Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies (MEITS)
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Cambridge
Department Name: Linguistics
Abstract
Understanding the transformative power of multilingualism is vital. Over half of mankind daily speaks more than one language, and multilingualism brings advantages for community relations, business, and global understanding. Yet the linguistic landscape is changing fast, with English increasingly the lingua franca. In the UK, many schools are highly multilingual, despite falling numbers learning languages, and almost 1 in 5 primary school pupils have a first language other than English. Equally integral to a multilingual UK are the regional (minoritized) languages (e.g. Irish, Scottish Gaelic). The decline in pupils taking language GCSEs/A-levels and the number of children with English as an additional language are often portrayed negatively, and the value of community and minoritized languages is underestimated.
The aim of this interdisciplinary project is to reflect critically on multilingualism and to transform attitudes through greater understanding. Our approach is holistic, exploring individuals, communities and nations. We analyse the situations giving rise to multilingualism, its social implications and creative possibilities, and relationships between languages, cultures, identities and standards. We explore why individuals/societies choose (consciously or not) to be multilingual, the potential of multilingualism as 'mental gymnastics', ways to optimize language learning, and the benefits of multilingualism for community and international relations.
Our research questions:
1. What is the relationship between the multilingual individual and the multilingual society?
What does it mean to be multilingual in a monolingual/multilingual society? Or monolingual in a multilingual society?
2. What are the opportunities and challenges presented by multilingualism?
How might multilingualism benefit individuals, enhance communities, enrich cultures and foster social cohesion? To what extent might multilingualism disadvantage individuals, divide communities, dilute culture or fragment societies?
3. What is the relationship between multilingualism, diversity and identity?
How does this play out at the individual, local, regional, national and international level?
4. What is the relationship between multilingualism and language learning?
Who can/should learn additional languages, and in what contexts? How do age and other factors affect motivation, achievement and well-being?
5. How can we influence attitudes towards multilingualism?
How can we change the attitudes of individuals and societies, and inform language policy?
6. How can we re-energise Modern Languages research?
Can we reinvigorate the discipline by broadening its scope and developing new interdisciplinary methodologies?
Intersecting research strands (S1-6) offer powerful case studies for understanding multilingualism: literature, film and culture in a globalized context; the role of standard languages; linguistic identity, diversity and social cohesion; the influence of multilingual identity on foreign language learning; language learning across the lifespan; the cognitive benefits of multilingualism. The project spans major languages traditionally or newly studied in the UK (French, German, Mandarin, Spanish), minoritized languages in Europe (Catalan, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Ukrainian), and community languages (e.g. Cantonese, Polish, Punjabi). We seek to break down barriers between high/low status and home/learnt languages.
The project will have transformative outcomes for individuals, for education, health and social policy and practice, and for international relations. Our partners (community groups, educational, cultural and policy bodies, drama and creative writing groups, business) will help shape the research and disseminate outcomes.
Placing language-led research at its heart, literary-cultural studies are integrated into an exciting new interdisciplinary programme to show how Modern Languages can respond to key issues of our time.
The aim of this interdisciplinary project is to reflect critically on multilingualism and to transform attitudes through greater understanding. Our approach is holistic, exploring individuals, communities and nations. We analyse the situations giving rise to multilingualism, its social implications and creative possibilities, and relationships between languages, cultures, identities and standards. We explore why individuals/societies choose (consciously or not) to be multilingual, the potential of multilingualism as 'mental gymnastics', ways to optimize language learning, and the benefits of multilingualism for community and international relations.
Our research questions:
1. What is the relationship between the multilingual individual and the multilingual society?
What does it mean to be multilingual in a monolingual/multilingual society? Or monolingual in a multilingual society?
2. What are the opportunities and challenges presented by multilingualism?
How might multilingualism benefit individuals, enhance communities, enrich cultures and foster social cohesion? To what extent might multilingualism disadvantage individuals, divide communities, dilute culture or fragment societies?
3. What is the relationship between multilingualism, diversity and identity?
How does this play out at the individual, local, regional, national and international level?
4. What is the relationship between multilingualism and language learning?
Who can/should learn additional languages, and in what contexts? How do age and other factors affect motivation, achievement and well-being?
5. How can we influence attitudes towards multilingualism?
How can we change the attitudes of individuals and societies, and inform language policy?
6. How can we re-energise Modern Languages research?
Can we reinvigorate the discipline by broadening its scope and developing new interdisciplinary methodologies?
Intersecting research strands (S1-6) offer powerful case studies for understanding multilingualism: literature, film and culture in a globalized context; the role of standard languages; linguistic identity, diversity and social cohesion; the influence of multilingual identity on foreign language learning; language learning across the lifespan; the cognitive benefits of multilingualism. The project spans major languages traditionally or newly studied in the UK (French, German, Mandarin, Spanish), minoritized languages in Europe (Catalan, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Ukrainian), and community languages (e.g. Cantonese, Polish, Punjabi). We seek to break down barriers between high/low status and home/learnt languages.
The project will have transformative outcomes for individuals, for education, health and social policy and practice, and for international relations. Our partners (community groups, educational, cultural and policy bodies, drama and creative writing groups, business) will help shape the research and disseminate outcomes.
Placing language-led research at its heart, literary-cultural studies are integrated into an exciting new interdisciplinary programme to show how Modern Languages can respond to key issues of our time.
Planned Impact
MEITS aims to transform attitudes to multilingualism amongst the general public and to influence policy and practice in areas of great relevance to society such as education, culture, social cohesion, health and business. Representatives from all these sectors are embedded in the team as project partners and collaborators; they will help shape the research questions, facilitate the research itself, and disseminate our findings.
We will establish a high-level network of relevant UK government departments (in Whitehall, N. Ireland and Scotland) for regular exchanges on local and national policy around language; this network will articulate the compelling reasons why language should be central to policy considerations, locally, nationally and internationally.
MEITS will enhance understanding of the role of language for community cohesion through continuing dialogue with the UK Department for Communities and Local Government. In the post-conflict context of Northern Ireland, engagement with disenfranchised communities on language and identity will be facilitated by our partnerships with Co-Operation Ireland and the East Belfast Mission. More generally, the complex multilingual identities and untapped linguistic potential of minority population groups will be explored and exploited, for instance, in our work with the Cambridge Ethnic Community Forum.
We will add weight to an expectation of language learning for all, building on the Department for Education's commitment to a range of school qualifications in different languages in England. We will contribute to the development of the UK national curriculum, aided by our links with NALDIC and ALL, and promote the learning of minoritized languages (e.g. Irish) and those perceived to be 'lower-status' (e.g. Polish). Understanding pupils' linguistic and cultural identities in multicultural environments promotes social cohesion within and beyond school settings and emphasizes the value of language learning, thereby influencing resource allocation, all of which is highly relevant for our partners working in schools, County Councils (e.g. IDEAL), and Routes into Languages. Language course providers (e.g. U3A, Polword), language testers (e.g. Cambridge Assessment, ALTE) and publishers (e.g. HarperCollins) are positioned to translate our work around standardization, lifelong learning, and identity-based teaching methodologies into practical applications.
The cognitive benefits of multilingualism are of great interest to the Department of Health because of the potential to delay the onset of dementia in our ageing population and improve the lives of individuals on the autism spectrum. Partnerships with Age UK and the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists will ensure impact on key stakeholders.
The cultural benefits explored in MEITS cohere with the work and interests of the cultural bodies contributing to our research: e.g. Cambridgeshire Film Consortium, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Institut Ramon Llull. The Nottingham Writers' Studio and our theatre partners will work with community groups and schools, disseminating our research through workshops, exhibits and artistic outputs, and developing skills, such as the pedagogies of process drama, with educators and community workers.
Greater appreciation of cultural awareness and enhanced cognitive and life skills achieved through language learning sit squarely within Cabinet Office and BIS priorities of increasing employability and furthering trade/business opportunities. International trade and bridging the gap between the worlds of education and work are research priorities for the British Chambers of Commerce, whose focus groups and communication channels will be an invaluable resource for exchange and disseminating results.
Finally, our many public engagement events, such as the pop-up museum and film screenings, are designed to inspire the wider public to embrace and celebrate multilingualism.
We will establish a high-level network of relevant UK government departments (in Whitehall, N. Ireland and Scotland) for regular exchanges on local and national policy around language; this network will articulate the compelling reasons why language should be central to policy considerations, locally, nationally and internationally.
MEITS will enhance understanding of the role of language for community cohesion through continuing dialogue with the UK Department for Communities and Local Government. In the post-conflict context of Northern Ireland, engagement with disenfranchised communities on language and identity will be facilitated by our partnerships with Co-Operation Ireland and the East Belfast Mission. More generally, the complex multilingual identities and untapped linguistic potential of minority population groups will be explored and exploited, for instance, in our work with the Cambridge Ethnic Community Forum.
We will add weight to an expectation of language learning for all, building on the Department for Education's commitment to a range of school qualifications in different languages in England. We will contribute to the development of the UK national curriculum, aided by our links with NALDIC and ALL, and promote the learning of minoritized languages (e.g. Irish) and those perceived to be 'lower-status' (e.g. Polish). Understanding pupils' linguistic and cultural identities in multicultural environments promotes social cohesion within and beyond school settings and emphasizes the value of language learning, thereby influencing resource allocation, all of which is highly relevant for our partners working in schools, County Councils (e.g. IDEAL), and Routes into Languages. Language course providers (e.g. U3A, Polword), language testers (e.g. Cambridge Assessment, ALTE) and publishers (e.g. HarperCollins) are positioned to translate our work around standardization, lifelong learning, and identity-based teaching methodologies into practical applications.
The cognitive benefits of multilingualism are of great interest to the Department of Health because of the potential to delay the onset of dementia in our ageing population and improve the lives of individuals on the autism spectrum. Partnerships with Age UK and the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists will ensure impact on key stakeholders.
The cultural benefits explored in MEITS cohere with the work and interests of the cultural bodies contributing to our research: e.g. Cambridgeshire Film Consortium, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Institut Ramon Llull. The Nottingham Writers' Studio and our theatre partners will work with community groups and schools, disseminating our research through workshops, exhibits and artistic outputs, and developing skills, such as the pedagogies of process drama, with educators and community workers.
Greater appreciation of cultural awareness and enhanced cognitive and life skills achieved through language learning sit squarely within Cabinet Office and BIS priorities of increasing employability and furthering trade/business opportunities. International trade and bridging the gap between the worlds of education and work are research priorities for the British Chambers of Commerce, whose focus groups and communication channels will be an invaluable resource for exchange and disseminating results.
Finally, our many public engagement events, such as the pop-up museum and film screenings, are designed to inspire the wider public to embrace and celebrate multilingualism.
Organisations
- University of Cambridge (Lead Research Organisation)
- Columbia University (Collaboration)
- Polygon Arts (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Association of Speech and Language Therapists in Independent Practice (Collaboration)
- Nottingham Writers' Studio (Collaboration)
- St. Jerome Bilingual Church Of England School (Collaboration)
- Heriot-Watt University (Collaboration)
- Alzheimer Scotland (Collaboration)
- lingo flamingo (Collaboration)
- Chinese University of Hong Kong (Collaboration)
- Autistica (Collaboration)
- University of Girona (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Lancaster University (Collaboration)
- University of Bergen (Collaboration)
- Peking University (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (Collaboration)
- NCT (Collaboration)
- The British Academy (Collaboration)
- BANGOR UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- Cambridge Ethnic Community Forum (Collaboration)
- East Belfast Mission (Project Partner)
- British Chambers of Commerce (Project Partner)
- Harper Collins Publishers (Project Partner)
- Bell Educational Trust (Project Partner)
- National Museums Northern Ireland (Project Partner)
- NALDIC (Project Partner)
- Chinese University of Hong Kong (Project Partner)
- Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (Project Partner)
- Jack Hunt School Peterborough (Project Partner)
- Nottingham City Council (Project Partner)
- BeFrank Theatre Company (Project Partner)
- Nottingham Writer's Studio (Project Partner)
Publications
Bak T
(2016)
Language lessons to help protect against dementia.
in BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
Cox SR
(2016)
Bilingualism, social cognition and executive functions: A tale of chickens and eggs.
in Neuropsychologia
Bak T
(2016)
Cooking pasta in La Paz Bilingualism, bias and the replication crisis
in Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
Uljarevic M
(2016)
Practitioner Review: Multilingualism and neurodevelopmental disorders - an overview of recent research and discussion of clinical implications.
in Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines
Ayres-Bennett W
(2016)
Learning a second language still matters
in Times Higher Education
Bak T
(2016)
The impact of bilingualism on cognitive functions across the lifespan and in brain diseases
in European Journal of Neurology
Alladi S
(2017)
Bilingualism delays the onset of behavioral but not aphasic forms of frontotemporal dementia.
in Neuropsychologia
Bellamy J
(2017)
Prescription and tradition: establishing standards across time and space (multilingual matters 165)
in Language & History
Bak, T.
(2017)
Healthy linguistic diet: the value of linguistic diversity and language learning across the lifespan
in Languages, Society and Policy Journal
Gayton, A.
(2017)
Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies
in Scottish Languages Review
Andrés-Roqueta C
(2017)
The Contribution of Grammar, Vocabulary and Theory of Mind in Pragmatic Language Competence in Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders.
in Frontiers in psychology
Bak TH
(2017)
Biology enters the scene-a new perspective on bilingualism, cognition, and dementia.
in Neurobiology of aging
ANTONIOU K
(2017)
The effect of childhood multilingualism and bilectalism on implicature understanding
in Applied Psycholinguistics
Ramakrishnan S
(2017)
Comparative Effects of Education and Bilingualism on the Onset of Mild Cognitive Impairment.
in Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
Mehmedbegovic, D.
(2017)
Towards an interdisciplinary lifetime approach to multilingualism: From implicit assumptions to current evidence
in European Journal of Language Policy
Ayres-Bennett, W.
(2017)
Languages across government
in Languages, Society and Policy Journal
Dunlevy, D.A.
(2017)
Debate over Irish language is central to power-sharing talks in Northern Ireland
Ayres-Bennett, W.
(2018)
Languages after Brexit: How the UK Speaks to the World
Fisher L
(2018)
Participative multilingual identity construction in the languages classroom: a multi-theoretical conceptualisation
in International Journal of Multilingualism
Paplikar A
(2018)
Bilingualism and the severity of poststroke aphasia
in Aphasiology
Kozachenko I
(2018)
"Re-Imagining" the Homeland? Languages and National Belonging in Ukrainian Diasporas since the Euromaidan
in East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies
Evans, M
(2018)
Advantages of Multilingualism: What is the Impact on Schooling?
Carruthers, J.
(2018)
Languages after Brexit. How the UK Speaks to the World
McGlade R
(2018)
Dissenting Voices?
in European Comic Art
Cape R
(2018)
Cognitive effects of Gaelic medium education on primary school children in Scotland
in International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
Polonioli, A., Vega-Mendoza, M.
(2018)
Reporting in Experimental Philosophy: Current Standards and Recommendations for Future Practice.
in Review of Philosophy and Psychology
Veenstra A
(2018)
Resisting attraction: Individual differences in executive control are associated with subject-verb agreement errors in production.
in Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition
Majid, A.
(2018)
The differential coding of perception in the world's languages
in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
McGlade, R.
(2018)
Review: Vicent Sanchis, Franco contra Flash Gordon: La censura franquista aplicada a les publicacions infantils i juvenils (1936-1977)
in European Comic Art
Ellefson M
(2018)
Lessons for Successful Cognitive Developmental Science in Educational Settings: The Case of Executive Functions
in Journal of Cognition and Development
Rao Z
(2018)
Motivations for emotional expression and emotion regulation strategies in Chinese school-aged children
in Motivation and Emotion
McGlade, R.
(2018)
Review: Jorge Català Carrasco, Vanguardia y humorismo gráfico en crisis
in Hispanic Research Journal
Polonioli A
(2018)
Reporting in Experimental Philosophy: Current Standards and Recommendations for Future Practice
in Review of Philosophy and Psychology
Kašcelan D
(2019)
Relations Between Bilingualism and Autistic-Like Traits in a General Population Sample of Primary School Children.
in Journal of autism and developmental disorders
Antoniou K
(2019)
How does childhood bilingualism and bi-dialectalism affect the interpretation and processing of pragmatic meanings?
in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
He, M.
(2019)
The Typological Effect on Chinese Resultative Construction L2 Processing: An Eye Tracking Study
in Chinese Language Teaching in the World
Vega-Mendoza, M.
(2019)
The Handbook of the Neuroscience of Multilingualism
Dunlevy D
(2019)
Martin Pütz & Neele Mundt (Eds.) (2019). Expanding the Linguistic Landscape: Linguistic Diversity, Multimodality and the Use of Space as a Semiotic Resource
in Linguistic Landscape. An international journal
Ayres-Bennett W
(2019)
From Haugen's codification to Thomas's purism: assessing the role of description and prescription, prescriptivism and purism in linguistic standardisation
in Language Policy
Guo, Y.
(2019)
Transfer at L3 initial stages: comparing Mandarin temporal-aspectual sentence final particles in L2 and L3 grammars
in International Journal of Chinese Language Education
Newbury DF
(2019)
Using Polygenic Profiles to Predict Variation in Language and Psychosocial Outcomes in Early and Middle Childhood.
in Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR
Long, M. R.
(2019)
Understudied factors contributing to variability in cognitive performance related to language learning
in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
Kozachenko I
(2019)
Fighting for the Soviet Union 2.0: Digital nostalgia and national belonging in the context of the Ukrainian crisis
in Communist and Post-Communist Studies
Howard K
(2019)
Using interpretative phenomenological analysis in autism research.
in Autism : the international journal of research and practice
Meits P
(2019)
How Languages Changed My Life
| Title | 2018 Cambridge Festival of Ideas |
| Description | Strand 3 PDRA Deirdre Dunlevy recorded and edited a video of the MEITS event for the Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2018 to be disseminated via the MEITS website and social media channels. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | Impacts not known at present. |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/events |
| Title | Guide for Martians. MEITS Co-I Nicola McLelland. Strand 2. |
| Description | MEITS Co-Investigator Nicola McLelland. A zine produced by local pupils at a creative writing workshop reflecting on arriving in a country where you don't speak the language. |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | Not yet disseminated. |
| Description | Belfast City Council Irish Language Policy consultation. MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate Deirdre Dunlevy. |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Boping Yuan (MEITS Co-investigator). Attendance at meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages in House of Lords on Monday 30 January 2017. Title of the meeting: The future of language teaching? The DfE's Mandarin Excellent Programme. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Briefing Social Researchers at the Home Office: Researching Multingually, Ethically and Reliably with Children with English as an Additional Language. Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Yongcan Liu and Michael Evans. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Improved educational and skill level of workforce |
| Description | Briefing paper on Irish Language Act to Paula Bradshaw MLA (Alliance Party of Northern Ireland). S3 Co-I Mícheál O'Mainnín. |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | Effective solutions to societal problems |
| Description | Consultation and Review of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists Bilingualism Guidelines. Strand 6 MEITS Co-Investigators Jenny Gibson and Napoleon Katsos. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | Area of influence = Healthcare |
| URL | https://www.rcslt.org |
| Description | Developing and piloting identity-focused pedagogical materials. MEITS Strand 4. |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Improved educational and skill level of workforce |
| Description | Dunlevy, D. & O Mainnin, M. Putting a price on language: the debate around the cost of an Irish language act |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | http://qpol.qub.ac.uk/cost-irish-language-act/ |
| Description | European Commission, Directorate General Education and Culture, Thematic Panel on Languages & Literacy |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Thomas Bak (MEITS Co-Investigator) provided expertise on the cognitive benefits of multilingualism to the European Commission in September 2016. |
| Description | House of Lords High Level Round Table with Employers on Chinese language skills. MEITS Strand 2 Co-I Nicola McLelland. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Irish Language Act Consultation Paper. Irish Language Act distributed to the two main parties in Northern Ireland, DUP and SinnFein. MEITS Co-I Micheal O Mainnin and Postdoctoral Research Associate Deirdre Dunlevy (Strand 3) April 2017. |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Description | Languages Improving Lives: Presentation of MEITS to NI civil servants from the departments of Health and Communities and to Irish language teaching experts. Belfast, June 2017. Contributions by Ayres-Bennett, Carruthers, O Mainnin and Bak. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Description | Meetings with Civil Servants, politicians and policy-makers offering advice on language education policy, the promotion of languages cross-governmentally and the role of languages in society. PI Wendy Ayres-Bennett. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Progress made on embedding languages and language policy across Whitehall. |
| Description | Modern Languages and Mentoring: Supporting Digital Learning across Language Communities in Wales |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/files/policy_documents/uploads/Report_for_Literacy%2C_Languages_and_Communicati... |
| Description | Northern Ireland Department for Communities, Irish Language Academy, Belfast. |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Participation in two meetings at Northern Ireland Department for Communities to discuss the new Irish Language Academy/collaboration with the MEITS research project. Janice Carruthers (MEITS Co-investigator): 30 November 2016 meeting Thomas Bak (MEITS Co-Investigator) & Micheal O'Mainning (MEITS Co-investigator): 11 Jan 2017 meeting This collaboration seeks to change public attitudes towards multilingualism in Northern Ireland. |
| Description | Office of National Statistics (discussing census and agreement that will collaborate on guidelines and find other ways of collecting language data). MEITS PI Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Strand 6 Co-I Thomas Bak. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Changes in efficiency and effectiveness of public service delivery. |
| Description | Online Policy Journal: Languages, Society and Policy; A journal connecting research in linguistics and languages with policy and the public. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/news/item/launch-of-the-languages-society-policy-journal-at-the-british-academy... |
| Description | Policy Briefing on Community Languages and Social Cohesion. 2018. MEITS PI Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Strand 3 Co-I Janice Carruthers. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | This briefing document provides core information and details of resources on Community Languages for academics, policymakers and practitioners and highlights ways in which policy might support Community Languages. The term 'Community Languages' is used here to refer to the languages of the various immigrant communities in the UK, both longstanding and more recent. |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/files/policy_documents/uploads/POLICYBRIEFINGCOMMUNITYLANGUAGES.docx.pdf |
| Description | Policy Briefing on Languages, Business, Trade and Innovation. MEITS PI Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Strand 3 Co-I Janice Carruthers. 2020. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | In this Briefing we highlight key messages from these sectors around the importance of having high-level language and intercultural skills in the workforce and we make a series of recommendations designed to support the development and embedding of these skills. The recommendations are the result of a Policy Workshop held in the House of Commons in January 2020, involving civil servants, leading businesses and business organisations, as well as academics. |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/files/policy_documents/uploads/POLICY_BRIEFING._LANGUAGES,_BUSINESS,_TRADE_AND_... |
| Description | Policy Briefing on Modern Languages Educational Policy in the UK. MEITS PI Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Strand 3 Co-I Janice Carruthers. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Following a successful second policy workshop in December 2018 in Belfast, bringing together policymakers and academics from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, Wendy Ayres-Bennett, PI of MEITS, and Janice Carruthers, AHRC Leadership Fellow in Modern Languages, have published a new Policy Briefing on Modern Languages Educational Policy in the UK. Based on a comparative analysis of policy and practice across the four UK jurisdictions, recommendations are made for primary and secondary languages education, as well as for improving transition between the two, which has been highlighted as particularly problematic for foreign language learning. |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/files/policy_documents/uploads/Policy_Briefing_on_Modern_Languages_Educational_... |
| Description | Policy Workshop on Languages and Social Cohesion with policymakers and academic specialists. Cambridge, December 2017. MEITS PI Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Strand 3 Co-I Janice Carruthers. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | This workshop brought together researchers and civil servants from across the UK to discuss policy issues concerning community and indigenous languages, and questions of social and community cohesion. |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/files/policy_documents/uploads/POLICYBRIEFINGCOMMUNITYLANGUAGES.docx.pdf |
| Description | Policy Workshop on Languages, Business, Trade and Innovations at the House of Commons. PI Wendy Ayres-Bennett and S3 Co-I Janice Carruthers. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Policy event in Westminster. MEITS PI Wendy Ayres-Bennett. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Changed public attitudes on social issues. |
| Description | Policy workshop with civil servants and academics on Modern Languages Educational Policy in the UK, Queen's University Belfast, December 2018. MEITS PI Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Strand 3 Co-I Janice Carruthers. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | This workshop, organised as part of a five-way partnership between the AHRC, the British Academy, ASCL, the British Council, and UUK, brought together researchers and civil servants from across the four UK jurisdictions to discuss language educational policy from primary to secondary level, with a strong comparative dimension. Examples of best practice and common problems were shared and continuing collaboration was planned. |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/files/policy_documents/uploads/Policy_Briefing_on_Modern_Languages_Educational_... |
| Description | Presentation of MEITS to CSaP Policy Leaders Roundtable on Social Cohesion: Representatives from FCO, DFID, BEIS, Scottish Government, HM Treasury, Royal Society, DSP, MoD, Dept of Health (all at Director General or Permanent Secretary level) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Presenting MEITS - Centre for Science and Policy. MEITS Principal Investigator Wendy Ayres-Bennett. Feb 2017. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Description | Publication of recommendations for best practice in the clinical treatment of speech and language disorders for multilingual children with neurodevelopmental disorders. MEITS Strand 6. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Please see pp 26-29. |
| URL | https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxuYXBvbGVvbmthdHNvc3xneDoxZDUzM... |
| Description | Round Table on Languages in Higher Education. MEITS Strand 2 Co-I Nicola McLelland |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Ukrainian Crisis' Briefing with EU East StratCom Task Force (Brussels). MEITS Co-Investigator Rory Finnin. Strand 1. |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Ukrainian Identity since EuroMaidan: Presentation on multilingualism and civic national identity in Ukraine at Chatham House |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Rory Finnin (MEITS Co-Investigator). Improved educational and skill level of workforce. January 2017. |
| URL | https://www.chathamhouse.org/event/ukrainian-identity-after-euromaidan-drivers-change-and-impact-ref... |
| Description | Autistica Research Funding. MEITS Co-Investigators Jenny Gibson and Napoleon Katsos. Strand 6. |
| Amount | £15,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Autistica |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2018 |
| End | 10/2021 |
| Description | Cambridge Humanities Research grants |
| Amount | £11,634 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | GN.GNDD.AHAS |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2017 |
| End | 07/2018 |
| Description | Conference grant: funds towards the organisation of the conference "Languages in Conflict and Reconciliation". Queen's University Befast Modern Languages Core Disciplinary Research Group. MEITS Strand 3. |
| Amount | £500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Queen's University Belfast |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 01/2019 |
| Description | Economic and Social Research Council Impact Acceleration Account grant 2015. MEITS Co-Investigator Napoleon Katsos. Strand 6. |
| Amount | £18,907 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | GNAG/060 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2017 |
| End | 04/2018 |
| Description | Economic and Social Research Council Impact Acceleration Account grant 2017. MEITS Co-Investigator Napoleon Katsos. Strand 6. |
| Amount | £11,916 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | GNAG/064 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2017 |
| End | 07/2018 |
| Description | Funding from the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) towards the accommodation and travel costs for Early Career Researchers presenting at the Strand 2 "Global approaches to multilingualism and standardisation" Conference in April 2018 led by the MEITS PI |
| Amount | € 1,500 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 10/2017 |
| End | 04/2018 |
| Description | Funding towards cost of the conference "Engaging Multilinguality: Language, Identity and National Cohesion in Ukraine" in Cambridge in October 2018. |
| Amount | £1,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2018 |
| End | 10/2018 |
| Description | Funding towards cost of the conference "Languages in Conflict and Reconciliation" in Belfast in January 2019. |
| Amount | £500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Queen's University Belfast |
| Department | The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 01/2019 |
| Description | Funding towards cost of the conference "Languages in Conflict and Reconciliation" in Belfast in Janury 2019. |
| Amount | £500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Queen's University Belfast |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 01/2019 |
| Description | Funding towards cost of the workshop "Grammatical Issues of the Chinese Language for Teachers of Chinese" in Cambridge in July 2018. |
| Amount | £2,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Department | Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2018 |
| End | 07/2018 |
| Description | IMLR and University of Nottingham |
| Amount | £1,860 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | Awarded to support the Being Human activities |
| Organisation | Institute of Modern Languages Research, London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2017 |
| End | 12/2017 |
| Description | Impact Grant. MEITS Co-Investigator Thomas Bak. "The impact of language learning in early dementia on well-being, confidence and cognitive functions in patients, and on the satisfaction and empowerment of the carers" with partner Lingo Flamingo |
| Amount | £13,649 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 294000 |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2017 |
| End | 03/2019 |
| Description | Knowledge Exchange Partnership. MEITS Co-Investigators Jenny Gibson and Napoleon Katsos. Strand 6. |
| Amount | £70,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2018 |
| End | 10/2021 |
| Description | Thomas Bak (MEITS Co-Investigator) and Mariana Vega-Mendoza (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate). PPLS Small pilot projects. "Quantifying Language Switching Behaviour in Bi/Multilinguals" |
| Amount | £2,944 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2017 |
| End | 08/2017 |
| Description | University of Cambridge Impact Fund: Changing attitudes to languages in UK |
| Amount | £4,800 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2019 |
| End | 02/2020 |
| Description | University of Edinburgh: MEITS Co-Investigator Thomas Bak. Small project impact grant. "An audit of language questions in the census across different countries" |
| Amount | £700 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2017 |
| End | 07/2017 |
| Description | Alzheimer Scotland. Strand 6 MEITS PDRA Mariana Vega-Mendoza and Co-I Thomas Bak. |
| Organisation | Alzheimer Scotland |
| Department | Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Research input (co-design of project, testing, analyses, write ups) |
| Collaborator Contribution | Offering facilities for carrying our courses and testing, participant recruitment |
| Impact | Part of the ESRC grant collaborators |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Black Sea Networks, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Columbia University. MEITS Co-Investigator Rory Finnin. Strand 1. |
| Organisation | Columbia University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Expertise; academic input into questions of multilingualism and civil society (Crimean Tatar, Ukrainian, Russian) in contemporary Crimea. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise, intellectual input from Columbia University collaborators on questions of multilingualism in the broader Black Sea region, expanding scope and enriching research in Strand 1 of MEITS project. |
| Impact | Workshops and teaching resources |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Boping Yuan (MEITS Co-Investigator). Mandarin as a second language. Collaborations with Peking University (School of Chinese as a Second Language) and Chinese University of Hong Kong (Lab of Bilingualism) |
| Organisation | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Department | Faculty of Medicine |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Boping Yuan provided expertise in Mandarin grammar and empirical studies of Mandarin learning to colleagues in Peking and Hong Kong. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are helping with data collection and expertise in Cantonese language/grammar, etc. |
| Impact | No outputs/outcomes yet |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Boping Yuan (MEITS Co-Investigator). Mandarin as a second language. Collaborations with Peking University (School of Chinese as a Second Language) and Chinese University of Hong Kong (Lab of Bilingualism) |
| Organisation | Peking University |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Boping Yuan provided expertise in Mandarin grammar and empirical studies of Mandarin learning to colleagues in Peking and Hong Kong. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners are helping with data collection and expertise in Cantonese language/grammar, etc. |
| Impact | No outputs/outcomes yet |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Cambridge Ethnic Community Forum |
| Organisation | Cambridge Ethnic Community Forum |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Cambridge, 22 March 2017: Collaborative community event between the MEITS team and the Cambridge Ethnic Community Forum, bringing together the wide range of local communities to celebrate multilingualism and share ideas of what it means to be multilingual in Cambridge today. As well as engaging conversations, performances and local food, the day comprised activities - including an interactive language map of Cambridge, a graffiti wall and multilingual board games - centered around sharing ideas of what it means to be multilingual for those living in Cambridge today. Cambridge, 19 November 2017: A day of performances including traditional dance, music and culture, bringing together a wide range of local communities to celebrate the diverse cultures and languages in the City. As part of its collaboration, the MEITS team ran a series of hands-on activities to engage audiences in questions relating to multilingualism and cultural identity. Adults and children alike joined us in discussing languages and took part in our always-popular 'Polyglot Pond' and 'Lost in Translation' activities. Cambridge, 18 November 2018: Celebrating cultural diversity in Cambridge: Members of the MEITS team took part in the 'Diversity Day 2018' at Netherhall School, an event co-ordinated by one of our project partners, the Cambridge Ethnic Community Forum (https://www.cecf.co.uk). This was one of a number of successful collaborations with the CECF designed to celebrate and raise awareness of cultural and linguistic diversity within the city. This year, in addition to a number of hands-on activities, such as the always-popular 'Polyglot Pond' and 'Language Families', with the support of Cambridge Ukrainian Studies, MEITS invited the Night Train Theatre Company (https://www.nighttraintheatrecompany.com/) to perform a bilingual fragment from the play Maklena. This 1933 play by the Ukrainian author Mykola Kulish was translated and produced by Maria Montague. The performance was well received by the audience. More than 250 people attended the event, and the MEITS team was able to use this exciting opportunity to engage with a diverse audience to highlight various aspects of multilingualism and cultural identities. Cambridge, 20 February 2019: Celebrating Multilingualism in Cambridge: this event brought together the wide range of local communities to celebrate multilingualism in the City. As well as engaging conversations and performances, the activities on the day - including an interactive language map of Cambridge and a number of activities from MEITS Pop-Up Museum - facilitated sharing ideas on what it means to be multilingual for those living in Cambridge today. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Getting communities involved in events. |
| Impact | The March 2017 event offered much food for thought for future collaborations, while also providing a dynamic space for different linguistic communities to share and reflect on the collective and individual experiences. The November 2017 event celebrating cultural diversity in Cambridge was a great success with a turn-out estimated at some 300 people. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Centre for Science and Policy Fellows. |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Department | Centre for Science and Policy |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Expertise and intellectual input. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Facilitation of access to governement departments and discussion of government priorities. Maria O'Beirne, Senior Analyst at Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG). Linsey Farrell, Director; Urban Villages, Racial Equality & Interface Issues at Northern Ireland Executive. Nicola Davis, Head of Languages at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. |
| Impact | TBC. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Collaboration with 3 MEITS Flexible funding awardees |
| Organisation | Bangor University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 3 news awards were made in 2018 under the MEITS Flexible Funding scheme. 1. Translation as Creative Critical Practice, Dr Delphine Grass, Department of Languages & Cultures, Lancaster University. Through a series of workshops and the development of different creative translation methods across media (poetry, literature and film), this project investigates the potential for translation to stimulate creative approaches to the reading and interpretation of texts. By bringing together practising poets, writers, students and non-professional practitioners, its aims are to explore and develop the practice of translation as a method of creative-critical writing, and to design pedagogical tools for its teaching in a wide range of contexts. 2. The Translations of T. Ifor Rees: Approaching Welsh-Hispanic Cultural Relations in the Twentieth-Century, Dr Helena Miguélez-Carballeira, School of Literatures, Languages and Linguistics, Bangor University. The project looks anew at the literary work of career diplomat T. Ifor Rees (1890-1977) who, while best known for his Latin America travel books, lavishly illustrated with his own photographs, also left behind a rich legacy of multilingual translations (from French, English and Spanish into Welsh). Studying these will provoke new understandings of how translation across many languages influenced discourses of language preservation and the exotic, both in Welsh-language culture and further afield. 3. How do sign language learners' language attitudes towards minority languages evolve over the course of learning a sign language?, Dr Jordan Fenlon, Dr Stacey Webb, Prof. Jemina Napier, Dept of Languages & Intercultural Studies, Heriot-Watt University. This project will investigate how language attitudes displayed by sign language students at Heriot-Watt University change over the course of learning a sign language. Students will be asked a range of questions designed to elicit their opinions on sign language use before and after a deaf community placement (e.g., what constitutes 'good' or 'bad' use of sign language). Responses from different stages of the course will be compared and the impact of current teaching practices on language attitudes will be explored. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Beginning in early 2019, the projects will foster innovation in research-led teaching and support curriculum change in modern languages in higher education. |
| Impact | Unknown at this stage |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Collaboration with 3 MEITS Flexible funding awardees |
| Organisation | Heriot-Watt University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 3 news awards were made in 2018 under the MEITS Flexible Funding scheme. 1. Translation as Creative Critical Practice, Dr Delphine Grass, Department of Languages & Cultures, Lancaster University. Through a series of workshops and the development of different creative translation methods across media (poetry, literature and film), this project investigates the potential for translation to stimulate creative approaches to the reading and interpretation of texts. By bringing together practising poets, writers, students and non-professional practitioners, its aims are to explore and develop the practice of translation as a method of creative-critical writing, and to design pedagogical tools for its teaching in a wide range of contexts. 2. The Translations of T. Ifor Rees: Approaching Welsh-Hispanic Cultural Relations in the Twentieth-Century, Dr Helena Miguélez-Carballeira, School of Literatures, Languages and Linguistics, Bangor University. The project looks anew at the literary work of career diplomat T. Ifor Rees (1890-1977) who, while best known for his Latin America travel books, lavishly illustrated with his own photographs, also left behind a rich legacy of multilingual translations (from French, English and Spanish into Welsh). Studying these will provoke new understandings of how translation across many languages influenced discourses of language preservation and the exotic, both in Welsh-language culture and further afield. 3. How do sign language learners' language attitudes towards minority languages evolve over the course of learning a sign language?, Dr Jordan Fenlon, Dr Stacey Webb, Prof. Jemina Napier, Dept of Languages & Intercultural Studies, Heriot-Watt University. This project will investigate how language attitudes displayed by sign language students at Heriot-Watt University change over the course of learning a sign language. Students will be asked a range of questions designed to elicit their opinions on sign language use before and after a deaf community placement (e.g., what constitutes 'good' or 'bad' use of sign language). Responses from different stages of the course will be compared and the impact of current teaching practices on language attitudes will be explored. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Beginning in early 2019, the projects will foster innovation in research-led teaching and support curriculum change in modern languages in higher education. |
| Impact | Unknown at this stage |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Collaboration with 3 MEITS Flexible funding awardees |
| Organisation | Lancaster University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 3 news awards were made in 2018 under the MEITS Flexible Funding scheme. 1. Translation as Creative Critical Practice, Dr Delphine Grass, Department of Languages & Cultures, Lancaster University. Through a series of workshops and the development of different creative translation methods across media (poetry, literature and film), this project investigates the potential for translation to stimulate creative approaches to the reading and interpretation of texts. By bringing together practising poets, writers, students and non-professional practitioners, its aims are to explore and develop the practice of translation as a method of creative-critical writing, and to design pedagogical tools for its teaching in a wide range of contexts. 2. The Translations of T. Ifor Rees: Approaching Welsh-Hispanic Cultural Relations in the Twentieth-Century, Dr Helena Miguélez-Carballeira, School of Literatures, Languages and Linguistics, Bangor University. The project looks anew at the literary work of career diplomat T. Ifor Rees (1890-1977) who, while best known for his Latin America travel books, lavishly illustrated with his own photographs, also left behind a rich legacy of multilingual translations (from French, English and Spanish into Welsh). Studying these will provoke new understandings of how translation across many languages influenced discourses of language preservation and the exotic, both in Welsh-language culture and further afield. 3. How do sign language learners' language attitudes towards minority languages evolve over the course of learning a sign language?, Dr Jordan Fenlon, Dr Stacey Webb, Prof. Jemina Napier, Dept of Languages & Intercultural Studies, Heriot-Watt University. This project will investigate how language attitudes displayed by sign language students at Heriot-Watt University change over the course of learning a sign language. Students will be asked a range of questions designed to elicit their opinions on sign language use before and after a deaf community placement (e.g., what constitutes 'good' or 'bad' use of sign language). Responses from different stages of the course will be compared and the impact of current teaching practices on language attitudes will be explored. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Beginning in early 2019, the projects will foster innovation in research-led teaching and support curriculum change in modern languages in higher education. |
| Impact | Unknown at this stage |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Collaboration with the University of Girona to investigate the role of language(s) in identity construction amongst young people in Catalonia. Collaborator Francesc Feliu, Director of the Institute of Catalan Language and Culture. |
| Organisation | University of Girona |
| Country | Spain |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Expertise, knowledge of sociolinguistic fieldwork and methods, training of staff at the University of Girona |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided assistance with finding suitable participants in the study |
| Impact | Article for submission to a peer-reviewed journal of international standing |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Developing a bilingual primary school curriculum for St Jérôme Church of England Bilingual Primary School. MEITS Co-Investigator Napoleon Katsos. Strand 6. |
| Organisation | St. Jerome Bilingual Church Of England School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Training, discussion and consultancy on best practice for developing a bilingual French-English curriculum for primary school |
| Collaborator Contribution | Full access to school to understand bilingual school practice, and participation to research |
| Impact | Submission of a report on Best Practice for Biliteracy for St Jerome which informed the school's educational practice, report downloadable from: http://www.stjeromebilingual.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Paper-of-biliteracy-by-Cambridge-University.pdf |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Identifying priorities for research in children with Autism - Autistica UK. MEITS Strand 6. |
| Organisation | Autistica |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Discussion and consultation on current and future research and clinical best practice priorities for multilingual children with neurodevelopmental disorders. |
| Collaborator Contribution | £15,000 to co-fund a PhD studentship, see 'Further Funding' tab. |
| Impact | None yet. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Language Lives creative writing workshops - Nottingham Writers' Studio (NWS) in collaboration with Nottingham City Council's IDEAL (Identity, Diversity and English as an Additional Language). MEITS Co-I Nicola McLelland. |
| Organisation | Nottingham Writers' Studio |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | MEITS Co-I Nicola McLelland. Input into devising workshops with focus on challenges and opportunties of being multilingual. |
| Collaborator Contribution | input in devising and running creative writing workshops. |
| Impact | Provided a dynamic space for participants to share and reflect on their collective and individual experiences |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Linda Fisher (MEITS Co-Investigator). Bergen University (Asta Haukas) |
| Organisation | University of Bergen |
| Country | Norway |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Data gathering tools shared to facilitate future collaborations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Asta Haukas provided expertise to the team, commenting on questionnaires and research methodology. This is the equivalent of 10 working hours. The University of Bergen also funded flights/accommodation for Linda Fisher to give a paper and to discuss the project. |
| Impact | No outputs/outcomes yet |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Local Branch of Association of Independent Speech Language Therapists. MEITS Co-Investigators Jenny Gibson and Napoleon Katsos. Strand 6. |
| Organisation | Association of Speech and Language Therapists in Independent Practice |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Learned Society |
| PI Contribution | Training, discussion and consultancy on best practice for multilingual children with neurodevelopmental disorders. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Attendance at a meeting in Cambridge to share ideas about multilingualism and speech and language therapy practice. Around 8 participants for 2.5 hours. |
| Impact | Therapists had input into our research designs. Therapists reported thinking had changed about taking children out of MFL lessons for language therapy. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Member of the Languages Advisory Group, British Academy. MEITS Principal Investigator Wendy Ayres-Bennett and MEITS Co-Investigator Janice Carruthers. |
| Organisation | The British Academy |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Expert advice on language matters offered to the British Academy through its Languages Advisory Group by Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Janice Carruthers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Support for MEITS project policy work |
| Impact | No outputs or outcomes yet. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Theatre with Polygon Arts |
| Organisation | Polygon Arts |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The research team provided the theatre director with information about the research and project themes. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The theatre group produced a performance based on the research themes and is now developing further pieces. |
| Impact | Theatre performance Polyphonics, October 2018 as part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Thomas Bak (MEITS Co-Investigator) and Mariana Vega-Mendoza (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate). Lingo Flamingo/ Robbie Norval |
| Organisation | lingo flamingo |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | MEITS Researchers provided intellectual and research expertise and carried out the cognitive assessment of participants taking the courses offered by Lingo Flamingo in order to measure the effects of foreign language learning on cognitive functions in older adults. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Lingo Flamingo is a social enterprise providing foreign language workshops/courses to older adults. They provide participants from their workshops and classes, so that MEITS researchers can measure the effects of foreign language learning on cognitive functions in older adults. |
| Impact | Collaboration in progress |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | To what extent do the lower secondary school subjects Framandspråk (Foreign Languages) and Fordjupning i engelsk (English as an in-depth study topic) promote learners' development of a multilingual and multicultural identity? Professor Asta Haukas/MEITS Strand 4. |
| Organisation | University of Bergen |
| Country | Norway |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Strand 4 tools will be adapted to the Norwegian context, faciliating comparative analysis; meetings between MEITS Co-Investigator Linda Fisher and Professor Asta Haukas (University of Bergen) in November 2017 and February 2018 to discuss details of collaboration. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Sharing of data to allow comparative analysis. |
| Impact | No outputs/outcomes yet |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | University of Cambridge-Chinese University of Hong Kong Joint Laboratory for Bilingualism. MEITS Co-I Boping Yuan. |
| Organisation | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Offering advice, expertise and collaboration with Hong Kong colleagues to achieve excellence in research in the acquisition of Mandarin Chinese across bilingual contexts and to form an international hub that nurtures young talents, scholarly exchanges and interdisciplinary collaboration by capitalizing on the combined research expertise of Cambridge and CUHK. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Offering advice, expertise and collaboration with Cambridge colleagues to achieve excellence in research in the acquisition of Mandarin Chinese across bilingual contexts and to form an international hub that nurtures young talents, scholarly exchanges and interdisciplinary collaboration by capitalizing on the combined research expertise of Cambridge and CUHK. |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | We Speak Multi. Ante-natal classes. S6. |
| Organisation | NCT |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Expertise, training, webinar creation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Supporting adaptation to audience. |
| Impact | Webinar for antenatal teachers |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | "Language Lives" creative writing workshops with local mulitlingual pupils (four held in 2017). MEITS Co-Investigator Nicola McLelland. Strand 2. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Co-Investigator Nicola McLelland. 2 workshops with local "recent arrival pupils" (i.e. not yet in mainstream education, still acquiring English), leading to exhbition of written work and spoken word poem performance, presented at academic workshop July 2017 (http://www.meits.org/events/event/european-experiences-of-good-language-bad-language); 2 workshops (to date) with cohort of ca. 15 local pupils selected from four schools focussed on what it means to be multilingual. Outputs: 1 poster display (at same event as above) and a "zine". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | "Music, language and the arts: protest, empowerment and healing" Roundtable, Senator George J Mitchell Research Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen's Belfast University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Mícheál Ó Mainnín, MEITS Co-Investigator, presented and discussed the Irish component of the MEITS project. Belfast, December 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | 'Capital of Hope'? Language, Identity and Mobilisation in Kharkiv after the Euromaidan Revolution. Strand 1 MEITS PDRA Ivan Kozachenko. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Strand 1 PDRA Ivan Kozachenko presented the findings of his study and highlighted the role of languages in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine at the conference 'Ukraine: Hope for the future, or land of lost opportunity?' at the University of Oxford on 7 March 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 'Maklena' Literary Evening. Strand 1 MEITS Co-I Rory Finnin. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The 'Maklena' Literary Evening consisted of artistic performances and literary readings of excerpts from Mykola Kulish's banned 1933 play 'Maklena Grasa' in Ukrainian and in English translation. It was an experiment in multilingual performance, with participation by actors from the Night Train Theatre Company and Strand 1 Co-I Rory Finnin. Approximately 60 members of the student body and general public attended, and discussions about the dynamics of multilingual performance ensued, with many attendees reporting a change in view about 'canonical' interpretations of artistic works when performed only in translation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyCEU0GP9-w |
| Description | 'Our Uncommon Ground' Modern Languages conference, Durham April 2018. Strand 3 MEITS Co-I Janice Carruthers. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on behalf of the MEITS PI, with the three other OWRI PIs and myself in Leadership Fellow role, on the Interdisciplinary Working in the OWRI projects. My presentation was on this area specifically in MEITS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 'We Are Multilingual' teaching materials launch event. S4. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Event launch and workshop introducing the We Are Multilingual teaching resources. 80 practitioners attended to learn about the materials and how they could used them in their schools, sparking a lively discussion about the importance of incorporating reflection on multilingualism in the foreign languages classroom for enhanced motivation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | (Dis)articulating Identities: Multilingualism in the Catalan Countries. MEITS Strand 1. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 19-20 January, Strand 1 of the MEITS team hosted the conference '(Dis)articulating Identities: Multilingualism in the Catalan Countries' at King's College, Cambridge. The event brought together international scholars and practitioners across a broad range of disciplines and career stages in order to discuss the case of multilingualism and its particular implications within Catalan culture and society. MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate Rhiannon McGlade presented a paper entitled "Multilingual Mirth: Communicating the Comic in Catalonia". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/news/item/disarticulating-identities-multilingualism-in-the-catalan-countries |
| Description | 10th International Linguistic Landscapes conference. Strand 3 MEITS PDRA Deirdre Dunlevy. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Strand 3 PDRA Deirdre Dunlevy presented a paper on ongoing research 'X marks the spot: Community marking in the Linguistic landscapes of Belfast'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 2018 Cambridge Festival Of Ideas: Languages: your passport to the world |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MEITS held family-friendly, hands-on activities particularly suited for children in late primary/early secondary school to help them discover the world of languages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/events/event/cambridge-festival-of-ideas |
| Description | 2018 Diversity Day: Celebrating cultural diversity in Cambridge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | On 18 November 2018, members of the MEITS team took part in the 'Diversity Day 2018' at Netherhall School, an event co-ordinated by one of its project partners, the Cambridge Ethnic Community Forum (https://www.cecf.co.uk). This was one of a number of successful collaborations with the CECF designed to celebrate and raise awareness of cultural and linguistic diversity within the city. This year, in addition to a number of hands-on activities, such as the always-popular 'Polyglot Pond' and 'Language Families', with the support of Cambridge Ukrainian Studies, MEITS invited the Night Train Theatre Company (https://www.nighttraintheatrecompany.com/) to perform a bilingual fragment from the play Maklena. This 1933 play by the Ukrainian author Mykola Kulish was translated and produced by Maria Montague. The performance was well received by the audience. More than 250 people attended the event, and the MEITS team was able to use this exciting opportunity to engage with a diverse audience to highlight various aspects of multilingualism and cultural identities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/news/item/celebrating-cultural-diversity-in-cambridge |
| Description | Acquisition of Chinese: Bilingualism and Multilingualism, University of Cambridge. S5 PDRA Yanyu Guo and S5 Co-I Boping Yuan. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Over 100 teachers of and researchers in the Chinese language from all over the world attended the conference and had discussions and debates on issues related to the learning of Chinese as a second/foreign/additional language. Selected papers from the conference will appear in a special issue of Journal of Second Language Studies (John Benjamins 2020) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.acbm2019.co.uk/ |
| Description | All Party Parliamentary Group on Languages, House of Lords. MEITS Co-Investigator Thomas Bak. Strand 6. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A consultation event explaining the cognitive effects of language learning. Dina Mehmedbegovic and Thomas Bak, co-authored the report and were asked to write a briefing for the schools minister as the result of this event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Alzheimer Scotland Annual conference 2017. Strand 6 MEITS PDRA Mariana Vega-Mendoza. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Joint table with Lingo Flamingo showcasing research collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | An interview with Joan Costa-Carreras on the standardardisation of Catalan and comparative standardology. MEITS PI Wendy Ayres-Bennett. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Interview in May 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/files/dialogues/uploads/Interview_with_Joan_Costa-Carreras_on_Catalan_Standardi... |
| Description | Anne Rowling Clinic Open Day. MEITS Co-Investigator Thomas Bak. Strand 6. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An open day for patients and carers, explaining Thomas's work on cognitive reserve and the way language learning and practice can contribute to it. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Annual conference of the Independent Schools' Modern Languages Association. MEITS Principal Investigator Wendy Ayres-Bennett. February 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Principal Investigator Wendy Ayres-Bennett gave a talk entitled 'The MEITS programme' at the annual conference of the Independent Schools' Modern Languages Association in Cambridge on 3 February 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Ara interview. Strand 3 MEITS PDRA Deirdre Dunlevy. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Strand 3 PDRA Deirdre Dunlevy had an interview with a Catalan journalist in the lead up to Good Friday agreement anniversary discussing her research into language in Northern Ireland, in particular in the current crisis. Journalist published a number of articles in Ara (Catalan newspaper) and referenced and quoted the interview. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Ara.cat interview. MEITS Co-I Micheal O Mainnin. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Co-I Micheal O Mainnin. Interview with Catalonian journalist on breakdown of Northern Ireland regional assembly and the role of language, identity and language conflict in that. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.ara.cat/internacional/Belfast-desafia-lunionisme-Irlanda-Nord_0_1830416953.html |
| Description | Article in Teachers' Magazine. MEITS Co-Investigator Jenny Gibson. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Co-Investigator Jenny Gibson. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Article on the pop-up museum of languages and the 'we are multilingual' resources. S4. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Article on the pop-up museum of languages and the 'we are multilingual' resources for the 'Languages Today' magazine (published by the Association for Language Learning) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Association of Chinese Teachers & Confucius Institute. Strand 6 MEITS Co-I Thomas Bak. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Teaching Chinese in Multilingual Environments. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://ci.ioe.ac.uk/2018/05/23/2018-conference-the-benefits-of-bilingualism |
| Description | Association of Language Learning Meeting in London. MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate Lisa-Maria Muller. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Brief presentation of the MEITS project by MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate Lisa-Maria Muller at primary and secondary school teachers and follow-up discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Association of University Language Centres Annual Conference 2019. Strand 6 MEITS Co-I Thomas Bak. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Opening keynote lecture attended by over 200 registered delegates. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://aulc2019.org.uk/ |
| Description | BBC Scotland Brainwaves Interview. MEITS Co-Investigator Thomas Bak. Strand 6. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An interview in the BBC Radio Scotland "Brainwaves" series (corresponding to the "Life scientific"; interview in 2017, on air in January 2018: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09pz108 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09pz108 |
| Description | BBC The Twinstitute. Strand 6 MEITS PDRA Mariana Vega-Mendoza and Co-I Thomas Bak. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | BBC Show "The Twinstitute" participation. Strand 6 PDRA Mariana Vega-Mendoza and Co-I Thomas Bak carried out cognitive testing post-course and had a brief apearance on the show. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/EdinUniCAHSSres/status/1093182434185801728 |
| Description | BBC Trust me I'm a doctor. Strand 6 MEITS PDRA Mariana Vega-Mendoza and Co-I Thomas Bak. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Strand 6 researchers (Co-I Thomas Bak and PDRA Mariana Vega-Mendoza) carried out cognitive testing and actively participated and contributed to research for the BBC programme "Trust me I am a doctor". Appearance on the show. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/BBCTrustMe/status/1037415820392116224 |
| Description | BBC World Service Programme Parentland. Strand 6 Co-I Thomas Bak. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Thomas Bak offered expert opinion about the value of bringing children up multilingually. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07302wj |
| Description | Bidding for research council funding: the MEITS experience. MEITS PI Wendy Ayres-Bennett. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk for Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, IMLR, Senate House, London. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Bilingualism Matters Annual Event 2017. Strand 6 MEITS PDRA Mariana Vega-Mendoza. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog for Bilingualism Matters Website (authored by Vega-Mendoza, M. and Long, M.) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.bilingualism-matters.ppls.ed.ac.uk/annual-event-2017/ |
| Description | Bilingualism Matters annual event 2017. Strand 6 MEITS PDRA Mariana Vega-Mendoza. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Strand 6 PDRA Mariana Vega-Mendoza manned a stand and presented a poster at the Bilingualism Matters annual event showcasing MEITS and the research from S6 Edinburgh such as the collaboration with Lingo Flamingo. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.bilingualism-matters.ppls.ed.ac.uk/annual-event-2017/ |
| Description | Bilingualism and bias: the tale of the baby and the bath |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Thomas Bak, MEITS Co-Investigator, was invited to give a talk at the Conference on Multilingualism, University of Ghent, Belgium. September 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Blog post on Languages, Society and Policy Journal by ALL. MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate Lisa-Maria Muller. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | A blog post by MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate Lisa-Maria Muller on the ALL website advertising the new Languages, Society and Policy Journal and in particular, a policy paper by Prof Myles on Early Language Learning. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.all-languages.org.uk/news/primarynews/languages-society-policy-journal/ |
| Description | Breton and the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Merryn Davies-Deacon (MEITS PhD student on Strand 3) spoke at the Cornish Language Festival in Penzance in February 2017 and gave an overview of where Breton stands in relation to the provisions of the unratified ECRML and how this can be compared with the situation of Cornish, for which the charter has been ratified but few concrete steps have been taken by the British government. Merryn's talk formed part of the opening conference of the Cornish Language Festival, which is a week-long series of events aimed at bringing Cornish speakers together and allowing them to talk in and about Cornish. The Festival also plans to attract non-speakers with taster sessions, lectures and workshops. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.cornishquest.org |
| Description | British- Irish Council conference: Adult learning of Indigenous, Minority and Lesser-used languages, and links with community, workplace and society. MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate Deirdre Dunlevy. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Conference presentation by MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate Deirdre Dunlevy on the MEITS project with a specific focus on the work on Strand 3 related to Irish. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | British-Spanish Award ceremony at the Spanish Embassy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Rhiannon McGlade (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate). As a former recipient of the Anglo-Spanish Ferrovial award, Dr McGlade was invited to attend this event that brings together prominent members from cultural and business sectors in Spain to support collaborative multi-disciplinary and multilingual research. Dr McGlade was able to share the project's aims with a hitherto uninformed audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018. Strand 6 MEITS Co-I Thomas Bak. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A presentation on bilingualism and language learning across the lifespan with discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://codi.beltanenetwork.org/event/ditch-the-classroom-speak-in-tongues-cabaret-of-dangerous-ideas... |
| Description | Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas: Language lessons on the NHS? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Thomas Bak, MEITS Co-Investigator. Edinburgh Fringe Festival, event attended by ca. 80 people (the second highest attendence in the series). August 2016; after the show, Thomas was approached to write a blog for British Medical Journal, which later got published as a paper, and gave an interview to the Fringe Radio. http://codi.beltanenetwork.org/event/codi-2016-language-lessons-on-the-nhs/ & www.freshair.org.uk/teams/fringe/posts/2014-interview-thomas-bak-language-lessons-on-the-nhs |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://codi.beltanenetwork.org/event/codi-2016-language-lessons-on-the-nhs/ |
| Description | Cambridge Film Festival. S1 Co-I Rory Finnin. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I programmed in the 2019 Festival a screening of the film 'Evge', which features multilingual encounters in the Ukrainian, Russian and Crimean Tatar languages. I introduced two screenings of the film and answered audience questions about multilingualism in Ukraine. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk/film/homeward |
| Description | Cambridge Research in Community Language Education (CRiCLE) & Cambridge Bilingual Groups - Workshop for community language teachers. MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate Karen Forbes. Strand 4. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 2nd July 2017, a practical workshop for local community language teachers took place in Homerton College, Cambridge. This event was led by Dr. Karen Forbes, MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate on Strand 4, and highlighted the importance of supporting the development and maintenance of students' literacy skills in their home language. This interactive workshop also introduced practical ideas and activities which can be integrated into the community language classroom to help students to improve their writing. The workshop was attended by volunteers and teachers from a range of community language schools across Cambridge and London. Languages represented included Russian, Polish, Japanese, Greek, Hungarian and Bulgarian. This event was organised by members of Strand 4 in association with Cambridge Bilingual Groups and the Cambridge Research in Community Language Education (CRiCLE) network, which was established in the Faculty of Education by MEITS Co-Investigator Dr. Yongcan Liu in 2013. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/centres/networks/cricle/ |
| Description | Cambridge Research in Community Language Education (CRiCLE) interdisciplinary workshop: Assessing Bilingual Learners. MEITS Co-Investigator Michael Evans. MEITS Strand 4. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Co-Investigator Michael Evans gave a talk on Assessing Bilingual Learners at a workshop organised by MEITS Co-Investigator Yongcan Liu in collaboration with the Cambridge Research in Community Language Education (CRiCLE) Network, bringing together community language practitioners, researchers, school teachers and local council representatives. The aim is to generate discussion and share evidence-based practice to support community language learners. 7 November 2017, Cambridge. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/centres/networks/cricle/ |
| Description | Catalonia in Context. MEITS Co-I Brad Epps. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Co-I Brad Epps. Public presentation and debate on ongoing constitutional crisis in Spain and Catalan separatism. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/press/events/2017/11/cambridge-university-catalan-society-catalonia-contex... |
| Description | Celebrating Multilingualism in Cambridge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A further collaborative community event between the MEITS team and the Cambridge Ethnic Community Forum (https://www.cecf.co.uk/) took place on Wednesday, 20 February 2019, 11am - 3 pm, at 16-18 Arbury Court. This event brought together the wide range of local communities to celebrate multilingualism in the City. As well as engaging conversations and performances, the activities on the day - including an interactive language map of Cambridge and a number of activities from MEITS Pop-Up Museum - facilitated sharing ideas on what it means to be multilingual for those living in Cambridge today. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/events/event/celebrating-multilingualism-in-cambridge |
| Description | Celebrating your language journey. S2 Co-I Nicola McLelland. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Creative writing workshop with local mulitlingual pupils and their teachers led by Nottingham Writers Studio tutors, the last in a series with this cohort of pupils, now in Year 9. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Changing Hearts and Minds Towards Additional Language Learning in Instructed MFL Classrooms. MEITS Co-Investigators Yongcan Liu and Michael Evans. Strand 4. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Co-Investigators Yongcan Liu and Michael Evans gave a paper entitled "Changing Hearts and Minds Towards Additional Language Learning in Instructed MFL Classrooms" at a conference entitled Language, identity and education in multilingual contexts. The talk reported on preliminary findings of MEITS Strand 4. University of Dublin, Trinity College on 1 - 3 February 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://liemc18.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | Changing Hearts and Minds for an Open World: An Identity Approach to Teaching and Motivating Learners of Chinese in UK Schools (Strand 4 MEITS Co-I Yongcan Liu), Confucius School Annual Chinese Language Teaching Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on current research activities to the general public, academic staff and students, and education practitioners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://ci.ioe.ac.uk/2018/05/31/2018-conference-motivating-learners-of-chinese-in-uk-schools/ |
| Description | Chasing two hares (film screening). Strand 1 MEITS PDRA Ivan Kozachenko and Co-I Rory Finnin. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Screening of the long-lost Ukrainian-language version of the Soviet classic 'Chasing Two Hares' with a Q&A moderated by PDRA Ivan Kozachenko about Soviet language policy and the variance in interpretation based on language soundtrack (Russian or Ukrainian). Belfast, 24 Jan 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://queensfilmtheatre.com/ |
| Description | Christmas Lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | "The executive brain: why concepts matter". Edinburgh Neuroscience Christmas Lecture |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Co-organisation of and paper on sociolinguistic research methodologies at cross-strand project workshop on methodology, Edinburgh, April 2017. MEITS Strands 3 & 6. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 26 and 27 April 2017 a joint Strands 3 & 6 workshop on Sociolinguistic and cognitive perspectives on bilingualism took place in Edinburgh, where each strand made a presentation. We welcomed Professor Li Wei from UCL as the guest speaker and he provided new insights from the British Academy project on bilingualism and cognition. In addition, there were short reports from collaborators in the Basque Country and Sweden. MEITS Co-Investigator Janice Carruthers co-organised this cross-strand workshop and gave a paper on sociolinguistic methodologies. As a result, the neuroscience strand of the project (Strand 6) are integrating a strong sociolinguistic dimension into their fieldwork methodology. There was a further follow-up workshop in Queen's, Belfast. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Cognitive science of bilingualism in its social context |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Thomas Bak, MEITS Co-Investigator, was invited to give a talk at the Centre for Multilingualism in Society Across the Lifespan. Oslo, Norway, February 2017. Ca 50 people attended with lively discussion afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Collaboration and interdisciplinarity: the MEITS experience. MEITS PI Wendy Ayres-Bennett. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Masterclass for graduate students at UC Berkeley. 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Community Languages for Identity, Mobility and Business: The CLIMB Project. MEITS Co-Investigator Yongcan Liu (Strand 4). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Co-Investigator Yongcan Liu (Strand 4). Invited speaker at Speaking to A Global Future: The Languages Landscape Post-Brexit Symposium for the National Campaign for Languages. 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Conference in Ningbo, China: Language Standardization and Linguistic Variation in Asia from Sociolinguistic Perspectives. MEITS Strand 2. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Co-I Nicola McLelland and MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate Annette (Hui) Zhao organised the conference, which took place on 11-13 December 2017 at the University of Nottingham's Ningbo campus (UNNC) in China, with the assistance of Prof Anwei Feng and other colleagues at UNNC. The conference was organised to provide a platform for recent scholarship on language standardization and language diversity in Asian linguistic contexts, whilst encouraging multidirectional comparisons between situations in both Asia and the West. The conference featured four keynotes, Prof Anvita Abbi, Prof Imtiaz Hasnain, Dr Luo Lian, and Prof Minglang Zhou, who discussed the challenges and practices of language standardisation in different countries and communities. There were also 19 presentations from 20 presenters who are based in various institutions around the world. The conference covered not only various languages and communities in China but also those in Hawai'i, India, Indonesia, Japan, and Thailand. In addition to the presenters, the conference attracted many local participants who joined in the discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/news/item/strand-2-conference-language-standardization-and-linguistic-variation... |
| Description | Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology. S2 PDRA Annette Zhao. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented ongoing data collection progress and priliminary results at an international conference on linguistic anthropology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://cala2019.puc.edu.kh/ |
| Description | Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology. Strand 2 MEITS PDRA Hui (Annette) Zhao. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Strand 2 MEITS PDRA Hui (Annette) Zhao presented ongoing data collection progress and preliminary results at an international conference on linguistic anthropology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://cala2019.puc.edu.kh/ |
| Description | Conference presentation 'Fighting for the Homeland from Afar: Social Media, Languages and the 'Self' in Ukrainian Diasporas since 2014', 15 March 2019, Durham University. S1 PDRA Ivan Kozachenko |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | At the OWRI conference 'Nationalism, Ethnicity and Cultural Diversity in the Digital Age' I have presented the findings of my research on self-understanding, social media and linguistic behaviours within Ukrainian diasporas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.dur.ac.uk/owri/subprojects/events/diginat/programme/ |
| Description | Conference presentation, Reading: The influence of multilingual identity on foreign language learning. MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associates Angela Gayton and Karen Forbes. MEITS Strand 4. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associates Angela Gayton and Karen Forbes gave a presentation on current research activities to the general public, academic staff and students, and education practitioners at the OWRI University of Oxford project's Creative Multilingualism conference entitled "Creative Multilingual Identities" which took place at the University of Reading on 2-3 February 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.creativeml.ox.ac.uk/about/events/creative-multilingualism-conference-2018-creative-multi... |
| Description | Consultation by Brian Walker on the stalemate surrounding an Irish Language Act in advance of article by him in the Belfast Telegraph. Strand 3 MEITS Co-I Micheal O Mainnin. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Consultation by an emeritus professor of politics on language and conflict in Northern Ireland with particular reference to the controversy surrounding an Irish Language Act. His article on this issue was subsequently published in the Belfast Telegraph, Northern Ireland's most popular daily paper, on 9 May 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Consultation of European Commission Directorate Culture and Education, Thematic Panel Languages and Literacy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Thomas Bak, MEITS Co-Investigator, was invited to participate in the panel in an advisory role. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Creative writing workshop for MEITS project team members. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Creative writing workshop for MEITS project team members to reflect creatively on their research areas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community (OWRI) and Translating Cultures workshop on 'Ethnography and Modern Languages: Critical Reflections' workshop. November 2017. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Contribution to a MEITS panel (Postdoctoral Research Associates Daniel McAuley (Strand 3), Deirdre Dunlevy (Strand 3) and John Bellamy (Strand 2), as well as MEITS Co-Investigator Janice Carruthers (Strand 3)) on ECR critical reflectons on ethnographic methods in modern languages research, as part of a one-day workshop on the same topic. The panel's views were welcomed and made a useful contribution to the wider debate. A position paper on ML and ethnography is planned as a result of the workshop. London, 04 November 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/13911 |
| Description | Crossing Boundaries in Language Teaching: Northern Ireland and Beyond. S3 PDRA Deirdre Dunlevy. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Organised a conference in collaboration with colleagues. This conference, which was open to all academics, researchers, teachers and anyone involved or interested in language teaching, discussed various aspects of language teaching, including learning support, digital literacy, testing and feedback, subtitling, native speakerism, language policy and strategies, teaching during postgraduate studies, and academic writing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://143.117.143.14/schools/ael/Discover/SWANandGenderEquality/NewsEvents/CrossingBoundariesinLang... |
| Description | CulTour interview. MEITS Co-I Micheal O Mainnin. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Co-I Micheal O Mainnin. Interview for a magazine in the Netherlands on breakdown of Northern Ireland regional assembly and the role of language, identity and language conflict in that. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Current debates surrounding bilingualism, brain and cognition |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Thomas Bak, MEITS Co-Investigator, was invited to give a talk at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. Ca 40 people attended with lively discussion afterwards. February 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Debate over Irish language is central to power-sharing talks in Northern Ireland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Strand 3 PDRA Deirdre Dunlevy and Strand 3 MEITS Co-Investigator Mícheal Ó Mainnín published an article in The Conversation discussing the role of the Irish language in the current political negotiations in Northern Ireland. 14 June 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/debate-over-irish-language-is-central-to-power-sharing-talks-in-northern... |
| Description | Demonstrating the relevance of research in Modern Languages to key issues of our time |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This talk presented the outcomes of MEITS to academics nationally. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Demonstrating the relevance of research in Modern Languages to key issues of our time |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of the MEITS findings at an online event on the outcomes of OWRI and the future of Modern Languages organised by the IMLR. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Developing a multilingual identity in the languages classroom (University of Augsburg, Germany). S4 Associated Researcher Karen Forbes. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to teacher trainers, pre-service teachers and researchers at the University of Augsburg focusing on the 'We Are Multilingual' teaching materials. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Developing a multilingual identity in the languages classroom - from theory to practice (Queen's University Belfast). S4 Associated Researcher Karen Forbes. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote presentation for school teachers and reseachers at the 'Crossing boundaries in language teaching' conference, Queen's University Belfast. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://merryndd.github.io/ltni |
| Description | Different languages, different perspectives: understanding our multilingual world as part of the 2017 Cambridge Festival of Ideas |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On Saturday, 28 October, the MEITS project took part in the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, an annual two-week celebration of the arts, humanities and social sciences. The MEITS contribution entitled 'Different languages, different perspectives: Understanding our multilingual world' included a series of short talks and a range of related interactive games that created a space for the public to reflect on issues associated with languages and multilingualism, both in the world and in relation to their direct surroundings and personal experiences with languages. The activities raised awareness of the various languages we use, the way we use them and what this tells us about who we are. All six strands were represented at the event, and there were talks by Professor Brad Epps, Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Dr Angela Gayton, Dr Linda Fisher, Dr Henriëtte Hendriks, and Dr Özge Öztürk. Topics addressed included the instrinsic relationship between language and culture, as explored through the case of Catalan; questions of codification and standardisation and why rule-breaking can sometimes be used to create group identity; the relationship between languages and identity as relevant for education and social cohesion; some of the reasons why we should learn languages, including health and well-being; and how best to learn languages and the various factors affecting the learning process. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Directionality and the economy principle of L1 transfer in second language acquisition. MEITS Co-I Boping Yuan. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Co-I Boping Yuan. This keynote speech was delivered at the 4th National Forum of Second Language Acquisition [in Chinese], Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China, which was attended by university researchers and postgraduate students from different parts of China. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Directionality and the economy principle of L1 transfer in second language acquisition. MEITS Co-I Boping Yuan. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Co-I Boping Yuan. This keeynote speech was delivered at the 12th World Chinese Language Conference [in Chinese], National Jinan International University, Nantou, Taiwan, which was attended by researchers, teachers of Chinese and postgraduate students from all over the world. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Discovering a world of languages. PI Wendy Ayres-Bennett. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview on the AHRC website about the pop-up Museum of Languages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://ahrc.ukri.org/research/readwatchlisten/features/discovering-a-world-of-languages |
| Description | Edinburgh Fringe Festival. MEITS Co-Investigator Thomas Bak. Strand 6. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A sold-out show at the 2017 International Edinburgh Fringe Festival, with the title "Does bilingualism make us ill?". Very positive audience feedback. Led to press enquiries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Edinburgh Science Festival. MEITS Co-Investigator Thomas Bak. Strand 6. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A debate "From Séance to Science: Who is psychology's greatest hero". The person Thomas Bak proposed, Aleksandr Luria, a leading scientists on the topic of brain and language in 20th century won the audience vote. According to the immediate audience feedback, Thomas's presentation increased the awareness of how political and ideological climate and personal life history interact with science, in the particular context of the neuroscience of language. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Eleventh Annual Cambridge Festival of Ukrainian Film. Strand 1 MEITS Co-I Rory Finnin. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A screening of the long-lost Ukrainian-language version of the Soviet classic 'Chasing Two Hares' with a Q&A about Soviet language policy and the variance in interpretation based on language soundtrack (Russian or Ukrainian). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Embracing Multilingualism?: Borders, Language and National Identity in the City of Kharkiv since the Euromaidan. Strand 1 MEITS PDRA Ivan Kozachenko. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Strand 1 PDRA Ivan Kozachenko presented at the 2nd World Conference of the Association for Borderland Studies in Budapest on 14 July 2018, shared his research findings and presented the MEITS project to participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.abs2018world.com/home/ |
| Description | Emito.net Interview. MEITS Co-Investigator Thomas Bak. Strand 6. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An interview (in Polish) for emito.net, the largest on-line information website for the Polish diaspora in the UK. It is widely read also by non-academic audiences: http://www.emito.net/artykuly/dwujezycznosc_jako_lek_udowadniaja_to_badania_polaka_2171082.html |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.emito.net/artykuly/dwujezycznosc_jako_lek_udowadniaja_to_badania_polaka_2171082.html |
| Description | Engagement with social media group. MEITS Co-Investigator Jenny Gibson and Postdoctoral Research Associate Ozge Ozturk. Strand 6. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Co-Investigator Jenny Gibson and Postdoctoral Research Associate Ozge Ozturk engaged with a special facebook group about bilingual children with neurodevelopmental disorders and answered their questions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Engaging Multilinguality: Language, Identity and National Cohesion in Ukraine. MEITS Strand 1. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Conference organised by Strand 1 (Co-I Rory Finnin and PDRA Ivan Kozachenko). Academic discussions about language politics in Ukraine tend to centre on questions of linguistic space rather than linguistic subject - on the multilingualism of Ukrainian territory rather than the multilinguality of a Ukrainian citizen. This predominant approach often invites tired exchanges about Ukrainophone-Russophone, west-east regional divisions, which the Maidan Revolution and the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian armed conflict have urgently called into question. The conference 'Engaging Multilinguality' accordingly challenged the conventional wisdom. Strand 1 Co-I Rory Finnin opened the event by calling for more attention to the position of the multilingual subject in Ukrainian society - past, present and future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://issuu.com/cambridgeukrainianstudies/docs/engaging_multilinguality_draft_prog |
| Description | European Civil Society Platform for Multilingualism (ECSPM), Techincal University Darmstadt. Strand 4 MEITS Co-I Linda Fisher. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Strand 4 Co-I Linda Fisher reported on the MEITS project and on the MEITS education strand to a number of academics, policy-makers, practitioners from Europe and north America. This has led to a number of enquiires about MEITS and invitations to events in 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://ecspm.org/ecspm-events/assemblies-meetings/paradigm-shift/ |
| Description | European Commission Multilingualism Panel. MEITS Co-Investigator Thomas Bak. Strand 6. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A keynote address to the panel. As a result of it, Thomas Bak's citation was selected as the motto to open a new leaflet about "Rethinking language education in schools": https://ec.europa.eu/education/sites/education/files/rethinking-language-report_en.pdf |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | European Language Council. MEITS Co-Investigator Thomas Bak. Strand 6. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Added a new dimension of the cognitive effects of language learning to a debate about how to revive the interest in modern languages, with a particular emphasis on languages in science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | European Researchers Event. MEITS Co-Investigator Thomas Bak. Strand 6. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | A two-day event organised jointly by the European Commission and the European Parliament, in which school classes & members of public visited the MEITS stand, picked up information leaflets and asked questions. Conducted in different languages: English, French, Dutch, Polish, Serbocroat, Spanish, Portuguese. Italian. Particularly well received by immigrants and refugees. Both, children and adults reported being reassured that current research findings see their ability to speak their home language(s), alongside the language(s) of their new host countries as a benefit. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | European experiences of 'good' language, 'bad language', and (the) standard language ideology in multilingual communities, past and present. MEITS Strand 2. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On 6th and 7th July 2017, Strand 2 of the MEITS project played host to a workshop organised by strand lead Nicola McLelland at the University of Nottingham. The workshop, entitled 'One rule for home, one rule for school? European experiences of 'good' language, 'bad language', and (the) standard language ideology in multilingual communities past and present', brought together researchers working in diverse multilingual contexts across Europe in which questions of language standardisation and language ideologies are of central importance. Papers included a presentation by John Bellamy, one of the project's PDRAs. The workshop succeeded in showcasing a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to standard languages and standard language ideologies, raising questions of the sociopolitical roles of standards. Two podcasts were also recorded during the workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/news/item/strand-2-workshop-european-experiences-of-good-language-and-bad-langu... |
| Description | Exploring multilingualism and Identity: the benefits and challenges of a large interdisciplinary project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Janice Carruthers, MEITS Co-Investigator and Strand 3 Leader. Plenary session: presentation of Strand 3 of the MEITS researchp project, contextualised within the whole project at the Association of University Language Centre's annual conference at Queen's Belfast University in January 2017. Daniel McAuley (Strand 3 MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate) and Merryn Davies-Deacon (Strand 3 PhD student) also took part in the discussion around the French element of Strand 3. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/InformationServices/LanguageCentre/AULC2017/ |
| Description | Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Research Day. Postdoctoral Research Associate Yanyu Guo. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Strand 5 presented their research at the FAMES Research Day, a yearly opportunity for FAMES teaching and research Fellows to present their current work to the faculty members and communicate with each other. Around 30 FAMES staff and 30 students (undergraduate & postgraduate) attended this event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Research Day. Strand 5 MEITS PDRA Yanyu Guo. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | FAMES Research Day is a yearly opportunity for FAMES teaching and research fellows to present their current work to the faculty members and communicate with each other. Around 30 FAMES staff and 20 students (undergraduate & postgraduate) attended this event. Strand 5 PDRA Yanyu Guo presented the work of Strand 5 which led to discussions on multilingualism and language learning. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Foreign Film Review: La Reina de España, Fernando Trueba |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Rhiannon McGlade (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate). Response to a call from the AHRC website for a 100-word review of a recent foreign language film, which provided an opportunity to present the work on film to a wider audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/research/readwatchlisten/features/foreign-film-reviews/ |
| Description | French in the Open World Research Initiative (OWRI) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at the online French Studies Conference of the work in French across the four OWRI projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | French television interview on language and conflict in Northern Ireland. Strand 3 MEITS Co-I Micheal O Mainnin. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interview for television show 'Viure al pais' on channel FR3 on divisions around language in Northern Ireland and the reflection of this in the absence of governance and political stalemate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | German philology reborn? Multidisciplinarity, multilingualism, and the place of German linguistics in UK Modern Languages Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Nicola McLelland, MEITS Co-Investigator, presented at the Association for German Studies' 2016 annual conference at the University of Newcastle in September 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.ags.ac.uk/?page_id=76 |
| Description | Global Approaches to Multilingualism and Standardisation. MEITS PI Wendy Ayres-Bennett and PDRA John Bellamy. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Organisation of an international conference looking at standardisation in a cross-linguistic framework. Reworked versions of the papers will appear in the Handbook of Standardisation to be published by CUP. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/events/event/global-approaches-to-multilingualism-and-standardisation |
| Description | Good language, bad language. Language rules? Strand 2 MEITS Co-I Nicola McLelland. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Creative writing workshop with local mulitlingual pupils and their teachers led by Nottingham Writers Studio tutors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Graduate Student Talk on MEITS at Faculty of Education, University of California-Santa Barbara. Strand 1 MEITS PDRA Rhiannon McGlade. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Strand 1 PDRA Rhiannon McGlade gave an invited talk to Postgraduate Students at the Faculty of Education, University of California-Santa Barbara. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Historische Mehrsprachigkeit und Sprachkontakt im niederländisch-deutschen Grenzgebiet um 1800. S2 PDRA Andrea Krogull. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Paper given at the conference 'Deutscher Sprachgebrauch im 18. Jahrhundert: Sprachmentalität, Sprachwirklichkeit, Sprachvielfalt', Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, 9-10 May 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ku.de/slf/germanistik/deutschsprawi/tagungen-und-workshops/programm/ |
| Description | How I got here. MEITS PI Wendy Ayres-Bennett. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview with A level students as part of the Haylevels at the Hay Festival. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | How do academics from language disciplines engage with policy makers? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Nicola McLelland, MEITS Co-Investigator, introduced the MEITS project and MEITS Policy Journal "Languages, Society and Policy" (one-hour panel session) at this workshop for Language Studies Researchers at the University of Nottingham in November 2016. This one-day training workshop was open to all postgraduate students and early career researchers whose area of research is in language, history and culture. The session provided researchers with the opportunity to hear from academics in language studies who have engaged with a range of policy makers. The postgraduate students and early career reseachers then had the opportunity to develop your own research policy engagement action plan. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/midlands3cities-policy-engagement-skills-training-how-languages-studi... |
| Description | ICLaVE conference. MEITS Principal Investigator Wendy Ayres-Bennett. June 2017. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Principal Investigator Wendy Ayres-Bennett gave an invited paper entitled "Modelling standardisation: Codification, prescription and purism." at ICLaVE conference in Malaga in June 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Identities and ideologies in conflict in urban vernacular French: views from without and within. Strand 3 MEITS PDRA Daniel McAuley. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Strand 3 PDRA Daniel McAuley gave an invited talk on language ideology at the German Francoromanists Congress, followed by a round table debate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.frk.uni-osnabrueck.de/sektionen/ |
| Description | Implications of Second Language (L2) Research Findings for L2 Chinese Teaching. 2017 European Chinese Language Teaching Conference. MEITS Co-Investigator Boping Yuan. Strand 5. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Co-Investigator Boping Yuan. Over 100 school/university teachers of Chinese attended keynote speech delivered at the 2017 European Conference on Chinese Language Teaching, St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford. 5&6 July 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Implications of Second Language (L2) Research Findings for L2 Chinese Teaching. University College Dublin. MEITS Co-Investigator Boping Yuan. Strand 5. June 2017. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Co-Investigator Boping Yuan. About 60 school teachers of Chinese in Ireland attended the talk, which was organized by the Confucius Institute of the University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. June 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | In the Shadow of the Standard Workshop. MEITS Strand 2. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | IN THE SHADOW OF THE STANDARD: A workshop and networking event for Early Career Researchers on the influence of standard language ideology on non-standard language(s). September 2018. Strand 2 MEITS PDRA Hui (Annette) Zhao presented ongoing data collection progress and preliminary results at a workshop aimed at early career researchers. The publication for this presentation will be published in a year. Strand 2 MEITS PDRA John Bellamy presented a paper entitled "What is Standard Luxembourgish? Perceptions of the standard", one year after the March 2017 official Strategy for the Promotion of the Luxembourgish Language. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/conference/fac-arts/clas/in-the-shadow-of-the-standard/index.aspx |
| Description | Indexicality and identity in multilingually influenced urban French Paper MEITS Conference on Multilimngualism and identity. S3 PDRA Daniel McAuley. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A conference paper on indexicaility with a mutlidisciplinary audience, which invited questions from the audience working in education and policy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Innovating Foreign Language Education. S4. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation and panel discussion on what competences we should cultivate in foreign language education. The role of multilingual identity awareness was introduced with illustrations from the MEITS project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Integrating languages in the new curriculum in Wales: towards Bilingualism plus one. MEITS Principal Investigator Wendy Ayres-Bennett. British Council, Cardiff. March 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Principal Investigator Wendy Ayres-Bennett gave an invited talk entitled "New directions in research in language learning and the MEITS project" at Integrating languages in the new curriculum in Wales: towards Bilingualism plus one, British Council, Cardiff, March 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | International Conference on Multilingualism and Multilingual Education: Exploring relationships between adolescents' multilingual identification and academic attainment: A quantitative investigation. Strand 4 MEITS PDRA Angela Gayton and Associated Researcher Karen Forbes. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on current research activities to the general public, academic staff and students, and education practitioners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://icmme18.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | International Conference on Multilingualism and Multilingual Education: The relationship between multilingual identification, language learning attitudes and self-efficacy: evidence from a survey of adolescent learners. Strand 4 MEITS PDRA Angela Gayton and Associated Researcher Karen Forbes. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on current research activities to the general public, academic staff and students, and education practitioners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://icmme18.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | International Conference on the Revitalization of Indigenous and Minoritized Languages. MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate Deirdre Dunlevy. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Conference presentation by MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate Deirdre Dunlevy entitled 'Attitudes towards the Linguistic Landscape and the use of public signage for language revitalization'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://icriml.indiana.edu/ |
| Description | International Mother Language Day. BBC Radio Cambridgeshire Interview. MEITS Principal Investigator Wendy Ayres-Bennett. 21 February 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Principal Investigator Wendy Ayres-Bennett gave a radio interview to BBC Radio Cambridgeshire on International Mother Language Day, 21 February 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | International Polyglot Conference, Reykjavik. MEITS Co-Investigator Thomas Bak. Strand 6. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk at a conference organised entirely by people interested in language learning. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | International forum for young linguists at Nanjing University. MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate Yanyu Guo. Strand 5. May 2017. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This forum provided a platform for young researchers working on linguistics and facilitated communications and collaborations among sub-fields. 100 young researchers from 12 different countries were invited to attend the forum and present their current projects. MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate Yanyu Guo gave a talk about studies on L2 acquisition of Chinese and the work of MEITS Strand 5. Nanjing University, China, 27-29 May 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Interview about language learning trends in schools - BBC Look East. S4 Associated Researcher Karen Forbes. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Live interview on BBC Look East to discuss language learning trends in schools and the work of the MEITS project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Interview for "Sunday Times". MEITS Co-Investigator Thomas Bak. Strand 6. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An interview with Nicholas Hellen, printed in the Sunday Times; https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/learn-a-language-to-delay-dementia-zxr5bf06q |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/learn-a-language-to-delay-dementia-zxr5bf06q |
| Description | Interview with Euroviews journalist. S3 PDRA Deirdre Dunlevy. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview with a journalist from the Euroviews news website about my research, and the role of language in the current politicial climate in NI (and the UK more generally). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://euroviews.eu/2019/05/01/the-irish-language-is-creating-and-closing-gaps-in-northern-ireland/ |
| Description | Interview with NEMO Kennislink, in Dutch ('Eerste Nederlandse spellingregels werden nageleefd'). S2 PDRA Andreas Krogull. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview and article for Dutch popular-scientific online platform NEMO Kennislink |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.nemokennislink.nl/publicaties/eerste-nederlandse-spellingregels-werden-nageleefd/ |
| Description | Interview with Nelson McCausland, Democratic Unionist Party, on languages, shared space and and controversy surrounding demands for an Irish Language Act. Strand 3 MEITS Co-I Micheal O Mainnin. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussion around the crisis in political governance, and questions relating to indigenous languages and multilingualism, in the context of division on legislative support for Irish and Ulster-Scots. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Introducing MEITS at event on Bilingualism: Literacy and Cognition |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A talk given as part of the 2016 Cambridge Festival of Ideas to present the research project to the general public and to invite ideas and possible collaborations. Cambridge, October 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Introduction to research on cognitive ageing, bilingualism, intensive language learning and attentional functions. Strand 6 MEITS PDRA Mariana Vega-Mendoza. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Strand 6 PDRA Mariana Vega-Mendoza presented at the "Dementia and Language Learning Project" organised by the The Open University, in collaboration with Lingo Flamingo and University of Edinburgh. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Invisible Battalion (film screening). Strand 1 MEITS PDRA Ivan Kozachenko. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Strand 1 PDRA Ivan Kozachenko supported the organisation of the film screening, and discussed the problems of language, gender and conflict in Ukraine with film producers and those in attendance in Cambridge on 9 November 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/CambridgeUkrainianStudies/posts/10155891594332304 |
| Description | Invited Plenary: 'Langues minoritaires en France et en Irlande au vingt-et-unième siècle : politique, communautés, locuteurs'. S3 Co-I Janice Carruthers. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | International Conference invited plenary. Conference title: 'Minority Languages. What actors for the future?'. University of Strasbourg, November 2019. Researchers from all over France gave papers on a wide range of minority languages. Audience was around 100. The plenary gave international exposure to MEITS work on Breton and Irish and gave rise to considerable discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.culture.gouv.fr/Sites-thematiques/Langue-francaise-et-langues-de-France/Actualites/Langu... |
| Description | Invited research seminar: 'Language, Migration and Identity: Contemporary Urban Vernacular French'. S3 Co-I Janice Carruthers. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited research seminar at Warwick University for 'Migration, Identity and Translation Network'. Jan 2020. Audience around 20, many early career. Gave exposure to findings relating to Contemporary Urban Vernacular French and helped shape the final form of a chapter, co-written by JC and Daniel McAuley (Aston) for a MEITS volume to be published by CUP. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/mitn/ |
| Description | Invited talk on multilingual identity at Shanghai Normal University in China. S4 Co-I Linda Fisher. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | More than 80 postgraduate students from Shanghai Normal University and teachers attended a talk on multilingual identity, with the aim of raising their awareness of multilingual identity and its importance for second language teaching and learning. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited talk on the importance of developing a cross-field language policy to help unlock the potential of bilingual migrant children. S4 Co-I Yoncan Liu. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A talk as part of the Edinburgh TESOL and Applied Linguistics (ETAL) seminar series aimed at teaching professionals and researchers, which sparked discussion on what language policies are needed at school level to suport the development of multilingualism and the education of bilingual learners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Irish Association of Applied Linguistics Annual conference. Strand 3 MEITS PDRA Deirdre Dunlevy. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Strand 3 PDRA Deirdre Dunlevy presented a paper on ongoing research 'Learning Irish amid controversy: How the ILA debate has impacted learners of Irish in Belfast'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Is learning languages good for your brain? Strand 6 MEITS PDRA Mariana Vega-Mendoza. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Strand 6 PDRA Mariana Vega-Mendoza gave an interactive invited talk about research on bilingualism and the brain at the "creative space", the Welcoming, Edinburgh. The session included drop-in activities in collabration with Science Ceilidih and Leith Labs (in preparation for the Explorathon). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/scienceceilidh/photos/a.1486421958282891/2187137418211338/?type=3&theater |
| Description | Jobs with languages. Strand 5 MEITS PDRA Lisa-Maria Muller. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Strand 5 PDRA Lisa-Maria Muller participated in a workshop with year 8 students focusing on jobs that one can do with languages (beyond becoming a translator or a teacher). The first part was a brainstorming activity on the jobs students wanted to do in the future, and jobs they knew needed languages. Then they worked in groups to read 6 different articles on jobs with foreign languages and produced a poster introducing the job to their peers. Following from this presentation, the French teacher asked students to write a short text in French about the jobs they wanted to do when they grew up and why. These texts were displayed around the school and used as part of the project's 2018 Cambridge Festival of Ideas activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Keynote lecture for the European Commission Directorate Culture and Education, Thematic Panel Languages and Literacy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Thomas Bak, MEITS Co-Investigator. Keynote lecture. January 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Keynote paper at Conference entitled 'Languages in Contact. New challenges for planning and policies'. MEITS Co-I Janice Carruthers. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Co-I Janice Carruthers gave a keynote address on strand 3's work on France (with some comments on Ireland). 'Language and Identity. Multiethnolects and minoritised languages in France and Ireland'. The conference was organised by the AHRC funded 'Cross Language Dynamics' OWRI project and SLORI (Slovenian research institute) in Gorizia, Italy. January 2018. The audience was a mixture of academics and the general public - the latter from Italy and Slovenia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://crosslanguagedynamics.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2018/02/12/event-report-languages-in-contact-new-chall... |
| Description | L3 Workshop: Multilingual Language Acquisition, Processing and Use. S5 PDRA Yanyu Guo. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This workshop brought together over 60 researchers who are interested in multilingual acquisition, processing and language use of a third (L3) language and whose work is carried out within a formalized theory of language. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/en/l3-workshop/home/ |
| Description | LEGaSI workshops (Co-Operation Ireland). MEITS Co-Investigator Micheal O Mainnin and Postdoctoral Research Associate Deirdre Dunlevy. Strand 3. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Strand 3 delivered a workshop to the Legasi group of Co-Operation Ireland (members of the Protestant-Unionist-Loyalist community in Northern Ireland) about Irish heritage and language in Northern Ireland. Co-Investigator Micheal O Mainnin gave a presentation on language and identity in the Irish Republic (in preparation for a visit to the Irish parliament). This was followed by debate on multilingualism and the push for an Irish Language Act in Northern Ireland (which is a subject of contention for the PUL community). A follow-up workshop took place at the request of the Legasi group to discuss placenames and languages in Northern Ireland. Co-Investigator Micheal O Mainnin gave a presentation on place-names and shared space in Northern Ireland with an emphasis on historical multilingualism involving Irish, Scots and English in particular. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Language Abilities in Children with Autism (LACA) Meeting. MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate Ozge Ozturk. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate Ozge Ozturk gave a talk about the MEITS Project at the Language Abilities in Children with Autism (LACA) Meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.nwo.nl/en/research-and-results/research-projects/i/50/27050.html |
| Description | Language Journeys. Strand 2 MEITS Co-I Nicola McLelland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Creative writing workshop with local mulitlingual pupils and their teachers led by Nottingham Writers Studio tutors, which lead to a video and poster. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Language Learning Motivation of Year 11 students in the UK. Strand 5 MEITS PDRA Lisa-Maria Muller. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Strand 5 PDRA Lisa-Maria Muller gave an invited talk at the University of Vienna to present the work of strand 5 on language learning motivation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Language Learning in Primary Schools - why and how. MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate Lisa-Maria Muller. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate Lisa-Maria Muller presented the strand's findings about language learning in primary schools and the best conditions to achieve good results in this age group. The presentation included teaching ideas and provision of materials to be used in the primary school setting. It was attended by all teachers in one primary school in Shropshire. The school reported a desire to make changes to their provision of language teaching, such as more regular but shorter language lessons (3xweek of 15 min instead of 45 min once a week), the inclusion of more authentic materials and songs during assembly and the school choir. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Language Policy after Brexit media interviews. S3 Co-Investigator Micheal O' Mainnin. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | media interview, Irish-medium TV channel, TG4, on Brexit and language policy. The stimulus for media interest was the UK Language Policy after Brexit conference at QUB on 2/9/2019 (geographical reach: national) media interview, BBC Radio Ulster, on Brexit and language policy. The stimulus for media interest was the UK Language Policy after Brexit conference at QUB on 2/9/2019 (geographical reach: regional) media interview, Raidió Fáilte, on Brexit and language policy. The stimulus for media interest was the UK Language Policy after Brexit conference at QUB on 2/9/2019 (geographical reach: local) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Language Policy in the UK: Challenges and Opportunities for the Future', paper at the UK Language Policy after Brexit Conference, Queen's University Belfast. PI Wendy Ayres-Bennett. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Paper at the UK Language Policy after Brexit Conference, Queen's University Belfast. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Language Policy. MEITS PI Wendy Ayres-Bennett. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited plenary talk on Working with UK government and policy makers, UCML Winter Plenary, Europe House, London. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Language Rules. S2 Co-I Nicola McLelland. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A workshop with panel discussions and short papers bringing together academics with practitioners and policy shapers. Leading to special issue of online journal Language, Society and Policy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/events/event/language-rules-languages-standards-multilingualism-and-linguistic-... |
| Description | Language learning and brain health. Strand 6 MEITS PDRA Mariana Vega-Mendoza. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Strand 6 PDRA Mariana Vega-Mendoza gave a webinar presentation for the Open University (collaboration with Lingo flamingo tutor training programme). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Language learning and dementia. Strand 6 MEITS PDRA Mariana Vega-Mendoza. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Strand 6 PDRA Mariana Vega-Mendoza gave a talk for the Lingo Flamingo director and staff. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/lingoflamingo1/status/897472714138685443 |
| Description | Language learning as a cognitive intervention. Strand 6 MEITS PDRA Mariana Vega-Mendoza. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Strand 6 PDRA Mariana Vega-Mendoza gave an invited talk at the "Languages and Cultural knowledge in global healthcare" organised by QUB-AHRC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/impacts/languages-and-cultural-knowledge-in-global-healthcare(b94c1... |
| Description | Language policy and memory. MEITS PI Wendy Ayres-Bennett. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MEITS PI Wendy Ayres-Bennett chaired a policy panel at the Languages Memory Conference, organised by the OWRI Language Acts and Worldmaking project, King's College London. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Language, Identity and Education in Multilingual Contexts: Exploring Relationships Between Adolescents' Multilingual Identification and Academic Attainment: A Quantitative Investigation. Strand 4 MEITS PDRAs Angela Gayton and Dee Rutgers. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on current research activities to the general public, academic staff and students, and education practitioners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://liemc19.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | Language, Identity and Education in Multilingual Contexts: Participative Multilingual Identity Construction in the Languages Classroom: To What Extent Can a Pedagogical Intervention Support the Development of Multilingual Identities? Strand 4 MEITS Co-I Linda Fisher and Associated Researcher Karen Forbes. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on current research activities to the general public, academic staff and students, and education practitioners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://liemc19.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | Language, Identity and the Importance of Place-Names. S3 Co-Investigator Micheal O' Mainnin. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Public lecture in the Tower Museum, Derry, as part of the 'Island Voices 2019 Indigenous' lecture series |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Language, Place and Periphery presentation. MEITS Strand 3 Postdoctoral Research Associate Daniel McAuley. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by MEITS Strand 3 Postdoctoral Research Associate Daniel McAuley on the connection between language and the city, attended by around 30-40 people in Copenhagen. Audience members enaged in productive discussion of similar issues in other global contexts and requested further information on the MEITS project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://nors.ku.dk/lapur/english/language-place-and-periphery/ |
| Description | Languages Improving Lives: What's the point of learning another language if you speak English? - Cambridge Alumni Festival 23 Sept 2017. MEITS PI Wendy Ayres-Bennett |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Principal Investigator Wendy Ayres-Bennett presented the project and research at the 2017 University of Cambridge Alumni Festival on 23 September 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Languages and Others: Diversity and Humour in Catalonia and Ukraine. S1. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Strand 1-led conference 'Languages and Others: Diversity and Humour in Catalonia and Ukraine' took place on 18 March 2019 at the University of Cambridge. The aim of this conference was to bring together practitioners and scholars to address questions of diversity, linguistic unity and humour in Catalonia and Ukraine. It consisted of two round tables. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/news/languages-and-others-diversity-and-humour-in-catalonia-and-ukraine1 |
| Description | Languages of Ulster television series. MEITS Co-I Micheal O Mainnin. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Co-I Micheal O Mainnin. Participation in a three-part series on the diverse linguistic heritage of Ulster/Northern Ireland |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.open.edu/openlearn/watch-more%20http://www.open.edu/openlearn/languagesofulster?episode=1... |
| Description | Languages, Identity and Belonging in Northern Ireland: Insights from the MEITS project. S3 PDRA Deirdre Dunlevy. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Delivered a talk at the Modern Languages Core Disciplinary Research Group seminar series, Queen's University Belfast about my ongoing research with the MEITS project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Languages: your passport to an open world. PI Wendy Ayres-Bennett. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog for International Mother Language Day, February 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://ahrc-blog.com/2020/02/20/languages-your-passport-to-an-open-world/ |
| Description | Launch of the new website "Healthy Linguistic Diet". MEITS Co-Investigator Thomas Bak. Strand 6. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A launch of a new website, containing information, blogs, examples of good practice in multilingualism etc. launched on the International Mother Language Day, 21/2/2018: http://healthylinguisticdiet.com/. Over 500 visitors (and over 750 visits) in the two weeks since the launch. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://healthylinguisticdiet.com/ |
| Description | Learning a foreign language as a cognitive intervention in dementia. Strand 6 MEITS PDRA Mariana Vega-Mendoza. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Strand 6 PDRA Mariana Vega-Mendoza gave a talk at the World Federation of Neurology, Viana do Castelo, Portugal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.spneurologia.com/evento/wfn-aphasia-dementia-and-cognitive-disorders-bienn/332 |
| Description | Learning a second / foreign language: Age and other factors. Strand 5 MEITS Co-I Henriette Hendriks. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Strand 5 Co-I Henriette Hendriks gave an invited talk at CamMACT 2018 (Cambridge Modern Foreign Languages Conference for Teachers). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/applying/cammact |
| Description | Learning from history. How understanding the multilingual past can inform the present. S2 PDRA Andreas Krogull. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Leading a panel discussion at the conference 'Language rules? Languages, standards and linguistic inequality: multilingualism and variation in education, law and citizenship', University of Nottingham, 15-17 April 2019. (with Darquennes, J., Havinga, A., Walsh, L.) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/conference/fac-arts/clas/language-rules/index.aspx |
| Description | Lecture 'Studying Ukrainian Diasporas: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges', 11 Nov 2019, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder). S1 PDRA Ivan Kozachenko. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | With this lecture I have addressed various theoretical and methodlogical challenges in studying Ukrainian diasporas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9f6lQltgiQ&feature=emb_logo |
| Description | Leith Lab. MEITS Co-Investigator Thomas Bak. Strand 6. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An event to explain science to general audience |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MEITS Chinese Linguistics and L2 Chinese Research seminars (2016-2017) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 28/10/2016: Yanyu Guo (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate), Acquiring double-marking structures: the case of aspectual marking in L2 Chinese. www.meits.org/events/event/Acquiring-double-marking-structures-the-case-of-aspectual-marking-in-L2-Ch 04/11/2016: Nana Huang (FAMES), L2 acquisition of Chinese Applicative-DOC and -DUC by English, Spanish and Korean speakers. www.meits.org/events/event/l2-acquisition-of-chinese-applicative-doc-and-duc-by-english-spanish-and-ko 18/11/2016: Woramon Prawatmuang (FAMES), Effects of L1 transfer and input availability on L2 acquisition: evidence from L2 Chinese and Thai. www.meits.org/events/event/effects-of-l1-transfer-and-input-availability-on-l2-acquisition-evidence-fr 25/11/2016: Manyun Liu (FAMES), Chinese Reflexives in L2 acquisition and L1 attrition. www.meits.org/events/event/chinese-reflexives-in-l2-acquisition-and-l1-attrition 10/02/2017: Woramon Prawatmuang (FAMES), L2 acquisition of Chinese and Thai nominal phrases. www.meits.org/events/event/l2-acquisition-of-chinese-and-thai-nominal-phrases 17/02/2017: Ruyi Dai (FAMES), Features in L2 Chinese Passives. www.meits.org/events/event/features-in-l2-chinese-passives 24/02/2017: Shanshan Yan (FAMES), Chinese sentence-final particles and their behaviour in L2 and heritage Chinese grammars. www.meits.org/events/event/chinese-sentence-final-particles-and-their-behaviour-in-l2-and-heritage-chi 03/03/2017: Tongkun Liu (FAMES), L2 Acquisition of the Interfaces in the Chinese Ba Construction. www.meits.org/events/event/interfaces-in-the-chinese-ba-construction 10/03/2017: Jingting Xiang (FAMES), Definiteness and Specificity in Mandarin, Cantonese and English NP. www.meits.org/events/event/definiteness-and-specificity-in-mandarin-cantonese-and-english-np 17/03/2017: Lilong Xu (FAMES), Overt and Covert Arguments in Chinese and their Acquisition by English Speakers. www.meits.org/events/event/Overt-and-Covert-Arguments-in-Chinese-and-their-Acquisition-by-English-Spea |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/events |
| Description | MEITS Chinese Linguistics and L2 Chinese Research seminars (2017-2018) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 03/11/2017: Yanyu Guo (MEITS PDRA), L3 Acquisition of Mandarin Sentence-Final Particles by English-Cantonese Bilinguals; 03/11/2017: Jingting Xiang, The L3 Acquisition of Definiteness & Specificity in Mandarin Chinese by English-Cantonese Bilinguals; 17/11/2017: Lilong Xu, Chinese Null and Covert Arguments and Their Behaviours in L2 Chinese Grammars; 24/11/2017: Manyun Liu, The Processing of Mandarin Chinese Reflexives among Adult L2 Learners and Heritage Speakers; 26/01/2018: Yanyu Guo (MEITS PDRA), L3 Acquisition of Mandarin Sentence-Final Particles by English-Cantonese Bilinguals; 09/02/2018: Lilong Xu, Chinese Null and Covert Arguments and Their Behaviours in L2 Chinese Grammars. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/events |
| Description | MEITS Chinese Linguistics and L2 Chinese Research seminars 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 08/02/2019: Yanyu Guo (S5 PDRA), L3 acquisition of Mandarin sentence-final question particles by Cantonese-English bilinguals; 15/02/2019: Tongkun Liu (FAMES), The Chinese BA construction in English-Speaking learners' L2 Chinese grammars; 22/02/2019: Lilong Xu (FAMES), Covert objects and VP ellipsis in English speakers' L2 Chinese: Evidence of the incremental model of L2 speech production mechanisms; 22/02/2019: Jingting Xiang (FAMES), Definiteness in Heritage, L2 and L3 Mandarin grammars: Empirical evidence for the source of transfer in L3A; 08/03/2019: Boping Yuan (S5 Co-I), Absence of L1 transfer of ellipsis at L2 Chinese initial stages: Evidence from L2 Chinese oral production by English and Korean speakers; 08/03/2019: Yanyu Guo (S5 PDRA), Temporal-Aspectual Sentence Final Particles in English and Cantonese Speakers' L3 Mandarin Chinese; 13/03/2019: Chenyang Zhang (FAMES), L2 acquisition of gapping constructions in Mandarin Chinese by English speakers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/events |
| Description | MEITS Chinese Linguistics and L2 Chinese Research seminars 2019-2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 03/05/2019: Yanyu Guo (S5 PDRA), Transfer at initial stages of L3 Mandarin: the acquisition of temporal-aspectual sentence final particles by English-Cantonese bilinguals; 03/05/2019: Xiang, Jingting (FAMES), Encoding of anaphoric and associational definiteness in English speakers' L2 Mandarin grammars; 24/05/2019: Yanyu Guo (S5 PDRA), L3 acquisition of Mandarin sentence-final question particles ba and ne by Cantonese-English bilinguals; 24/05/2019: Xiang, Jingting (FAMES), Indefinite NPs as Subjects in L2 and L3 Mandarin Grammars: Empirical Evidence for the Sources of Transfer in L3A; 14/06/2019: Liu, Tongkun (FAMES), A processing problem or a representational problem? L2 acquisition of syntax-semantics interface in the Chinese ba construction by English-speaking learners; 14/06/2019: Xu, Lilong (FAMES), Covert Subjects and Objects Resulting from TP Ellipsis in English Speakers' L2 Chinese: Evidence of the Declarative/Procedural Model; |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/events |
| Description | MEITS Facebook account 2016-2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Account created in August 2016. Period: 27 Sep 2016 - 8 Mar 2017 228 Lifetime Total likes (Page): The total number of people who have liked the MEITS Page. (Unique Users) 1466 Lifetime Post Organic Reach: The number of people who saw the MEITS Page post in News Feed or ticker, or on the MEITS Page's Timeline. (Unique Users) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/Multilingualism-Empowering-Individuals-Transforming-Societies-MEITS-1184564... |
| Description | MEITS Facebook account 2017-2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Since 26 May 2017: All time "likes": 279 ; Post Organic Reach: 19726 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/Multilingualism-Empowering-Individuals-Transforming-Societies-MEITS-1537783... |
| Description | MEITS Facebook account 2018-2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Since May 2017: 479 All time "likes" and 50325 organic reach |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/meits.owri |
| Description | MEITS Facebook account 2019-2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Since May 2017: 612 All time "likes" and 86453 organic reach |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/meits.owri |
| Description | MEITS Instagram account (2019-2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This account was created with the specific purpose to promote the Pop-Up World of Languages event (October 2019-March 2020) to younger audiences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| Description | MEITS Linguistic Landscape workshop. Strand 3 MEITS Co-I Micheal O Mainnin. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Contribution to a conference for MEITS (strand 3) on Multilingualism in the Public Space in Wales. The paper delivered will appear in an edited volume. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | MEITS Multilingualism Seminars (2018-2019) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 03/05/2018: Memet Aktürk-Drake, Evaluating multicultural Sweden's support for balanced bilingualism among children of immigrants: Best in Europe or just best on paper?; 03/05/2018: Napoleon Katsos (S6 Co-I), Assessing the linguistic competence of bilingual children: Recommendations and Applications; 24/05/2018: Deepthi Gopaland Fernanda Barrientos, Loanword adaptation and regional variation in perceptual boundaries; 24/05/2018: Jingting Xiang and Boping Yuan (S5 Co-I), The Processing of Indefinite Subjects in L2 and L3 Mandarin. 25/10/2018: Tomas Folke, Diagnosing and addressing publication bias: Does bilingualism cause general changes to cognition?; 25/10/2018: Gwen Brekelmans, The effect of input variability on phonetic vowel training for Dutch children learning English; 22/11/2018: Kieran Daly, Emma Carter and Ricardo Sabates, Silenced by Language? An Empirical Analysis of Literacy Outcomes During Language of Instruction Transition in Northern Ghana; 22/11/2018: S. K. Crockford, O. Ozturk (S6 PDRA), N. Katsos (S6 Co-I), J. L. Gibson (S6 Co-I), A. Remington, L. Kenny & J. Brinkert, Does multilingual exposure have an effect on the prevalence of autistic symptomatology? ; 17/01/2019: Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Interpreting definite and bare plurals across different contexts: experimental evidence from adult mono- and bilingual Greek speakers; 17/01/2019: Teresa Parodi, Linguistic intuitions beyond grammatical correctness: evidence from untutored L2 learners; 28/02/2019: Javier Moreno-Rivero, Institutional multilingualism: theories, policies and practices of language and law in the EU; 28/02/2019: Andreas Krogull (S2 PDRA), Challenging monolingual histories: Multilingual evidence from the Dutch-German borderlands in the long nineteenth century . |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/events |
| Description | MEITS Multilingualism Seminars (2019-2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 02/05/2019: Melanie Greaux (PhD student, Faculty of Education), Autism and Bilingualism: A review of theory, policy and practice to inform evidence-based Speech and Language Therapy services; 23/05/2019: Hui (Annette) Zhao (S2 PDRA), Language attitudes in Ningbo, China; 23/05/2019: Alimujiang Tusun (S5 PDRA), The acquisition of caused motion by Uyghur-Chinese early successive bilinguals; 31/10/2019: Trang Nguyen (Postgraduate Researcher, Anglia Ruskin University), Intelligibility in Vietnamese L2 accents of English and the influence of intelligibility on social evaluations towards the speaker; 31/10/2019: Michael James (PhD student, Faculty of Education), Investment in symmetrical multilingualism: researching successful white South African learners of African languages in the post-apartheid era; 14/11/2019: Olga Majewska (PhD student in Computational Linguistics, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics), Leveraging non-expert semantic intuitions to support multilingual NLP; 14/11/2019: Lini Xiao (PhD student, Faculty of Education), Heritage language learners on the move: The transnational process of managing and learning Chinese in a Mandarin community school ; 11/02/2020: Robert Phillipson (Emeritus Professor at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark), Linguistic Justice in Policy and Practice; 27/02/2020: Meng Liu (PhD student, Faculty of Education), Motivational profiles of simultaneous language learners: A latent profile analysis of English major students in China; 27/02/2020 (Sin-Yi Chang, PhD student, Faculty of Education), Opening the Pandora Box of the "E" in EMI: A quest for standardization, ELF, or something more? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/events |
| Description | MEITS Multilingualism seminars (2016-2017) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 27/10/2016: Afra Pujol Campeny, Code-switching in 13th-century Crown of Aragon. www.meits.org/events/event/contact-change-and-code-switching. 27/10/2016: Oliver Mayeux, Theoretical and methodological issues in the study of contact and change in an endangered creole. www.meits.org/events/event/contact-change-and-code-switching. 24/11/2016: Lisa-Maria Müller (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate), Disentangling typical bilingualism from bilingual language impairment. www.meits.org/events/event/evaluating-multilingualism-disentangling-bilingualism 24/11/2016: John Bellamy (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate), Evaluating multilingualism. A qualitative analysis of young people's comments on their linguistic repertoires and their lived experience of language. www.meits.org/events/event/evaluating-multilingualism-disentangling-bilingualism 19/01/2017: Karen Forbes (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate), Dynamic Interactions Between Strategy Development and Cross-Linguistic Transfer in Foreign and First Language (L1) Writing. www.meits.org/events/event/FL-L1-Transfer-of-Writing-Strategies-Bilingualism-and-Speech-and-Languag 19/01/2017: Özge Öztürk (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate), Bilingualism and Speech and Language Disorders. www.meits.org/events/event/FL-L1-Transfer-of-Writing-Strategies-Bilingualism-and-Speech-and-Languag 16/02/2017: Angela Gayton (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate), Classroom Intervention Strategies for Attitudinal Change towards Foreign Language Learning. www.meits.org/events/event/Double-marking-aspectual-structures-in-L2-Chinese-Strategies-for-Attitudin 16/02/2017: Yanyu Guo (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate), Double-marking aspectual structures in English speakers' L2 Chinese. www.meits.org/events/event/Double-marking-aspectual-structures-in-L2-Chinese-Strategies-for-Attitudin |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/events |
| Description | MEITS Multilingualism seminars (2017-2018) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 04/05/2017: Draško Kašcelan (PhD student, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics), The effect of bilingualism on the distribution of ASD traits in a general sample of primary school children; 04/05/2017: Abhimanyu Sharma (PhD student, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics), Language Policy in Luxembourg: Possibilities and Challenges; 01/06/2017: Rhiannon McGlade (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate), Multilingual Mirth: Communicating the Comic in Catalonia; 01/06/2017: Eleonora Serra (PhD student, Department of Italian), New Speaker Paradigm in the Study of Language History: Florentines and Learners in Early Modern Italy; 19/10/2017: Aleksandra Goclawska (MEITS PhD student), No Man´s Country: Gender and Sexual Dissidence As Foreign Language in Maria-Mercè Marçal´s La Passió Segons Renée Vivien; 19/10/2017: Harper Staples (MEITS PhD student), The Complex Construction of Multilingual Identity: Exploring the dynamics between self and context in the process of L3 acquisition in four European sites; 16/11/2017: Isabelle Lorge (DTAL PhD student), Investigating pragmatic word learning in bilingual and monolingual children; 16/11/2017: Katie Howard (MEITS PhD student), Autism and bilingualism: a multi-informant study into the school experiences of EAL pupils on the autistic spectrum; 08/02/2018: Dieuwerke (Dee) Rutgers (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate), Key pedagogical principles for effective CLIL instruction in multilingual primary education settings; 08/02/2018: Ivan Kozachenko (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate), Multilingual Past - Monolingual Future? Language and National 'Imagination' in Ukraine since the Euromaidan Revolution; 01/03/2018: Lini Xiao, Indexicality, situated cognition, and heritage language socialisation: A linguistic ethnography; 01/03/2018: Dora Alexopoulou, Linguistic complexity in second language learning |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/events |
| Description | MEITS Photo Exhibition "Understanding our Multilingual World" as part of the 2017 Being Human Festival - 17-25 November 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On 17-25 November 2017, Belfast, Cambridge, Edinburgh and Nottingham hosted photo exhibitions on the theme of Understanding our Multilingual World as part of the Being Human Festival. Photographic contributions from individuals across the country were exhibited. These photographs displayed what multilingualism means to different people and their communities, and how it this can be represented visually. At these exhibition events, the project invited people to think about multilingualism, and how visible/invisible it is in their urban environment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://modernlanguagesresearch.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2018/01/22/understanding-our-multilingual-world-bein... |
| Description | MEITS Podcasts (2016-2017) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | September 2016: Wendy Ayres-Bennett (MEITS Principal Investigator), Museum of Languages. September 2016: Wendy Ayres-Bennett (MEITS Principal Investigator), Introducing MEITS Part One. September 2016: Wendy Ayres-Bennett (MEITS Principal Investigator), Introducing MEITS Part Two. January 2017: Wendy Ayres-Bennett (MEITS Principal Investigator), Language learning and cultural, economic and social integration in the UK. April 2017: Wendy Ayres-Bennett (MEITS Principal Investigator) & Guest speakers, Strand 2 Workshop: The Emergence of Standard English in Multilingual Britain. July 2017: Nicola McLelland (MEITS Co-Investigator) & Guest speakers, Strand 2 Workshop: European experiences of 'good' language, 'bad language', and (the) standard language ideology in multilingual communities, past and present |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/media/audio |
| Description | MEITS Podcasts (2017-2018) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | April 2017: Laura Wright, Podcast from the MEITS Strand 2 Workshop: The Emergence of Standard English in Multilingual Britain. July 2017: Nicola McLelland (MEITS Co-I), 2 Podcasts from the Strand 2 workshop: European experiences of 'good' language and 'bad' language. September 2017: Wendy Ayres-Bennett (MEITS PI), The need for a national languages policy in the UK - interview with Baroness Jean Coussins, Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages. November 2017: Wendy Ayres-Bennett (MEITS PI), Understanding our Multilingual World: (Being Human Festival): photographer interviews in Cambridge. February 2018: Wendy Ayres-Bennett (MEITS PI), MEITS celebrates International Mother Language Day 21 February 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/media/audio |
| Description | MEITS Radio interviews MEITS PI Wendy Ayres-Bennett 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 27 February 2019: expert opinion given on Radio 2, Radio 4 and Radio 5 Live on the vital importance of learning languages in response to the BBC survey about the state of language learning in the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | MEITS Radio interviews Strand 3 Co-I Janice Carruthers 2019. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Strand 3 Co-I Janice Carruthers gave an interview to the BBC on 27th February 2019 about the decline of language learning in the UK: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0002qm2. She also gave an interview to Matthew Wright on Talk Radio: https://talkradio.co.uk/radio/listen-again/1551272400# and to Robbie Meredith on BBC Newsline: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0002w5l/bbc-newsline-evening-news-27022019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | MEITS Radio interviews Strand 6 Co-I Thomas Bak 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Strand 6 Co-I Thomas Bak gave an interview to Radio Scotland - Good morning Scotland and to BBC radio Solent on 27th February 2019 in response to the BBC survey about the state of language learning in the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0002pxq |
| Description | MEITS Radio interviews Thomas Bak 2016-2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Thomas Back (MEITS Co-Investigator), has conducted a number of radio Interviews with BBC Scotland, BBC Wales, BBC Northumberland, BBC World Service, Deutsche Welle, Voice of Russia and Public Radio International - 2.5 million listeners per week. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | MEITS Radio interviews Wendy Ayres-Bennett 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 22.01.2017: Wendy Ayres-Bennett (MEITS Principal Investigator), Live radio interview with BBC West Midlands on the Masala programme to discuss questions of language, immigration and social cohesion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MEITS Strand 5 Workshop on Chinese Grammar. MEITS Strand 5. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | This workshop was organised by the MEITS Strand 5 research team as well as language teachers and PhD students from the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, aiming to raise teachers' awareness of Chinese grammar and share with them findings in L2 Chinese acquisition research. It was a great opportunity to bring together language teachers and researchers and to bridge Chinese language teaching and Chinese language studies. Forty-three Chinese language teachers from a variety of UK schools and universities attended this event and provided valuable feedback on the workshop and suggestions for future events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/events/event/workshop-on-grammatical-issues-of-the-chinese-language-for-teacher... |
| Description | MEITS TV Interviews Wendy Ayres-Bennett 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | March 2016: Wendy Ayres-Bennett (MEITS Principal Investigator). Interview with Cambridge TV to introduce the MEITS research project. www.cambridge-tv.co.uk/professor-wendy-ayres-bennett-multi-lingualism/ October 2016: Wendy Ayres-Bennett (MEITS Principal Investigator). Interview with Cambridge TV about pop-up National Museum of Languages. www.cambridge-tv.co.uk/professor-wendy-ayres-bennett-museum-of-languages/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | MEITS TV Interviews Wendy Ayres-Bennett 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 3 TV interviews in February 2019: MEITS PI Wendy Ayres-Bennett on Look East (West), Look East (East) and BBC Breakfast News on the vital importance of learning languages in response to the BBC survey on the state of language learning in the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | MEITS Twitter account (2019-2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 2821 followers 331900 tweet impressions (March 2019 - Feb 2020) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/meits_owri?lang=en-gb |
| Description | MEITS Twitter account 2016-2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 320 followers (Aug 2016 - March 2017). 66875 tweet impressions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/meits_owri?lang=en-gb |
| Description | MEITS Twitter account 2017-2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 1678 followers and 370300 impressions (March 2017 - Feb 2018) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/meits_owri?lang=en-gb |
| Description | MEITS Twitter account 2018-2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 2320 followers and 406100 impressions (March 2018 - Feb 2019) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/meits_owri?lang=en-gb |
| Description | MEITS Videos (2016-2017) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | September 2016: Introductory video to the project by Wendy Ayres-Bennett (MEITS Principal Investigator), Introducing Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/media/video |
| Description | MEITS Videos 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | June 2018: The Eighth Annual Cambridge Vsesvit Evening: Maklena. The Cambridge Vsesvit Evening featured the work of the Night Train Theatre Company and their dramatic project Maklena, which represents the first English-language production of Mykola Kulish's 1933 play Maklena Grasa, translated into English for the first time by Maria Montague. October 2018: Festival of Ideas 2018 video. The MEITS team delivered an event as part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, "Languages - Your Passport to the World". Our hands-on activities asked people to reflect on questions such as how languages can help the brain, and whether we make judgements about people based on their accents. The MEITS team were delighted to engage in multilingual conversations with the 200+ people that participated, about their own personal stories of languages, and their future plans for language learning! This short video gives just a flavour of the day. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/media/video |
| Description | MEITS Videos 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An Alice in 'Language Wonderland' adventure; a 'Lost in Translation' untranslatable word challenge; a pool of creatures carrying words loaned to English (e.g. emoji, rucksack and graffiti); a 'language family' street; an 'I Love You' language line; and a Mr Tickle accent spotting game. These are just some of the weird and wonderful hands-on experiences to be had in the first-of-its-kind "World of Languages" pop-up museum. Launched in Cambridge's Grafton shopping centre for October's half-term week, the free attraction is travelling to Belfast, Edinburgh, Nottingham and London over the next months. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/media/video |
| Description | MEITS and interdisciplinarity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Wendy Ayres-Bennett, MEITS Principal Investigator, presented to postgraduate students on how to put together an interdisciplinary research project at the AHRC DTP training session on 18/11/2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.ahrcdtp.csah.cam.ac.uk/ |
| Description | MEITS blogs (2016-2017) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The project has a fortnightly blog which informs the general public of its research activity and generates lively feedback. 19/09/2016: Karen Forbes (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate), Multilingual identity and foreign language learning. www.meits.org/blog/post/multilingual-identity-and-foreign-language-learning. 21/09/2016: Daniel McAuley (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate), Diversity, identity and multilingualism. www.meits.org/blog/post/diversity-identity-and-multilingualism. 09/11/2016: Mícheál Ó Mainnín (MEITS Co-Investigator), No Irish, please, we're Europeans! www.meits.org/blog/post/no-irish-please-were-europeans. 23/11/2016: Nicola McLelland (MEITS Co-Investigator), 'I am the circumflex'- language rules, language purity, and language rage. www.meits.org/blog/post/i-am-the-circumflex-language-rules-language-purity-and-language-rage. 07/12/2016: Özge Öztürk (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate), Bilingualism and Speech & Language Disorders. www.meits.org/blog/post/bilingualism-and-speech-and-language-disorders 20/12/2016: Lisa-Maria Müller (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate), The Earlier the Better?. www.meits.org/blog/post/The-Earlier-the-Better. 04/01/2017: Rob Neal (ESRC-funded PhD student at the University of Cambridge working under the supervision of Michael Evans, MEITS Co-Investigator), Making Mandarin Massive. www.meits.org/blog/post/making-mandarin-massive 18/01/2017: Rory Finnin (MEITS Co-Investigator), Reality Check: Ukraine's Multilingualism. www.meits.org/blog/post/reality-check-ukraines-multilingualism. 01/02/2017: Angela Gayton (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate), Language learning in Anglophone contexts: myths and realities?. www.meits.org/blog/post/language-learning-in-anglophone-contexts-myths-and-realities. 15/02/2017: John Bellamy (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate), Spelling and the ongoing standardization of written norms. www.meits.org/blog/post/spelling-and-the-ongoing-standardization-of-written-norms. 01/03/2017: Ola Goclawska (MEITS PhD student), "We killed him for being chichipato": Fernando Vallejo's politics of linguistic standardization. www.meits.org/blog/post/we-killed-him-for-being-chichipato-fernando-vallejos-politics-of-linguistic. 15/03/2017: Yanyu Guo (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate), Is acquiring a second language like acquiring the first?. www.meits.org/blog/post/is-acquiring-a-second-language-like-acquiring-the-first. 30/03/2017: Deirdre Dunlevy (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate), The Northern Ireland election and the Irish language. www.meits.org/blog/post/the-northern-ireland-election-and-the-irish-language. 18/04/2017: Napoleon Katsos (MEITS Co-Investigator), Early years language assessment: the role for EdTech. www.meits.org/blog/post/early-years-language-assessment-the-role-for-edtech. 10/05/2017: Mariana Vega-Mendoza (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate), On the effects of bi-/multilingualism. www.meits.org/blog/post/on-the-effects-of-bi-multilingualism. 23/05/2017: Michael Evans (MEITS Co-Investigator), Language Terms. www.meits.org/blog/post/language-terms1. 07/06/2017: Thomas Bak (MEITS Co-Investigator), Healthy Linguistic Diet. www.meits.org/blog/post/healthy-linguistic-diet. 14/06/2017: Anne-Helene Halbout (MEITS Project Manager), Multilingualism à la française. www.meits.org/blog/post/multilingualism-a-la-francaise. 21/06/2017: Karen Forbes (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate), Language across the curriculum. www.meits.org/blog/post/language-across-the-curriculum. 05/07/2017: Daniel McAuley (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate), Linguistic diversity in Macron's France. www.meits.org/blog/post/linguistic-diversity-in-macrons-france. 18/07/2017: Merryn Davies-Deacon (MEITS PhD student), Why do new speakers matters?. www.meits.org/blog/post/why-do-new-speakers-matter. 02/08/2017: Linda Fisher (MEITS Co-Investigator), Which language should we teach in school?. www.meits.org/blog/post/which-language-should-we-teach-in-school. 16/08/2017: Harper Staples (MEITS PhD student), Bi- and Multilingualism: Defining the differences. ww.meits.org/blog/post/bi-and-multilingualism-defining-the-differences. 30/08/2017: Yongcan Liu (MEITS Co-Investigator), Mobilising and Releasing the Potential of Language Heritage for an Open World Post-Brexit. www.meits.org/blog/post/mobilising-and-releasing-the-potential-of-language-heritage-for-an-open-wor. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/blog |
| Description | MEITS blogs (2017-2018) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The project has a fortnightly blog which informs the general public about its research activity and generates lively feedback. 15/03/2017: Yanyu Guo (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate), Is acquiring a second language like acquiring the first?; 30/03/2017: Deirdre Dunlevy (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate), The Northern Ireland election and the Irish language; 18/04/2017: Napoleon Katsos (MEITS Co-I), Early years language assessment: the role for EdTech; 10/05/2017: Mariana Vega-Mendoza (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate), On the effects of bi-/multilingualism; 23/05/2017: Michael Evans (MEITS Co-I), Language terms; 07/06/2017: Thomas Bak (MEITS Co-I), Healthy Linguistic Diet; 14/06/2017: Anne-Helene Halbout (MEITS Project Manager), Multilingualism à la française; 21/06/2017: Karen Forbes (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate), Language across the curriculum; 05/07/2017: Daniel McAuley (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate), Linguistic diversity in Macron's France; 18/07/2017: Merryn Davies-Deacon (MEITS PhD student, Why do new speakers matter?; 02/08/2017: Linda Fisher (MEITS Co-I), Which language should we teach in school?; 16/08/2017: Harper Staples (MEITS PhD student), Bi- and Multilingualism: Defining the differences; 30/08/2017: Yongcan Liu (MEITS Co-I), Mobilising and Releasing the Potential of Language Heritage for an Open World Post-Brexit; 13/09/2017: Jenny Gibson (MEITS Co-I), Multilingualism: More than words; 25/09/2017: Wendy Ayres-Bennett (MEITS PI), A needle in a haystack? Seeking languages in government; 04/10/2017: Thomas Bak (MEITS Co-I), Education is much more than just going to school and bilingualism is an important part of it; 11/10/2017: Janice Carruthers (MEITS Co-I), 'A change is as good as a rest': MEITS strand 3 goes to Canada; 25/10/2017: Katie Howard (MEITS PhD student), Multilingual role models: engaging the disengaged; 08/11/2017: Henriette Hendriks (MEITS Co-I), Where is that native speaker?; 22/11/2017: Thomas Bak (MEITS Co-I), Why limited resource models are of limited use, particularly when it comes to languages; 06/12/2017: Dee Rutgers (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate), Stories of Multilingualism; 18/12/2017: Dina Mehmedbegovic,'Don't speak to me in our language, when you pick me up from school'; 08/01/2018: Angela Gayton (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate), Est-ce qu'il y a anybody out there (therethere)? Tackling the "echo chamber" in public engagement; 16/01/2018: Nicola McLelland (MEITS Co-I), Dipping a toe into language standards and variation in multilingual China; 21/02/2018: Merryn Davies-Deacon (MEITS PhD student), Minoritised languages on the internet; |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/blog |
| Description | MEITS blogs (2018-2019) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The project has a fortnightly blog which informs the general public about its research activity and generates lively feedback. 07/03/2018: Lisa-Maria Muller (S5 PDRA), Could languages help young women break the glass ceiling?; 23/03/2018: Rory Finnin (S1 Co-I), A Revolution of Languages, One Hundred Years On; 19/04/2018: Hui (Annette) Zhao (S2 PDRA), The Linguistic and Ideological Complexities of the 'Chinese' Language; 16/05/2018: Yanyu Guo (S5 PDRA), "Hey, I'm a trilingual. What are you?"; 25/06/2018: Napoleon Katsos (S6 Co-I), Why the meaning of all sentences is not clear; 11/07/2018: Michael Evans (S4 Co-I), When EAL meets MFL; 11/072018: Lisa-Maria Muller (S5 PDRA), Football, Multilingualism and Interdisciplinarity; 09/08/2018: Daniel McAuley (S3 PDRA), The diary of an exile; 30/08/2018: Karen Forbes (S4 Associated Researcher), What's the point in learning languages when we can just use Google translate?; 12/09/2018: Wendy Ayres-Bennett (MEITS PI), French grammar - what a waste of time!; 26/09/2018: Linda Fisher (S4 Co-I), Learning languages outside of the classroom: a visit to the museum; 18/10/2018: Mariana Vega-Mendoza (S6 PDRA), Does language learning lead to healthier ageing?; 29/11/2018: Yongcan Liu (S4 Co-I), Towards a Community-Based Strategy to Support Bilingual Migrant Children across the Lifespan; 13/12/2018: Henriette Hendriks (S5 Co-I), What, if anything, makes learning English different from learning other languages?; 13/02/2019: Dominic Keown (S1 related external contributor), Will you be my Valen-cia-tine? Finding language lovers in Valencian schools. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/blog |
| Description | MEITS blogs (2019-2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The project has a fortnightly blog which informs the general public about its research activity and generates lively feedback. 12/03/2019: Hui Zhao (S2 PDRA), Angkor Supermarket: Multilingual landscapes of Cambodia; 28/03/2019: Dieuwerke Rutgers (S4 PDRA), The myth of English as the language of science?; 20/04/2019: Nicola McLellands (S2 Co-I), Noticing languages - noticing linguistic inequality; 07/05/2019: Thomas Bak (S6 Co-I), "The two cultures" 60 years later; 22/05/2019: Merryn Davies-Deacon (S3 PhD), Double minoritisation: non-standard varieties of minoritised languages; 18/06/2019: Deirdre Dunlevy (S3 PDRA), A rós by any other name..?; 02/07/2019: Michael Evans (S4 Co-I), Orange is a migrant word; 17/07/2010: Harper Staples (S4 PhD), Do you speak emoji?; 06/08/2019: Jiaye Wu (S2 PhD), Teaching standard Mandarin pronunciation to Mongolian learners over the past hundred years; 13/08/2019: Joel Chalfen (project partner), Developing multilingual theatre: Polyphonic I and II; 22/08/2019: Yanyu Guo (S5 PDRA), Is my Chinese good?; 05/09/2019: Henriette Hendriks (S5 Co-I), Want to learn four languages in a year?; 26/09/2019: Wendy Ayres-Bennett (PI), Language Matters; 10/10/2019: Katie Howard (S6 PhD), A bright future for the Welsh Language; 23/10/2019: Merryn Davies-Deacon (23/10/2019), Why are Breton speakers protesting about street names?; 06/11/2019: Andreas Krogull (S2 PDRA), A drop-down menu for languages? Historical-sociolinguistic research in the archives; 26/11/2019: Nicola McLelland (S2 Co-I), Plurilingualism in the flesh - tales from an academic's travels; 13/12/2019: Delphine Grass (MEITS Flexible Funding Awardee), Translation as performance in "Found in Translation: Literary Dispatches from the Peripheries of Europe"; 24/01/2020: Karen Forbes (MEITS Associated Researcher), Languages for all?; 05/02/2020: Jiaye Wu (S2 PhD), The Challenges of bilingual language education: the case of Chinese and Mongolian in China; 19/02/2020: Dieuwerke Rutgers (S4 PDRA), Multilingualism as the norm in education!; |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/blog |
| Description | MEITS blogs (March 2020 - June 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 09/03/2020: Alim Tusun (S5 PDRA), Multilingualism and multiple ways of thinking about the world?; 25/03/2020: Henriette Hendriks (S5 Co-I), Language difficult?; 15/04/2020: Harper Staples (S4 RA/PhD student), Old words, new conversations; 29/04/2020: Hui (Annette) Zaho (S2 PDRA), What's Coronavirus doing to our languages?; 14/05/2020: Robbie Hannan (S3 PhD student), Radio connects Irish speakers; 03/06/2020: Yongcan Liu (S4 Co-I), Benefits or connections? Are we communicating the right message?; 18/06/2020: Karen Forbes (S4 Affiliated Researcher), "Speak in English!": Inventing 'everyday' language policies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/blog |
| Description | MEITS project overview and presentation of data at 'French in Multilingual Urban Centres' Workshop. Strand 3 MEITS PDRA Daniel McAuley. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Strand 3 PDRA Daniel McAuley gave a presentation of the MEITS project and data on French city speech. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | MEITS website (2018-2019) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Reporting period: 1 Mar 2018 - 26 Feb 2019 Pageviews: 107,262 Users: 46,910 Countries: 201 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org |
| Description | MEITS website (2019-2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Reporting period: 27 Feb 2019 - 25 Feb 2020 Pageviews: 110,345 Users: 52,017 Countries: 197 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org |
| Description | MEITS website 2016-2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MEITS website created in September 2016. Reporting period: September 2016 - March 2017: 24,325 page views 7,009 sessions 3,821 users from 97 countries worldwide |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/ |
| Description | MEITS website 2017-2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Reporting period: 15 March 2017 - 27 February 2018: Page views: 81,838; Sessions: 35,016; Users: 23,481 from 178 countries |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org |
| Description | Magazine/Journal discussions of MEITS research (Wendy Ayres-Bennett) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Newspaper coverage about the MEITS research project including The Times, The Guardian, Daily Express, Daily Mail, Belfast Telegraph, as well as some international papers (e.g. Pakistan Today, Malaysia Updates). This generated considerable feedback both in the press (e.g. 5.7K comments on the Daily Mail website, 13K Facebook "shares" from The Guardian) and on Twitter. Professor Ayres-Bennett also received a large number of emails and letters about the articles. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| Description | Magazine/Journal discussions of MEITS researchers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Kameleon jezykowy - rozmowa z. MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate Lisa-Maria Muller gave an interview to the Polish cultural magazine opinia.co.uk about the life of a multilingual, growing up with two languages and the MEITS project. http://opinia.co.uk/2016/10/25/kameleon-jezykowy-rozmowa-z-lisa-maria-muller/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://opinia.co.uk/2016/10/25/kameleon-jezykowy-rozmowa-z-lisa-maria-muller/ |
| Description | Making the case for languages with UK policymakers: Opportunities and Challenges', invited paper at the Sprachstatistik workshop, Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim. PI Wendy Ayres-Bennett. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited paper at the Sprachstatistik workshop, Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Mandarin Excellence Programme students visiting Cambridge. MEITS Strand 5. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Strand 5 members and two teaching fellows of Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies provided 30 Year 7 MEP students of the Anglo European School with a workshop at Cambridge. The workshop consisted of two short language classes and a Chinese calligraphy exprience class. The students took an active part in the classes and asked questions about the Chinese language and culture |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Media work associated with the Pop-Up World of Languages. PI Wendy Ayres-Bennett. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Articles appeared in The Times, TES and The Independant about the Pop-Up World of Languages. Wendy Ayres-Bennett was interviewed on UCB Radio and also featured on news items on Radio Cambridgeshire. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Multilingual 'Imaginaries' and Practices: Languages and Creativity in Ukraine after the Euromaidan Revolution, Cambridge, 12 Sep 2019. S1 PDRA Ivan Kozachenko and S1 Co-I Rory Finnin. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | With this presentation at the MEITS Conference 'Multilingualism and Identity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives' we could share research findings and tell participants about the MEITS project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/events/event/multilingualism-and-identity-interdisciplinary-perspectives |
| Description | Multilingual (Con)figurations: Catalan and Ukrainian in Dialogue. MEITS Strand 1. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Strand 1-led event, Multilingual (Con)figurations: Catalan and Ukrainian in Dialogue offered a rare opportunity for collaboration between leading international scholars in both Catalan and Ukrainian Studies. This very well-attended interdisciplinary workshop held at King's College, Cambridge on 24 March 2017, saw papers presented on: a remapping of Emily Apter's 'Translation Zone' to the Catalan-speaking territories (Helena Buffery, UCC); State language policy and linguistic rights in Ukraine (Michael Moser, University of Vienna); Ukraine's rich and linguistically diverse literary heritage (Uilleam Blacker, UCL); multilingualism in Catalan literature (Jordi Cornellà, University of Glasgow); representations in documentary films of the 'other' languages in Catalonia (Antonio Monegal, Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and language and Ukrainian national identity (Tanya Zaharchenko, University of Oslo). This diverse dialogue acted as the first step in opening the way towards a deeper understanding of the implications of multilingualism for minority languages and their related cultural identities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/news/item/strand-1-workshop-multilingual-configurations-catalan-and-ukrainian-i... |
| Description | Multilingual Digital Authorship Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The inaugural symposium of The Creative Web of Languages (an event organised by MEITS Flexible Funding awardee Erika Fulop). This symposium was the inaugural event of The Creative Web of Languages, a two-year project funded by the 'Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies' AHRC Open World Research Initiative. The project aims to bring together researchers and artists across languages and specialisms to enable a rich dialogue and a comparative approach. 8&9 March 2018, Lancaster. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/events/event/multilingual-digital-authorship |
| Description | Multilingual Practices in Early Modern Literary Culture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Moving between two or more languages was normal in early modern (c. 1500-1700) European culture and society. Recent research on such topics as transnational literatures, translation and imitation, language learning and the relation between Latin and vernaculars is drawing attention to ways that multilingualism was a constitutive part of early modern literary culture. This international symposium, supported by a MEITS flexible funding award, brought together scholars based in the UK and continental Europe to advance interdisciplinary perspectives on the contexts and literary applications of early modern multilingualism. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Multilingual repertoires and language contact in the long nineteenth century: The case of the Dutch-German borderlands. S2 PDRA Andreas Krogull. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Paper given at the conference 'Worlding the Low Countries. 13th International conference of the ALCS', University College London, 6-8 November 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://opendutch.org/alcs2019/schedule/ |
| Description | Multilingualism and Identity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. S2/S4. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was a major international conference on Language and Identity organised by Strands 2 and 4 and organised by Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Linda FIsher. It included presentations from members of the MEITS team: The influence of multilingual identity on foreign language learning. S4 Co-I Linda Fisher. Local, supralocal, and/or international?: languagestandards, linguistic variation, and identity construction in multilingual China. S2 PDRA Annette Zhao. There will be an associated volume to be published by CUP. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/events/event/multilingualism-and-identity-interdisciplinary-perspectives |
| Description | Multilingualism and the Irish Language: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies - Carntogher Community Development Association. MEITS Co-I Micheal O Mainnin. Strand 3. April 2017. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Co-I Micheal O Mainnin presented the MEITS project and Strand 3 research (identity, diversity and social cohesion) in the context of this association's work in developing a new Irish-speaking community in a rural setting. April 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Multilingualism in Ukraine, 16-17 May 2019, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder). S1 PDRA Ivan Kozachenko. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | During the conference 'Rethinking Ukrainian Studies: Locally, Regionally, Transnationally' at European University Viadrina I have presented the findings of my postdoctoral research project and discussed the role of languages in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Also, I have written a report on one panel with MEITS Strand 1 Rory Finnin and gave an interview. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://trafo.hypotheses.org/19463 |
| Description | Multilingualism in the Public Space. Strand 3 MEITS PDRA Deirdre Dunlevy. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Organisation of a conference for MEITS Strand 3 on Multilingualism in the Public Space in Wales. Development of article for edited volume. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/events/event/multilingualism-in-the-public-space |
| Description | Multilingualism, ageing and MCI. Strand 6 MEITS PDRA Mariana Vega-Mendoza. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Strand 6 PDRA Mariana Vega-Mendoza gave an invited "international speaker" talk at the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexico |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Multilingualism, placenames and shared space. Strand 3 MEITS Co-I Micheal O Mainnin. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Collaboration with the N. Ireland Place-Name Project, and with colleagues in Archaeology and Architecture, in engaging with school children (year 9) on cultural heritage. 40 school children from the 5 post-primary schools involved in the Magherafelt Learning Partnership attended our workshops under the auspices of the Schools-University Partnership Initiative. The significance of this lay in bringing children together from across the political divide in Northern Ireland to learn about languages and shared space. Feedback from teachers and students indicated a high level of engagement and interest. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies (MEITS) - Project Launch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A blog post by Lisa-Maria Müller (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate) describing the context, research questions and aims of the MEITS project. The Philological Society Blog. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://blog.philsoc.org.uk/page/4/ |
| Description | Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies - New Research on the Value of Languages', Talk at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. PI Wendy-Ayres Bennett, |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk to celebrate five years of the Diplomatic Academy at the FCO. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | National Association of Language Advisors. Strand 6 MEITS Co-I Thomas Bak. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lecture on cognitive aspects of language learning. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.nala.org.uk/event/annual-conference-2018/ |
| Description | National Expectations: What can we realistically expect from primary language learning? MEITS PI Wendy Ayres-Bennett. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk at the Primary Languages Policy Summit, British Academy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Networking at an event held at the Embassy of Luxembourg in London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | John Bellamy (MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate) networked at the Embassy of Luxembourg in London. The most significant outcome was creating awareness of the MEITS project and its aims amongst the ambassador, dignitaries and other attendees at the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://londres.mae.lu/en/Social-and-Cultural-Activities2/Exhibition-Earth-Rock-and-Soul-by-Ms-Fabien... |
| Description | Neuropsychological evaluation & cognitive ageing. Strand 6 MEITS PDRA Mariana Vega-Mendoza. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Strand 6 PDRA Mariana Vega-Mendoza gave an invited "international speaker" talk at the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexico |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | OWRI Student Language Ambassador Programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | This was an Ambassadors programme designed to promote Languages uptake at A level. In a range of schools in 4 regions of the UK, involving a team of undergraduate Ambassadors working with GCSE classes. The programme involved two classroom interventions by the Ambassadors; one university visit in each of the regions by GCSE pupils, with sample classes; an intensive mentoring programme with language undergraduates working with GCSE language learners who are NOT committed to taking a language at A level. The rate of uptake at A level improved substantially across the board, with the mentoring showing particularly impressive results: 29% of all those mentored (who were by definition not committed to taking a language) actually took a language at A level. The programme was evaluated by an independent expert in the field. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/news/item/owri-student-language-ambassador-programme |
| Description | Organisation of a conference on 'languages, conflict and reconciliation', Belfast, January 2019. MEITS Strands 1 & 3 . |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Strands 1 (Co-I Rory Finnin and PDRA Ivan Kozachenko) and 3 (Co-I Micheal O Mainnin and PDRA Deirdre Dunlevy) co-organised an international conference on languages, conflict and reconciliation, Queen's University Belfast, on 25/01/2019. The conference brought academics and practitioners together from Ireland, Britain and Ulkraine with expertise on the importance of languages and linguistic competence in contexts which involve conflict and contestation across the world. Contributed to 2 panel discussions. Ivan Kozachenko, Rory Finnin, Deirdre Dunlevy and Micheal O Mainnin all contributed to panel discussions, two of which were chaired by PI Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Co-I Janice Carruthers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Participatory Research Training. MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate Ozge Ozturk. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate Ozge Ozturk presented her research project and participated in a workshop at UCL about how to conduct participatory research involving autistic people around their interests and needs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Pint of Science. MEITS Co-Investigator Thomas Bak. Strand 6. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A presentation with a subsequent discussion. Increased the audience's interest in the subject. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Podcast: English as a Second Language in the classroom, Brighter Thinking Pod, Cambridge University Press. S4 Co-Is Linda Fisher & Michael Evans. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A podcast episode as part of the Brighter Thinking Pod series from Cambridge University Press to raise international education practitioners' awareness of the challenges and opportunities of teaching English as an additional language learners in both language and mainstream classes, and answer questions on the topic that they sent in. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://brighterthinkingpod.libsyn.com/ep-2-english-as-a-second-language-in-the-classroom |
| Description | Polish Britain - Multilingualism and diaspora community Conference - MEITS Strand 1 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A one-day international conference provided scholars and practitioners with the opportunity to present research findings and to share their experiences of Polish communities worldwide and multilingualism in Poland. It was convened by Stanley Bill, Lecturer in Polish Studies, and Edyta Nowosielska, Lector in Polish, both from the University of Cambridge. The conference comprised of four panel and a final discussion. Papers were given by Thomas Bak, Co-Investigator, and by Lisa-Maria Muller, PDRA. A full conference programme can be accessed via this link: https://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/polish/multilingualism. Current challenges and future opportunities for the development of the Polish language and its role in the multilingual world were discussed during the final part of the conference. More than one hundred people attended the conference, providing very positive feedback with one of the attendees stressing that the conference 'has broadened my understanding of multilingualism' and that 'there is a crying need for sharing awareness about the benefits of multilingualism in the public eye and with policymakers'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/polish/multilingualism |
| Description | Pop-Up World of Languages (the UK's first museum of languages) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Pop-Up World of Languages ran in Cambridge, Belfast, Edinburgh and Nottingham, October-December 2019. Over 3000 people attended and there were a large number of school visits, particularly aimed at schools with a high number of pupils with free school meals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/events/event/pop-up-world-of-languages-the-first-uk-pop-up-museum-of-languages |
| Description | Poster presentation - MEITS Strand 6 (Edinburgh) project overview. Strand 6 MEITS PDRA Mariana Vega-Mendoza. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Strand 6 PDRA Mariana Vega-Mendoza gave an invited poster presentation about her research at the EU - Latin American Countries (LAC) Early Career Researchers Integration Meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation and round table discussion on 'The added value of a bilingual education' with UK bilingual schools Headteachers. MEITS Co-Investigator Napoleon Katsos and Postdoctoral Research Associate Ozge Ozturk. Strand 6. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr N Katsos and Dr Ozturk gave a short presentation on the state-of-the-art research findings on the social and cognitive advantages of raising a child to be bilingual, which was followed by a round-table discussion with the Headteachers of 9 bilingual primary schools in the UK. The discussion concluded with a plan for futher presentations to teachers and parents at the individual schools and produced recommendations for further research and collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation for Heads of languages. Strand 4 MEITS Co-I Linda Fisher. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Strand 4 Co-I Linda Fisher presented to group of around 20 Heads of Departments. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation of MEITS education work to languages teachers. Strand 4 MEITS Co-I Linda Fisher. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Strand 4 Co-I Linda Fisher presented to group of around 20 Heads of Departments and teachers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation to Head teacher and governors at St Jerôme bilingual primary school. S6. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Discussion with head teacher and governors of school. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation to interest groups and stakeholders |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Micheal O'Mainnin and Thomas Bak, MEITS Co-Investigators. Discussion and presentation of the MEITS research project to Irish language stakeholders/interest groups, An Chultúrlann, in Belfast in January 2017 (Strands 3 & 6). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation, Norway: The influence of multilingual identity on foreign language learning. MEITS Strand 4. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation given by MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate Karen Forbes to a group of researchers and practitioners at Østfold University College, Halden, Norway on 15th June 2017. An overview was provided of the MEITS project and in particular the Education strand focusing on the influence of multilingual identity and language learning. This led to interesting questions and discussions surrounding language and identity in a range of international contexts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presenting MEITS to the University Council for Modern Languages plenary day "OWRI and beyond: the future of Modern Languages Research in the UK". MEITS Principal Investigator Wendy Ayres-Bennett. June 2017. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Members of the Modern Languages community were informed about MEITS research and were encouraged to engage with the project's research and engagement activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presenting to schools in Bradford about the benefits of studying languages at university. Strand 1 MEITS PDRA Rhiannon McGlade. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Strand 1 PDRA Rhiannon McGlade worked with students from year 9-13 as part of academic taster day. This was designed to be paticularly beneficial as there is a bias towards science in the area and students are really grateful to experience something different. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presidential lecture at the Philological Society. MEITS Principal Investigator Wendy Ayres-Bennett. June 2017. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Principal Investigator Wendy Ayres-Bennett gave the presidential lecture entitled "'Standards, norms and prescriptivism'" at the Philological Society in Cambridge in June 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Public Lecture 'Languages and Humour in the Digital Age' ,18 March 2019, University of Cambridge. S1 PDRAs Ivan Kozachenko & Rhiannon McGlade. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This joint public lecture at the MEITS Conference 'Languages and Others: Diversity and Humour in Catalonia and Ukraine' has scrutinised the relationships between multilingualism, new media and national identity. Rhiannon McGlade and Ivan Kozachenko presented the findings of the comparative analysis of the cases of Catalonia and Ukraine |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/events/event/languages-and-humour-in-the-digital-age |
| Description | Public Lecture, University of Swansea, March 2017. MEITS Co-I Janice Carruthers. Strand 3. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Co-Investigator Janice Carruthers gave a public Lecture at the University of Swansea, attended by academics from a range of disciplines and members of the general public. Lecture presented the MEITS project, followed by detailed discussion of strand 3's work on France and Ireland. Title: Multilingualism in Contemporary Society. Challenges and Benefits. Swansea, March 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | QUB Research Showcase presentation. MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate Daniel McAuley. Strand 3. May 2017. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate Daniel McAuley represented the MEITS project at a one-day showcase of research in Modern Languages at Queen's Belfast; the audience included staff and students from a range of diciplines, and sparked interested and lively discussion around issues of language and identity. May 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/ael/Discover/events/EventsArchive/CDRGModernLanguagesShowcase.html |
| Description | Queen's University Belfast Modern Languages Research Showcase: Multilingualism and Social Meaning in Contemporary Urban Vernacular French. MEITS Strand 3. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Strand 3 Co-I Janice Carruthers presented the MEITS project and chaired presentations on the research project. PDRA Daniel McAuley gave a talk on the social meaning of multilingualism at a showcase of research in Modern Languages at Queen's University Belfast. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | RCSLT Ask the Experts Bulletin. MEITS Strand 6. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Article entitled "How does multilingualism affect the communication of children with neurodevelopmental disorders?" published in the monthly RCSLT Bulletin magazine, the official magazine of The Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists, volume N/A, issue 791, pp 26 - 28, ISSN: 1466-173X. Written by MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate Ozge Ozturk with Co-Investigators Jenny Gibson and Napoleon Katsos, and MEITS PhD student Katie Howard. The Bulletin features clinical articles, recruitment and course advertising for speech and language therapists. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Research in Second Language Education Group (SLEG) MEITS seminar series presentations - Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 1. "The Influence of Multilingual Identity on Foreign Language Learning": Presentation by MEITS Co-Investigators Linda Fisher, Michael Evans and Yongcan Liu, and MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associates Karen Forbes and Angela Gayton on 12 October 2017. This presentation provided an overview of the Education strand of the MEITS project, which investigates how multilingualism, and the extent to which one identifies as multilingual, influence additional language learning. The research charts the development of multilingual identity, by which we mean individuals' explicit understandings of themselves as users of more than one language, and focuses on the secondary school foreign language classroom as the context for the construction of multilingual identity. 2. "Multilingualism in foreign language learning: students' and teachers' perspectives in the Norwegian context": Presentation by project partner Dr. Åsta Haukås (University of Bergen) on 8 November 2017. 3. "Multilingual practices and attitudes among university students in Europe and the US: implications for the teaching of languages": Presentation by Prof Anne Pauwels (SOAS, University of London) on 29 January 2018. 4. "Language and identity in the new Latino diaspora": Presentation by Prof Stanton Wortham (Boston College) on 6 March 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/courses/graduate/masters/themes/secondlanguage/ |
| Description | Researching Language in the City: exploring methodological and theoretical concepts. MEITS Strand 3. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Strand 3 International workshop on 'Language in the City' led by researchers at the University of Southampton, funded by the MEITS project, which brought together researchers from across the OWRI projects (included participation from Translating Cultures and presentations from strand 2 and 3 of the MEITS project explored perceptions of speech varieties in the urban contexts of Luxembourg and France), and established new collaborative opportunities. Southampton, 2&3 June 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Revising Models for Language Standards and Standard Languages', invited plenary paper at the 11th International Colloquium on Problems and Methods in the History of Language: Desired language, University of Girona. PI Wendy Ayres-Bennett. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited plenary paper at the 11th International Colloquium on Problems and Methods in the History of Language: Desired language, University of Girona. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | School outreach event. Strand 4. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The strand delivered hands-on activities to early secondary pupils at a local school to gather feedback from them about their strengths and weaknesses to continue to refine the offering. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Scottish Dementia Conference (targetting professionals as well as carers and relatives of patients with dementia). MEITS Co-Investigator Thomas Bak. Strand 6. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An information stand and presentations of joint work with the social enterprise Lingo Flamingo, offering language classes to dementia patients and their carers, |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Short article for VakTaal magazine, in Dutch ('Hoe effectief was taalbeleid in de geschiedenis van het Nederlands?'). S2 PDRA Andreas Krogull. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Short piece written for Dutch magazine VakTaal (print and digital) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ivn.nu/over-vaktaal-44 |
| Description | Society for French Studies 58th Annual Conference, July 2017. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Members of strands 2 and 3 working on sociolinguistic approaches to multilingualism in French and francophone contexts presented their research as part of the Society for French Studies' annual conference in Durham on the 4th of July, providing an opportunity to publicise the MEITS project to the wider academic community (MEITS PrincipaI Investigator Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Co-Investigator Janice Carruthers (Strand 3), Postdoctoral Research Associate John Bellamy (Strand 2), Postdoctoral Research Associate Daniel McAuley (Strand 3) and PhD student Merryn Deacon-Davies (Strand 3)). Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Janice Carruthers began the panel with an overview of the project and the work being carried out in strands 2 and 3. Their paper was entitled "Contextualising Multilingualism in a Francophone Setting". Postdoctoral research fellows Daniel McAuley and John Bellamy presented findings from fieldwork with teenagers in superdiverse urban contexts in France and multilingual speakers in Luxembourg respectively, while PhD student Merryn Davies-Deacon spoke on the presence of standard and non-standard Breton on the internet. Questions from the audience encouraged the consideration of wider contextual issues, relating in particular to the domains of music and film. French Studies Conference, Durham, 12 July 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.sfs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/SFS-Durham-programme-final-002.pdf |
| Description | Sociolinguistic and cognitive perspectives on bilingualism. Strands 3&6 joint workshop. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Strand 6 PDRA Mariana Vega-Mendoza gave two talks (Introduction to statistics & Introduction to cognitive testing) at an Interdisciplinary MEITS Strands 3 & 6 joint workshop in Edinburgh in April 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/news/item/strands-3-6-joint-workshop-sociolinguistic-and-cognitive-perspectives... |
| Description | Speak to the Future Symposium, Language Show Live, London October 2017. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On 13 October 2017, the Language Show in London hosted the "Speaking to a Global Future" Symposium, organised by Speak to the Future in association with Rosetta Stone. In a series of keynote talks and discussion panels, the symposium brought together government officials, academics, and language learners. The programme of the day featured MEITS Principal Investigator Prof Wendy Ayres-Bennett and MEITS Co-Investigator Dr Thomas Bak, representing the MEITS project. Prof Ayres-Bennett's talk was entitled "Where to next with language policy?" and Thomas Bak presented on the cognitive benefits of multilingualism. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Speaker at training event for the University's AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership. Strand 1 MEITS PDRA Rhiannon McGlade. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Strand 1 PDRA Rhiannon McGlade contributed to a training event on field and interdisciplinary collaboration, which forms part of the induction for the new intake of doctoral students funded through the University's AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership. 15 minute talk on the MEITS project and the realities/benefits of working and thinking in an interdisciplinary way. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Standard languages, norms and variation: new perspectives within a multilingual research project. MEITS PI Wendy Ayres-Bennett. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk at the European Federation of National Institutions for Language (EFNIL) annual conference, Amsterdam. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Standards, normes et prescription linguistique - 4th International Conference of the Société Internationale de Diachronie du Français. MEITS Principal Investigator Wendy Ayres-Bennett. Neuchâtel, January 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Principal Investigator Wendy Ayres-Bennett gave an invited plenary lecture at the 4th International Conference of the Société Internationale de Diachronie du Français in Neuchâtel in January 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://diachronie.org/colloques/colloque-sidf-neuchatel-2018/ |
| Description | Stories of Languages Old and New: Policy and Practice Challenges. The Case of Irish. S3 Co-Investigator Micheal O' Mainnin. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Contribution to a 'Civic Conversation' in the Linenhall Library, Belfast. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Strand 5 Workshop "Early Language Learning: What it (can) look(s) like" S5 MEITS Co-I Henriette Hendriks and S5 PDRA Alim Tusun |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This workshop intended to bring together researchers on early language learning from the UK and Europe with practioners in the UK primary and secondary systems and those who have interacted with policy makers. One of the intended outcomes for participants was to hear about good practice in the UK and in Europe. Another was to produce a list of wishes, ideas, to bring to the attention of policy makers, such that early language teaching can be improved. This list was fed through to Helena Wright, CSap Fellow connected to the DfE, and contacts between her and one of the teachers invovled in the workshop were established to think further about the "transition" problem. Lisa-Maria Müller, S5 PDRA, Applying the Science of Learning to the Language Classroom. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/news/item/early-language-learning-what-it-can-looks-like |
| Description | Talk and open floor discussion at the University of Cologne, as part of a week-long series of lectures on language development and processing by monolingual and bilingual children and adults. MEITS Co-Investigator Napoleon Katsos. Strand 6. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Katsos gave a lecture on monolingual and bilingual language development to a group of graduate students and academic professionals at the University of Cologne who were attending the week-long Experimental Pragmatics in Germany (XPRAG.DE) Annual Meeting and Methods Workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.xprag.de/?page_id=5031 |
| Description | Talk and open floor discussion at the University of Reading, Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism. MEITS Co-Investigator Napoleon Katsos. Strand 6. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Katsos was invited to present an overview of current research in language development in multilingual children. The audience included academic professionals, undergraduate and postgraduate students, (non-academic) Speech and Language Therapists, and members of the general public (parents). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Teacher consultation session. MEITS Strand 4. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Local teachers were invited to participate in a consultancy session, where they provided face-to-face and written feedback on materials they had trialled during the 2017-18 academic year, reporting on practicality of use, and impact on pupils' attitudes and motivation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Technical Editor for Cambridge 'Language Lovers' competition. Strand 1 MEITS PDRA Rhiannon McGlade. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interactive competition online encouraging students to submit microinterviews about their connection to other languages. Participation was over 300. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.envalencia.org/language-lovers |
| Description | Technical Editor for En Valencià webconference and site. Strand 1 MEITS PDRA Rhiannon McGlade. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Building and running the website and social media platforms for the University of Cambridge-led Impact pilot scheme. Working to promote multilingualism and language-learning in Valencia. This pilot project functions as a web conference with a hosting site that has a whole range of seminar videos, associated educational and entertaining activities, as well as ways for the students to participate through creative engagement with the language. The target audience is children at the later stages of schooling. Almost 500 students have already signed up and are interacting daily with the site submitting material and engaging with languages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.envalencia.org |
| Description | Tenth Annual Cambridge Festival of Ukrainian Film. MEITS Co-Investigator Rory Finnin. Strand 1. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dovzhenko's silent classic is one of the world's first anti-war films. It follows Tymish Stoyan, a Ukrainian soldier who returns home from the front in the First World War to find revolution engulfing his homeland and a This two-day festival showcased a host of classic and contemporary films in the Ukrainian and Russian languages. It featured a screening of Oleksandr Dovzhenko's classic film Arsenal with an accompanying brochure by MEITS Co-Investigator Rory Finnin detailing the silent film's 'multilingualism'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://issuu.com/cambridgeukrainianstudies/docs/arsenal_20guide_20cover |
| Description | The 15th International Conference on Teaching and Learning Chinese in Higher Education. MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate Yanyu Guo. Strand 5. June 2017. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The Conference provided a great opportunity for local and international scholars and professionals around the world to exchange their cutting-edge research and practical teaching experiences concerning international Chinese teaching and learning in Higher Education. More than 100 Chinese language teachers and researchers from different countries attended this conference. MEITS strand 5 members presented their on-going project entitled 'Language Learning Across the Lifespan--Studies of L2 Acquisition of Mandarin Sentence-Final Particles' at this event. Southampton, 28-30 June 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | The 28th annual conference of the European Second Language Association. Strand 5 MEITS PDRA Yanyu Guo. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | EuroSLA conferences aim to bring together researchers from different disciplines who investigate the acquisition, use, and processing of language in situations where more than one language is involved. Around 200 scholars attended this conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.uni-muenster.de/EuroSLA/ |
| Description | The 30th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-30). Strand 5 MEITS PDRA Yanyu Guo. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | NACCL is the largest conference on Chinese linguistics in North America, held at a different North American university each year, and it draws international participation and welcomes all topics related to Chinese linguistics. Around 150 researchers on Chinese linguistics attended this conference. MEITS Strand 5 project was presented at the conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://u.osu.edu/naccl30/ |
| Description | The 5th China Second Language Acquisition Forum, Peking University. S5 Co-I Boping Yuan. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This forum focused on empirical approaches to the acquisition of Chinese as a second, third, additional and heritage language. Participants had discussions about ways to handle the teaching of and research in these types of the Chinese language. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | The 5th International Symposium on Chinese Language Teaching, Education University of Hong Kong. S5 Co-I Boping Yuan. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | At this symposium, Chinese language educators from all over the world gathered together to discussues issues related to Chinese language education in international contexts, which triggered heated but interesting debates. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.eduhk.hk/tcsl/ |
| Description | The Emergence of Standard English in Multilingual Britain. MEITS Strand 2. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This Strand 2 workshop, organised by Laura Wright, took place on 20&21 April 2017 at the University of Cambridge. It was a valuable opportunity for a diverse group of academics to present and exchange their latest research on the history of English from a multilingual perspective. The researchers sought to advance the discussion of the standardization of English beyond traditional approaches which tend to focus on more rigid categorizations of historical texts into assumed distinct languages (such as English, Latin and French), thereby embracing a more flexible view which recognizes the more disordered linguistic reality surrounding the historical development of languages in multilingual contexts. Cambridge, 20&21 April 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | The Identity Approach to Language Learning, CRiCLE workshop. MEITS Strand 4. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on current research activities to the general public, academic staff and students, and education practitioners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://liemc19.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | The International Conference on Bilingualism: Language and Heritage. MEITS Strand 5. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The International Conference on Bilingualism: Language and Heritage was held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong on 18-19 December 2017. It was an inaugural conference that officially launched the newly established University of Cambridge-Chinese University of Hong Kong Joint Laboratory for Bilingualism (JLB). Dr Boping Yuan (Co-investigator on strand 5), Dr Yongcan Liu (Co-investigator on strand 4) and Dr Yanyu Guo (Postdoctoral Research Associate on strand 5) were invited to present their research and on-going MEITS projects at this event. The conference featured two panels that attracted a wide ranging audience from diverse disciplines, as well as the general public. The event brought together researchers and practitioners from various countries including Australia, UK, USA, Hong Kong and Singapore, to give an international perspective on issues in nurturing bilingualism in early childhood and heritage bilingualism across diverse contexts. The joint lab stimulates new collaborative opportunities and marks an important step forward in the study of the acquisition of Chinese across the lifespan, which is a main research topic of MEITS strand 5 project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | The Irish Language in the Public Space. S3 Co-Investigator Micheal O' Mainnin. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk as part of the Alternative University which ran during industrial action and was open to students, staff and the public. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | The Irish News interview. Strand 3 MEITS PDRA Deirdre Dunlevy. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Strand 3 PDRA Deirdre Dunlevy had an interview with a journalist from the Irish News newspaper about her research, and the conference being organised in Belfast "Languages in Conflict and Reconciliation". An article was published in both print and online versions of the paper, as well as further articles on the journalist's personal blog. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.irishnews.com/paywall/tsb/irishnews/irishnews/irishnews//arts/thebluffer/2019/01/30/news/... |
| Description | The MEITS project and language policy in Northern Ireland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Micheal O'Mainnin, MEITS Co-Investigator, gave a paper at the "Negotiating the language barrier: community, identity and conflict transformation" interdisciplinary colloquium at the Senator George J Mitchell Research Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, at Queen's Belfast University in September 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://cmst4.qub.ac.uk/research-centres/isctsj/Research/InterdisciplinaryResearchGroups/Negotiating... |
| Description | The Menace of Monolingualism, invited talk to the Oxford and Cambridge Society in Paris. PI Wendy-Ayres Bennett. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk to the Oxford and Cambridge Society in Paris. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | The Menace of Monolingualism. MEITS PI Wendy Ayres-Bennett. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk at the Hay Festival as part of the Cambridge University series. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | The University and the Promotion of Irish in a Divided Society. S3 Co-Investigator Micheal O' Mainnin. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk as part of a seminar sposored by UCU on Equality and Minority Language Diversity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | The Value of Languages |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Wendy Ayres-Bennett, MEITS Principal Investigator, was invited to present the MEITS project at the Second Language Education Group - Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, in Oct 2016. The audience included local teachers, trainee teachers and local stakeholders. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/courses/graduate/masters/themes/secondlanguage/ |
| Description | The Value of Languages: Towards a UK Strategy for Languages (Wendy Ayres-Bennett) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk at the Faculty of Education presenting the project and the policy implications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | The value of languages in Higher Education and beyond |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Wendy Ayres-Bennett, MEITS Principal Investigator, was invited to give a plenary paper at the 2016 "Languages in Higher Education Conference" in Warwick (July 2016), where there was an audience engaged in the promotion and teaching of Modern Languages nationally. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.llas.ac.uk/conf2016 |
| Description | The world of language, Languages of the world. MEITS Co-I Nicola McLelland. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Co-I Nicola McLelland. 10 Modern Foreign Language teachers attended, and 14 others. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.esrcmanchesterfest.ac.uk/events/world-language-languages-world/ |
| Description | Theatre performance - Polyphonics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Multilingual theatre performance as part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, based on the project's research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Translation and Censorship |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Rory Finnin, MEITS Co-Investigator, presented on Soviet Ukrainian multilingual translation as means of obviating censorship. Cambridge, February 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26903 |
| Description | Trastornos de lenguaje entre mente, comportamiento y sociedad (Disorders of language between mind, behaviour and society) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Thomas Bak, MEITS Co-Investigator. Grupo de Investigacion en Neurocience de Segovia, Segovia, Spain. Ca 80 people attended with lively discussion afterwards. February 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Two Souls of Revolution' Literary Evening. MEITS Co-Investigator Rory Finnin. 2017. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The 'Two Souls of Revolution' Literary Evening consisted of artistic performances and literary readings of texts in the original language(s) and in English translation. The readings were performed by MEITS Co-Investigator Rory Finnin and the students and academic staff of Cambridge's Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages. It featured a special performance and presentation by graphic artists Mikhai Tymoshenko and Kyrylo Horishnyi, the minds behind the first graphic novel based on a work of Ukrainian literature, Ivan Franko's Heroi ponevoli. It also featured readings of poems by Vasyl Chumak, Pavlo Tychyna, Vladimir Maiakovskii and more. Approximately 55 members of the student body and general public attended, and discussions about Russian-Ukrainian bilingualism during the revolutionary period of 1917-18 ensued, with many attendees reporting a change in view about the complexity of what is too reductively understood as the 'Russian Revolution' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://issuu.com/cambridgeukrainianstudies/docs/vsesvit_readings_programme_7 |
| Description | UK Language and Variation Conference. S2 PDRA Annette Zhao. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented priliminary results at a conference aimed at professional researchers. The publication for this presentation will be published in a monologue. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://qmplus.qmul.ac.uk/ |
| Description | University of Bergen invited keynote. Strand 4 MEITS Co-Is Linda Fisher, Michael Evans and Yongcan Liu. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Strand 4 Co-Is presented to a group of around 40 academics and graduate students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | We Speak Multi. S6. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Webinar for antenatal teachers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012,2019 |
| Description | Webinar on Multilingualism in schools. S4. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A webinar on Multilingualism in schools during which the MEITS project was introduced to teachers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | What I want to say is" - finding meaning in language: creative writing workshop as part of Being Human Festival of the Humanities, held at Meadows Library, Nottingham. MEITS Co-Investigator Nicola McLelland. Strand 2. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Creative writing workshop with local adults led by Nottingham Writers Studio tutors, leading to a spoken word performance in the library. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/arts/news-events/being-human.aspx |
| Description | Workshop at Westminster University. MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate Ozge Ozturk. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate Ozge Ozturk gave a talk about the MEITS Project at Westminster University - Developing Pathways To Impact: A Training Workshop For Early Career Researchers In Bi-/Multilingualism And Education. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.westminster.ac.uk/events/developing-pathways-to-impact-a-training-workshop-for-early-car... |
| Description | Workshop with independent Speech and Language Therapists (SLTs). MEITS Co-Investigator Jenny Gibson and PDRA Ozge Ozturk. Strand 6. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Co-Investigator Jenny Gibson and PDRA Ozge Ozturk presented Strand 6 research at a workshop with 9 independent SLTs working in the region. These contributed to further research ideas and expressed interest in helping out with recruitment for the MEITS project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Youth languages: the age of maturity? MEITS Strand 3. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Organisation of an international workshop on youth languages in Nanterre, Paris X. Attendees from France, UK, Norway, Germany, Belgium, Holland. There will be a volume of peer-reviewed papers, edited by Francoise Gadet, arising from the workshop. Co-I Janice Carruthers gave the opening address presenting the work of MEITS and of the sociolinguistic strand. PDRA Daniel McAuley gave a talk on "The social meanings of contemporary urban vernacular French: insights from listener perceptions". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.meits.org/events/event/strand-3-conference-youth-languages-the-age-of-maturity |
| Description | iMean presentation. MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate Daniel McAuley. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate Daniel McAuley presented on borrowed discourse markers across languages at UWE Bristol, attended by an international audience who engaged in discussion about this research and the project in general. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/cahe/research/bristolcentreforlinguistics/events/i-meanconference/previousconf... |