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.
Recenzijas
Moving through public spaces we are surrounded by linguistic landscapes all the time. We perceive and react to the display of texts and images and we also learn. The captivating contributions in this volume focus on learning that takes place in non-traditional educational settings, as diverse as a summer camp, a factory, an airport, a museum, a hospital or activist and political signs. All provide teachable moments and this focus ties together these studies. This volume contributes in important ways to the expansion of the scenery of linguistic landscape studies. * Durk Gorter, Ikerbasque Research Professor, University of the Basque Country and Ikerbasque, Spain * This exciting volume takes the reader on a fascinating tour across a myriad of spaces outside the classroom to illustrate how one can learn language and culture from the linguistic landscape. An important contribution to the growing literature on linguistic landscapes and inspirational input for both teachers and learners! * Elizabeth Lanza, Professor of Linguistics and Director, Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan (MultiLing), University of Oslo, Norway *
Papildus informācija
This book shows how texts in public spaces outside the classroom environment can form the basis of an educational experience.
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 Irelands 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
Greg Niedt is Lecturer in Liberal Arts at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, USA.
Corinne A. Seals is Senior Lecturer of Applied Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
