Mike Baynham In this short vignette, based on reflections on translanguaging in social media from the sports phase, Leeds case study co-investigator Mike Baynham describes his experiences of text messaging multilingually and multimodally. Tiago, one of the project’s key participants in Leeds, is a basketball and capoeira player from Mozambique. This is the story of… Read More Text messaging as a language learning opportunity
Jessica Bradley Erin Moriarty Harrelson and Amandine Le Maire, project researchers for the MobileDeaf project at Heriot Watt University have written an account of their experiences as TLANG summer school delegates. You can find the blog post, with text by Erin and videos by Amandine, here.
Jessica Bradley and Piotr Wegorowski Friday was the fifth and final day of the summer school. The weather had cooled down dramatically from earlier in the week and we were all tired but still full of energy and thoughts for how we might be able to take forward the ideas that we had been discussing… Read More Summer School: Day Five
Piotr Wegorowski and Jessica Bradley The fourth day of the summer school focused on multimodality. Multimodality in translanguaging research had emerged as a strong theme throughout the week, starting with the sessions led by Li Wei and continuing across the linguistic landscape session, Adrian’s workshop on translanguaging and the body, our impromptu workshop by the… Read More Summer School: Day Four
Jessica Bradley and Piotr Wegorowski Wednesday was the third day of the summer school and the focus for the day was on translanguaging in education. Despite the continuing heat, our enthusiasm is not wearing off! We started the day with an extra session – a fascinating talk led by two of the delegates, Erin Moriarty… Read More Summer School: Day Three
Piotr Wegorowski and Jessica Bradley The second day of the Summer School saw a wide variety of talks and seminars and we were able to engage with a range of different topics, connected by the TLANG project – translation, translanguaging and the superdiverse city. In this blog post we aim to summarise the discussions we… Read More Summer School: Day Two
Jessica Bradley and Piotr Węgorowski We were delighted to welcome forty-five delegates to the TLANG summer school which started today (Monday 19th June). We would never have predicted that the summer school would coincide with a heatwave…which looks set to continue for the rest of the week. But our delegates braved the heat and made… Read More Summer School: Day One
