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Karen Forbes is an associate professor in second language education at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. Before completing her PhD in 2016, Karen taught modern languages in secondary schools in England and has also worked as an English language teacher in Spain and China. She teaches and supervises on a range of programmes at undergraduate, master’s and doctoral level and is a member of the Second Language Education research group. In addition to school language policies, her current research interests include multilingual identity in education and language learning strategies.
The aim of this event is to expand our understanding of how to capture and authentically represent the voices of participants in language and literacy research. Through this symposium we hope to...
Dimensions of language in schools Many educators will be familiar with the saying that ‘all teachers are language teachers’ and few would argue that language doesn’t play a crucial role in...
Continue reading blog postJoin the Literacy and Language SIG annual meeting to network with colleagues, learn about the activities of the SIG over the last year and plans for 2023. This meeting will be hosted online,...
Supporting the development of languages and literacies in a multilingual world
