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Dina’s visit to Tun Hussein Onn University, Malayasia

Dina was invited to give a lecture at University Tun Hussein Onn in Johor, Malaysia. Her More

World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Kuala Lumpur, Malayasia, 2024

At AILA World Congress marking 60 years of AILA, which was attended by 1700 academics from More

UCL Graduation Ceremony: MA TESOL pre-service

Image above: Dina with MA TESOL ps students As the Programme Leader for MA TESOL pre-service More

UCL Graduation Ceremony 2024

Image above: Dina and Eileen Dina is delighted that another of her doctoral students, who was More

Continuing partnership with GEMS National Al Barsha School in Dubai

This week Dina continued her partnership with GEMS National Al Barsha School in Dubai focused on More

Dina’s public lecture at University of Mahasaraswati

Dina’s series of public lectures at nine universities in Indonesia has been completed today at University More

Dina’s visit to University Dhyana Pura, Bali

Dina has spent an excellent day with the colleagues and students at Universitas Dhyana Pura. She More

Dina’s visit to Warmadewa University, Bali

Today Dina visited Warmadewa University and contributed to the interdisciplinary summer camp for international and local More

Dina’s public lecture at University of Udayana, Bali

Dina’s was invited to give a public lecture at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, More

Opening of the first English Cafe in Indonesia

Dina was delighted to be the guest of honour with her husband Martin for the opening More

Dina’s public lecture in Garut, West Java

Image above: Dina with the rector Dr Nizar Alam Hamdani and his team Dina’s public lecture More

Jakarta International Conference for Creative Industries

Dina was invited by Politeknik Negeri Media Kreatif Indonesia to contribute as a keynote speaker to More

HLD partnership with Indonesia

Dina has been invited by the Ministry of Education of Indonesia to spend two weeks in More

A week at GEMS Al Khaleej International School

Image above: Inset session On the invite of AKIS leadership team Dina has spent this week More

Continuation of partnership with GEMS Al Khaleej International School, Dubai

Image above: With AKIS middle leaders This week Dina is continuing her partnership with AKIS. She More

A Visit to Kensington Wade:
A Unique Bilingual English-Chinese School in London

Another important connection made through  Bilingual Education Alliance resulted in a golden opportunity for the MA More

Meeting with the uTalk team 

Image above: With the uTalk team on the roof top of their Fulham offices A possibility More

Partnership
with
Bilingual Education Alliance
and
Maria Gavrilova, Headteacher of Azbuka Russian-English International School

The MA TESOL pre-service students at University College London on Dina’s module: ‘Working with bi/multilingual learners More

Nastavak saradnje sa Danskom, 2022

Slika iznad: Dina sa Njegovom Ekselencijom Emir Poljo, BiH ambasador u Kopenhagenu, i Ministrom za obrazovanje, More

Continuation of the partnership with Denmark, 2022

Image above: Dina with His Excellency Emir Poljo, Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Copenhagen, and More

Partnership with St. Julian’s school, Portugal

Image above: Dina with Maria Lurdes Faria e Silva, Head of St. Julian’s Portuguese-English section No More

Partnership with St. Julian’s School, Lisabon, Portugal

Dina was invited to spend a week in September, 2022 in St. Julian’s School, which is More

European Day of Languages (26/9/2022)

  For those wishing to celebrate the European Day of Languages in London, we would like to bring More

Dina’s Dubai Partnership: Key developments

Image top: Dina Mehmedbegovic-Smith and Ghadeer Abu Shamat Dina is delighted to announce that her engagement More

University of Zadar, Croatia: Forum for Linguistics

As a part of Dina’s visit to University of Zadar, Dina was invited also to give More

Partnership with University of Zadar, Croatia: Doctoral programme in pedagogy

Dina has been working with the University of Zadar on the above programme since its launch More

The Routledge Handbook of Plurilingual Language Education

Thomas and Dina have contributed a chapter to the first comprehensive publication on plurilingualism, offering a More

International Women’s Day: Contributing to empowerment of women in the Arab world

Image top: Dubai desert cycling road For the UN International Day of Women 2021 Dina is More

UN International Mother Tongue Day and HLD 5th Birthday!

On Sunday 21st Feb we mark the UN International mother tongue day and Healthy Linguistic Diet More

UN Internacionalni Dan Maternjeg Jezika i 5. rodjendan portala Zdrava Jezicka Dijeta

U nedjelju, 21.2. obiljezavamo UN Internacionalni Dan Maternjeg Jezika i portal Zdrave Jezicke Dijete (Healthy Linguistic More

Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Image top: BiH Schools in diaspora Round Table, Sarajevo 2019 On the great satisfaction of the More

How is a Healthy Linguistic Diet beneficial for our children?

Dina and Thomas have been invited to contribute to Raising Multilinguals initative aimed at parents. Here More

Zdrava Jezicka Dijeta: Regionalna strategija u Italiji

Dina je vrlo sretna da podijeli vijesti o jos jednom koraku u saradnji sa kolegama iz More

Healthy Linguistic Diet: Regional Strategy in Italy

Dina is delighted to share news about a new step in her partnership with colleagues in More

Census 2021: The Language question

We are honoured to be consulted by Baroness Coussins on the ‘language question’ in preparation for More

Popis stanovnistva 2021: Pitanje jezika

Cast mi je da me je Baronesa Coussines konsultirala po ‘pitanju jezika’ u toku priprema za More

Smotra BiH dopunskih skola u Danskoj

Dina je bila pozvana u Kopenhagen, Danska da ucestvuje u prvom susretu BiH dopunskih skola. Tom More

Session for bilingual parents and teachers in Vienna

Dina was invited by the Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina(BiH) in Austria to deliver a session More

Australia Visit III

Dina is continuing her engagement with mother/father tongue schools – next week in Sydney and Adelaide. More

Australia Visit II

On Tuesday, 27.8. Dina will be doing a session for teachers and parents hosted by the More

Australia visit I

Next week Dina will be doing several sessions in Australia, first one at: Multilingualism Research Centre at More

Rethinking Language Education in EU

Dina and Thomas have been contributing to the work of the EU Commission: Rethinking Language Education More

Why speaking more than one language can boost economic growth

Very exciting to see our Healthy Linguistic Diet vision cited in a World Economic Forum publication: More

House of Lords presentation: Cognitive benefits of bilingualism

In this session we focused on repositioning language learning and language use as a new key More