Full Description
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.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction, Greg Niedt and Corinne A. Seals
Part I: Other Forms of Language Classroom
1. From Part of the Scenery to Curricular Resources: Authentic Signs as Portals to Cultural Practices within a Residential German Language Immersion Program, Justin Quam and Heidi E. Hamilton
2. Unveiling Sign Languages in the Linguistic Landscape: Representations of Sign Languages in Nonsigning and Signing Milieux, Jami Fisher, Donna Jo Napoli, and Gene Mirus
3. New Caledonia: A Semiotic Analysis of the Landscape as an Opportunity for Learning, Diane de Saint Léger and Kerry Mullan
Part II: Structured Spaces Becoming Classrooms
4. The Linguistic Landscape of Public Health Institutions in Tanzania, Paschal Mdukula
5. Information, Education and Language Policy in the Linguistic Landscape of an International Airport in New Zealand, Una Cunningham and Jeanette King
6. English Learning Experience in a Textile Company in Turkey, Yasemin Kirkgöz
7. The Public Discourse and Presentation of Migrant Groups within a Museum Space, Barbara Loester
Part III: LLs as Activist Education
8. Exploring Multimodal Story Houses in the Indigenous Paiwan-Rukai Post-Disaster Reconstruction, Chun-Mei Chen
9. Activist Teaching through the Linguistic Landscape in Göttingen and Lviv, Corinne A. Seals and Greg Niedt
10. Affective and Epistemic Stance as Approaches to Educating the Public (Or Not) During Ireland's Eighth Amendment Referendum Campaign, Louis Strange
11. Dynamic Walking Tour Methodology for LL Research: A Case Study in Jaffa, Amir Michalovich, Sarah Naaman, Moraia Trijnes, Iman Agbaria, and Elana Shohamy
Index
