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Dr Sabine Little

@sabinelittle.bsky.social
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#multilingualism, #identity, heritage languages, #children, #school, multilingual #libraries, #books, #reading, #makerspaces, #co-production and participatory research, at University of Sheffield, UK. Occasional multilingual storyteller

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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Under my sewing needle this morning, this plea: „Everybody don’t be afraid of our langu[ag]e - مرحبًا - hello - Arabic“ #quiltofwelcome #multilingual #quilting #belonging
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The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) @ascl-uk.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Over 20% of pupils are now officially recorded as having a 1st language other than English. Read our blog with Anna Leaman, Soofia Amin, Dr Sabine Little Nic Ponsford 🥊 GEC (Global Equality Collective) featuring practical tips to value linguistic diversity in your setting ow.ly/4XpX50XgRKA
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Sharing a little fun that came up via Facebook Memories today: this was my son's Spanish homework from 9 years ago, and I love how he simply decided to bring his German to the party/task. It was absolutely his idea, and what a fab example of a bilingual child's full linguistic repertoire thriving.
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Happy #EDL! While children's reading for pleasure is declining, the National Literacy Survey 2021 shows multilingual kids are more likely to read for fun. Let's learn from them and boost reading for pleasure for all! @sheffielduni.bsky.social @uklitassociation.bsky.social @literacy-trust.bsky.social
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Happy European Day of Languages! I've been working with 13 schools and 3 hospital settings to create Sheffield's "Quilt of Welcome", with words that make children feel happy, welcome, and safe in their various languages. What words make you happy - in any language? @sheffielduni.bsky.social
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Happy European Day of Languages! I'll be sharing posts throughout the day to celebrate, starting with the amazing collaboration with Twinkl for #Sheffield City of #Languages. Free resources for teachers and schools, celebrating multilingualism! www.twinkl.co.uk/l/iij38 @sheffielduni.bsky.social
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Sheffield City of Languages Partnerships - - Twinkl
A collection of resources for teachers and schools to celebrate the Sheffield: City of Languages initiative.
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Dr. Hannah M. King @hmking-linguist.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The 1st paper is out in the SI I am co-editing w/ Myra Garces-Bacsal, @sabinelittle.bsky.social & @naashia.bsky.social 🗣💬 #Books, 책들, livres, vitabu, βιβλία: Exploring diverse #picturebooks for multilingual literacy, inclusivity, and belonging More to come! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SZ3XW...
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Diverse picturebooks for diverse children: a booklist of linguistic diversities and pluralities for inclusivity, belonging, and resistance
This paper proposes a curated booklist which foregrounds linguistic diversities and pluralities as powerful catalysts for inclusivity, belonging, and resistance. Drawing on an extensive document an...
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Dropped this little multilingual library starter pack off at a deserving location today - huge thanks to authors, illustrators and publishers who have been donating many of these books!
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Look at the amazing logo for Sheffield: City of Languages! Read all about it here: www.sheffieldcityoflanguages.org/logo-competi... @clareallison.bsky.social #langsky #sheffieldcityoflanguages
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Sheffield City of Languages - Logo Competition
Logo Competition
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Day 30 of #30dayswildmultilingual. Time to reflect on your journey - how has the month been for you? If you are a teacher and have used the activities in your setting, please share what you did, I'd love to hear what impact it had on you and/or your learners! Thanks for joining!
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Day 29 - penultimate day - of #30dayswildmultilingual. Go outside, and find three creatures that can fly, naming them in different languages. #30dayswild
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Day 28 of #30dayswildmultilingual - can you draw your favourite spot in nature, and describe it? #30dayswild
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Day 27 of #30dayswildmultilingual - a favourite of mine, so get making! Make a face out of found items in nature, and describe the facial expression in any language :) #30dayswild
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Day 26 of #30dayswildmultilingual - take a photo of something you like in nature, and describe it in any language. #30dayswild
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Day 25 of #30dayswildmultilingual - it's picnic time! Head for a meal outside, and tell us what you are eating :) #30dayswild
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Day 24 of #30dayswildmultilingual - is the wind blowing where you are? Find three things blowing in the breeze, and name them in any language :) #30dayswild
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
"Who Owns the Tales We Tell?" - free online workshop on 16th July!
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Day 23 of #30dayswildmultilingual, and it's time to look at the night sky. What can you see, and what languages can you name it in? #30dayswild
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Day 22 of #30dayswildmultilingual, and one of my favourites: write an acrostic poem to spell the word "wild" (or any other word, in any language :) #30dayswild
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Back to colours today: purple/pink, white and green :) Name the colours, and/or what you found! #30dayswild #30dayswildmultilingual
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
An easy one today, unless you pick a leaf from a linden tree or hazelnut! Find leaves and count the points in any language :)
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Two tricky days in a row! Can you think of a nature song in different languages, and share it?
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
A low-engagement day each year, lol! Plant something, and tell me what it is - in any language!
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Always a favourite, as people go and look for elephants! Go outside, and name the biggest and smallest creature you can find - in any language :)
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Today can go in many directions - name what you can smell....or name what you smell with, and other bodyparts!
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Help to protect our world! Do a (safe) litterpick and name the things you find :)
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Science in action! Find two things that float, and name them in whatever language suits!
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
A reminder that the Sheffield City of Languages Logo competition ends on 30th June - if you are age 5-18 in Sheffield (or you know someone who is), please encourage them to submit their ideas! forms.gle/noRm4LVwppBF... #sheffield
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
It says hopping, but really, today is all about counting! If hopping is tricky, you can count birds, leaves, or anything else....or, of course, hopping! How far can you get before you run out of umbers...or breath?
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Day 12 #30dayswildmultilingual - one of my favourites each year: can you spell your name in nature words across lots of languages? If you are in a class, help each other out! #30dayswild
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Day 11 #30dayswildmultilingual: what is your favourite thing to do outside...and it what languages can you talk about it? #30dayswild
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Day 10 #30dayswildmultilingual - let's talk about the weather! If you want to have even more fun, explore *what* it is raining across the world when it rains lots: cats and dogs? String? Old ladies and sticks? Buckets? #30dayswild
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Day 9 #30dayswildmultilingual - do you have a favourite wild creature? I'll go for squirrel, and not just because it is famously fun to say in German :D #30dayswild
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Day 8 #30dayswildmultilingual - this one is always a bit harder in a school context, but I always think that skipping stones should be part of childhood :D #30dayswild
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Day 7 #30dayswildmultilingual - all about caterpillars and butterflies - I know this comes up on a Saturday this year, but in past years, it has been a school favourite! #30dayswild
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Day 6 #30dayswildmultilingual - from shapes to colours: blue, yellow, red...can you find them in nature and name them? Is "red" the shortest word out of the 3 in all languages? #30dayswild
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Day 5 #30dayswildmultilingual: look for shapes in nature - triangle, circle, square...name these shapes in other languages. Do all languages have a "three" of some sorts hidden in the word triangle? #30dayswild
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Day 4 #30dayswildmultilingual: spot a bird, pick a bird, any bird...can you name it in another language? #30dayswild See also: www.multilingualism-in-schools.net/bird-watch/
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Day 3 #30dayswildmultilingual - Is it raining? Talk about the weather in different languages, and if you can find a puddle, jump in it and share what sound it makes across the world! #30dayswild
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Soooo.......who's going to ISB15 next week? See you there? I have the absolute graveyard shift, with my two presentations scheduled back to back, last in the last slot on Friday 👍
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
красивая история!
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Day 2 #30dayswildmultilingual: look for (or draw) daisies and name them in different languages. Maybe one big classroom daisy with different languages on each petal? #30dayswild
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
This is it - the start of #30dayswildmultilingual - 1 post a day in June, encouraging multilingualism in schools. Download here: www.multilingualism-in-schools.net/30-days-wild... Today: Cloud spotting. How many words for "cloud" can your class come up with? Dictionaries encouraged :) #30dayswild
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
This is tomorrow! And yes, we will be making something during the talk :)
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Great to see this online :)
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
What a wonderful time at the Reading For Pleasure conference in Dubai, meeting old friends and making new ones, and learning about reading for pleasure in different contexts. Thank you to the Emirates Literature Foundation for inviting me!
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Lovely announcement/press release about "Sheffield City of Languages" from @sheffielduni.bsky.social :) So proud to be working on this with @clareallison.bsky.social and a host of amazing people www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/sheffie...
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Sheffield declared a UK City of Languages
Sheffield is the latest city nationally to be declared a ‘City of Languages’, in a new initiative aimed at promoting and helping the city’s multilingualism to flourish.
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Today is an exciting day, as we are launching the Sheffield City of Languages initiative! Working across the many sectors in the city, we are celebrating, normalising, and furthering multilingualism and language learning in all its forms! @clareallison.bsky.social www.sheffieldcityoflanguages.org
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Sheffield City of Languages
Sheffield - a City of Languages
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
This is a wonderful new SIG, and a great chance to get involved!
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Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I am on the look out for linguistically diverse picture books. Specifically, books that integrate multiple languages - not as bilingual picture books, but as part of the general narrative. (Bonus if they include more than two languages, but not requirement!) #langsky Please share!
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