{"id":64,"date":"2019-02-01T09:10:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T09:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/education\/?p=64"},"modified":"2019-02-01T09:45:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T09:45:08","slug":"multilingual-story-telling-by-children-and-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/education\/2019\/02\/01\/multilingual-story-telling-by-children-and-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Multilingual story-telling by children and for children"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences, our Family Language Policy research team (Prof Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen and Dr Jing Huang) ran a 'Multilingual Story-telling for Children by Children' event at the Bath Central library on the 3rd of November 2018. The event was opened by the Mayor of Bath, Councillor Patrick Anketell-Jones, and supported by colleagues from UCL and local schools in Bath and Bristol. More than 60 parents and children with various ethnic and sociocultural backgrounds attended the event.<\/p>\n

There were three parallel sessions: a creative story-writing-and-telling workshop for children aged from 7 to 11, led by prize-winning novelist Candy Gourlay; a Q&A session with case study discussions for parents; and a fun activity session for younger siblings.<\/p>\n

The event celebrated multilingual children's achievements and provided them an opportunity to creatively present their multilingual and multicultural lives in story-writing-and-telling. It also helped parents interested in raising children with more than one language to find answers to questions like 'what are the best methods to manage children's bi\/multilingual development at home?', 'what are the consequences of bi\/multilingualism for the brain and for cognition?', and 'how do migrant families maintain their minority languages?'
\nThe event was highly valued by parents as inspiring, informative and practically helpful.<\/p>\n

Student volunteers from the Department of Education were Luyao Li (PhD); Hala Khaled (PhD); and Hanan Alhai Yonis (BEd).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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