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BAAL/CUP Seminar 2016: New plurilingual pathways for integration: Immigrants and language learning in the 21st century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2017

Nicola Bermingham  and
Gwennan Higham
Nicola Bermingham
Affiliation:
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UKn.bermingham@hw.ac.uk
Gwennan Higham
Affiliation:
Swansea University, UKg.e.higham@swansea.ac.uk
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This seminar was held at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, on 27 May 2016. It was jointly organised by BAAL members Nicola Bermingham (Heriot-Watt University) and Gwennan Higham (Swansea University) in collaboration with COST Action IS1306 New Speakers in a Multilingual Europe: Opportunities and Challenges, and supported by the Intercultural Research Centre and the Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies at Heriot-Watt University. Ten papers and two keynote speeches were given. The keynote speakers were Professor Alison Phipps (Glasgow University) and Professor Máiréad Nic Craith (Heriot-Watt University). A round-table discussion was also held, with invited speakers including Ms Mandy Watts from Education Scotland; Professor Bernadette O'Rourke, chair of COST Action IS1306; Dr Cassie Smith Christmas, University of the Highlands and Islands; and Dr Kathryn Jones, Director of Language Policy and Research at the Welsh Centre for Language Planning.

Type
Research in the News
Information
Language Teaching , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , April 2017 , pp. 294 - 296
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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