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.
