Terry Lamb

Professor, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom

Terry Lamb spent the first sixteen years of his career as a French/German teacher and head of department in London, before moving to posts in the Universities of Nottingham and Sheffield, where he focused mainly on postgraduate teacher education and urban education. He is now a Professor of Languages and Interdisciplinary Pedagogy at the University of Westminster, London. He has published widely in areas such as pedagogy, motivation, multilingual education, multilingual cities, and social justice. His projects have included several at the European Centre for Modern Languages of the Council of Europe, e.g. Supporting Multilingual Classrooms. In 2023, he was appointed to the Language Policy Advisory Group of the Council of Europe. Terry has worked closely on languages strategy and curriculum with the UK and other Governments (Australia, Czech Republic, France and Malaysia) and is founder editor of Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching. He is President of FIPLV (Fédération Internationale des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes), an NGO of UNESCO and the Council of Europe. He has also been awarded the honour of Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French Prime Minister. 

Presentation title: Why languages matter! Language education for democratic culture