Live stream seminar: Multilingual Learning in Sub-Saharan Africa

Topic: Multilingual Learning in Sub-Saharan Africa

January 19 (Friday), 2024. 11:00PM (Hong Kong Time)

ALL ARE WELCOME!

YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/X-KVn3_VMts

TL-TS Research Group

Speakers:

Prof. Angel M.Y. Lin

Professor Angel M. Y. Lin is a leading scholar in the fields of English language education and critical literacies. Her research and development of the Multimodalities-Entextualization Cycle (MEC) serves as a critical pragmatic heuristic for educators and researchers to navigate and disrupt the often monoglossic institutional spaces by both valuing and enabling translingual, multimodal, and multisensory meaning making actions with implications for equity, diversity and inclusion in education.

Elizabeth J. Erling

Elizabeth J. Erling is a Professor of English Language Teaching Research and Methodology at the University of Education Upper Austria and Elise-Richter Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Vienna. She has been involved in several teacher education and research initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Europe.

Colin Reilly

Colin Reilly is a Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Stirling and an Associate Fellow in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex. His research focuses on multilingualism and language policy, with particular interests in how multilingualism operates in educational and labour market contexts.

Casmir Rubagumya

Casmir Rubagumya is a Professor of Language Education and Deputy Vice Chancellor at St John’s University of Tanzania. He formerly taught at the University of Dar es Salaam and the University of Dodoma. His research interests are in teaching English as a second/foreign language, language policy in multilingual settings and language and power.

John Clegg

John Clegg is a freelance education consultant, specializing in education in a second language. He has worked for 35 years in curriculum evaluation, materials design, teacher education and research in English-medium education in Africa.

Feliciano Chimbutane

Feliciano Chimbutane is Assistant Professor in Linguistics at Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique. His research interests concern languages in education, with special reference to bilingual education. His focus is on policy, classroom practice, and the relationship between classroom discourse, day-to-day talk and the wider social and political order.