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25 March 2025Professor 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 in India:  teaching, learni…

9 April 202558th 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".

4 April 2025Professor 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.

25 March 2025The 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 scaffolded intervention"

14-15 January 2025Seminar 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 January 14–15, 2025, at the Cen…

26-27 July 2024The 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 retelling an literacy skills".   …

Wednesday, 7 June 2023Ianthi 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 organised by the City Unive…

4-6 October 2023The 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).  During the conference, …

3-4 February 2024Lina 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 Council English Language Teachi…

Wednesday, 22 February 2023Ianthi 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-Ilan University.

Firday, 15 July 2022Ianthi Tsimpli's project was shown in the film "Global Humanities & Multilingualism at Cambridge University".  The film was produced by the University of Cambridge.

Monday, 17 October 2022Ianthi Tsimpli was invited to give an online lecture "Socioeconomic disadvantages, multilingualism and resilience in school children" at Multilingualism and Diversity: Impact on Education, Health and Society seminar series.  The online lecture series were organised by the IOE, Faculty of Education and Society, University Coll…

Thursday, 3 December 2020Ianthi Tsimpli was invited to give an online lecture "Multilingualism in underprivileged contexts" at the Multilingual Mind: Lecture series on multilingualism across disciplines.  The online lecture series were organised by the Department of Linguistics & Centre for Multilingualism, University of Konstanz & the Marie Curie …

Saturday, 3 April 2021Ianthi Tsimpli was invited as a distinguished guest to give lecture "Multilingualism and linguistic diversity: language and cognitive development in disadvantaged children in India" at the Program of International Symposium on Discursive Construction of a Community of Shared Future for Mankind, for the 100th anniversary of Xia…

Wednesday, 26 August 2020The MultiLila project final report is published.  You can read them here.