TLANG website: https://tlang.org.uk

Films

i. Voices of the Bullring Markets : This video provides an introduction to the superdiverse nature of the Bullring meat and fish markets in Birmingham.

ii. The Library of Birmingham : This video provides an account of language and interaction at the Library of Birmingham.

iii. Communication in the Multilingual City: This film of the final TLANG conference contains discussions about translanguaging and offers a range of interpretations.

iv. Translanguaging and the Arts: A Creative Conversation: This film explores researchers, artist and creative practitioners working together to represent multilingualism and superdiversity in new and engaging ways.

v. Overcoming Barriers to University Education in South Africa: Highlights from workshops held in South Africa to engage university lecturers and managers in discussions about translanguaging as pedagogy in higher education in South Africa, and the role of South Africa’s official languages in university classrooms.
vi. Researching Translanguaging Summer School:Scholars from all over the world attended this summer school which explored different conceptualisations of translanguaging and methodological approaches for researching linguistic diversity.

vii. Women & Theatre: The TLANG team collaborated with a creative company, ‘Women and Theatre’, who produced an original piece of theatre in response to their engagement with the research project. The show was performed 22 times in four cities, to enthusiastic and appreciative audiences.

viii. A Network Assembly I: This captures how a range of different stakeholders including policy makers, councillors, museum curators, local business people, artists, academics and students engage with concepts such as superdiversity, translanguaging and multilingualism.

ix. Changing Lives: This film shows the work of a Chinese community Centre and provides an account of how the lives of people visiting the centre are changing.

x. Team Work in the City: This film shows the coaching practices of a volleyball coach communicating with volleyball players from different countries around the world.

xi. Crossing Borders: Translanguaging as Social Practice.This short film captures our partnership with a range of stakeholders including artists, policy makers, academics and community activists around the themes of language, superdiversity, sport and law.