Impact

Policy recommendations

This is a series of three films from the Policy day of the last dissemination event of the MultiLila project, held at the English and Foreign Languages University in Hyderabad on the 12th February 2020. Three of our consultants, Professor Ganesh Devy , Professor Ajit Mohanty and Professor Rama...

MultiLila recommendations

MULTILILA RECOMMENDATIONS Using children's home language(s) in the classroom improves their learning and development of social value. All schools in India have multilingual learners. Teachers need training in how to use multilingual approaches to teach students concepts in different subject areas...

Beneficiaries

The beneficiaries of this project include: bilingual and multilingual children and parents, teachers and teacher trainers, schools and headteachers, non-government organisations and government departments, policy-makers, and the academic and research communities. Stakeholders will disseminate and devolve knowledge from the onset of the study to not only further the findings of the study but also allow for capacity building and impact activities through this uniquely interdisciplinary collaboration. The institutional support and research networks in place provide a favourable environment for the success of the project in terms of dissemination, capacity building, and creating impact.

Impact Board

The Impact Board aims to steer the project in its engagement with government, policymakers, charities, practitioners and multilingual families in India. It is responsible for knowledge exchange and disseminating research findings to relevant stakeholders across India and UK.

Impact Activities

The project is committed to capacity-building in India and in the UK as well as to maximizing the impact of the research. Impact activities include engaging with policy-makers, educational charities, practitioners, and teachers on specific policies from the onset of the study.