Full Description
This edited volume offers fresh perspectives on linguistic and cultural diversity in multilingual picturebooks, examining their potential to support multilingual learning in different educational contexts. Drawing on international, transdisciplinary perspectives from over fifteen countries, the book provides a comprehensive view of this unique literary genre.
The collection showcases a wide range of languages featured in multilingual picturebooks, including Chinese, Farsi, Georgian, Irish, Korean, Malagasy, Mexican Indigenous languages, Mirandese, Northern Sámi, Portuguese, Spanish, Te Reo Māori, Ukrainian, and Welsh. Various chapters examine how multilingual picturebooks foster language and literacy development for emergent bilinguals in multilingual and multicultural environments, highlighting benefits such as linguistic and semiotic code-switching, as well as their ability to stimulate intercultural awareness in readers. The book also considers the creation, translation, and complex publishing processes of multilingual picturebooks, while exploring modern technologies such as eye tracking to analyse the reading processes of these books.
Reflecting current insights and innovations in picturebook research, this volume will appeal to scholars, academics, and researchers in language and literacy education, multilingual education, and early childhood education. Those involved in children's literature studies, multimodality, and bilingualism more broadly will also find this collection valuable.
Contents
Introduction: Creative Readings of Multilingual Picturebooks
Part I: Multilingual Picturebooks: Exploring a Multifaceted Literary Genre
Chapter 1: Linguistic and Pictorial Worlds: On the Interplay between Text and Image in Multilingual Picturebooks
Chapter 2: Resisting English as the Norm: Moving between Languages in Translingual Picturebooks
Chapter 3: Boundaries, Activism, and Language Revitalisation: Bilingual Picturebooks in Wales and Aotearoa New Zealand
Chapter 4: Frozen and Timeless: Nature, Identity, and Intercultural Encounters in the Dual Language Northern Sámi-Norwegian Picturebook Namalávlla/Navnesangen
Chapter 5: Voices of Mexican Indigenous Languages in the Digital Multilingual Picturebook "68 voces, 68 corazones"
Chapter 6: Multilingualism and the Semiotics of Comics in Comics and Picturebooks for Children: All Here!
Part II: Pedagogical Affordances of Multilingual Picturebooks
Chapter 7: The Creative Potential of Multilingual Picturebooks. Perspectives from Literary Studies and Foreign Language Teaching Research
Chapter 8: Using Multilingual Books in Kindergarten Classrooms with the ELODIL Multilingual Picture Books Digital Platform: Outcomes and Critical Perspectives
Chapter 9: Pedagogical Mediations of a Dual Language Northern Sámi-Norwegian Picturebook in English Language Education: An Indigenous, Environmental, and Translingual Perspective
Chapter 10: Exploiting Bi/multilingual Picturebooks Through Translanguaging and Beyond: Making Meaning
Chapter 11: Exploring the Educational Contribution of Two Bilingual Picturebooks from Madagascar
Chapter 12: Language Order of Dual Language Picturebooks and Children's Retelling Strategies
Part III: Creating, Translating, and Publishing Multilingual Picturebooks
Chapter 13: Portuguese Multilingual Picturebooks: An Overview of Contemporary Creative Trends
Chapter 14: Multilingual Picturebooks and Involuntary Displacement: I Want to Speak Ukrainian
Chapter 15: The Creative Journeys of Rosa Ibarra and Monica Brown: Writing and Illustrating Bilingual Spanish-English Picturebooks for Children as Community Engagement
Chapter 16: Writing, Translating, and Publishing Bilingual Picturebooks: A Creative and Committed African Perspective
Chapter 17: Coronavirus, Monsters, and Battles: A Multimodal Approach to Translation in Multilingual Picturebooks about COVID-19
Chapter 18: Exploring Translation in a Translingual Picturebook: Creative Poetics
Afterword
