Event type:

In person

Date & time:

19 Oct 2021, 18:00 – 19:00

Cross curriculum benefits of multilingual learning

Professor Li Wei, Director and Dean of the UCL Institute of Education will review some of the key arguments and evidence for the benefits of learning multiple languages, as well as learning through multiple languages.

Professor Li Wei with 20 Bedford Way in the background
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Cross curriculum benefits of multilingual learning

19 Oct 2021, 18:00 – 19:00

Professor Li Wei

Director and Dean of the UCL Institute of Education (IOE)

Professor Li Wei is an elected Fellow of the British Academy, Member of Academia Europaea, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (United Kingdom), and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA).

Prior to his appointment as IOE’s Director and Dean in March 2021, he held a Chair of Applied Linguistics, was Director of the Centre for Applied Linguistics at the UCL Institute of Education, and directed the ESRC UCL, Bloomsbury (Birkbeck, SOAS, LSHTM) and East London Doctoral Training Partnership. Until the end of 2014, he was Pro-Vice-Master of Birkbeck College, University of London, where he was Chair of Applied Linguistics and Director of the Birkbeck Graduate Research School. His research interests are in bilingualism and multilingualism. He founded a number of journals in linguistics and education.

Further information

Ticketing

Pre-booking essential

Cost

Free

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Organiser

Roberto Filippi

r.filippi@ucl.ac.uk