Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction by David Malinowski, Hiram Maxim, and Sébastien Dubreil.- Part I: Transforming Language Curricula and Learning Spaces.- Linguistic landscape projects in language teaching: Opportunities for critical language learning beyond the classroom by María Eugenia Lozano, Juan Pablo Jiménez Caicedo, and Lee Abraham.- Linguistic landscape images and Québec's cultural narrative in French textbooks by Carol A. Chappelle.- Teaching with virtual linguistic landscapes: Developing translingual and transcultural competence by Sungwoo Kim and Michael Chesnut.- University exchange students' practices of learning Finnish: A language ecological approach to affordances in linguistic landscapes by Tamas Peter Szabó and Hannele Dufva.- Classroom translanguaging through the linguistic landscape by Corinne Seals.- Part II: Fostering Critical Social Awareness.- Building language teacher awareness of colonial histories and imperialistic oppression through the linguistic landscape by Andrea Sterzuk.- Floating traffic signs and the ambiguity of silence in the linguistic landscape by Diane Richardson.- A geolocative linguistic landscape project in Korean as foreign language education by Hakyoon Lee and Bumyong Choi.- Using linguistic landscapes as stimuli for relevant EFL writing by Rawia Hayik.- Developing critical sociolinguistic awareness through linguistic landscapes in a mixed classroom: the case of Spanish in Texas by Idoia Elola and Josh Prada.- Part III: Language Students as Researchers and Linguistic Landscape.- Linguistic landscape as an antidote to the commodification of study abroad language programs: A case study in the center of Madrid by Alberto Bruzos Moro.- Taking the foreign out of language teaching: opening up the classroom to the multilingual city by Lourdes Hernandez-Martin and P. J. Skrandies.- Ethnographic language learning projects through the linguistic landscape by Peter Sayer.- Investigating bulletin boards with students. What can Citizen Science offer education and research in the linguistic landscape? Helle Lykke Nielsen, Tove Rosendal, Johan Järlehed and Christopher Kullenberg.
