Episode Seven - Celebrating cultural diversity for International Mother Language Day

Episode Seven - Celebrating cultural diversity for International Mother Language Day:

It is International Mother Language Day on Monday 21st February and in this episode we speak to Dr Francesca La Morgia from Mother Tongues in Ireland to ask how she celebrates languages every day not just on this special day.

Dr Francesca La Morgia is a linguist and cultural producer based in Dublin. She is the founder and director of Mother Tongues and Mother Tongues Festival.  Dr La Morgia has been delivering training in the area of bilingual language development and bilingual education since 2008. She has an MPhil in Applied Linguistics from Trinity College Dublin and a PhD in bilingual language acquisition from DCU and she lectured at the University of Reading, Trinity College Dublin and Maynooth University. In recent years Francesca has been delivering professional training to mainstream teachers, EAL teachers and teacher trainers in Ireland, Belgium, the UK, Germany and Switzerland. Some of the locations include the European Commission in Brussels, the Ils International School in Geneva, the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Ireland and the EAL teacher network at Leeds University. Her publications include articles in international peer-review journals and books as well as contributions to support materials for the Primary Language Curriculum and a toolkit for using the first language in English medium instruction for Oxford University Press. Her activity book Language Explorers, available in English and Irish, is used in hundreds of schools all over Europe.

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