Support unsung heroes: community-based language learning and teaching
Support unsung heroes: community-based language learning and teaching
This chapter suggests that the UK has the potential to jump-start its capacity for language skills if it supports the language knowledge held by its community groups. Community-based language teaching and learning is widespread across the UK but relies heavily on volunteers and charitable work to survive. The chapter includes a case study of community languages in Southampton, which is typical of the situation across much of the UK. The creativity, innovation and collaborative nature of community-based classes and supplementary schools offers a vision of how language skills and cultural knowledge could be built up and embedded across society. It concludes that learning lessons from community-based language classes can help the UK to meet the challenges and realise the opportunities of an interconnected and globalised future.
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Borthwick, Kate
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2018
Borthwick, Kate
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Borthwick, Kate
(2018)
Support unsung heroes: community-based language learning and teaching.
In,
Kelly, Michael
(ed.)
Languages after Brexit: How the UK Speaks to the World.
Cham.
Palgrave Macmillan, .
(doi:10.1007/978-3-319-65169-9_16).
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This chapter suggests that the UK has the potential to jump-start its capacity for language skills if it supports the language knowledge held by its community groups. Community-based language teaching and learning is widespread across the UK but relies heavily on volunteers and charitable work to survive. The chapter includes a case study of community languages in Southampton, which is typical of the situation across much of the UK. The creativity, innovation and collaborative nature of community-based classes and supplementary schools offers a vision of how language skills and cultural knowledge could be built up and embedded across society. It concludes that learning lessons from community-based language classes can help the UK to meet the challenges and realise the opportunities of an interconnected and globalised future.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 20 October 2017
Published date: 2018
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