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FoE research grant
FoE research grant
In 2021 the British Council initiated an ambitious project to identify key trends that will define the role of English as a global language in the coming decade. The Future of English project is intended to identify the issues and opportunities for countries around the world in achieving their goals for the use of English in their contexts.
Background of the scheme
Background of the scheme
The Future of English (FoE) is a multi-stage project which will set a research agenda with global scope and local relevance. The project is intended to: provide insights on trends that will define the role of English as a global language over the next decade; inform language policy and education reform interventions; and lay out a research agenda capable of generating hard evidence and data to inform those policy decisions and evaluate their impact.
Aims:
Aims:
- To provide output which will facilitate and support stakeholders at all levels – from ministries of education to individual institutions and educators – to achieve their goals in relation to the use of English in local and global contexts.
Phases:
Phases:
The project is divided into three phases:
Phase 1 took the landmark publication English Next by David Graddol (see here) as its starting point and evaluated Graddol’s predictions before looking forward to the future by producing a new set of sixteen predictions for the next decade.
Phase 2 utilised the unique position of the British Council and the relationships it has with local policy makers to hold a series of regional policy roundtables in which the new predictions made by the FoE project in Phase 1 were interrogated and revised. An external consultancy experienced in futures methodology was engaged to analyse the roundtable data to help revise and refine the predictions from Phase 1.
Phase 3 will develop new ways of engaging with UK and global experts, policy makers, academics, parents, teachers, employers, students and other key stakeholders to track trends through robust evidence-based data collection and evaluate and interpret the trends over time. The FoE Research Grant Scheme is a central part of Phase 3.
The FoE Digital EMI project is 1 of 4 projects funded by the British Council to achieve phase 3.
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