Liberating Language Education

239 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h59min.
Takes a radical approach to language education that is both situated and decentredThis book responds to a growing body of work in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics that places an emphasis on situated descriptions of language education practices and illuminates how these descriptions are enmeshed with local, institutional and wider social forces. It engages with new ways of understanding language that expand its meaning by including other semiotic resources and meaning-making practices and bring to the fore its messiness and unpredictability. The chapters illustrate how a translingual and transcultural orientation to language and language pedagogy can provide a point of entry to reimagining what language education might look like under conditions of heightened linguistic and cultural diversity and increased linguistic and social inequalities. The book unites an international group of contributors, presenting state-of-the-art empirical studies drawing on a wide range of local contexts and spaces, from linguistically and culturally heterogeneous mainstream and HE classrooms to complementary (community) school and informal language learning contexts.Contributors Vally Lytra, Cristina Ros i Solé, Jim Anderson and Vicky Macleroy: Introduction: Why Liberating Language Education?  Part 1: Policies, Discourses and Ideologies Chapter 1.Thomas Quehl: 'I don’t think we encourage the use of their home language…': Exploring ‘Multilingualism Light’ in a London Primary School  Chapter 2. Ambarin Mooznah Auleear Owodally: Recognising the Creole Community: Discursive Constructions of Enslavement and the Enslaved in Kreol Textbooks in Mauritius  Chapter 3. Cátia Verguete: Appropriating Portuguese Language Policies in England Chapter 4. Vally Lytra: Making Sense of the Internal Diversities of Greek Schools Abroad: Exploring the Purposeful Use of Translation as Communicative Resource for Language Learning and Identity Construction Ana Souza: Commentary for Part 1 Part 2: Language-Living: Materialities, Affectivities and Becomings Chapter 5. Nuria Polo-Pérez and Prue Holmes: Languaging in Language Cafés: Emotion Work, Creating Alternative Worlds and Metalanguaging Chapter 6. Eszter Tarsoly and Jelena Ćalić: Language Studies as Transcultural Becoming and Participation: Undoing Language Boundaries across the Danube Region Chapter 7. Cristina Ros i Solé: The Textures of Language: An Autoethnography of a Gloves Collection Simon Coffey: Commentary for Part 2 Part 3: Transcultural Journeying and Aesthetics  Chapter 8. Jim Anderson: Visual Art in Arabic Foreign and Heritage Language-and-Culture Learning: Expanding the Scope for Meaning-Making Chapter 9. Maria Charalambous: Creating Pedagogical Spaces for Translingual and Transcultural Meaning-Making and Student Agency in a London Greek Complementary School    Chapter 10. Koula Charitonos: Opening Spaces of Learning: A Sociomaterial Investigation of Object-Based Approaches with Migrant Youth in and beyond the Heritage Language Classroom Chapter 11. Dobrochna Futro: Translanguaging Art: Exploring the Transformative Potential of Contemporary Art for Language Teaching in the Multilingual Context. Alison Phipps: Commentary for Part 3 Part 4: Voices, Identities and Citizenship Chapter 12. Yu-chiao Chung and Vicky Macleroy: How Weird is Weird? Young People, Activist Citizenship and Multivoiced Digital Stories Chapter 13. Gabriele Budach, Gohar Sharoyan and Daniela Loghin: ‘Animating Objects’: Co-Creation in Digital Story Making between Planning and Play  Chapter 14. Jessica Bradley, Zhu Hua and Louise Atkinson: Visual Representations of Multilingualism: Exploring Aesthetic Approaches to Communication in a Fine Art Context Kate Pahl: Commentary for Part 4 Vally Lytra, Cristina Ros i Solé, Jim Anderson and Vicky Macleroy: Conclusion: Language Education Collages Index