In this short recording Angela Creese and Adrian Blackledge describe the aims, methodology and findings of the TLANG project.
Digital Stories
Translanguaging in the multilingual city
This film captures different understandings of translanguaging discussed at TLANG's final project conference
Crossing Borders: Translanguaging as Social Practice
This short film captures our partnership with a range of stakeholders including artists, policy makers, academics and community activists around the themes of language, superdiversity, sport and law.
Translanguaging and the Arts: A Creative Conversation
This film explores researchers, artist and creative practitioners working together to represent multilingualism and superdiversity in new and engaging ways.
Overcoming Barriers to University Education in South Africa
Highlights from workshops held in South Africa to engage university lecturers and managers in discussions about translanguaging as pedagogy in higher education in South Africa, and the role of South Africa’s official languages in university classrooms.
Researching Translanguaging Summer School
A summer school, 'Researching Translanguaging', was hosted at University of Birmingham by MOSAIC Centre for Research on Multilingualism, the TLANG project, and the collaborative (University of Birmingham / University of Cape Town) research project, 'Overcoming Barriers to University Education in South Africa'. Scholars from all over the world attended, including 14 from South Africa.
Women and Theatre
The TLANG team collaborated with a creative company, ‘Women and Theatre’, who produced an original piece of theatre in response to their engagement with the research project. The show was performed 22 times in four cities, to enthusiastic and appreciative audiences.
Teamwork in the City
Joe Ng is a volleyball coach, who is also a businessman. Here, he talks about communicating with volleyball players from different global origins.
Linguistic superdiversity as a “new” theoretical framework in applied linguistics: panacea or nostrum?
Download the powerpoint presentation (PDF) linguistic-superdiversity-as-a-new-theoretical-framework
The Library of Birmingham
Research conducted by the Birmingham team at the Library of Birmingham.
Voices of the Bullring Markets
This video released by the team working at the University of Birmingham provides an introduction to the superdiverse nature of the Bullring markets.
Rethinking Communicative Competence in Superdiversity: Part 4
Professor Angela Creese presents Part 4 of her NALDIC Seminar from July 2013.
Rethinking Communicative Competence in Superdiversity: Part 3
Professor Angela Creese presents Part 3 of her NALDIC Seminar from July 2013.
Rethinking Communicative Competence in Superdiversity: Part 2
Professor Angela Creese presents Part 2 of her NALDIC Seminar from July 2013.
Rethinking Communicative Competence in Superdiversity: Part 1
Part 1 of Professor Angela Creese's presentation at the NALDIC Seminar held at King's College, London University, 13 July 2013.
‘Welcome’ in Utopia
The Leeds TLANG team are working on an AHRC-funded Connected Communities project with local arts organisation Faceless Arts investigating the role of 'welcome' in utopia for the Utopias 2016 Festival https://welcomeutopia2016.wordpress.com/ https://player.vimeo.com/video/165216455
Community in Education Conference
Professor Li Wei speaks at the London Metropolitan University.
Tlang Summer School Lecture: Translanguaging as a Practical theory of Language with Professor Li Wei
Beyond the Multilingual Moment: Perspectives on Competence in Language Teaching and Learning
Professor Angela Creese speaks at the 2013 Nessa Wolfson Colloquium.
On heritage speakers as native speakers: description, identity, ideology
Download the powerpoint presentation on-heritage-speakers-as-native-speakers (PDF)
Translanguaging in a Globalised World
Professor Angela Creese discusses Translanguaging in this Open University podcast.
Translanguaging in the Contact Zone: Language Use in Superdiverse Urban Areas
James Simpson at the 11th Language and Development Conference in Delhi, November 2015
Linguistic Diversity in India
James Simpson on Indian national TV on the NDTV panel discussion show, Mindspace, with Osama Manzar, Ajit Mohandy and Alison Barrett, November 2015.