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Monday, December 1, 2025. Mother tongue–based multilingual education. Insights from India (online webinar)
Monday, December 1, 2025. Mother tongue–based multilingual education. Insights from India (online webinar)
Globally, about 40% of children lack access to education in their home language, which hinders academic development. This is especially true in India, where many children from low socioeconomic backgrounds speak diverse home languages that are rarely used in schools, particularly in low-cost English-medium institutions. Research shows that many children in India struggle with reading fluency and comprehension in both regional languages and English.
The reading intervention project, launched in 2019, addresses these challenges. Positive outcomes from this work highlight the benefits of mother tongue–based multilingual education. The teacher training module designed through this project has the potential to improve education and economic outcomes in India and other multilingual Global South contexts, while also informing global research on reading and comprehension in linguistically diverse settings.
Speaker: Lina Mukhopadhyay
LINA MUKHOPADHYAY is a professor at The English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), Hyderabad, India. Lina researches multilingual education, second language acquisition, and language assessment. At present, she is working on multilingual education in India projects in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, British Council, India, and a consortium of universities in India and Germany.
The event is free for everyone to attend. Certificates of attendance will be sent out to those attendees who are members of IATEFL.
Learn more and register here!
Monday, April 20, 2026. Pre-Conference Event
Monday, April 20, 2026. Pre-Conference Event
This is a self-contained one-day event focusing on specific topics related to ESOL. Pre-Conference Events are excellent value, and a great way to start your conference week where you can focus on one topic, and meet and interact with fellow professionals with the same areas of interest as you.
In 2026, ESOL SIG is doing a joint PCE with TD SIG.
Information about the programme coming soon!
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