Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Global Challenges

该项目源于现代语言跨国化（TML），这是AHRC翻译文化计划下的三个大型资助项目之一。TML成立的现代语言专家小组进行了研究，揭示了各种语言实践的中心地位，从多语言到翻译，在移民背景和多元文化社会中。TML的一个重要组成部分是开发旨在将语言和文化多样性意识嵌入从小学到高等教育和成人教育的教育实践中的方法。TML巩固了与Judith Hall教授领导的凤凰项目（http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/phoenix-project）的联系，该项目将卡迪夫大学和纳米比亚大学（UNAM）联系起来，并支持威尔士政府的“威尔士国际发展非洲倡议”，促进相互能力建设和可持续合作。该项目的目的是通过与凤凰项目及其教育伙伴关系密切合作，将在TML中获得的专业知识和实用知识带到纳米比亚。将对在TML中开发的方法进行调整和改进，以便与UNAM的研究人员和当地从业人员共同生产适合纳米比亚背景的材料。这项新的研究寻求通过当地环境中的多语言教育促进教育和专业发展，将学校和卫生系统确定为社会福利和经济发展的关键领域。促进多语言教育已被确定为对纳米比亚具有社会和经济效益的关键目标，并与若干联合国可持续发展目标有明确联系。与语言和交流有关的问题影响着国家经济增长的能力；它们是成功提供医疗服务的核心；它们对贫困、收入差距、性别和代际不平等有明显影响；它们对能力建设和进入就业市场产生影响；它们与解决冲突和促进人权有关；它们显然与文化遗产和记忆问题有关。该项目侧重于两个具体领域：支持多语和译语实践并将其融入学校教育；使卫生专家认识到多语言交流，包括翻译和自翻译在其专业实践中所发挥的作用。在这两种情况下，重点是合作研究实践、相互学习和能力建设。其目的是通过课程开发、教学资源的生产和跨国指导网络的建立实现持久的影响，从而扩大该项目在全国和国外的影响。通过提高人们对语言能力和翻译实践在纳米比亚多语言环境中的影响的认识，该项目旨在支持有关文化遗产和文化记忆的可持续行动（在教育和媒体方面），就语言和翻译实践在各种地方和景观中的影响和可持续性产生新的研究见解。促进在保健和医疗实践中更有效的交流（在多种地方情况下与多语言团队合作），所有这些都涉及土著、殖民和后殖民语言和文化遗产之间复杂的相互作用。通过参与纳米比亚学校翻译和语言学习的创造性实践，并在卡迪夫大学凤凰项目与墨西哥国立自治大学健康教育之间正在进行的项目的基础上，该项目将通过确认土著语言为教育和信息语言，为受排斥群体提供教育和获得保健服务，以及为保护纳米比亚的文化记忆和非物质遗产作出持久贡献。

The project stems from Transnationalizing Modern Languages (TML), one of three large grants awarded under the AHRC's Translating Cultures scheme. TML's established group of Modern Languages experts has conducted research revealing the centrality of a variety of language practices, ranging from multilingualism to translation, in migration contexts and multicultural societies. An important part of TML has been to develop methodologies aimed at embedding awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity within educational practices, from primary to higher and adult education.TML has cemented links with The Phoenix Project (http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/phoenix-project), led by Prof. Judith Hall, that links Cardiff University and the University of Namibia (UNAM) and which supports the Welsh Government's International Development Wales for Africa initiative, promoting mutual capacity building and sustainable collaboration.The aim of the project is to take the expertise and practical knowledge acquired within TML to Namibia by working closely with The Phoenix Project and its educational partnerships. Methodologies developed in TML will be adapted and refined to co-produce with researchers from UNAM and local practitioners materials tailor-made for the Namibian context. The new research seeks to facilitate educational and professional development through multilingual education in the local environment, identifying the school and health systems as key areas of social wellbeing and economic development.The promotion of multilingual education has been identified as a key target with social and economic benefits for Namibia with clear connections to a number of UN sustainable development goals. Issues relating to languages and communication affect the country's ability to grow economically; they are central to successful healthcare provision; they have a clear impact on poverty, income disparity and gender and generational inequality; they impact upon capacity building and access to job markets; they are relevant to conflict resolution as well as to the promotion of human rights; and they are clearly related to issues of cultural heritage and memory.The project concentrates on two specific areas: supporting multilingualism and translingual practices and their embedding in school education; and sensitizing health specialists to the role played by multilingual communication, including translation and self-translation, in their professional practice. In both cases, the focus is on co-research practices, mutual learning and capacity building. The aim is to achieve enduring impact through curriculum development, the production of teaching resources, and the creation of a transnational mentoring network that will amplify the effects of the project throughout the country and beyond.By promoting awareness of the impact of language capabilities and translation practices in Namibia's multilingual environment, the project aims to support sustainable action regarding cultural heritage and cultural memory (in education and the media), produce new research insights on the impact and sustainability of language and translation practices in a variety of locales and landscapes, and promote more efficient communication within health and medical practices (working with multilingual teams in multiple local contexts), all of which involve complex interactions among indigenous, colonial and post-colonial linguistic and cultural heritages.By engaging with creative practices of translation and language learning in Namibian schools and by building on an on-going project between Cardiff University's Phoenix Project and UNAM in health education, the project will make an enduring contribution to educational provision and access to healthcare for excluded sectors of the population as well as to the conservation of cultural memory and intangible heritage in Namibia through the validation of indigenous tongues as languages of education and information.