Languages specialist Eowyn Crisfield talks about her involvement in a project with Coventry City Ethnic Minority Achievement Service to create a languages policy for the city’s schools
School language policy - do you have one? In this episode Hamish Chalmers talks with language specialist Dr Eowyn Crisfield about why language policies are central to inclusion, and how the Coventry Language Policy for schools is being developed. Grounded in both research and reality, the collaborative process Coventry Ethnic Minority Achievement Services (EMAS) has engaged in will provide a strong policy base for widening participation in languages and ensuring all students are supported to see themselves as language users, language learners, and language experts.
Learn more about the project at Eowyn’s website: https://ocme.uk/blog/coventry-language-policy
Read about the project at the Languages Gateway website: https://www.thelanguagesgateway.uk/blog/4-june-2026-why-school-language-policy-matters-lessons-from-the-coventry-project/
And learn about similar work Eowyn did on the Island of Jersey: https://www.gov.je/Education/Schools/ChildLearning/pages/languagepolicyjerseyeducation.aspx
Explore the WoLLoW resources that Eowyn references: https://theworldoflanguages.co.uk
Learn more about the Oxford Education Deanery: https://www.education.ox.ac.uk/about-us/oxford-education-deanery/
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