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Multilingualism and Multiliteracy

Multilingualism and Multiliteracy

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Being Multilingual and Multiliterate in India

  • Being Multilingual and Multiliterate in India overview

Overview

  • Overview overview
  • Roundtable Discussion on Bilingualism

Why Study Bilingualism/Multilingualism in India?

  • Why Study Bilingualism/Multilingualism in India? overview
  • Setting the Context
  • Why India?
  • Project Objectives and Outcomes

The MultiLiLa Project

  • The MultiLiLa Project overview
  • Project: Multilingual and Multiliterate in India
  • Timeline of the project
  • Findings

Conferences

  • Conferences overview
  • Final dissemination event

First dissemination event

  • First dissemination event overview
  • First dissemination event: New Delhi, July 12-13 2018

Plenary talks

  • Plenary talks overview
  • Dhur Jingnan
  • Amy Lightfoot

Conference overview

  • Conference overview overview
  • Ianthi Tsimpli
  • Theo Marinis
  • Jeanine Treffers-Daller

MultiLa project talks

  • MultiLa project talks overview
  • Lina Mukhopadhyay
  • Suvarna Alladi
  • Minati Panda

Breakout sessions

  • Breakout sessions overview
  • Padmini Boruah
  • Amol Padwad
  • Lina Mukhopadhyay
  • Rama Mathew
  • Ravinaryan Chakrakodi
  • Jeanine Treffers-Daller
  • Atanu Bhattacharya

MultiLila Workshop 2019, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge

  • MultiLila Workshop 2019, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge overview
  • MultiLila Workshop 2019, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge

Past projects

  • Past projects overview
  • AHRC Impact Acceleration Account Fund
  • Impact Acceleration Account Rapid Response Fund (MultiLAUCI)
  • British Council English Language Teaching and Research Award (ELTRA)

British Academy Humanities and Social Sciences Tackling Global Challenges Programme 2020

  • British Academy Humanities and Social Sciences Tackling Global Challenges Programme 2020 overview
  • Final Dissemination Event

Publications

  • Publications overview
  • Reading for comprehension in primary school children in India: A teacher training programme
  • Impact of translanguaging practices on vocabulary development: A study of primary grade Indian learners
  • Developing Reading Skills of Young Indian Learners in Challenging Contexts: Reflections and Suggestions
  • Effects of Mother Tongue Education and Multilingualism on Reading Skills in the Regional Language and English in India
  • Multilingualism, linguistic diversity, and English in India: Effects on underprivileged children’s linguistic and cognitive development
  • Exploring Opportunities and Challenges Using Translanguaging Pedagogy to Develop Reading Comprehension: A Study of Indian Multilingual Classrooms
  • Project final reports
  • Microstructural properties in the narrative retellings of young English learners in EMI schools in India
  • Measuring the multilingual reality: lessons from classrooms in Delhi and Hyderabad
  • Multilingual practices in Indian classrooms
  • How Ready Are Indian Primary School Children for English Medium Instruction
  • How Cognitive Abilities May Support Children’s Bilingual Literacy Development in a Multilingual Society
  • Linguistic diversity, multilingualism, and cognitive skills: a study of disadvantaged children in India
  • Multilingualism and multiliteracy in primary education in India
  • Home
  • MultiLila recommendations
  • Being Multilingual and Multiliterate in India

    Being Multilingual and Multiliterate in India

    Being Multilingual and Multiliterate in India overview
    • Overview
  • The MultiLiLa Project

    The MultiLiLa Project

    The MultiLiLa Project overview
    • Project: Multilingual and Multiliterate in India
    • Timeline of the project
    • Findings
  • News
  • Conferences

    Conferences

    Conferences overview
    • First dissemination event
    • MultiLila Workshop 2019, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
    • Final dissemination event
  • Past projects

    Past projects

    Past projects overview
    • AHRC Impact Acceleration Account Fund
    • British Academy Humanities and Social Sciences Tackling Global Challenges Programme 2020
    • Impact Acceleration Account Rapid Response Fund (MultiLAUCI)
    • British Council English Language Teaching and Research Award (ELTRA)
  • Publications

    Publications

    Publications overview
    • Reading for comprehension in primary school children in India: A teacher training programme
    • Impact of translanguaging practices on vocabulary development: A study of primary grade Indian learners
    • Developing Reading Skills of Young Indian Learners in Challenging Contexts: Reflections and Suggestions
    • Effects of Mother Tongue Education and Multilingualism on Reading Skills in the Regional Language and English in India
    • Multilingualism, linguistic diversity, and English in India: Effects on underprivileged children’s linguistic and cognitive development
    • Exploring Opportunities and Challenges Using Translanguaging Pedagogy to Develop Reading Comprehension: A Study of Indian Multilingual Classrooms
    • Project final reports
    • Microstructural properties in the narrative retellings of young English learners in EMI schools in India
    • Measuring the multilingual reality: lessons from classrooms in Delhi and Hyderabad
    • Multilingual practices in Indian classrooms
    • How Ready Are Indian Primary School Children for English Medium Instruction
    • How Cognitive Abilities May Support Children’s Bilingual Literacy Development in a Multilingual Society
    • Linguistic diversity, multilingualism, and cognitive skills: a study of disadvantaged children in India
    • Multilingualism and multiliteracy in primary education in India
    • Home
    • MultiLila recommendations
    • Being Multilingual and Multiliterate in India
    • The MultiLiLa Project
    • News
    • Conferences
    • Past projects
    • Publications

Conferences

  • Conferences overview
  • First dissemination event
    • First dissemination event: New Delhi, July 12-13 2018
    • Plenary talks
      • Dhur Jingnan
      • Amy Lightfoot
    • Conference overview
    • MultiLa project talks
    • Breakout sessions
  • MultiLila Workshop 2019, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
  • Final dissemination event

Plenary talks

Multilingualism and Multiliteracy

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