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.
Worldmaking in the Time of Covid-19
Language Acts and Worldmaking has been awarded funding for its proposal, 'Worldmaking in the Time of Covid-19'.
Languages Future Conference
Language Acts is excited to announce its conference Languages Future, featuring special guest speaker David Crystal
New article published: Language learning experiences of postgraduate research students in the UK
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.
Imagination, Language and New Worlds
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Travelling Concepts
Words in action
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Translation Acts
Worldmaking on stage
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Digital Mediations
Mapping multilingualism and digital culture
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Loaded Meanings
New worlds for old words
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Diasporic Identities
Teaching languages, mediating cultures
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Language Transitions
Moving through languages
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