Liberating Language Education

Vally Lytra: Dr Vally Lytra is Reader in Languages in Education and PGR Convener at the Department of Educational Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London. She researches multilingualism in homes, schools and communities that have experienced diverse migration flows. Her new edited book ‘Liberating Language Education’ (Multilingual Matters) will be published in February 2022.

Cristina Ros i Solé is Lecturer in Language, Culture and Learning at Goldsmiths, University of London. She writes about identity, subjectivity and the everyday in intercultural communication drawing on philosophy, cultural studies and sociolinguistics. She has written several language textbooks and books on language education. Some highlights are: Mobility and Localisation in Language Learning (Peter Lang, 2011), The Personal World of the Language Learner (Palgrave, 2016), and currently writing Language Collections: Living interculturality with everyday objects (Routledge 2022).

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Jim Anderson is Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Educational Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. His work focuses on: theories and methods of second language learning and bilingualism, including Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL); multilingualism and new literacies; and language policy. Underlying this is a commitment to an integrated and inclusive approach to language and literacy education incorporating the areas of foreign and community/heritage language learning as well as English as an Additional Language and English mother tongue. Jim is co-director with Dr Vicky Macleroy of the Critical Connections: Multilingual Digital Storytelling Project launched in 2012.

Vicky Macleroy is Reader in Education and Head of the Centre for Language, Culture and Learning at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Her research interests focus on language development and multilingualism, multiliteracies and digital storytelling, and transformative pedagogy.