Language Learning Opens Doors to Other Worlds: Memory Acts through Digital Technologies

Author: Lucy Jenkins
Published: 10th April 2019

Summary of research: To understand the applicability of the Digi-Languages and mentoring methodologies implemented by MFL Mentoring in Wales to wider languages communities, above all, in European partner countries.

Funder: AHRC Languages Acts and Worldmaking – November 2018

Summary of outcomes:

  1. Presentation of outreach projects at APPG for Modern Languages in October 2018. This event involved mentors, mentees and teachers involved in the project from across Wales.
  2. Meetings with European colleagues at the Welsh Higher Education Bureau (WHEB) in November 2018 which resulted in a partnership between Cardiff University’s School of Modern Languages and the Castilla y León Regional Government. This resulted in eight final-year undergraduate students being recruited and trained to mentor in Spain as part of a final-year module, the Student Teaching Module. Click here for more info.
  3. Invitation to attend the Welsh Government St. David’s Day celebration event in Brussels (March 2019) with the First Minister of Wales. Representatives from the MFL Mentoring, colleagues from Physics Mentoring, students engaged in the Castilla y León project and colleagues representing Language Horizons all attended. Click here for more info.

 

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