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Language Acts and Worldmaking is a flagship project funded by the AHRC Open World Research Initiative, which aims to regenerate and transform modern language learning by foregrounding language's power to shape how we live and make our worlds.

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Languages Future Conference

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Language Acts is excited to announce its conference Languages Future, featuring special guest speaker David Crystal

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New article published: Language learning experiences of postgraduate research students in the UK

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Our new article, co-authored by Inma Álvarez, Carlos Montoro, Ana de Medeiros, Debra Kelly and Alice Hazard, from the Diasporic Identities and the Politics and Language Teaching and the Language Transitions strands of the project, has just been published. You can read it here in Open Access.

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Languages Future Conference CfP

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Language Acts and Worldmaking is pleased to announce its next conference 'Languages Future' will take place Monday 27 - Tuesday 28 April 2020 at King's College London. The CfP deadline is 20 December 2019.

Interpreters on the Fringes of Society: Coping with Emotions

The Open University, Hub Theatre, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA

Deptford Storytelling Project 2020

Deptford Cinema, 39 Deptford Broadway, Deptford, London SE8 4PQ

Reveries About Language: Word Sound Image

Cultural Information Centre, Zagreb, Croatia

Falsehood in Francophone Writing and Culture: An Interdisciplinary Conference [De la fabrique du mythe aux mensonges et contre-vérités dans les écrits et la culture francophones]

Churchill College, University of Cambridge

From Madrid to London, via Minnesota: An American Life and Triangular, Transatlantic Translation

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UCML MFL 2019 Survey Report

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Bringing visibility to language teachers: Negotiating Identity in Modern Foreign Language Teaching

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Our ‘Sharing’ at Cove Park – Translation as Sharing

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    Mapping multilingualism and digital culture

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    New worlds for old words

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  5. Diasporic Identities

    Teaching languages, mediating cultures

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    Moving through languages
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