Language Teaching in the Linguistic Landscape

Language Teaching in the Linguistic Landscape
Author: David Malinowski
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2021-02-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030557618

This book builds upon the growing field of Linguistic Landscape in order to demonstrate the power of a spatialized approach to language, culture, and literacy education as it opens classrooms and cultivates new competencies. The chapters develop major themes, including re-imagining language curricula, language classrooms, and schoolscapes in dialogue with the heteroglossic discourses of the local; developing L2 learners’ symbolic, translingual competencies through engagement with situated, multimodal texts; fostering critical social awareness through language study in the linguistic landscape; expanding opportunities for situated L2 reading and writing; and cultivating language students’ capacities for engaged scholarship and research in out-of-class contexts. By exploring the pedagogical possibilities of place-based approaches to literacy development, this volume contributes to the reimagining of language education through the linguistic landscape.

Linguistic Landscapes in Language and Teacher Education

Linguistic Landscapes in Language and Teacher Education
Author: Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2023-04-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3031228677

This book offers an international account of the use of linguistic landscapes to promote multilingual education, from primary school to the university, and in teacher education programs. It brings linguistic landscapes to the forefront of multilingual education in school settings and teacher education, expanding the disciplinary domains through which they have been studied. Drawing on multidisciplinarity and placing linguistic landscapes in the field of language (teacher) education, this book presents empirical studies developed in eleven countries: Australia, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Mozambique, The Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain, and The United States. The chapters illustrate how multilingual pedagogies can be enhanced using linguistic landscapes in mainstream education and are written by partners of the Erasmus Plus project LoCALL “LOcal Linguistic Landscapes for global language education in the school context”.

Linguistic Landscapes and Educational Spaces

Linguistic Landscapes and Educational Spaces
Author: Edina Krompák
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2021-12-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1788923871

Drawing on insights from linguistics and semiotics, this book explores the linguistic landscape of the classroom and offers new perspectives on both linguistic landscape and educational sciences. The book brings together empirical studies conducted with two different foci: schoolscapes and the use of linguistic landscape as a pedagogical tool.

Linguistic Landscapes Beyond the Language Classroom

Linguistic Landscapes Beyond the Language Classroom
Author: Greg Niedt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2020-12-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1350125377

Linguistic landscapes can play an important role in educating individuals beyond formal pedagogical environments. This book argues that anywhere can be a space for people to learn from displayed texts, images, and other communicated signs, and consequently a space where teachable cultural moments are created. Following language learning trajectories that 'exit through the language classroom' into city streets, public offices, museums and monuments, this volume presents innovative work demonstrating that anyone can learn from the linguistic landscape that surrounds them. Offering a bridge between theoretical research and practical application, chapters consider how we make sense of places by understanding how the landscape is used to express, claim and contest identities and ideologies. In this way, Linguistic Landscapes Beyond the Language Classroom highlights the unexpected potential of the informal settings for learning and for teachers to expand their students' intercultural experience.

Minority Languages in the Linguistic Landscape

Minority Languages in the Linguistic Landscape
Author: D. Gorter
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2011-12-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0230360238

Providing an innovative approach to the written displays of minority languages in public space this volume explores minority language situations through the lens of linguistic landscape research. Based on very tangible data it explores the 'same old issues' of language contact and language conflict in new ways.

Linguistic Landscape

Linguistic Landscape
Author: Durk Gorter
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1853599166

The book contains a collection of studies of the linguistic landscape - the use of written language on signs in the public sphere - in 5 different societies: Israel, Japan, Thailand, the Netherlands (Friesland) and Spain (Basque Country). All contributions focus on multilingualism in the social context of the major cities.

Challenging Boundaries in Language Education

Challenging Boundaries in Language Education
Author: Achilleas Kostoulas
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2019-06-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030170578

This edited collection challenges the perceptions of disciplinary, linguistic, geographical and ideological borders that run across language education. By highlighting commonalities and tracing connections between diverse sub-fields that have traditionally been studied separately, the book shows how the perspectives of practitioners and researchers working in diverse areas of language education can mutually inform each other. It consists of three thematic parts: Part I outlines the field of language education and challenges its definition by highlighting additional theoretical constructs that have tended to be viewed as separate from language education. Part II investigates curricular boundaries, showing how the language-learning curriculum can be enriched by connections with other curricular areas. Lastly, Part III looks into the challenges and opportunities associated with language education against the backdrop of globalisation.

Applied Linguistics in the Middle East and North Africa

Applied Linguistics in the Middle East and North Africa
Author: Atta Gebril
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2017-07-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027265798

This volume offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of applied research efforts in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This region has not received due attention in the literature and this publication provides a much-needed contribution to the existing body of knowledge. The editor recruited a number of renowned scholars who either work in the MENA countries or have experience doing research in this region to contribute to this project. The selection of chapters ensured representation of applied linguistics efforts in North Africa, the Levant, and the Gulf. The book looks into language research within social and educational MENA contexts. The final part of the book provides a forward-looking perspective about applied linguistics research and practices in the Middle East and North Africa. The book is primarily written for those interested in applied linguistics, particularly researchers, graduate students, and language professionals in the MNEA region.

Pedagogical Translanguaging

Pedagogical Translanguaging
Author: Jasone Cenoz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2022-01-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1009033794

Learning through the medium of a second or additional language is becoming very common in different parts of the world because of the increasing use of English as the language of instruction and the mobility of populations. This situation demands a specific approach that considers multilingualism as its core. Pedagogical translanguaging is a theoretical and instructional approach that aims at improving language and content competences in school contexts by using resources from the learner's whole linguistic repertoire. Pedagogical translanguaging is learner-centred and endorses the support and development of all the languages used by learners. It fosters the development of metalinguistic awareness by softening of boundaries between languages when learning languages and content. This Element looks at the way pedagogical translanguaging can be applied in language and content classes and how it can be valuable for the protection and promotion of minority languages. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.