Community languages in higher education : towards realising the potential

Routes into Languages (HEFCE and DCSF) (Funder); McPake, Joanna and Sachdev, Itesh. (2008) Community languages in higher education : towards realising the potential. Routes into Languages, University of Southampton, Southampton. (http://www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk/community)

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Abstract

This study, Community Languages in Higher Education: Towards Realising the Potential, forms part of the Routes into Languages initiative funded by the Higher Education Funding Council in England (HEFCE) and the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF). It sets out to map provision for community languages, defined as 'all languages in use in a society, other than the dominant, official or national language'. In England, where the dominant language is English, some 300 community languages are in use, the most widespread being Urdu, Cantonese, Punjabi, Bengali, Arabic, Turkish, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, Gujerati, Hindi and Polish. The research was jointly conducted by the Scottish Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research (Scottish CILT) at the University of Stirling, and the SOAS-UCL Centre for Excellence for Teaching and Learning 'Languages of the Wider World' (LWW CETL), between February 2007 and January 2008. The overall aim of this study was to map provision for community languages in higher education in England and to consider how it can be developed to meet emerging demand for more extensive provision.

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McPake, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7762-1628 and Sachdev, Itesh;
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