Hugh Michell

Language teacher based in Milan, currently researching multilingual identity in the international school environment

[Hugh Michell @prof_michell]

I can't believe that this cover has today's date! As a positive counterbalance to this, we should all be reading work by @casamacombo, @SumayaAQ, @AntonioDikele, listening to the incredible @sullarazza podcast, and following @fred_kuwornu and many other representative voices.

[Igiaba 📚 @casamacombo]

This cover of #panorama italian magazine ( cover so racist. So sexist) has two specific targets: Afro-descendant people and Muslim people. I think I did bingo I'm both 😂
What do I win?

[Stephen Spender Trust @StephenSpender]

3 weeks to go until #SSTPoetryPrize2023 and the launch of this year’s #UkrainianSpotlight!
The NEW Spotlight booklet is now available here: https://t.co/oNdGZT6Vwd #SSTPoetryPrize #ukraine

[Poetry Translation Centre @PoetryTranslate]

So exciting!! The Stephen Spender Prize is now open internationally!

Enter from 12 May to 14 July! ✨

#SSTPoetryPrize2023

[Ludovica Serratrice @ludoserratrice]

Our new @UniRdg_CeLM @FutureLearn course on Understanding Language Development in #Multilingual Children has now more than 1000 participants!🥳
@UniRdg_OOCs @drhollyjoseph @naomiflynn61 @EmmaPagnamenta

[Stephen Spender Trust @StephenSpender]

4 weeks to go until #SSTPoetryPrize2023! And the launch of our NEW Teacher Laureate Prize, a free translation competition for teachers at participating schools!
https://t.co/1xbtzvTPno
#mfltwitterati #edutwitter @Team_English1 @ALL4language @scottishcilt @network_primary

[Igiaba 📚 @casamacombo]

Un grande articolo di @Ang_Bok su @Internazionale
Va dritto al punto: la mancanza di diversity nelle redazioni dei giornali e riviste italiane.
Se vogliamo informazione migliore abbiamo bisogno di più punti di vista. Viviamo in un mondo complesso. Abbiamo bisogno di mescolanza

[Asymptote Journal @asymptotejrnl]

“To have children who can speak and understand our language is a medicine for our people.”

Meet Dr. X̱ʼunei Lance Twitchell: artist, professor, and champion of endangered languages like Tlingit and the thought worlds embedded within them. https://t.co/nywlyIsc5x

[Multilingual Matters @Multi_Ling_Mat]

When I arrived in Australia, I didn't know how to ask for water in English. Now it's the only language I can speak https://t.co/ze2foqxe9f

[Guardian Books @GuardianBooks]

Indian novel about caste becomes first Tamil work longlisted for Booker prize https://t.co/krbqnKt6H9

[Hugh Michell @prof_michell]

Fantastic day at @ConfMita yesterday! Such a privilege to hear from such inspiring teachers in the workshops, job-a-like and mini keynotes!

https://t.co/vEvalULldU

#MITA2023 #multilingualism #translanguaging #languages #teachers #ibo

[Hugh Michell @prof_michell]

Great day at @ConfMita yesterday! Such a privilege to be there and hear from such inspiring teachers.
https://t.co/vEvalULldU

[Hugh Michell @prof_michell]

@KitchenAidItaly Fatto

[GlobalLiteratureinLibrariesInitiative @GlobalLitin]

The Language of Languages, by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, translated by himself.

This volume brings together for the first time Ngũgĩ’s essays & lectures about translation, written & delivered over the past two decades.

#KenyanLit #Translation

[Asymptote Journal @asymptotejrnl]

Even among polyglots, hearing words in a listener’s native tongue trigger different responses in the brain—and it’s not one you’d expect.

Discover the results of one study that might change the way we think about language: https://t.co/fUGK3wDeaq

[Hugh Michell @prof_michell]

Some superb practical tips from @HajdunHomeroom and @PerrerasAlysa!
Language Policies Should Be a Part of Our DEIJ Conversations | The International Educator (TIE Online) https://t.co/ijAyXIMcby

[Nadeesha D. Uyangoda @NadeeshaUy]

“Crossing language boundaries and code-shifting from Italian as her mother tongue to Anglo American and Sinhalese expressions is experienced by Uyangoda as an intimate process of translingualism and as a primary source of inspiration.”

[Louise Rolland @LRolland_multi]

It was such a buzz hearing students exchange about their #Languages in #bilingualism bingo today! I overheard an "OMG, you speak #Swahili!" Y3 students didn't know these things about each other, it's a great #icebreaker! #multilingualism #teaching

[Soofia Amin @soofia_amin]

To ensure first languages are valued at school, give it the same importance as English. Allow pupils to present their first language in the front of their books, alongside their English work. Let’s take pride in all the languages of our pupils. @KensingtonSch

[Hugh Michell @prof_michell]

@hmafj @OxMML_Schools @OxfordModLangs @BritishSchoolMI Hi Hannah
I wrote to the organisers, and this was their reply (received today):
Yes, we do accept entries from students from other countries!
Hope that helps and good luck with the competition!

[Hugh Michell @prof_michell]

Great to hear that the Flash Fiction competitions in French and Spanish from @OxMML_Schools @OxfordModLangs are open to students in schools outside the UK! Deadline 31 March.
https://t.co/TxutEivdC6
Looking forward to running these at the @BritishSchoolMI

[Babel: The Language Magazine @Babelzine]

How do European plurals work? Babel No6 asks a linguist... https://t.co/48fN9JTud0