Dear all,
we are deligthed to announce the first LSP Dialogues collection on UK Language Policy: Directions and Challenges with five papers discussing language policy across different areas. We would also like to highlight our first opinion paper, Neil Kenny's 'How far can skills-talk take us?'
Please visit http://www.meits.org/dialogues for the full Dialogues collection and
http://www.meits.org/opinion-articles for Kenny's opinion piece.
Kind regards,
Dora Alexopoulou, Lisa Maria Mueller and Daniel McAuley
by Baroness Jean Coussins
In this article, Baroness Coussins, co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages, outlines the current priorities for language policy in the UK, highlighting inconsistencies and fragmentation in approach, and making the case for coordination across government.
by Wendy Ayres-Bennett
In this article, Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Principal Investigator of the MEITS (Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies) research project, argues for the urgent need for a national languages policy and for a more holistic and coherent approach towards languages across Whitehall and the devolved administrations.
by Diana Sutton
In this article, Diana Sutton, Director of the Bell Foundation, explores the current policy and practice framework for supporting children with English as an Additional Language in the UK and how the available research evidence can be used to improve it.
by Bernardette Holmes
In this article, Bernardette Holmes, Principal Investigator of Born Global, the British Academy policy project on languages and employability, reassesses the role of languages and intercultural understanding for Britain’s global position. It draws on the findings of the Born Global project and identifies the language skills that are most in demand now to establish new global relationships, and locates language skills firmly within the matrix of wider employability skills for the 21st century.
by Charles Forsdick
In this article, Charles Forsdick, AHRC Theme Leadership Fellow for ‘Translating Cultures’, presents the policy issues revealed and addressed by research carried out under the theme, and highlights the challenges and potential of ‘translating’ academic research to policymakers.
In this article, Neil Kenny, Lead Fellow for Languages at the British Academy, argues that the broadened notion of skill proposed by a new British Academy project, The Right Skills, provides a framework for articulating more accurately and effectively the full range of skills provided by language degrees.
