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meits multilingualism empowering individuals transforming societies meits toggle navigation about the project project aims research questions project strands project team research associates research assistants phd students he partners non he partners flexible funding projects project advisory policy journal about policy papers research lab papers opinion articles dialogues editorial team editorial guidelines media video audio language tasters publications for researchers policy documents general interest resources links blog news news useful links events world of languages goes online play games and tackle quizzes to discover the hidden treasures of languages find out more languages change lives booklet get inspired to start your language journey take a look pop up world of languages the first uk pop up museum of languages discover the weird and wonderful world of languages through our family friendly hands on activities and games find out more language tasters new discover portuguese nepali and many other languages discover our book how languages changed my life is out now buy here multilingualism empowering individuals transforming societies meits is a major interdisciplinary research project funded under the ahrc open world research initiative linguistic competence in more than one language being multilingual sits at the heart of the study of modern languages and literatures distinguishing it from cognate disciplines through six interlocking research strands we investigate how the insights gained from stepping outside a single language culture and mode of thought are vital to individuals and societies learn more recent news new publications 24 april 2023 read article publication by the ahrc of the open world research initiative showcasing the value of modern languages 29 september 2021 read article more news upcoming events more events policy journal languages society policy mission lsp publishes high quality peer reviewed language research in accessible and non technical language to promote policy engagement and provide expertise to policy makers journalists and stakeholders in education health business and elsewhere language underpins every aspect of human activity social economic and cultural insights from language and linguistics research can improve policy making and have the potential to impact on a wide range of areas of public life we publish policy papers opinion articles short and accessible papers from the research lab and dialogues we also occasionally publish policy reviews lsp promotes the multidisciplinarity of linguistics and language research and welcomes contributions from diverse disciplines including but not restricted to linguistics modern languages cultural studies cognitive science developmental linguistics and psychology sociolinguistics corpus and computational linguistics education health sciences psychology and neuroscience for information on how to submit a paper please see our editorial guidelines issn 2515 3854 more more journal recent blog speak in english inventing everyday language policies 18 june 2020 when we think about language policies we tend to think big we might think of national mandates which determine the official language s of a country or policies for education which specify the medium of instruction in state schools while such policies will undoubtedly influence our experience of living working or studying in a particular country the language practices that each individual chooses to follow or perhaps more controversially chooses to impose on others reflect much deeper ideologies recently i have come across several examples that have made me reflect on these everyday language policies and particularly on what they might represent here are a few examples read article benefits or connections are we communicating the right message 03 june 2020 a few weeks ago i was involved in writing a case study which forms part of a booklet for the meits project addressing some big issues in language learning the theme that i was responsible for was why do people learn languages this is a question often asked by the general public and in policy making it is also a very difficult one as the motivations for language learning are many and very complex i was hoping to find some straightforward answers in our research but was struggling to distil a common message across the project as our strands do not seem to directly address the question of motivation but tend to focus on a related issue on the benefits of language learning as the title of the meits project indicates the key message is that m ultilingualism can e mpower i ndividuals and t ransform s ocieties and there are multiple benefits of language learning be they social cultural cognitive educational economic or even health related read article radio connects irish speakers 14 may 2020 due to covid 19 lockdown i have been working from home for some time along with our youngest son and daughter so far the arrangement is going well although things can get a bit tetchy as cocktail hour approaches on fridays read article more blog watch listen video more video audio meits celebrates international mother language day 21 february 2018 listen now understanding our multilingual world being human festival photographer interviews in cambridge listen now podcast the need for a national languages policy in the uk listen now more audio the pop up world of languages in numbers visitors oct dec 2019 languages recorded top 10 languages amongst our visitors spanish french chinese bengali irish portuguese arabic hindi japanese russian our partners about a flagship ahrc funded project to revitalize modern languages and shape uk language policy by showing how multilingualism can empower individuals and transform societies ahrc owri projects moodle owri intranet newsletter keep yourself up to date subscribe we will never send spam and you can unsubscribe any time see our privacy policy copyright 2016 2025 meits