Language and Education Network - Research Seminar - Victoria Murphy (University of Oxford)
Multilingual pupils in mainstream education: The importance of evidence
| A School of Education research event | |
|---|---|
| Date | 10 May 2021 |
| Time | 17:00 to 18:30 |
| Place | ZOOM |
| Provider | School of Education |
| Intended audience | Academic staff and students |
| Registration information | Contact event organiser for event link |
| Organizer | Phil Durrant |
Event details
Victoria Murphy (University of Oxford)
Multilingual pupils in mainstream education: The importance of evidence
In this presentation I will discuss the role of Education as a context through which young children’s emergent bi- or multilingualism is supported. I focus on children who have a home language that is different from their language of education and present a selective review some evidence which speaks to academic and L2 outcomes in this population. I then highlight the particular importance of developing knowledge of vocabulary as a means of supporting literacy development in linguistically diverse pupils and present some research on children’s developing knowledge of lexical form, particularly with respect to metaphors and polysemes. I conclude by arguing for a need to have more focused studies investigating multilingual pedagogies that present a balanced and evidence-based agenda for supporting linguistically diversity in all our pupils. Without this evidence we are unable to adequately support multilingual pupils in linguistically diverse classrooms.
Seminar Recording