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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The free Linguacuisine web app helps you learn a language while you’re cooking a meal. Choose a foreign language and a delicious recipe from that country. Then your own smartphone
or tablet will speak to you in the foreign language and talk you through all of the stages of cooking the recipe in your own kitchen. If you can’t understand, just press a button to get a photo or video explaining what to do. When you’ve finished, eat the
food you’ve cooked and learn something about the culture of the country. Linguacuisine has a range of recipes now available for language learning from around the world at
<a href="https://linguacuisine.com/app/"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://linguacuisine.com/app/</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We now have recipes available in: English, Greek, Italian, French, Spanish, German, Arabic, Quechua, Chinese, Turkish and Korean.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">You can also use the free recipe builder app on the website so that you can upload your own favourite recipe in your own language. That means that anyone anywhere in the world
will be able to watch videos and listen to audios of you guiding them through cooking your recipe and learning your language! Use your own smartphone or tablet to make recordings of yourself and upload them using our user-friendly software to create your own
recipe.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">You can also join our worldwide online community so you can rate and discuss other people’s recipes and post information, stories and photos. They can do the same for your
recipe, so it’s a good way to make friends in other countries.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">So Linguacuisine is a really fun way to learn about foreign languages, cultures and cuisines and you get to eat what you produce. You can also tell other people around the
world about your own cooking, language and way of life. You learn foreign words better when you are physically touching food and cooking utensils and using them to prepare food. When you are cooking, you involve all of your senses in the learning experience
– touch, smell and taste as well as hearing and seeing. So this is multi-modal and multi-sensory language learning. This is task-based language learning with a real product at the end of it and is intended to improve international understanding and communication.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Linguacuisine is available now for all devices, smartphones, tablets and computers from our website, where the online community is also located
<a href="https://linguacuisine.com/"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://linguacuisine.com/</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Linguacuisine app is the end result of a 10-year collaboration between computing scientists and linguists at Newcastle University. The Linguacuisine project is a collaboration
between Newcastle University, Action Foundation (UK), Hellenic Open University (Greece), Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (Italy) and the Workers’ Educational Association (UK). It is funded by an Erasmus+ KA2 Strategic Partnership grant of
€324K.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">For Teachers</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Linguacuisine app can be used for foreign language lessons, but also for cookery lessons and cross-curriculum projects. Students can use the app to cook and learn in the
kitchen at home as well as at school. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The app is a good way of preparing students for a foreign trip as it helps engage them with the cuisine, culture and language in advance. Students can also write their own
recipes in their own language, informing people abroad about their culture and cuisine.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">It is also an excellent way of getting learners to communicate with learners in other countries. Video links have been available for some time, but Linguacuisine means that
learners in different countries can do enjoyable shared activities together, cooking recipes from the other countries whilst learning about the other language and culture.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Digital skills can also be developed by using the ‘recipe builder’ authoring software. This was co-authored with learners and designed to develop a wide range of digital skills
using the DIGCOMP 2.1 framework; it has been shown to be successful in improving learner competence.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">For Professionals working with Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Linguacuisine app was co-designed with a group of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers from Action Foundation, Newcastle, UK and seeks to help them in two ways. Firstly,
immigrants to a country can cook the recipes to learn about the language, cuisine and culture of their host country and help their integration. Secondly, immigrants can produce their own recipes in their own language using the recipe builder software, so they
are able to have a voice and so people in their host country are able to learn something about their life prior to arrival here. A number of recipes currently on Linguacuisine have been produced by migrants in the UK.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Chefs and other catering staff who are travelling to work abroad can introduce themselves to the language, culture and cuisine of their destination country by using the Linguacuisine
app. They can also increase their repertoire and employability by trying recipes from around the world and improving relevant language skills.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Chefs can also produce their own recipes in their own language or English using the recipe builder software. Their recipes can then be tried out by users anywhere in the world.
Users can post feedback about the recipes and rate the recipes, so chefs can gain an international reputation and increase their own job opportunities.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Try out the app, cook a recipe and learn a new language!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Contact us at
<a href="mailto:linguacuisine@gmail.com"><span style="color:#0563C1">linguacuisine@gmail.com</span></a> or email
<a href="mailto:paul.seedhouse@ncl.ac.uk"><span style="color:#0563C1">paul.seedhouse@ncl.ac.uk</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Professor Paul Seedhouse</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Professor of Educational and Applied Linguistics</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">T: 0191 208 8873 |F: 0191 208 6546 | E:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">A: Room 3.01, School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences| Newcastle University | King George VI Building | Queen Victoria Road | Newcastle upon Tyne | NE1 7RU
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">New language learning and cooking app:
<a href="https://linguacuisine.com/">https://linguacuisine.com/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">New book ‘The Discourse of the IELTS Speaking Test’<span style="color:#1F497D">:
</span><a href="http://www.cambridge.org/gb/cambridgeenglish/catalog/teacher-training-development-and-research/discourse-ielts-speaking-test?format=PB">http://www.cambridge.org/gb/cambridgeenglish/catalog/teacher-training-development-and-research/discourse-ielts-speaking-test?format=PB</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Webpage:
<a href="http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls/staff/profile/paul.seedhouse">http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls/staff/profile/paul.seedhouse</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Digital Kitchen Projects:
<a href="http://europeandigitalkitchen.com/">http://europeandigitalkitchen.com/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">VEO Europa Project:
<a href="https://veoeuropa.com/">https://veoeuropa.com/</a> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Publications page:
<a href="http://eprint.ncl.ac.uk/author_pubs.aspx?author_id=72569">http://eprint.ncl.ac.uk/author_pubs.aspx?author_id=72569</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Google Scholar:
<a href="http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=NjHoLhMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao">http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=NjHoLhMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/task-based-language-learning-in-a-real-world-digital-environment-9781474264068/">http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/task-based-language-learning-in-a-real-world-digital-environment-9781474264068/</a><span style="color:#1F497D">
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