode featuring Prof Katrin Kohl @UniofOxford speaking about the AHRC-funded @creativelangs project exploring the connection between linguistic diversity and creativity.
🎧 orlo.uk/wt3E4
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26 Sep 2020
👇 The UK urgently needs a #languages strategy! @lomo_linguist and I discuss the @BritishAcademy_ report (and many other aspects of language education) in episode 19 of the @LangRevolution podcast: bit.ly/Langs-at-uni #EDLangs #EuropeanDayOfLanguages #MFLTwitterati
26 Sep 2020
"Languages are strategically vital for the future of the UK".
– Our report with @ahrcpress, Association of School and College Leaders, @BritishCouncil & @UniversitiesUK presents proposals for a UK-wide national languages strategy:
#EDL2020 thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publ…
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25 Sep 2020
You might have heard @KatrinMKohl, @thedr5 & Wen-chin Ouyang on @BBCFreeThinking with @earlymodernjohn discussing the Creative Multilingualism Manifesto. The pdf of the book is freely available here: openbookpublishers.com/produ…
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17 Sep 2020
Apply now for the Engaging with Government programme, a three-day course in February 2021 to provide insight into the policy making process.
Deadline 30 October. Find out more: orlo.uk/nJKi3
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24 Sep 2020
You've got one week left to apply for the 2021 #NewGenerationThinkers scheme, in collaboration with @BBCRadio3. Get media and public engagement training, as well as the chance to make your own programme for the BBC.
Find out more and apply here: orlo.uk/gptUV
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24 Sep 2020
Our PI @cmb_prof has been appointed President-Elect of the AHGBI @Hispanists - read her statement and vision for the Association here #worldmaking languageacts.org/news/cather…
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16 Sep 2020
Come and join us on Friday @ 6pm BST for a virtual cabaret of newly translated Brecht songs - not to be missed! 🎶👇
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14 Sep 2020
BREAKING NEWS: our *free* 10 weeks intensive Chinese courses for beginners starting again in early October! Adults of all ages welcome. Wherever in the world you live. Excellent feedback from previous courses. Interested? Contact @BrittNeuroPsych e-mail: b.blankinship@ed.ac.uk
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9 Sep 2020
We were pleased to support Karen on a Small Grant on multilingualism and social inclusion in NI schools earlier this year. Why not check out her monograph which looks at the history of language ecology and migration in NI and its consequences? #ValueLanguages
8 Sep 2020
Want to know more about how migration affects language variation and change in Ireland, then check out 'Linguistic Communities and Migratory Processes' published this week: degruyter.com/view/title/540…?
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26 Aug 2020
In an era of mass migration, questions of home and belonging emerge with new urgency - how do we form alternative, inclusive concepts of home?
Our free virtual conference 23-24 September explores shifting ideas of home in contemporary women's writing 👉modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/ev…
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1 Sep 2020
Very happy to see the 'Critical Digital Pedagogies in #ModernLanguages' special collection which I co-edited with @iambrandao go live on @ModLangOpen: modernlanguagesopen.org/coll…. YouTube materials at youtube.com/watch?v=zx--3clS… @languageacts #OWRI.
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25 Aug 2020
How do we translate the natural world? What acts of interpretation are involved? 🌿
Join @Archieislander @eliza_dearnley @jessicajlee @ZakiyaMedia @AdamScovell @research_artist 17 Sept for a free virtual afternoon exploring forests, film, folklore & more👉modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/ev…
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