Dr Dhir Jhingran from the Language and Learning Foundation discusses the importance of including children’s home languages in their early schooling and beyond, and reflects on the current scenario in the Indian education system. This plenary talk is from the first dissemination event of the ESRC- and DfID-funded MultiLila project, led by the University of Cambridge.
Find out more about the MultiLila project here: https://www.mam.mml.cam.ac.uk/