Macau (MNA) – The University of Macau (UM) announced this Tuesday that the director of its Research Centre for Luso-Asian Studies, Roberval Teixeira e Silva, has been appointed as the institutional coordinator of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Chair of Language Policies for Multilingualism.
“‘This is the opportunity to bring closer the chair institutions based in Asia and, even more especially, those from the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa ), with a focus on China/Macau and Brazil contexts and relations,” Mr. Silva said.
The investigator, who is also an assistant professor from the Department of Portuguese, Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH), also stated the UM team will propose projects that will deal with a set of contemporary issues in language, culture, and society, including language policy, migration and mobility, globalisation and super-diversity, multilingualism and multiculturalism, intercultural interactions, and the acquisition of languages.
