{"id":2618,"date":"2014-03-06T19:26:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T19:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/?p=2618"},"modified":"2014-03-06T19:26:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T19:26:48","slug":"new-speakers-research-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2014\/03\/06\/new-speakers-research-links\/","title":{"rendered":"New Speakers Research Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/newspeakersislandvoicespdf.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2617\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/newspkrspp.jpg?w=150\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/newspkrspp.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/newspkrspp-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Gordon Wells, Island Voices co-ordinator, has been attending the first round of Working Group Meetings of the \u201cNew Speakers\u201d network at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh on 6-7 March. The \u201cNew Speakers\u201d network is an EU-funded initiative (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cost.eu\/domains_actions\/isch\/Actions\/IS1306\">COST Action IS1306<\/a>) aimed at fostering collaboration amongst researchers, facilitating the sharing of findings, and identifying key issues in research on multilingualism. The term \u201cnew speakers\u201d refers to multilingual individuals and groups who adopt and use a language variety different from their native language.\u00a0 Gordon\u2019s Powerpoint presentation introducing the Island Voices project and associated research interests can be viewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/newspeakersislandvoicespdf.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon Wells, Island Voices co-ordinator, has been attending the first round of Working Group Meetings of the \u201cNew Speakers\u201d network at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh on 6-7 March. The \u201cNew Speakers\u201d network is an EU-funded initiative (COST Action IS1306) aimed at fostering collaboration amongst researchers, facilitating the sharing of findings, and identifying key issues in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2014\/03\/06\/new-speakers-research-links\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Speakers Research Links<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}