Multilingual Education in India (MultiEd)

Project Introduction

The Multilingualism in Education (MultiEd) project is a three-year research study (2023–2026) funded by British Council and awarded to the University of Cambridge (Cambridge Partnership for Education at Cambridge University Press & Assessment with Professor Ianthi M. Tsimpli at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages & Linguistics, as the Lead Researcher).

The aim of the MultiEd project is to identify through a multilingual pedagogical translanguaging intervention programme (MultiPed) the best practices in which English can be used alongside the regional and home languages of teachers and students to deliver optimal multilingual education to English Medium Instruction (EMI) primary school classrooms in government schools in Delhi and Assam, having first been implemented in primary school classrooms in EMI government schools in Hyderabad.

Project team

Lead researcher:

Ianthi Maria Tsimpli, University of Cambridge, UK

Senior research team:

Ayesha Kidwai, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India

Jacopo Torregrossa, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany

Victoria Murphy, University of Oxford, UK

Lina Mukhopadhyay, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India

Padmini Bhuyan Boruah, Gauhati University, Assam, India

Research associates:

Margreet Vogelzang, Samantha Sie, University of Cambridge, UK

Vrishali Patil, EFL-U, Hyderabad, India

Preeti Hingorani Cambridge University Press and Assessment, India

Research assistants:

Bipanchi Bhatta, Tanhaj Rahman, Jimani Nath Gauhati University, Assam, India

Ruderaksh Baigra, Smiti, Soumyatarini Mishra, JNU, Delhi, India