Date: 1 June 2019, 2.00pm – 3.30pm
Venue: Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
One in five state-educated UK children are exposed to a language other than English at home. This figure rises to 50% of state-educated children in areas such as London or Leicester. And yet there is no space in the National Curriculum for children to explore their multilingualism.
This free workshop, led by Karina Lickorish Quinn and Rahul Bery, will explore ways to bring multilingualism into the secondary MFL and English classroom as a resource that can enrich all students’ interaction with the learning of reading and writing. The session will furnish educators with practical, versatile activities and resources to use to encourage multilingual students to make creative use of their language skills and to get young people thinking about the importance of language.
Karina Lickorish Quinn is
a Peruvian-English writer, an English teacher at Townley Grammar School, and a
Teaching Associate in Creative Writing at Queen Mary University of London. She
was previously a lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of
Reading. Her work has been published by The White Review, The Offing, and Asymptote, and she is
currently working on her debut novel, represented by Emma Paterson at Aitken
Alexander. Karina has a particular interest in multilingual literature and in
diversifying the school curriculum, especially in the English
classroom.
Rahul Bery is a translator from Spanish and
Portuguese into English, as well as a qualified secondary teacher with
experience teaching Modern Foreign Languages and English as an Additional
Language in primary and secondary schools in London, Bristol and South Wales,
where he is currently based. His translations of authors such as Álvaro
Enrigue, Guadalupe Nettel and Daniel Galera have appeared in publications
including Granta and The White Review. He is currently the British
Library’s translator in residence.
