I enjoyed visiting multicultural and historic London on my way from Cambridge to Bristol and here are some photos taken during my visit.
Multicultural London
Signs in London
Sharynne McLeod is Distinguished Professor of Speech and Language Acquisition at Charles Sturt University, Australia. This blog records the work of her team to support multilingual children's speech acquisition throughout the world. The associated Multilingual Children's Speech website contains resources for over 100 languages: http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech
I enjoyed visiting multicultural and historic London on my way from Cambridge to Bristol and here are some photos taken during my visit.
Here are some ideas for The Treehouse after visiting the Young V&A in London. They also have a website for children called Mused: https://www.vam.ac.uk/mused/
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| "Pick up a book To read in the nook And please bring it back After having a look" |
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| Children were photographed with an artifact that they brought to show "this is me" |
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| The Story Machine prompts children to create stories with prompts to consider: Who are you going to meet? | What will you take? | Where will you go? | How will you get there? |
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| A village is created with doll houses. Another section had torches for the children to explore the exhibits |
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| Build it |
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| Children really enjoyed climbing the various stairs. The storytelling stage had plush red carpet on the stairs. |
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| Materials and challenges were provided in the Open Studio that was next to The Shed for designers and artists in residence |
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| Young V&A - a very popular venue with many people lined up in the rain |
Sharynne McLeod is Professor of Speech and Language Acquisition at Charles Sturt University. She was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2010-2014) titled Speaking my Languages: International Speech Acquisition in Australia. This blog was designed to archive what she learned and accomplished during the Fellowship. For details about the Fellowship see the original post. The Multilingual Children's Speech website was created as part of this Fellowship. It contains resources for over 60 languages.
The blog has continued beyond 2014 to record our continuing work to make a difference in children's lives throughout the world. Since this blog commenced Professor McLeod's Speech-Language-Multilingualism team has included:
Postdoctoral scholars: Dr Kate Crowe, Dr Sarah Verdon, Dr Sarah Masso, Dr Cen (Audrey) Wang, Dr Michelle Brown
PhD students: Nicole Watts Pappas, Jane McCormack, Jacqui Barr, Kate Crowe, Sarah Verdon, Sarah Masso, Suzanne Hopf, Ben Pham, Helen Blake, Anna Cronin, Natalie Hegarty, Anniek van Doornik, Nicole McGill, Van Tran, Belinda Downey, Marie Ireland, Kate Margetson
Masters students: Rebekah Lockart, Hang Nguyen, Vấn Phạm
Honours students: Bethany Toohill, Hannah Wilkin, Erin Holliday, Nicole Limbrick, Charlotte Howland and Holly McAlister.
Summaries:
2010, Feb-July: here
2010, Feb-Dec: here
2011, Feb-June: here
2011, July-Sept: here
2011, Oct-Dec: here
2012, Jan-Feb: here
2012, March-May: here
2012, June-July: here
2012, Aug-Sept: here
2012, Oct-2013-Feb: here
2013, March-May: here
2013, June-August: here
2013, Sept-2014, Feb: here
2014, March-June: here