Boosting Heritage Languages in Urban and Digital Spaces

Australian Research Council Discovery Project 2026-2028

The Multimodal Deep Language Learning Project (MDLL)

Aims

Aim 1 To understand how migrant youth use their heritage language across diverse urban and digital contexts

Aim 2 To empirically evaluate the affordances of urban and digital contexts for heritage language practice

Aim 3 To explore the educational potential of urban and digital spaces for boosting heritage language practice

Aim 4 To investigate how public and digital spaces shape processes of family communication and language practices

Our Project Team

Associate Professor Anikó Hatoss

Project Lead- Chief Investigator

University of New South Wales, School of Humanities and Languages, Sydney, Australia

a.hatoss@unsw.edu.au

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1143-0041

Professor Louise Ravelli

University of New South Wales, School of Arts and Media, Sydney

Chief Investigator

L.Ravelli@unsw.edu.au

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1416-5389

Project Advisory Board

Professor Durk Gorter, Ikerbasque Research Professor, Spain

durk.gorter@gmail.com

Professor Terry Lamb, University of Westminster, United Kingdom, Professor of Languages and Interdisciplinary Pedagogy

Terry Lamb T.Lamb@westminster.ac.uk

Professor Edina Krompák, University of Teacher Education Lucerne and University of Basel, Switzerland

edina.krompak@phlu.ch

Professor Theo Jacob van Leeuwen

Honorary Professor in the School of the Arts and Media, UNSW Sydney

Emeritus Professor and Professor of Multimodal Communication at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense; and Honorary Professor at the Australian Catholic University and the University of Lancaster, as well as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

leeuwen@sdu.dk

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