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A Panel Discussion Language Policy: A Formula for Learning, IIC Sectoral Policy Group on Education

23 April 2025

25 March 2025 Professor Ayesha Kidwai, Centre for Linguistics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, was invited by the IIC (India International Centre) Sectoral Policy Group on Education to be one of panellists dicussing language policy in India. She introduced our current British Council, India's project "Multilingual Education...

58th IATEFL Conference

23 April 2025

9 April 2025 58th IATEFL International Conference and Exhibition for English language teaching professionals was held at Edinburgh from Tuesday 8 April to Friday 11 April 2025. Professor Lina Mukhopadhyay gave a presentation on " Translanguaging reading pedagogy: a model for inclusive multilingual English education ".

Center for Multilingualism with English, King’s College London

23 April 2025

4 April 2025 Professor Lina Mukhopadhyay was invited to give a talk " Reading comprehension within a translanguaging perspective, teacher education & multilingual-multimodal assessment: What do recent projects from India tell us? " at the Center for Multilingualism with English, King’s College London.

Bilingualism Matters Symposium 2025

23 April 2025

25 March 2025 The Bilingualism Matters Symposium , an interdisciplinary conference, was organised by Bilingualism Matters at Edinburgh from March 24-25, 2025. Professor Lina Mukhopadhyay gave a presentation on " Supporting the development of Indian primary school children’s reading comprehension skills: A multilingually...

Seminar on “Language and Culture in a Changing Society–Research to Support Kerala’s School Education System”

23 April 2025

14-15 January 2025 Seminar on Language and Culture in a Changing Society – Research to Support Kerala’s School Education System , jointly organised by the Centre for Development Studies, Vakkom Moulavi Foundation Trust (a well-known NGO based in Thiruvananthapuram) and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, was held on...

International Conference on Language Education in Multilingual Contexts

6 August 2024

26-27 July 2024 The English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU) hosted an International Conference on Language Education in Multilingual Contexts on July 26-27, 2024 in Hyderabad, India. Professor Lina Mukhopadhyay and Dr Vasim Tamboli gave a presentation on " Role of medium of instruction in children's narrative...

International Symposium on Linguistics, Language Applications and Translation Studies in the Big Data Era

23 February 2024

Wednesday, 7 June 2023 Ianthi Tsimpli was invited as Plenary speaker and gave a presentation "Multilingualism and linguistic diversity raising costs and benefits for language and cognition: Lessons from India" at the International Symposium on Linguistics, Language Applications and Translation Studies in the Big Data Era...

7th International Conference on Language and Education “Multilingual education for transforming education systems and resilient futures"

23 February 2024

4-6 October 2023 The 7th International Conference on Language and Education (7MLE) , which took place on October 4-6, 2023 in Bangkok, Thailand, was focused on "Multilingual education for transformative education systems and resilient futures." Professor Ianthi Tsimpli delivered a compelling keynote address (see video here...

7th AINET International Conference, Gauhati University, Assam

22 February 2024

3-4 February 2024 Lina Mukhopadhyay (Co-investigator at Hyderabad) gave a presentation " Reading Development Using Translanguaging Pedagogy: A model for inclusive language education " at the 7th AINET International Conference , Gauhati University at Assam. She disseminated the knowledge and findings from the British...

Israel Science Foundation Research Workshop

17 May 2023

Wednesday, 22 February 2023 Ianthi Tsimpli was invited to give a presentation " Narratives as a window into language and cognition " at the Israel Science Foundation Research Workshop: Focus on Narratives, Bilingualism & Atypical Populations. The workshop was organised by BILINGUAL NARRATIVE INTERVENTION (BINARI), Bar-...