ABSTRACT

This article assesses the impact over nine years of the Mother Tongue Other Tongue multilingual schools’ poetry competition led by Carol Ann Duffy from Manchester Metropolitan University, in which over 35,000 pupils from 77 schools have participated to date. It reviews evidence from a 2019 evaluation of the project and from a project anthology compiling several years of winning entries. The evidence suggests that the project is achieving its expected outcomes in increasing the self-confidence of bilingual and multilingual pupils, enhancing inclusivity and cultural exchange in the classroom and fostering dialogue and co-creation between children and their families. This article sets these outcomes within the context of research on urban multilingualism in Manchester, poetry in the UK National Curriculum, and creative multilingualism in English education, and seeks to extend the case made by previous articles in this journal for the educational value of multilingual creative writing.

摘要

本文评估了母语其他语言九年来的影响由曼彻斯特城市大学的 Carol Ann Duffy 领导的多语种学校诗歌比赛，迄今已有来自 77 所学校的 35,000 多名学生参加。它审查了 2019 年对该项目的评估以及汇编了几年获奖作品的项目选集的证据。证据表明，该项目在提高双语和多语种学生的自信心、增强课堂的包容性和文化交流以及促进儿童与其家庭之间的对话和共同创造方面正在取得预期成果。本文将这些成果放在曼彻斯特城市多语言研究、英国国家课程中的诗歌以及英语教育中的创造性多语言研究的背景下，