Embracing Linguistic Diversity in Scotland: A Journey of Integration and Empowerment

Scotland celebrates its rich linguistic diversity through initiatives like the ESOL Strategy, promoting language skills for residents. Refugees are encouraged to learn and integrate, shifting language models from deficit to abundance, fostering a multilingual country with laws supporting Gaelic and BSL. Holistic approaches like language befriending empower individuals to engage in society through language.

• Linguistic Diversity
• Scotland
• Integration
• Refugees
• Multilingualism

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1. We are Language Rich: Celebrating the Bountiful Sources of Language in Scotland Professor Alison Phipps UNESCO Chair: Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts

2. COSLA Conference Alison Phipps UNESCO Chair: Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts

3. The Refugee Provocation to Scotland You are stingy with your languages you do not speak to us in the street

4. Welcoming Our Learners: Scotlands ESOL Strategy 2015 2020 That all Scottish residents for whom English is not a first language have the opportunity to access high quality English language provision so that they can acquire the language skills to enable them to participate in Scottish life: in the workplace, through further study, within the family, the local community, Scottish society and the economy. These language skills are central to giving people a democratic voice and supporting them to contribute to the society in which they live. p.6

5. Learning to be more like a home 2 years of rapid, focused and willing expansion of language work with refugees At policy level new strategies At classroom level renewed energy and focus At community level - befriending

6. Political Economy of Languages Differences in provision: refugee language vs ordinary vs elite language learner Woefully inadequate language provision in UK. Number of hours has been counted (10,000)

7. Scotland is Multilingual Country Scotland has passed laws focusing on Gaelic and BSL Scotland has remarkable linguistic resource Language models are shifting from being based on deficit to based on plenty

8. Language Befriending Holistic practice Embedding languaging into every transaction Enabling each other In my language we say . the pedagogy of the street. Teach and learn everywhere. It s not life long learning so much as learning everywhere.

9. English Last Translanguaging is what the whole world does Language humility Bring your resources to the classroom Multilingual policies should be default and norm in all local authorities. Mother languages first the only advantage in face of everyone else s advantages

10. Re-Wilding Languages Get out and about Bring more multilingual arts Beyond literacy patterns Re-wilding the practitioner

11. If its good for refugees, its good for everyone. Live in languages; Love in them and with them! Don t be stingy Add to the abundance.