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Project Summary:

LINCDIRE (LINguistic and Cultural DIversity Reinvented), funded through a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, was a project with partners in Canada, the USA, and France. The project was designed to formalize an international partnership to enhance linguistic and cultural awareness, and to develop an online environment to foster plurilingualism in language education practices. The goal of LINCDIRE was to develop ongoing collaboration among institutions with expertise in different language education contexts to develop a plurilingual theoretical framework to guide pedagogical innovation in language teaching and learning. Findings from this multi-phased collaboration continue to inform the Advancing Agency in Language Education project currently underway.

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The project included the design and implementation of an e-portfolio digital environment – Language Integration through E-portfolio (LITE)– which is being used in language classrooms in K-12 and post-secondary institutions to enhance diversity by interconnecting a plurality of languages and cultures. By networking across institutions that have knowledge in language education, LINCDIRE has become a leading voice in the theory and practice of plurilingualism. This collaboration involved a range of international institutions: M’Chigeeng First Nation School, Institute for Innovation in Second Language Education, University of Toronto, University of Toronto Schools, University of New Brunswick, York University, University of Ottawa, Middlebury College and the University of Grenoble.

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SSHRC

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