Sophie Liggins

[Lang & Ling @EssexLang_Ling]

Congratulations to Dr. Liggins who has been awarded a degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics.

[Sophie Liggins @enhancedlangs]

@ZachariasSally @EAL_naldic Thanks Sally! Glad to know you enjoyed it. It was a great day to share. Sophie :)

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@lorraine_downey @EAL_naldic Thanks Lorraine! Great to know it was useful! Such a good day for getting multilingual pedagogies on the agenda. Sophie :)

[Sophie Liggins @enhancedlangs]

@hwc001 @lomo_linguist @dinamehmedbegov We do in my school, but it’s minimal, so I’ve added a specific EAL questionnaire for previous teachers. Once it’s something that the transition leader does each year it shouldn’t be too time consuming-currently we don’t get much information and have to do a lot of assessment

[Sophie Liggins @enhancedlangs]

@hwc001 @lomo_linguist @dinamehmedbegov Totally true. This happens a lot and means that many students needs are missed, often for years. I have developed an EAL transition questionnaire for this year’s cohort at my school, will assess how helpful it is in sept and let you know @hwc001

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@AmanditaCole That’s brilliant!

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My blog on making children’s language books in Chimwini, Dari, Pasto and Somali

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@sabinelittle @cbbc @MichaelRosenYes @The_UKLA @Lg_on_the_Move @lanegreene I noticed recently - first encounter with exactly this- it was a character in the bbc sitcom Don’t Forget the Driver, a neighbour was speaking a language other than English (not sure which) casually. Definitely the first and only time, usually made into a big deal, like you say!

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@FrankMonaghan @EAL_naldic As one of the teachers, this was great! It was colleague’s first RIG meeting and she was really happy to have had the discussion generated by your talk.

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Great fun this week working with the Somali Bravanese Welfare Association making Bravanese/Somali/Dari/Pashto language children’s books. Thank you @creativelangs for funding our project!

[Lang & Ling @EssexLang_Ling]

PhD Student Sophie Liggins is running a Heritage Language Book Project, with funding from Creative Multilingualism - check out more information about the project here! https://t.co/ip9xELq1bx

[Creative Multilingualism @creativelangs]

Creative Multilingualism is a 4-year research programme aiming to release the #creative potential of #languages, shine a spotlight on the UK's hidden #multilingualism & celebrate the many benefits of language #learning.

Explore our programme & projects: https://t.co/S2bSPSEb4M

[Sophie Liggins @enhancedlangs]

Spot on messages at #PerformLangs on the value of multilingualism in UK education and society today. Thanks @creativelangs for a really enjoyable conference!