Collectively authored by the Language Acts and Worldmaking team, this defining volume offers reflective narratives on research, theory and practice over the course of the flagship project of the same name, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Open World Research Initiative. It returns to the project's key principles - that our words make worlds and we are agents in worldmaking - analyses the practices and outcomes of collaborative working, and looks to the future by offering concrete ideas for how the work they have done can now continue to do its work in the world.
Focusing on the key research strands, this volume looks at the role of the language teacher as a mediator between languages and cultures, worldmaking in modern languages, translation and the imagination, languages and hospitality, digital mediations, and how words change and make worlds. Critically, it analyses the impact on communities of living in multilingual cities, and the ways in which learning a first language, and then a second, and so on, plays a crucial role in our ability to understand our culture in relation to others and to appreciate the ways in which they are intertwined.
Specific aims are to:
· propose new ways of bridging the gaps between those who teach and research languages and those who learn and use them in everyday contexts from the professional to the personal
· put research into the hands of wider audiences
· share a philosophy, policy and practice of language teaching and learning which turns research into action
· provide the research, experience and data to enable informed debates on current issues and attitudes in language learning, teaching and research
· share knowledge across and within all levels and experiences of language learning and teaching
· showcase exciting new work that derives from different types of community activity and is of practical relevance to its audiences
· disseminate new research in languages that engages with diverse communities of language practitioners.
Roxie Nafousi
Roxie Nafousi
Laura Shepperson
Aamna Qureshi
Steve Cavanagh
Adele Zeynep Walton
Tessa Bickers
Sarah Hornsley
Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Emma Chapman
Elizabeth Gill
Hanna Thomas Uose
Diane Ladd
Ana Huang
Gregory Maguire
Helen Nagle-Smith
Elora Cook
Hannah Deitch
Aman J. Bedi
Elsie Silver
Venki Ramakrishnan
Genevieve Kingston
Jane Thynne
Katherine McLaughlin
Vinson Cunningham
Tilly Rose
Robert Ingpen
Chetna Makan
Bruce Jones
Scott Walker
Aman J. Bedi
Brandon Sanderson
Rosalind Brown
Kate Kemp
Jessie Hewitson
Hillary Yablon
Christopher Buehlman
Tim Budgen
Suzanne O’Sullivan
Dr Tara Porter
Andrew J. Scott
Oliver Moody
Mick Herron
Carolina Rabei
Ella Dove
Bella Swift
Adam Rutherford
Lucy Score
L.A. MacRae
Adam Forrest Kay
Tobias Buck
Haru Yamada
Kuchenga Shenjé
Tor Freeman
Patricia Graham
Tiffany Yu
Philippe Sands
Caroline Reid
M. R. Carey
M. R. Carey
Michael Mansfield
Elise Kova
Clare Mackintosh
Nalini Ramachandran
Kate Kemp
Ella Frears
Giles Murray
Walter Tevis
Tad Williams
Joanne Harris
Josh Malerman
Natalie Lawrence
Petroc Trelawny
Ace Atkins
Martin Salter
Chris Moore
Ivanna Dump
Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Hannu Rajaniemi
Dylan Jones
Daisy Dunn
Brian D. Mclaren
Artemis Cooper
Sarah E Hill
Valerie Boyd
Caroline Montague
James Doty
Oonagh Stransky
Cole Arthur Riley
Kim Sherwood
Mikael Krogerus
Mikael Krogerus
Mikael Krogerus
Mikael Krogerus
Mikael Krogerus