MultiLila Workshop 2019, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Multilingualism and multiliteracy workshop: Multilingualism and educational challenges
Date: 28 & 29 November 2019
Location: Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge
The MultiLila workshop brought together nearly 50 academics and researchers from India and the UK to discuss the benefits and challenges of multilingualism in the classroom and the society.
Thursday 28 November 2019
| 9.30 – 10.15 | The MultiLila project |
| 10.15 – 11.15 | Educating children with disabilities in India: a missed opportunity for systemic educational reform (Nidhi Singal - Cambridge) |
| 11.15 – 11.30 | Coffee/tea break |
| 11.30 – 12.15 | Do schools teach mathematics? Redefining the learning goals for the urban poor, migrants and multilinguals (Minati Panda - JNU, Delhi) |
| 12.15 – 13.00 | Language mixing and translanguaging: observations and possibilities (Amy Lightfoot - British Council, Sri Lanka) |
| 13.00 – 14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 – 14.45 | Does narrative ability and story grammar knowledge differ in L1 and L2? A crosslingual comparison of Indian learners from challenging contexts (Lina Mukhopadhyay (EFL-U, Hyderabad) |
| 14.45 – 15.30 | Multilingualism and cognitive skills in school children in the MultiLila project (Suvarna Alladi - NIMHANS, Bangalore) |
| 15.30 – 16.00 | Coffee/tea break |
| 16.00 – 17.00 | On the relationship between socioeconomicstatus and language exposure as predictors of language proficiency inbilinguals (Cécile De Cat - Leeds) |
| 17.00 – 17.30 | Wrap up |
Friday 29 November 2019
| 9.30 – 10.30 | The longitudinal relationship between vocabulary and grammar in EAL learners (Ludovica Serratrice - Reading) |
| 10.30 – 11.15 | How ready are Indian children for English medium instruction? An analysis of the productive vocabulary of low SES children in state schools in Hyderabad (Jeanine Treffers-Daller - Reading) |
| 11.15 – 11.30 | Coffee/tea break |
| 11.30 – 12.15 | Reflections on a teacher training workshop on multilingual practices (Rama Mathew - Delhi & Amy Lightfoot - British Council) |
| 12.15 – 13.00 | Multiliteracy in the UK in action: learning to read in the home language supports literacy skills in the majority language (Theo Marinis - Reading) |
| 13.00 – 14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 – 15.00 | From Mother Tongue instruction in Complementary Education into Official Language of Instruction in Government Schools in Ghana: Does the pathway make a difference to sustained literacy? (Ricardo Sabates - Cambridge) |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Coffee/tea break |
| 15.30 – 17.00 | Round table discussion: Language challenges in Indian schools (Ganesh Devy, Dhir Jingran, Ajit Mohanty) chaired by Ianthi Tsimpli |