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Community Languages Schools Transforming Education

By May 7, 2024No Comments1 min read1,237 views

In Episode 16 of the Language on the Move PodcastDr Hanna Torsh speaks with Emeritus Professor Joseph Lo Bianco about his new co-edited book, Community and Heritage Languages Schools Transforming Education: Research, Challenges, and Teaching Practices (with Ken Cruickshank and Merryl Wahlin) and published by Routledge.

The conversation addresses community and heritage language schooling research and practice, and our guest’s long history of important language policy research and activism, as well as the interconnections between the two.

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Reference

Cruickshank, K., Lo Bianco, J., & Wahlin, M. (Eds.). (2023). Community and Heritage Languages Schools Transforming Education: Research, Challenges, and Teaching Practices. Taylor & Francis.

Hanna Torsh

Author Hanna Torsh

Hanna Torsh is a Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney, where she teaches undergraduate and postgraduate applied linguistics. Her research interests are family language policy, second language learning and teaching, and linguistic diversity in institutional communication. Her first book, "Linguistic Intermarriage in Australia: Between pride and shame," was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2020. Hanna tweets about her research at @HannaTorsh.

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