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Language in a health crisis: navigating Covid-19 in a multilingual Ireland

July 2, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Details

Date:
July 2, 2020
Time:
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Website:
https://tinyurl.com/yd3956tv

Venue

Seomra an Droichid, Institiúid de Móra agus ar Zoom

Update: Video and audio recordings of this session are now available.

This webinar addresses key sociolinguistic dimensions of the Covid-19 crisis in Ireland, looking at Irish and immigrant languages. Panellists will explore challenges posed by the crisis for speech and language therapy services and EAL (English as an additional language) provision; the role of the state in providing public health information in languages other than English; and surprising opportunities that have emerged in terms of home language maintenance and language learning.

This event is an initiative of the Centre for Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism (CALM) in the Moore Institute.

Panellists

  • Stanislava Antonijevic (NUI Galway)
  • Annie Asgard (Claddagh National School, Galway City)
  • Cassie Smith-Christmas (NUI Galway)
  • John Walsh (NUI Galway)

Chair: Laura McLoughlin (NUI Galway)

Attendance

To attend via Zoom, please register using this link: https://tinyurl.com/yd3956tv. The session will also be broadcast live via the Moore Institute’s Facebook page, and you can listen via Flirt FM 101.3 or www.flirtfm.ie.

About the series

This webinar is part of a series developed through the Moore Institute’s COVID-19 Response Group. Video and audio recordings of the previous sessions are available on the group’s webpage.