Bilingualism = Advantage

“I think the cool thing about being bilingual is that you can communicate with much more people.”
(‘Angelica’, Italian-English bilingual, Belfast 2015)

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Credits

This panel was co-designed with Dr Raffaella Folli, Prof. Alison Henry, Dr Frances Kane, Dr Christina Sevdali and Dr Catrin Rhys at the Ulster Centre on Multilingualism, Ulster University (http://www.socsci.ulster.ac.uk/ucom) who also supplied the audio file arising from their research. They would like to thank their funders: Barnardo’s NI.
Image Credits:
• Foreign languages in Northern Ireland (Map: Skate Tier 2007 CC BY-SA 3.0)
• Cousins (Picture: Travis Swan 2014 CC BY-SA 2.0)
• One Brain Two Minds (Picture: Gwydion M Williams 2012 CC BY 2.0)
• UCoM Language Made Fun Team (Picture: Barnardo’s NI, 2015, used with permission)
• UCoM Sofia and Lachlan (Picture: UCoM, 2015, used with permission)
• UCoM Logo (Picture: UCoM, 2015, used with permission)
• Welcome to NI (Picture: NI Tourist Board, 2014, Designed by AV Browne, used with permission)