BRUM: Birmingham Research for Upholding Multilingualism

这项研究提供了一个快照的存在和可见性的语言及其相关的文化在当代社会。该调查的重点是伯明翰，该国的第二大城市，拥有超过100种语言的发言者。这个多元文化的城市有着悠久的工人阶级历史，是移民的家园，越来越多的人被排除在语言教育之外（英国理事会的语言趋势调查2018）。它也福尔斯落在最近DfE的努力，以促进卓越的语言教学法。然而，该地区已经从支持语言和文化的地方举措中受益（例如，阿斯顿大学主办的西米德兰兹语言之路网络，直到21日夏季）。该机构取消语言课程意味着，包括语言在内的普通高等教育课程将很快仅限于伯明翰和沃里克这两所红砖学校，这实际上将该地区很大一部分人口排除在学习语言之外，并影响了教师的供应。这对市中心学校的雄心勃勃的计划提出了挑战，例如百老汇学院，该学院大力推广语言以改善学校，或者爱德华六世国王财团宣布的“使城市成为英国最好的学习场所”的雄心。“伯明翰的多样性，其中心地位和与社区建立良好的学术联系，使这个项目成为一个理想的案例研究，初步诊断和建议，以支持未来的研究到语言和文化多样性。该项目的创新之处是采取自下而上的方法，让基层参与调查和分析情况，并寻找措施，提高非专业人员对学习语言及其相关文化的经济、社会和个人利益的认识。具体而言，这意味着：1。将调查语言在日常环境中的存在和可见度，如教育（如提供的语言、教师供应的可持续性）、商业、公共服务（如以英语以外的语言获得保健或司法服务）或休闲（如当地文化产品中的多语言性）。这将有助于评估在日常生活中接触语言和文化多样性的情况。非学术投入将是该项目的核心。这些数据将来自普通公民的日常经验，并将由当地利益相关者、最近的语言毕业生（目前正在进行PG研究，包括教学资格），他们曾经是西米德兰兹语言之路的语言大使，本科生和最后一年的学生。这样的研究助理预计将建立一个更直接的关系与线人，并提供一个方法没有学术偏见。公众也将被邀请通过提交伯明翰的语言景观的图像通过本地改编版本的LinguaSnapp为调查做出贡献。学校将组织一场比赛，鼓励学生考虑学校周围语言的可见性。这种众包数据将服务于社区。例如，城市某些地区的某些语言的存在提供了（不像人口普查那样受到自我报告的潜在扭曲）一个社区语言使用和需求的最新快照。这些信息可以为官方文件的翻译提供信息（参见COVID 19危机期间社区语言信息的缺乏）或当地企业的营销策略。建议将侧重于扩大语言及其相关文化的可及性的举措，培养对语言提供的赞赏和可持续性，以及对社区产生积极影响的可交付成果，并展示多语言和多文化的经济，社会和个人利益，从而激发对语言的新兴趣，并支持他们在英国的未来和学习

This research offers a snapshot of the presence and visibility of languages and their associated cultures in contemporary society. The survey focuses on Birmingham, the country's second city, that hosts speakers of over 100 languages. This multicultural city has a long working-class history and is home to migrants, a population increasingly excluded from language education (British Council's Language Trends Survey 2018). It also falls outside recent DfE's attempts to promote excellence in language pedagogy. Yet, the region has benefited from local initiatives in support of languages and cultures (e.g. the West Midlands Routes into Languages network hosted until summer 21 by Aston University). That institution's withdrawal of language programmes means that UG programmes including languages will soon be restricted to red-brick institutions Birmingham and Warwick, which effectively excludes a significant portion of the regional population from studying languages and compromises the supply of teachers. This challenges ambitious initiatives in inner-city schools such as Broadway Academy that intensively promotes languages for school improvement, or the King Edward VI Consortium's declared ambition to "make the city the best place to study in the UK." Birmingham's diversity, its central position and well-established academic links with the community make this project an ideal case study for initial diagnostic and recommendations in support of future research into linguistic and cultural diversity. The project's originality is to adopt a bottom-up approach by involving the grassroots in the survey and the diagnosis of the situation, and to look for measures that raise lay awareness of the economic, societal and personal benefits of learning languages and their associated cultures. In concrete terms, this means that:1. the presence and visibility of languages will be surveyed in everyday contexts such as education (e.g. languages offered, sustainability of teacher supply), businesses, public services (e.g.access to health or justice services in languages other than English) or leisure (e.g. multilingualism in the local cultural productions). This will help assess the exposure to linguistic and cultural diversity in daily life.2. Non-academic input will be core to the project. The data will come from the everyday experience of lay citizens and will be collected on the ground by local stakeholders, recent language graduates (currently engaged in PG study, incl. teaching qualifications) who used to be language ambassadors for Routes into Languages West Midlands and undergraduate placement and final year students. Such research assistants are expected to build a more direct rapport with the informants and to provide an approach devoid of academic preconceptions. The public will also be invited to contribute to the survey by submitting images of the linguistic landscape of Birmingham through a locally adapted version of LinguaSnapp. A school competition will be organised to encourage pupils to consider the visibility of languages around their school. This crowdsourcing of data will serve the community. For instance, the presence of certain languages in areas of the city provides (unlike the census that suffers from the potential distortions of self-report) an up-to-date snapshot of language use and needs in a neighbourhood. Such information could inform the translation of official documents (see the lack of information in community languages during the COVID19 crisis) or the marketing strategy of local businesses.3. Recommendations will focus on initiatives that broaden access to languages and their associated cultures, develop appreciation for and sustainability of language provision and on deliverables that positively impact the community and exhibit the economic, societal and personal benefits of multilingualism and multiculturalism, thereby igniting a renewed interest in languages and supporting their future and study in the UK