Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies - MEITS

An exciting new language taster has been added! Have a go at learning Cornish to continue your towards !

http://www.meits.org/media/taster-classes

Have you ever thought about learning Portuguese? Or perhaps you'd like to go further afield and try Persian/Farsi or Nepali? is delighted to announce its new series of language tasters. Why not start your towards with us!

http://www.meits.org/news/item/language-tasters

How best to assess young children from diverse backgrounds? Our latest Policy Paper offers novel ways to measure language abilities and meet the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage.

http://www.meits.org/policy-papers/paper/assessing-young-children-from-diverse-backgrounds-novel-ways-to-measure-language-abilities-and-meet-the-requirements-of-the-early-years-foundation-stage

The need for high-level language and intercultural skills in the UK workforce is yet again confirmed! Our latest Policy Briefing on Languages, Business, Trade and Innovation, co-authored by Wendy Ayres-Bennett (PI MEITS) and Janice Carruthers (AHRC Leadership Fellow in Modern Languages), provides insights from across the sector and offers recommendations to support the development and embedding of these skills.

http://www.meits.org/news/item/policy-briefing-on-languages-business-trade-and-innovation

What are your 'everyday language policies'? And why do you think you have them? Read our latest blog post by Karen Forbes on why we need to talk about our language practices!

http://www.meits.org/blog/post/speak-in-english-inventing-everyday-language-policies

Languages really do change lives! Over the past 4 years, the MEITS project has uncovered a range of meaningful ways in which learning a language or speaking a home language can change your life for the better. And we've put them all together for you in this booklet! Take a look inside and get inspired to start your language journey!

Languages change lives MEITS

Take a moment out to reflect on what connects YOU to languages, as thoughtfully explored in our latest blog by Yongcan Liu!

http://www.meits.org/blog/post/benefits-or-connections-are-we-communicating-the-right-message

Read our latest Policy Paper on Why and How to integrate non-standard linguistic varieties, such as Greek Cypriot, into education.

http://www.meits.org/policy-papers/paper/Why-and-how-to-integrate-non-standard-linguistic-varieties-into-education-Cypriot-Greek-in-Cyprus-and-the-UK

We are very excited by the return of the 'Mother Tongue Other Tongue' poetry competition for primary and secondary schools, organised by Routes into Languages East and proudly sponsored by MEITS! The deadline for entering is 20 July 2020.

http://www.meits.org/news/item/mother-tongue-other-tongue-returns

Find out more about the ‘Watching the Transnational Detectives’ project by Rachel Haworth, MEITS flexible funding awardee, and delve deeper into the question of how British audiences have engaged with the recent boom in foreign language television programmes available in the UK!

http://www.meits.org/news/item/watching-the-transnational-detectives-exploring-british-audience-responses-to-themes-of-identity-internationalism-and-language-learning-in-international-crime-television

Learn all about the exciting work by James Kent, MEITS flexible funding awardee, on post-Castro Cuba, which focuses on the relationship between photographic language and identity! This includes a virtual tour with photographs documenting the development of the project.

http://www.meits.org/news/item/yo-soy-fidel-post-castro-cuba-and-the-cult-of-personality-new-approaches-to-exploring-photographic-language-and-identity