Kalaja / Melo-Pfeifer Visualising Multilingual Lives

More Than Words
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78892-262-3
Verlag: Multilingual Matters
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 2, 312 Seiten

Reihe: Psychology of Language Learning and Teaching

Shortlisted for the 2020 BAAL Book Prize

This book brings together empirical studies from around the world to help readers gain a better understanding of multilinguals, ranging from small children to elderly people, and their lives. The chapters focus on the multilingual subjects’ identities and the ways in which they are discursively and/or visually constructed, and are split into sections looking specifically at the multilingual self, the multilingual learner and multilingual teacher education. The studies draw on rich visual data, which is analysed for content and/or form and often complemented with other types of data, to investigate how multilinguals make sense of their use and knowledge of more than one language in their specific context. The topic of multilingualism is addressed as subjectively experienced and the book unites the current multilingual, narrative and visual turns in Applied Language Studies. It will be of interest to students and researchers working in the areas of language learning and teaching, teacher education and bi/multilingualism, as well as to those interested in using visual methods and narratives as a means of academic research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kalaja, Paula

Melo-Pfeifer, Sílvia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Paula Kalaja and Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer

Part I - The Multilingual Self

Chapter 1. Alice Chik: Becoming and Being Multilingual in Australia

Chapter 2. Nayr Ibrahim: Children’s Multimodal Visual Narratives as Possible Sites of Identity Performance

Chapter 3. Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer and Alexandra Schmidt: Integration as Portrayed in Visual Narratives by Young Refugees in Germany

Chapter 4. Muriel Molinié: From the Migration Experience to its Visual Narration in International Mobility

Part II - The Multilingual Learner

Chapter 5. Kristiina Skinnari: Looking but not Seeing: The Hazards of a Teacher-Researcher Interpreting Self-portraits of Adolescent English Learners

Chapter 6. Liss Kerstin Sylvén: Looking at Language through a Camera Lens

Chapter 7. So-Yeon Ahn: Using Multimodal Analysis to Explore Language Learner Identity Construction

Chapter 8. Vera Lúcia Menezes de Oliveira e Paiva and Ronaldo Correa Gomes Junior: Multimodal Language Learning Histories: Images Telling Stories

Chapter 9. Tae Umino and Phil Benson: Study-abroad in Pictures: Photographs as Data in Life-story Research

Part III - Multilingual Teacher Education

Chapter 10. Ana Carolina de Laurentiis Brandão: Imagining L2 Teaching in Brazil: What Stories do Student Teachers Draw?

Chapter 11. Ana Sofia Pinho: Plurilingual Education and the Identity Development of Pre-service English Language Teachers: An Illustrative Example

Chapter 12. Mireia Pérez-Peitx, Isabel Civera and Juli Palou: Awareness of Plurilingual Competence in Teacher Education

Chapter 13. Katja Mäntylä and Paula Kalaja: “The Class of my Dreams” as Envisioned by Student Teachers of English: What is there to Teach about the Language?

Conclusion. Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer and Paula Kalaja: Lessons Learnt With and Through Visual Narratives of Multilingualism as Lived, and a Research Agenda

Über Autor(innen)

Kalaja, Paula
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).

Melo-Pfeifer, Sílvia
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).

Paula Kalaja is Professor Emerita in the Department of Language and Communication Studies at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her research interests lie in visual methodologies and foreign language learning and teaching, with a particular interest in beliefs, motivation and identities. She has published widely in the field and is co-author (with Ana Maria F. Barcelos, Mari Aro and Maria Ruohotie-Lyhty) of Beliefs, Agency and Identity in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching (Palgrave, 2016).

Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer is Professor in the Department of Education at the University of Hamburg, Germany. She is also a member of CIDTFF (Research Centre ‘Didactics and Technology in Education of Trainers’) at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. Her research interests include plurilingual and intercultural (online) interaction, pluralistic approaches to languages and cultures, and heritage language education.