TY - BOOK
T1 - Community languages in higher education
T2 - towards realising the potential
AU - McPake, Joanna
AU - Sachdev, Itesh
AU - Routes into Languages (HEFCE and DCSF) (Funder)
PY - 2008/1
Y1 - 2008/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - community languages
KW - higher education
UR - http://www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk/community
M3 - Other report
BT - Community languages in higher education
CY - Southampton
ER -