Visualising Language Students and Teachers as Multilinguals

Advancing Social Justice in Education

By: Paula Kalaja (Editor), Silvia Melo-Pfeifer (Editor)

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Hardcover | 15 October 2024

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328 Pages

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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.

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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 *

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