Linguistic Landscapes and Educational Spaces

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This volume helps expand our understanding of the way language learning is always geosemiotically structured - sometimes hindering or closing off access, other times opening up powerful new opportunities. I applaud the editors for bringing together such a distinctive, diverse array of case studies. * Crispin Thurlow, University of Bern, Switzerland * This exciting collection on 'educationscapes' expands the frontiers of research into 'schoolscapes' by examining Linguistic Landscapes of both formal and informal institutions. Transcending conventional boundaries of age, from pre-school children through to adult migrant learners, the chapters draw on data as diverse as blackboards, picture books, outdoor learning, and leaflets to highlight the potential for educationscapes to inform our understanding of our world. * Robert Blackwood, University of Liverpool, UK * Linguistic Landscapes and Educational Spaces constituye un aporte significativo al espacio investigativo de los paisajes lingueisticos, escolares y educativos. Como senalan Durk Gorter y Jasone Cenoz, las distintas perspectivas sobre la formulacion de los paisajes permite el analisis del espacio desde sus aspectos fisicos, o desde su potencial capacidad para reproducir ideologias y normas lingueisticas. A la vez, algunos estudios han incluido metodologias participativas que ayudan a recrear los paisajes desde la vision de los propios actores de las localidades estudiadas. Todos estos esfuerzos logran construir un espacio investigativo interdisciplinario que une no solo las herramientas de la sociolingueistica y la lingueistica aplicada, sino que tambien tiene repercusiones y empleos en areas tales como la educacion, la alfabetizacion, y el analisis critico del discurso. * Isaac Galassi, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Lengua y migracion / Language and Migration 15:1 (2023) * Linguistic Landscapes and Educational Spaces is a rich and rewarding volume that consolidates schoolscapes/educationscapes as a productive and theoretically as well as socially relevant stream within current LL studies. While other recent publications mainly focus on the pedagogic dimension, this book is perhaps the first to present a balanced overview of both relevant areas, i.e. empirical fieldwork on signs in school spaces (Part I) and analyses of pedagogical activities that involve the LL (Part 2). The chapters offer a wide range of theoretical approaches and excellent examples of mixed methods research designs. Overall, the volume leaves the reader craving for more research on the semiotic landscape of educational institutions, more ideas for pedagogical projects, and active collaborations with institutions to ensure the research results benefit schools, students, teachers, and parents. * Jannis Androutsopoulos, University of Hamburg, Germany, Linguistic Landscape, Feb 2025 * ...the whole edited volume is placed perfectly in the discourse and development of linguistic landscape research, both by reflecting on the field's tradition and history, and pointing out important and promising topics for the future analysis of linguistic and semiotic spaces in education. * Oliver Delto and Stefanie Noelle-Becker, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023 * ...an inspiring read for anybody interested in LL studies, as well as an enriching source for educators who have not yet incorporated the LL approach into their teaching...a highly solid contribution pointing to the integration of two fields: linguistics (mostly sociolinguistics and applied linguistics) and educational sciences....the volume enhances bridges between the two fields while emphasising cognitive and social aspects as highly interrelated concepts in language learning. * Sanita Martena and Heiko F. Marten, Rezekne Academy of Technologies, Latvia, Sociolinguistic Studies, 16.4 2022 * I strongly recommend this book to all educators. Among other aspects, this book will exemplify the relevance and importance of the myriad features of multimodality related to schoolscape and the linguistic landscape in education. * Antoinette Camilleri Grima, University of Malta, Malta Review of Educational Research, Volume 16, No. 2. * ...a welcome contribution to the expanding scenery of research on language and education, on the linguistic landscape in general, and on the linguistic landscape in education in particular. The editors have taken care to cover two especially relevant areas in education: the linguistic and semiotic landscapes of educational spaces and

the linguistic landscape as a pedagogical resource. Together, the chapters form a showcase proving the extent and the value of linguistic landscapes (LL) in education, from the early years through to university, both inside

and outside educational institutions. * Antoinette Camilleri Grima, Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices *