Visualising Language Students and Teachers as Multilinguals
Advancing Social Justice in Education
Published on 15. October 2024
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-1-80041-651-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book fosters an awareness of multilingualism as lived or as subjectively experienced from the perspective of those involved in language education and teacher education. Responding to multilingual and visual turns, it widens the repertoire of methodologies dominating the field of language teacher education, from linguistic or verbal to visual. The chapters, written by practising language teachers and teacher educators, explore aspects of multilingualism accessed through visual means in a wide range of contexts. Using social justice as a transformative framework, they highlight the biases, inequalities and linguistic hierarchies within schools and teacher education, and promote respect for linguistic plurality and cultural diversity in these settings. They illustrate how visual methods can be used to reconstruct histories of individual multilingualism, identify present language ideologies and support teachers' professional development by means of envisioning the future self in action. This book will be of interest to those involved in language education and language teacher education, including researchers, practising language teachers, student or trainee teachers and teacher educators.
This book is Open Access under a CC BY NC ND license.
This book is Open Access under a CC BY NC ND license.
Reviews / Votes
Kalaja and Melo-Pfeifer reconstruct multilingual lives and multilingual teachers' beliefs in ways that are inclusive of diverse experiences and modes of expression. The multi-storied visualization in this book fills the narrative holes and exclusions that have been created by a conception of the linguistic repertoire as purely spoken/written. This book advances not only the study of multilingualism, but also how ways of researching it is a matter of social justice. * Ofelia Garcia, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA * Reading this edited volume by Kalaja and Melo-Pfeifer is like entering an Alice-in-Wonderland fantasy world of how multilingualism can be lived and envisioned in various language classrooms around the world and across educational levels. Through the looking glass we see lived multilingualism via an amazing range of visual methodologies, from drawings and pictures to digital and three-dimensional visualizations. * Joana Duarte, University of Groningen, The Netherlands * This book provides a groundbreaking examination of multilingualism through innovative visual methodologies. It offers critical insights into the intersection of linguistic diversity and social justice, making it an essential resource for educators and researchers committed to advancing equity in multilingual education. * Rahat Zaidi, University of Calgary, Canada *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
902 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80041-651-2 (9781800416512)
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Paula Kalaja | Silvia Melo-Pfeifer
Visualising Language Students and Teachers as Multilinguals
Advancing Social Justice in Education
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10/2024
Multilingual Matters
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Persons
Paula Kalaja is Professor Emerita at the University of Jyvaeskylae, Finland. Her research interests include individual learner differences, visual methods in research and language teacher education. With Silvia, she co-edited Visualising Multilingual Lives: More Than Words (Multilingual Matters, 2019).
Silvia Melo-Pfeifer is Full Professor at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Her research focuses on visual methods, multilingual pedagogies and language teacher education. She co-edited the volume above and Assessment of Plurilingual Competence and Plurilingual Learners in Educational Settings (with Christian Ollivier, Routledge, 2024).
Silvia Melo-Pfeifer is Full Professor at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Her research focuses on visual methods, multilingual pedagogies and language teacher education. She co-edited the volume above and Assessment of Plurilingual Competence and Plurilingual Learners in Educational Settings (with Christian Ollivier, Routledge, 2024).
Content
Contributors
Gary Barkhuizen: Foreword: Multistoried Visualisations and Narrative Holes
Paula Kalaja and Silvia Melo-Pfeifer: Introduction: Being Multilingual and Living Multilingually - Advancing a Social Justice Agenda in Applied Language Studies
Part 1: Reconstructing Histories of Individual Multilingualism
Chapter 1. Karita Mard-Miettinen and Siv Bjoerklund: 'From YouTube, I Watch Videos and Vlogs and Other Stuff in Different Languages': Immersion Students as Users of Multiple Languages
Chapter 2. Daniel Roy Pearce, Mayo Oyama and Daniele Moore: Just 'Native' Assistants? Exploring the Plurilingual Potential of Assistant Language Teachers in Japan through Visual Polyethnography
Chapter 3. Silvia Melo-Pfeifer: Visual Methods in Language Teacher Education: Uncovering Beliefs about Career Choices Held by Pre-Service Teachers
Chapter 4. Ana Carolina de Laurentiis Brandao: English Remote Teaching in Drawings: Stories of Teacher Resilience in Brazilian State Schools
Part 2: Describing the Present of Multilingual Pedagogies
Chapter 5. Heidi Niemelae: Language Ideologies in Primary School Pupils' Drawings of the Finnish Language
Chapter 6. Andre Storto: Using Data Visualisations in a Participatory Approach to Multilingualism: 'I Feel What You Don't Feel'
Chapter 7. Vander Tavares: Seeing the Unseen: Representations of Being and Feeling in Plurilingual International Students' Adjustment Experiences
Chapter 8. So-Yeon Ahn: Interpreting Multilingual Spaces through a Lens: Linguistic Landscape Projects for Cultivating Intercultural Competence
Chapter 9. Ana Sofia Pinho and Maria de Lurdes Goncalves: Language Teachers' Professional Identity in Visual Narratives: Depicting Pedagogy for Linguistic and Cultural Diversity through a Social Justice Lens
Chapter 10. Josh Prada: Visualizing Translanguaging Awareness in Language Teacher Education: A Case Study
Part 3: Envisioning the Future of Multilingualism in Language (Teacher) Education
Chapter 11. Paula Kalaja and Katja Maentylae: The Role of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in English Classes as Envisioned by Student Teachers in Finland
Chapter 12. Mireia Perez-Peitx: Visualising Interaction in Plurilingual Situations: What Do Future Teachers Think and How Do They Approach This Reality?
Chapter 13. Maria Ruohotie-Lyhty, Rodrigo Camargo Aragao and Anne Pitkaenen-Huhta: Multilingualism in First-Year Student Teachers' Visualisations of Their Professional Futures in Finland and Brazil
Silvia Melo-Pfeifer and Paula Kalaja: Conclusion: Lessons Learnt and Future Avenues for Arts-Based Approaches in Applied Language Studies for Social Justice
Index
Gary Barkhuizen: Foreword: Multistoried Visualisations and Narrative Holes
Paula Kalaja and Silvia Melo-Pfeifer: Introduction: Being Multilingual and Living Multilingually - Advancing a Social Justice Agenda in Applied Language Studies
Part 1: Reconstructing Histories of Individual Multilingualism
Chapter 1. Karita Mard-Miettinen and Siv Bjoerklund: 'From YouTube, I Watch Videos and Vlogs and Other Stuff in Different Languages': Immersion Students as Users of Multiple Languages
Chapter 2. Daniel Roy Pearce, Mayo Oyama and Daniele Moore: Just 'Native' Assistants? Exploring the Plurilingual Potential of Assistant Language Teachers in Japan through Visual Polyethnography
Chapter 3. Silvia Melo-Pfeifer: Visual Methods in Language Teacher Education: Uncovering Beliefs about Career Choices Held by Pre-Service Teachers
Chapter 4. Ana Carolina de Laurentiis Brandao: English Remote Teaching in Drawings: Stories of Teacher Resilience in Brazilian State Schools
Part 2: Describing the Present of Multilingual Pedagogies
Chapter 5. Heidi Niemelae: Language Ideologies in Primary School Pupils' Drawings of the Finnish Language
Chapter 6. Andre Storto: Using Data Visualisations in a Participatory Approach to Multilingualism: 'I Feel What You Don't Feel'
Chapter 7. Vander Tavares: Seeing the Unseen: Representations of Being and Feeling in Plurilingual International Students' Adjustment Experiences
Chapter 8. So-Yeon Ahn: Interpreting Multilingual Spaces through a Lens: Linguistic Landscape Projects for Cultivating Intercultural Competence
Chapter 9. Ana Sofia Pinho and Maria de Lurdes Goncalves: Language Teachers' Professional Identity in Visual Narratives: Depicting Pedagogy for Linguistic and Cultural Diversity through a Social Justice Lens
Chapter 10. Josh Prada: Visualizing Translanguaging Awareness in Language Teacher Education: A Case Study
Part 3: Envisioning the Future of Multilingualism in Language (Teacher) Education
Chapter 11. Paula Kalaja and Katja Maentylae: The Role of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in English Classes as Envisioned by Student Teachers in Finland
Chapter 12. Mireia Perez-Peitx: Visualising Interaction in Plurilingual Situations: What Do Future Teachers Think and How Do They Approach This Reality?
Chapter 13. Maria Ruohotie-Lyhty, Rodrigo Camargo Aragao and Anne Pitkaenen-Huhta: Multilingualism in First-Year Student Teachers' Visualisations of Their Professional Futures in Finland and Brazil
Silvia Melo-Pfeifer and Paula Kalaja: Conclusion: Lessons Learnt and Future Avenues for Arts-Based Approaches in Applied Language Studies for Social Justice
Index