‘All the world is our stage: primary pupils never lost in translanguaging’ crosses borders with Chancellor’s Fund support
Published: 5 August 2025
Eneida Garcia Villanueva, Early Career Researcher and SMLC PhD student has received funding from the chancellor’s fund to extend her research ‘All the world is our stage: primary pupils never lost in translanguaging’ (AtWiOS) across borders
Eneida Garcia Villanueva, Early Career Researcher and SMLC PhD student has received funding from the Chancellor’s Fund to extend her research ‘All the world is our stage: primary pupils never lost in translanguaging’ (AtWiOS) across borders.
The Chancellor’s Fund will support this new phase of the project, an international collaboration to compare the Catalan and Gaelic Medium Education systems, by extending the research to several schools in Catalonia. Building on its success in Scotland, AtWiOS aims to deepen understanding of how multilingual pedagogies function across distinct mainstream bilingual models.
AtWiOS places home languages centre-stage through implementing pedagogical translanguaging in monolingual and bilingual education and supporting the development of inclusive multilingual teaching practices to include languages otherwise excluded from the curriculum. Through participation in this research pupils embark on an exciting creative language learning journey while schools receive a framework to enhance social justice and inclusion. The celebration of home languages alongside school languages, raises awareness about multilingualism and strengthens school–home links. The culminating multilingual performance serves to bridge the gap with the wider community.
This new phase of the project will offer valuable insights to shape both local and international language policy. It will continue celebrating multilingualism, increasing metalinguistic awareness, enhancing teaching practice and multilingual education pedagogies and methodologies, as well as multicultural appreciation among pupils, teachers, schools and the society at large.
For more information, please visit the project's website or contact Eneida Garcia Villanueva at Eneida.GarciaVillanueva@glasgow.ac.uk.
AtWiOS was originally funded by the AHRC-OWRI Creative Multilingualism project AHRC award reference AH/N004701/1 (2018 & 2020). AtWiOS was originally funded by the AHRC-OWRI Creative Multilingualism project AHRC award reference AH/N004701/1 (2018 & 2020). Website build funded by UofG SMLC Summer Research Fund (2021).
First published: 5 August 2025
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Eneida Garcia Villanueva, Early Career Researcher and SMLC PhD student, has received funding from the chancellor’s fund to extend her research ‘All the world is our stage: primary pupils never lost in translanguaging’ (AtWiOS) across borders.