Dr. Rahat Zaidi from the University of Calgary, Canada, and long time collaborator of GREIP, presented a motivating seminar on the affordances of dual-language books and other multilingual online resources for implementing inclusive, multilingual practices in schools. Dr. Zaidi was invited as a special speaker to the module taught by Dr. Dooly and Dr. Masats in the Master on Research in Education at the UAB. MA and PhD students got to know a wide range of open-access bilingual resources and activities, to then reflect together on how these could be applied in our local contexts. Participants agreed on the potential of dual-language resources to promote linguistic awareness and to incorporate students’ heritage languages into mainstream classroom practices, a much relevant endeavour in our current educational context.
