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Tell us your multilingual story!
Share your multilingual pictures!
Send us feedback on the materials at info@wamcam.org
This project and the materials
are the work of researchers at the University of Cambridge:
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Linda Fisher
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Michael Evans
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Karen Forbes
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Angela Gayton
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Yongcan Liu
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Dieuwerke Rutgers
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Harper Staples
With thanks to the teachers and students in schools for their valuable input.
WAM arises out of the work on multilingual identity carried out by the Education Strand of the MEITS project (Multilingualism Empowering Individuals Transforming Societies). This is a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and led by Principal Investigator Wendy Ayres-Bennett
DID YOU KNOW?
Even bilinguals are not balanced: they usually speak one language better than the other!
DID YOU KNOW?
About 30%
of English
words come
from French
DID YOU KNOW?
Over 7000
languages are spoken
in the world today. One third are endangered (they have fewer than
1000 speakers)
DID YOU KNOW?
Learning a new language helps you with the language/s you already know
DID YOU KNOW?
Having another language has been shown to slow down dementia.