Impact

Download our Case Studies and Success Stories here: https://www.enacteuropa.com/sites/default/files/Impact_case_studies_and_success_stories.pdf

Download our Impact Report here: https://www.enacteuropa.com/sites/default/files/ENACT Impact report.pdf

Download our Research Report here: https://www.enacteuropa.com/sites/default/files/ENACT Research Report.pdf

Satar, M., Seedhouse, P., Kharrufa, A., Bone Dodds, C., Ganassin, S., Whelan, A. (2024). Cultural tasks for ESOL teaching and learning: The ENACT web app. ESOL Matters, March 2024, 8-13

Ren, Simin. and Seedhouse, Paul. (2024). Doing Language Testing: Learner-Initiated Side Sequences in a Technology-Mediated Language Learning Environment. Classroom Discourse. https://doi.org/10.1080/19463014.2024.2305446

Kharrufa, A., Satar, M., Dodds, C. B., & Seedhouse, P. (2022). Supporting Non-Expert Users in Authoring Tasks for Learning Language and Culture: Evaluation Study. International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (IJCALLT), 12(1), 1-22. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJCALLT.315278

Satar, M., Seedhouse, P., Kharrufa, A., Bone Dodds, C. Ganassin, S. and Whelan, A. (2022). Cultural Tasks for Language Learning and Teaching: The ENACT App. The FLTMAG https://fltmag.com/cultural-tasks-enact/

Satar, M., Seedhouse, P., Kharrufa, A., Bone Dodds, C. Ganassin, S. and Whelan, A. (2021). The ENACT web app: Learning language through culture. Babel The Language Magazine, 35, 8-12. https://babelzine.co.uk/babel-number-35-may-2021/

Dodds, Colin B.; Whelan, Alison; Kharrufa, Ahmed; Satar, Müge. (2021). Virtual exchange facilitated by interactive, digital, cultural artefacts: communities, languages, and activities app (ENACT). In Satar, Müge (Ed.), Virtual exchange: towards digital equity in internationalisation (pp. 101-112). Research-publishing.net. https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2021.53.1293

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"I’m a Brazilian teacher teaching Portuguese, English and Spanish in Sweden. My master’s dissertation is based on TBLT, so I just love this initiative!" (New ENACT web app user on 17 February 2022)

“It has a direct link with me as an immigrant, telling about yourself, introducing yourself to the others. Before the activity, I was thinking how do I adapt to the community and integrate to the local community. Now after these sessions, I don't have only to learn the local community's culture and language but I can also introduce my language and culture to the local community.” (Refugee, Co-production workshop participant, June 2021)

"This is so exciting! I see this as something our Language Center can offer to students directly and also to complement our TandemPlus program." (Reader comment on FLTMag, February 2021, https://fltmag.com/cultural-tasks-enact/)

“I guess i feel closer to Scotland now than i ever felt before." "The fact that i could experience some activities using VR. It made look so real and fun at the same time. I particularly enjoyed weaving the tartans."(Migrants, after engaging with the Tartan Paper Weaving activity https://www.enacteuropa.com/?q=node/162, August 2021)

"I can search popular stuff about a culture or a language from the Internet, but they're mostly not like very sincere, … they are more professional, but in ENACT all the activities are prepared by individuals, and I believe what is prepared by individuals can be can reflect the culture, like better” (Migrant, Co-production workshop participant, interview, June 2021)

Wala Fahad A Almijiwl - thesis title: Multimodal Meaning-Making in Virtual Exchange through cultural activities on the ENACT web app: A Social Semiotics Approach

Conference presentation on 8 February 2024 titled 'Intercultural Sensitivity in Language Teacher Education: a UK-Türkiye Virtual Exchange Utilizing Digital Cultural Artifacts’. The VALIANT Project and UNICollaboration conference: Exploring the impact of Virtual Exchange on Teacher Education, 8-9 February, Leon, Spain.

Invited webinar presentation. ‘Learning Languages through Cultural Activities: The ENACT Web App’. 14.9.23. Webinar for IATEFL ESOL SIG.

The ENACT webapp at 17 May 2023. Warwick University Centre for Applied Linguistics, UK.

Promoting intercultural sensitivity in higher education: A case study from a web app development project. 19 March 2023. AAAL 2023, Portland.

Implementing the ENACT web app in virtual exchange, 11 November 2022, PUCRS, Brazil https://www.enacteuropa.com/?q=node/402

‘Learning Languages through Cultural Activities: The ENACT Web App’. 1 November 2022. Massey University, New Zealand.

‘Learning Languages through Cultural Activities: The ENACT Web App’, 28 October 2022, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. https://doi.org/10.52843/cassyni.l7x6z8

British Council World Teachers' Day, 1 October 2022, worldwide, online https://www.enacteuropa.com/?q=node/398

EuroCALL 2022 presentation, 16-19 August 2022, Iceland, online

International Society for the Linguistics of English Annual Conference (ISLE) presentation, 4 July 2022

Dissemination event, seminar, May 2022, Bogazici University, Turkey

ENACT Web App demonstration at roundtable with research group and visitors from Belgium (KOGEKA), 20 April 2022, UAB, Spain

Seminar for teachers, 8 April 2022, University of Helsinki, Finland

Newcastle University Learning and Teaching Professional Development Conference, 31 March 2022, Newcastle University, UK

North East Festival of Languages organised by Newcastle International, 16 March 2022, UK, online https://www.enacteuropa.com/?q=node/267

ENACT Web App demonstration, March 2022, UAB, Spain

16th annual International Technology, Education and Development Conference. INTED 2022, 7-8 March 2022, Mallorca, Spain

International Mother Language Day organised by the Assembly of Turkish-American Association, 20 February 2022, USA, online

The Media & Learning Association presentation, 17 February 2022, online

EU Festival presentation, 10 November 2021, Newcastle University, UK

14th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, 8-10 November, 2021, Seville, Spain

Short presentation of ENACT at the starting event of project Kielibuusti ('Language boost'), 21 October 2021, Finland

ENACT App demonstration, October, 2021, UAB, Spain

Announcement launch of the app, September 2021, UAB, Spain

EuroCALL presentation, 26 August 2021, France, online

IAALT 2021 presentation, 16-18 June, 2021, online

Going Global 2021 “Reimagining International Higher Education for a post-pandemic world”, 15 June 2021. online

Presentation at the Oxford University, Oriental Studies: Hertford College, 16 December 2021, UK https://www.enacteuropa.com/?q=node/231

Workshop at the North East Festival of Languages organised by International Newcastle, 23 March 2021, UK, online https://www.enacteuropa.com/?q=node/171

Presentation at the Language Alliance meeting, 16 February 2021, UK, online

Workshop at the International Virtual Exchange Conference 2020 conference, 19 September 2020, online https://www.enacteuropa.com/?q=node/52

Presentation at the Go International 2020, 10 June 2020, online

Presentation at the IDC 2020 conference, 18-19 June 2020, online https://www.enacteuropa.com/?q=node/52

Presentation at the Chevening scholars event, 2 December 2019, Newcastle University, UK

Presentation at the ESRC festival of science, 7 November 2019, Newcastle University, UK https://www.enacteuropa.com/?q=node/43

Applied Linguistics and Communication Seminar presentation, 8 October 2019, Newcastle University, UK https://www.enacteuropa.com/?q=node/43

We celebrated the International Day of Multilingualism (25 March) with an event at the Festival of Languages. On Friday 24 March 2023, sixty schoolchildren from Valley Gardens Middle School and Gosforth Central visited Newcastle University, ilab:learn to learn Chinese using the ENACT app, helped by two Chinese students. The children learnt Chinese words while doing calligraphy (painting Chinese characters) and while making Beijing Ice Candy, which they then ate!

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We re-organised the event again on 22 March 2024 at the 2024 Festival of Languages, We hosted 60 school children from St Paul's CoE Primary and Gosforth East Middle School at the Newcastle University iLab:learn.

Read more about how to learn Chinese through our cultural activities here: https://enacteuropa.com/?q=node/437

We celebrated the Refugee Week on 24 June 2023 at the Great North Museum: Hancock with an activity for families and children in our community as part of the Monster Stories exhibition. Find more about the event in the short video below. To create your own Lambton Worm, sing along, and hear the story in Geordie accent, go to: https://enacteuropa.com/?q=node/178

We joined the Festival of Languages event at the Great North Museum: Hancock on 18 March 2024. About 120 children from 4 schools created and played with Poi: Ball on a String

For the last two years (2022-2023), the team here at ENACT has collaborated with N.E.S.T, a Newcastle University Students Union volunteering project that supports the refugee and asylum-seeking community in the North East, to bring fun language-learning activities to local school children. Volunteers on the N.E.S.T Schools Project have led ENACT clubs in Kenton Bar Primary School, Central Walker Primary School and Welbeck Academy Primary School, working with over 50 children. These children have learnt the Mandarin words for ‘pen’ and ‘scissors’ whilst making Chinese Red Envelopes, and the German words for ‘tealight’ and ‘tissue paper’ whilst making Saint Martin Lanterns. Here is a picture of one of the children’s Mardi Gras Mask creations:

N.E.S.T Schools Project Worker, Tilly Atkinson, has received overwhelmingly positive feedback from the schools. Teachers report that the children are so engaged with the arts and crafts, that they don’t even realise they are learning at the same time. The children regularly come to school the following day excited to talk about what they learnt. N.E.S.T plans to run sessions until the end of May 2024, and expand into a further primary school in February 2024.