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SUMMARY:Participative multilingual identity education: Theory\, evidence a
 nd impact of the ‘We Are Multilingual’ Campaign - MEITS WAM Project Te
 am\, University of Cambridge\, Linda Fisher\, Michael Evans\, Karen Forbes
 \, Angela Gayton (Glasgow)\, Yongcan Liu\, Dee Rutgers (Sheffield Hallam)
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 qd-mtqT0rE9Bsoi8plgq-jMoq1ExWFPv4\n\nAbstract\n\nA global rise in migratio
 n and transnational mobility has led to increasing diversity in the multil
 ingual profile of many classrooms. This has implications not only for the 
 identities of migrant students who are learning the language of their new 
 country\, but also for those engaging in language learning in schools. In 
 this talk we explain why a new dimension of pedagogy is necessary in order
  to help all learners to fully understand their own and others’ linguist
 ic repertoires (whether learned in school\, at home or in the community) a
 nd so to recognise their agency in being able to claim a multilingual iden
 tity. We draw on evidence from a series of studies conducted as part of t
 he four-year MEITS project (Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals\, Tran
 sforming Societies) which involved teachers and over 2\,000 students from 
 seven secondary schools in England. After defining multilingual identity w
 e explore why this matters for schools e.g. we suggest a correlation betwe
 en students’ willingness to identify as multilingual and attainment acro
 ss the curriculum. We also introduce an innovative package of identity-bas
 ed pedagogical resources for primary and secondary classrooms\, which has 
 been shown to help students develop their multilingual identity by buildin
 g knowledge about languages\, raising awareness and promoting reflexivity 
 across the school (see wamcam.org). This has important implications for ch
 anging attitudes towards languages and multilingualism\, encouraging socia
 l integration\, and creating an inclusive\, multilingual school community.
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