Dr Jim Anderson

Jim’s recent research has focused on the development of integrated and inclusive  approaches to language teaching looking in particular at appropriate pedagogies for community/heritage language learners studying in mainstream and complementary school contexts. He has directed two projects on behalf of the Nuffield Foundation. The first (2004-2007) led to the creation of Curriculum Guides for Arabic, Mandarin, Panjabi, Tamil and Urdu, published by CILT, The National Centre for Languages. The second (2009-2011) investigated creativity in the community languages classroom from the perspectives of pedagogy and professional development of teachers.

In 2012, with Vicky Macleroy, he was awarded a grant by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation for a two year project entitled ‘Critical Connections: a multilingual digital storytelling project’. Drawing on this work he has co-edited a book with Dr Vicky Macleroy  entitled ‘Multilingual Digital Storytelling: Engaging creatively and critically with literacy’ published by Routledge. 

To enable further investigation of the significance of multilingual digital storytelling in the context of multiliteracy research, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation agreed to fund a second project entitled ‘Critical Connnections II: Moving on with multilingual digital storytelling’ (2015-2017) For this project partnerships were formed with the British Film Institute, the British Museum, the Museum of London and the National Resource Centre for Supplementary Education. An offshoot from the project was the development of resources to support creative interactions with museum artefacts in the teaching of language-and-culture. Jim was particularly involved in the development of a language in art resource for the Arabic language classroom focussing on the work of artist, Ali Omar Ermes. Complementary teacher professional development guidance was also provided with support from Qatar Foundation International.

Book

Macleroy, Vicky; Anderson, Jim and Chung, Yu-Chiao. 2014. Critical Connections: Multilingual Digital Storytelling Project. Goldsmiths, University of London.

Edited Book

Lytra, Vally; Ros i Sole, Cristina; Anderson, Jim and Macleroy, Vicky, eds. 2022. Liberating Language Education. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. ISBN 9781788927932

Anderson, Jim and Macleroy Obied, Vicky, eds. 2016. Multilingual Digital Storytelling: Engaging creatively and critically with literacy. Oxford: Routledge.

Book Section

Lytra, Vally; Ros i Sole, Cristina; Anderson, Jim and Macleroy, Vicky. 2022. Introduction: Why Liberating Language Education? In: Vally Lytra; Cristina Ros i Sole; Jim Anderson and Vicky Macleroy, eds. Liberating Language Education. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, pp. 1-20. ISBN 9781788927932

Lytra, Vally; Ros i Sole, Cristina; Anderson, Jim and Macleroy, Vicky. 2022. 'Conclusion: Language Education Collages'. In: Vally Lytra; Cristina Ros i Sole; Jim Anderson and Vicky Macleroy, eds. Liberating Language Education. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, pp. 321-330. ISBN 9781788927932

Macleroy, Vicky and Anderson, Jim. 2021. What is a multilingualism activist? Multilingual moves: Changing the mindset of teachers and policy makers. In: Ana de Medeiros and Debra Kelly, eds. Language Debates. (1) Boston & London: Hodder and Stoughton & John Murray Learning, pp. 173-184. ISBN 9781529372250

Macleroy, Vicky and Anderson, Jim. 2021. Stories, Communities, Voices: Revitalising Language Learning Through Digital Media within a Project-based Pedagogical Framework. In: Michael Thomas and Kasumi Yamazaki, eds. Project-Based Language Learning and CALL From Virtual Exchange to Social Justice. Sheffield: Equinox Publishing Ltd, pp. 245-276. ISBN 9781800500242

Anderson, Jim and Macleroy, Vicky. 2019. Connecting worlds: interculturality, identity and multilingual digital stories in the making. In: Prue Holmes; Richard Fay and Jane Andrews, eds. Education and Migration: Languages Foregrounded. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9780367178239

Anderson, Jim. 2017. Engagement, multiliteracies and identity: developing pedagogies for heritage/community language learners within the UK school context. In: Olga E. Kagan; Maria M. Carreira and Claire Chik, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Language Education From Innovation to Program Building. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781138845787

Macleroy, Vicky. 2016. From Literacy to Multiliteracies. In: Vicky Macleroy and Jim Anderson, eds. Multilingual Digital Storytelling: Engaging creatively and critically with literacy. Oxford: Routledge, pp. 68-86. ISBN 1138795801

Macleroy, Vicky. 2016. Learner autonomy, critical thinking and student voice. In: Vicky Macleroy and Jim Anderson, eds. Multilingual Digital Storytelling: Engaging creatively and critically with literacy. Oxford: Routledge, pp. 188-202. ISBN ISBN-10: 1138795801

Macleroy, Vicky. 2016. Curriculum Policy, Planning and Professional Development. In: Vicky Macleroy and Jim Anderson, eds. Multilingual Digital Storytelling: Engaging creatively and critically with literacy. Oxford: Routledge, pp. 248-260. ISBN 1138795801

Macleroy, Vicky and Anderson, Jim. 2016. Introduction. In: Vicky Macleroy and Jim Anderson, eds. Multilingual Digital Storytelling: Engaging creatively and critically with literacy. Oxford: Routledge, pp. 1-12. ISBN 1138795801

Macleroy, Vicky and Anderson, Jim. 2016. Critical Connections: Multilingual Digital Storytelling Project. Introduction and research methodology. In: Vicky Macleroy and Jim Anderson, eds. Multilingual Digital Storytelling: Engaging creatively and critically with literacy. Oxford: Routledge, pp. 131-145. ISBN 9781138795808

Macleroy, Vicky and Anderson, Jim. 2016. Reflections and implications for multilingual digital literacy. In: Vicky Macleroy and Jim Anderson, eds. Multilingual Digital Storytelling: Engaging creatively and critically with literacy. Oxford: Routledge, pp. 261-268. ISBN 1138795801

Macleroy, Vicky. 2016. Multimodal Composition and Creativity. In: Vicky Macleroy and Jim Anderson, eds. Multilingual Digital Storytelling: Engaging creatively and critically with literacy. Oxford: Routledge, pp. 163-177. ISBN ISBN-10: 1138795801

Anderson, Jim and Macleroy, Vicky. 2014. Rethinking Multilingualism: trajectories in policy, pedagogy and research in the UK. In: Andrioula Yiokoumetti, ed. Multilingualism and Language in Education: Sociolinguistic and Pedagogical Perspectives from Commonwealth Countries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 243-266. ISBN 9781107574311

Anderson, Jim. 2014. Making a diversified and inclusive language curriculum work? Principles into practice. In: Norbert Pachler and Ana Redondo, eds. Teaching Modern Foreign Languages in the Secondary School: A Practical Guide. London: Routledge, pp. 120-129. ISBN 978-0415633321

Anderson, Jim. 2014. Transforming learning, building identities: arts based creativity in the community languages classroom. In: Jean Conteh and Gabriela Meier, eds. The multilingual turn in languages education: benefits for individuals and societies. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.. ISBN 978-1783092222

Anderson, Jim. 2009. Relevance of CLIL in developing pedagogies for minority language teaching. In: David Marsh; Peeter Meehisto; Dieter Wolff; Rosa Aliaga; Tuula Asikainen; Maria J. Frigols-Martin; Sue Hughes and Gisella Lange, eds. CLIL practice: perspectives from the field. Jyväskylä: CCN: University of Jyväskylä, pp. 124-132. ISBN 978-951-39-3561-0

Anderson, Jim. 2008. The initial teacher education of teachers of Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Punjabi and Urdu at Goldsmiths, University of London. In: Charmian Kenner and Tina Hickey, eds. Multilingual Europe: diversity and learning. Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books, pp. 152-157. ISBN 978-185856-423-4

Anderson, Jim and Pillai, S. 2008. Connections in cyberspace: implications for Tamil diasporic communities. In: Charmian Kenner and Tina Hickey, eds. Multilingual Europe: Diversity and Learning. Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books Ltd, pp. 33-37. ISBN 978-1858564234

Anderson, Jim; Gregory, Eve E. and Kenner, Charmian. 2008. The National Languages Strategy in the UK: are minority languages still on the margins? In: Christine Herlot and Anne-Marie de Mejia, eds. Forging Multilingual Spaces: Integrating Perspectives on Majority and Minority Bilingual Education (Bilingual Education and Bilingualism). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, pp. 183-202. ISBN 978-1847690753

Anderson, Jim and Chaudhuri, M. 2003. Citizenship and community languages: a critical perspective. In: Kim Brown and Margot Brown, eds. Reflections on Citizenship in a multilingual world. London: CILT, pp. 54-65. ISBN 978-1902031705

Article

Macleroy, Vicky; Anderson, Jim and Chung, Yu-Chiao. 2023. Grassroots policymaking in practice: including heritage languages in the critical connections project through agency, activism, and alternative voices. Current Issues in Language Planning, ISSN 1466-4208

Khaled, Fatima and Anderson, Jim. 2023. Textart, identity and the creative process: a case study with Arabic heritage language learners. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, ISSN 1367-0050

Abdelhadi, Reem; Hameed, Luma; Khaled, Fatima and Anderson, Jim. 2020. Creative interactions with art works: an engaging approach to Arabic language-and-culture learning. Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 14(3), pp. 273-289. ISSN 1750-1229

Macleroy, Vicky; Anderson, Jim and Chung, Yu-Chiao. 2018. Creative and critical approaches to language learning and digital technology: findings from a multilingual digital storytelling project. Language and Education, 32(3), pp. 195-211. ISSN 0950-0782

Anderson, Jim. 2018. Museum artefacts, language learning and cross-curricular pedagogy. EAL Journal(6), pp. 42-43. ISSN 2398-8533

Anderson, Jim and Macleroy, Vicky. 2017. Connecting worlds: interculturality, identity and multilingual digital stories in the making. Language and Intercultural Communication, 17(4), pp. 494-517. ISSN 1470-8477

Anderson, Jim and Chung, Yu-Chiao. 2012. Community languages, the arts and transformative pedagogy: developing active citizenship for the 21st century. Citizenship Teaching and Learning, 7(3), pp. 259-271. ISSN 17511917

Anderson, Jim. 2011. Reshaping pedagogies for a plurilingual agenda. Language Learning Journal, 39(2), pp. 135-147. ISSN 09571736

Anderson, Jim and Chung, Yu-Chiao. 2011. Finding a voice: arts based creativity in the community languages classroom. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 14(5), pp. 551-569. ISSN 1367-0050

Anderson, Jim and Macleroy Obied, Vicky. 2011. Languages, literacies and learning: from monocultural to intercultural perspectives. NALDIC Quarterly, 8(3), pp. 16-26. ISSN 1751-2182

Anderson, Jim. 2010. Community languages, the arts and transformative pedagogy. Race Equality Teaching, 28(3), pp. 16-20. ISSN 1478-8551

Anderson, Jim. 2008. Pre- and In-service Professional Development of Teachers of Community/Heritage Languages in the UK: Insider Perspectives. Language and Education, 22(4), pp. 283-297. ISSN 0950-0782

Anderson, Jim. 2008. Towards integrated second language teaching pedagogy for foreign and community/heritage languages in multilingual Britain. Language Learning Journal, 36(1), pp. 79-89. ISSN 0957-1736

Digital

Macleroy, Vicky and Anderson, Jim. 2012. Critical Connections II: Moving Forward with Multilingual Digital Storytelling.

Report

Macleroy, Vicky; Anderson, Jim and Chung, Yu-Chiao. 2014. Critical Connections: Multilingual Digital Storytelling Project [Research Flyer]. Project Report. Goldsmiths, University of London.

Anderson, Jim; Helot, Christine; McPake, Joanna and Obied, Vicky. 2010. Professional development for staff working in multilingual schools.. Other. Council of Europe, Strasbourg.

Other

Anderson, Jim; Bhatt, Arvind and Kant, Jay. 2009. Curriculum Guide for Gujarati. CILT, The national Centre for Languages, London.

Anderson, Jim. 2009. Curriculum Guide for Chinese (Cantonese). CILT, The National Centre for Languages, London.

Anderson, Jim; Farah, Y and Mohamud, A. 2009. Curriculum Guide for Somali. CILT, The National Centre for Languages, London.

Anderson, Jim; Oyetade, A and Oke, Y. 2009. Curriculum Guide for Yoruba. CILT, The National Centre for Languages, London.

Anderson, Jim; Saffaf, Sawsan and Abdel-Hay, Nazek. 2007. Curriculum Guide for Arabic. CILT, The National Centre for Languages, London.

Anderson, Jim; Thompson, A; Lee, E and Li, K. 2007. Curriculum Guide for Chinese. CILT, The National Centre for Languages, London.

Anderson, Jim; Chandla, N and Grewal, P. 2007. Curriculum Guide for Panjabi. CILT, The National Centre for Languages, London, London.

Anderson, Jim; Pillai, S and Nithiya, K. 2007. Curriculum Guide for Tamil. CILT, The National Centre for Languages, London.

Anderson, Jim; Ali, K and Syed, H. 2007. Curriculum Guide for Urdu. CILT, The National Centre for Languages, London.