Visualising Language Students and Teachers as Multilinguals: Advancing Social Justice in Education: 147 (Bilingual Education & Bilingualism) - Softcover

Paula Kalaja; Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1800416504 ISBN 13: 9781800416505

Publisher: Multilingual Matters, 2024

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Paula Kalaja is Professor Emerita at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her research interests include individual learner differences, visual methods in research and language teacher education. With Sílvia, she co-edited Visualising Multilingual Lives: More than Words (Multilingual Matters, 2019).

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Sílvia 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, 2023).

Edition details

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1800416504
• ISBN 13: 9781800416505
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 334
• Editor: Kalaja Paula, Melo-Pfeifer Sílvia