Research

Scottish Languages Review Issue 32

Issue 32 - Summer 2017

This edition really is a must-read! The incidental theme emerging from all five contributions is ‘transformation’. From the school sector, Sara Davidson and Essi d’Almeida write about their respective efforts to combat negative attitudes to languages – with startlingly different results. Turning to the university sector, Angela Gayton outlines the aims and plans of the very aptly named MEITS (Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals Transforming Societies) research project. Johanna Watzinger-Tharp & Jamie Leite, on the other hand, tell us about the way in which the dual-language immersion approach has already started to turn around monolingual mind-sets in the state of Utah, U.S. Finally, we hear from a group of undergraduate students of German at the University of Edinburgh and their work with refugees during a three-week placement in Bad Kreuznach, Germany – and the transformation they themselves underwent in the process.

Also in this issue:

Happy reading!

SLR issue 32 - download entire issue

Call for papers for our Winter Edition

We are interested in submissions that consider any aspects of language learning/teaching or language policy, in Scotland or in other parts of the world. The SLR is read by linguists as well as educational stakeholders across the country and beyond, so your article can really have impact!

Hannah Doughty, Editor

Making a Success of German against All Odds

Sara Davidson
This paper is an account of how the German Department at Oundle School (Peterborough), has taken risks and changed its approach towards methodology and recruitment in order to boost the numbers opting...
Keywords: German, decline, success, rigorous, expertise, recruitment, results

A Case Study in the Depreciation of Modern Languages

Essi d’Almeida
This article uses data from a small scale research which explored modern language learning in a mainstream school in England. The focus is on the position accorded to modern languages in school in com...
Keywords: Modern Languages, National Curriculum, subject status, marketing

Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies

Angela Gayton
This paper provides an overview of the MEITS (Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies) project, led by the University of Cambridge and its partner institutions: University of E...
Keywords: multilingualism; language learning; attitudes; impact

Utah’s Dual Language Immersion Program: Access to Multilingualism

Johanna Watzinger-Tharp and Jamie Leite
In this article, we discuss the context, key features and vision of Utah’s dual language immersion (DLI) programme. Students in this programme spend half of the school day learning subject matter in E...
Keywords: dual language immersion, academic achievement, language policy, bilingual education, Anglophone context/USA

Sharing Languages - Edinburgh students work with refugees in Germany

Ellen Smith, Julia Pisarek, Rachel Lonie, Anna Phelps, Nick Heaney and Helen McDiarmid
Last summer twenty students from the University of Edinburgh travelled to Germany for a project to help the integration of refugees. Recognising the importance of language in order to integrate, we le...
Keywords: higher education, refugees, Germany

Selected abstracts and weblinks to language related publications

Abstracts from and weblinks to some of the most recent publications relating to language learning.

Downloadable articles from other academic journals

Free-to-download articles from other language journals.

Selected Events from June 2017

Summary reminder of upcoming seminars and conferences.

This work, with the exception of logos, and any other content marked with a separate copyright notice, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International Licence.

Back to top