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Saturday, 17 July 2018Professor Lina Mukhopadhyay was invited by the Connect Malaysia (Connect’M) to give a talk on "Creating translangauging: classrooms in EFL contexts" at the 2nd Connect`M International Conference, 16 - 19 July 2018.

Tuesday 6th March 2018Professor Tsimpli gave a talk in the seminar series, organised by the ESRC-DFID Programme Research Lead at St Antony's College, University of Oxford.  She presented some preliminary data from Delhi on numeracy and Raven's. See the video here. 

Monday 5th February 2018Professor Ianthi Tsimpli introduced the project in a collaborative impact activity with NNEdPro, the University of Cambridge and the Remedy Clinic Study Group.  Her presentation sparked questions and discussion about the impact of nutrition on children's learning.

Saturday, 26 November 2017Dr. Lina Mukhopadhyay, EFLU gavea presentation on the project rationale and task design at the South Asia Panel of the Language and Development Conference 2017, Dakar

Wednesday 16 May 2018Professor Ianthi Tsimpli was invited by Language Sciences Research Forum at the University of Cambridge.  She presented the preliminary findings from her ESRC-DFID project (May 2016-April 2020).  She explained why some children in India do not benefit from the “bilingual advantage” in attention and learning skills observed in t…

Thursday 3 May 2018Professor Ianthi Tsimpli was invited to give a Keynote talk by the Irish Research Network in Childhood Bilingualism and Multilingualism.  Her talk explained how multilingualism can be an advantage for both language and cognition. Research on bilingual children in Europe and the US reveals cognitive advantages but also contradicto…

Thursday 14 June 2018Professor Ianthi Tsimpli was invited by Language at Leeds to give a talk "Multilingualism and multiliteracy in primary school children in India: Linguistic and cognitive effects" at the University of Leeds.  She introduced her project that seeks to understand how structural and language inequalities affect educational quality. …