AHRC Impact Acceleration Account Fund (MultiOrDyn)

Multilingual Oral Dynamic Assessment for underprivileged primary school children in India (MultiOrDyn)

Project introduction

This research project aims to design, pilot and promote to stakeholders a multilingual oral formative assessment instrument of language and content for fourth and fifth graders in the English as a medium instruction (EMI) classrooms in Hyderabad. The ultimate goal of this project is to move away from traditional forms of assessment imposed by Western societies on a primarily oral culture that survives in the skills of underprivileged learners.  In the long run, it aims to implement the multilingual oral formative assessment instrument (and the classroom-based assessment) through education technology on a large scale across India. This project begins in September 2023 and will be completed in May 2024.

Principal Investigator:  Professor Ianthi Maria Tsimpli

Co-Investigators:

The English & Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad (Professor Lina Mukhopadhyay), University of Frankfurt, Germany (Dr Jacopo Torregrossa) and University of Oxford, UK (Professor Victoria Murphy).