Language, communication, and inclusion: Notes from Ghana
by Ruth Swanwick and Dani Fobi Our British Academy funded research project, that examines early years support for deaf children and their caregivers in Ghana,...
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PanMeMic: Making Meaning in the Covid-19 pandemic
By Zhe Liu, University of Leeds The worldwide coronavirus disease pandemic (COVID-19) is not only affecting many people’s health but also changing people’s social lives...
Linguistic encounters: What year 7 students say about ‘difficult words’
By Gary Chambers The large scale ESRC funded project entitled “The linguistic challenges of the transition: identifying the language barriers encountered at a crucial time...
Covid-19 Disrupts ‘Single-Story’ Research into Language Education
Maggie Kubanyiova August 2020 In her popular TED talk, the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie warned against telling single stories about people, communities or social phenomena, noting that...
Access to language, digital network and human resources: Lockdown challenges for language teachers of students with disabilities in the Global South
Dani Fobi July 2020 In the Global South context where language teaching has been challenging because of limited human and material resources even on regular days,...
Being Isolated, Excluded and Black: Teachers’ Experience of Lockdown Depends on Who They Are
Taguhi Sakakyan July 2020 These teachers’ stories highlight that COVID-19 has exposed and amplified existing inequalities in education and in the society in general. In all...
Language Teachers in Latin America: Eyewitnesses of Invisible Layers of Inequality
Loreto Aliaga-Salas July 2020 I have interviewed more than 10 teachers across the countries of Latin America, two of which are included in CLER’s Language Teachers’ Lives...
Lockdown Ushers a Rethink of Language Teachers’ Roles, Job Security and the Need for Recognition
Natalie Donohue July 2020 The three English language teachers I interviewed -Olivia (UAE), Murat (Northern Cyprus), and Myrtle (Japan)- were based in very different contexts,...