Reading and Representation for Multilingual Children
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With about a quarter of all children in the UK growing up multilingual, their reading experiences should be at the forefront of our minds in the National Year of Reading. In this webinar, we will explore what we know about the reading lives of multilingual children, drawing on data from the Annual Literacy Survey and other research, before considering where and how multilingual children are represented in the books they read, and why this matters.Dr Sarah Brownsword:
An Associate Professor in Primary education at University of East Anglia; she
teaches the English and Primary Languages components of the Primary PGCE course, and is the course co-director.
Sarah is a trustee and Executive Committee member of the UK Literacy Association (UKLA). She co-convenes the English in ITE Special Interest Group for the UKLA and is
their Conferences Committee convener.
Sarah is an Individual Licensed Practitioner for The Bell Foundation, delivering CPD on English as an Additional Language (EAL) to school staff in the Eastern region.
Sarah is interested in race and diversity in education, particularly in the context of children’s literature and reading; and improving teachers’ racial literacy. She recently completed an EdD, where she researched the representation of racially minoritised characters in childrens books.
Sarah can be found on TikTok (and other places, but mainly TikTok!) as @GrammarSlammer where she makes videos about language, grammar and education.
Sabine Little:
Sabine Little is Professor of Literacy and Multilingualism at the University of Sheffield. Originally trained as a secondary languages teacher for German and French, she now focuses on home, heritage, and community languages, supporting teachers to embrace multilingual pedagogies in diverse classrooms.
She runs the successful Lost Wor(l)ds website (www.mulitilingualism-in-schools.net) and has worked with organisations and charities such as the National Literacy Trust, World Book Day, and the International Baccalaureate Organisation. Her work on multilingual libraries won the international Brenda Eastwood Award for Diversity and Inclusion.
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