An ecological community becoming: Language learning as first-order experiencing with place and mobile technologies
Publication date: Available online 8 December 2017 Source:Linguistics and Education Author(s): Dongping Zheng, Yang Liu, Andrew Lambert, Aitao Lu, Jared Tomei, Daniel Holden This work looks at how language learners’ experiential engagement with place is achieved through design. It proposes a new language learning model, one that emerges through the availability and support of mobile technologies, and in which semiotic resources and learners’ participation in and experience of events are central. In this model, language learning is languaging in place, where place is a 3D holographic experience. Within such plac...
Source: Linguistics and Education - December 9, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Multimodal and multilingual resources in children's framing of situated learning activities: An introduction
Publication date: Available online 9 November 2017 Source:Linguistics and Education Author(s): Amy Kyratzis, Sarah Jean Johnson The papers in this Special Issue respond to pivotal developmental theories (Piaget, 1932/1997; Vygotsky, 1978) arguing for the importance of dialogic processes and peer interaction in children's learning. They examine how children build action and participate together in various problem-solving activities with others in their classrooms and family homes and agricultural fields, focusing on how these interactions unfold moment-to-moment in their material environments. The approach we take is gr...
Source: Linguistics and Education - November 10, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
“It was kind of a given that we were all multilingual”: Transnational youth identity work in digital translanguaging
Publication date: Available online 8 November 2017 Source:Linguistics and Education Author(s): Sujin Kim Drawing from the framework of translanguaging, this case study counters the notion of separatism in one's multilingual competency as developing separate monolingual capacities in different languages. Building from definitions and integration of theories from translanguaging and digital literacies in the context of transnational connectivity, and using the methodological tools of discourse analysis, this ethnographic case study examined how the case youth drew upon her entire semiotic repertoire in digital spaces to m...
Source: Linguistics and Education - November 9, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The environment of a bilingual classroom as an interactional resource
This article turns the spotlight on social action within a bilingual classroom, exploring how participants visibly orient to the surrounding material environment during instructional interaction. The data consist of video-recorded lessons from secondary-level education. A multimodal conversation analytic investigation focuses on interactions during which participants attend to classroom texts and semiotic objects in ways that foreground language and content-related ideologies. Sequential analyses of selected data extracts aim to show the occasioned nature of classroom objects and some ways in which instructional practices ...
Source: Linguistics and Education - November 9, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Focal social actions through which space is configured and reconfigured when orienting to a Finnish Sign Language class
Publication date: Available online 4 November 2017 Source:Linguistics and Education Author(s): Elina Tapio This paper focuses on how signing students organise themselves spatially in social interactions in a university lecture hall. One may view space as a concrete location, a social construct, and a normative actor with historical trajectories. The study addresses the question, ‘What are the mediated actions through which the students and teacher (re)configure space for participating in a class?' Following a methodological framework of Mediated Discourse Analysis and multimodal interaction analysis, I approach this q...
Source: Linguistics and Education - November 6, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Multiple language signage in linguistic landscapes and students ’ language practices: A case study from a language immersion setting
This article describes qualitative findings from an explorative study of the interplay between languages in school signage and students’ language practices in early total Swedish immersion in Finland. The relationship between languages and identity has been studied before, but mainly in non-immersion contexts. Previously no priority has been given to studies of the ways linguistic landscapes may inflect immersion students’ language use and shape their linguistic identities. Our data include photographs and field notes taken in a primary school and a focus group discussion with three eleven-year-old students. The study ...
Source: Linguistics and Education - October 28, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
SIGNS: Uncovering the mechanisms by which messages in the linguistic landscape influence language/race ideologies and educational opportunities
In this study, we introduce the Semiotic Index of Gains in Nature and Society (SIGNS), an example of a potential framework for LL analysis that investigates 1) historical and synchronic perspectives of place, 2) messages on syntagmatic and paradigmatic axes, 3) elective vs. circumstantial reverse indexicality, 4) societal myths (Barthes, 1972), and 5) messages as metonyms/metaphors. Using SIGNS, we analyze 30 school neighborhoods in an American Southwest border town and find that wealthier neighborhoods are more likely to have LLs indexed by Spanish than English, and these neighborhoods are subsequently more likely to supp...
Source: Linguistics and Education - October 20, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Peer ecologies for learning how to read: Exhibiting reading, orchestrating participation, and learning over time in bilingual Mexican-American preschoolers ’ play enactments of reading to a peer
This study investigates how a friendship dyad of preschool children enrolled in a bilingual Spanish-English Head Start preschool in California, predominantly serving Mexican-American families, enact and orchestrate in play the activity of reading aloud to a peer. It examines how the child leading the reading uses embodied and multimodal resources to exhibit themselves as reading, including using environmental couplings of talk and gesture (C. Goodwin, 2013) and how the peer being read to uses embodied resources to exhibit that they are attending to the reading (Erickson, 2004; Hindmarsh et al., 2011). It also tracks transf...
Source: Linguistics and Education - October 18, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Practices of conformity and transgression in an out-of-school reading programme for ‘at risk’ children
This article reports on ethnographic research at an after-school reading programme for primary school children considered to be at risk of school failure in the old town of Barcelona. Results suggest that the practices of pluriliteracy supported by the programme often conform with those inherent to the children's formal education; that is, with the very practices that have contributed to the children being placed in the programme to begin with. However, through the fine-grained analysis of child–volunteer interactions, certain practices that subtly transgress these norms are identified. It is in such practices that we se...
Source: Linguistics and Education - October 18, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Linguistic landscapes and trends in the study of schoolscapes
Publication date: Available online 14 October 2017 Source:Linguistics and Education Author(s): Durk Gorter This closing article puts the articles of the special issue in the wider perspective of the burgeoning field of linguistic landscape studies. It provides a summary of several earlier studies. More in particular the article focuses on contributions based on research in educational settings or schoolscapes in general. It continues with studies of environmental print as learning materials, the use of linguistic landscape materials for the study of English as a foreign language as well as the ways in which students and...
Source: Linguistics and Education - October 14, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Studying the visual and material dimensions of education and learning
Publication date: Available online 11 October 2017 Source:Linguistics and Education Author(s): Petteri Laihonen, Tamás Péter Szabó (Source: Linguistics and Education)
Source: Linguistics and Education - October 11, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The advantages and disadvantages of quantitative methods in schoolscape research
This article focuses on the application of quantitative methods in schoolscape research, including a discussion of its advantages and disadvantages. This article seeks to rehabilitate the quantitative by re-theorizing the landscape in linguistic landscape (LL), moving from an area based study of visible forms to a poststructuralist and postempiricist interpretative study of landscapes. The article discusses previous quantitative LL research and introduces a quantitative approach developed by the author during a data gathering and annotation of 6016 items. Quantitative methods can provide valuable insight to the ordering of...
Source: Linguistics and Education - October 7, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Discursive mentoring strategies and interactional dynamics in teacher education
Publication date: Available online 22 September 2017 Source:Linguistics and Education Author(s): Dominika Dobrowolska, Kristine Balslev In this paper, we are interested in how teacher educators help and guide prospective teachers’ learning in triadic mentoring conversations. These conversations are considered as boundary activities allowing to establish a stronger link between the practicums and academic coursework and to bridge the so-called gap between theory and practice. We explore the interactional dynamics during these conversations focusing on both the content and the discursive processes at play. Content refe...
Source: Linguistics and Education - September 22, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
“You not die yet”: Karenni refugee children's language socialization in a video gaming community
This study has implication for pedagogy that creates educational and social opportunities for refugee and immigrant children, who live with scarce resources and might feel or be marginalized in their new host communities. (Source: Linguistics and Education)
Source: Linguistics and Education - September 14, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Managing classroom transgressions: Use of directives in a reading practice
Publication date: Available online 12 September 2017 Source:Linguistics and Education Author(s): Ekaterina Moore This discourse analysis of classroom interactions examines management of transgressions during reading practice in a religious Russian heritage language school located in California. The detailed analysis of classroom talk-in situ focuses on directive sequences utilized in attempts to divert students’ attention away from transgressions and toward the reading activity. The paper contributes to our understanding of activity organization and management, and the process of “positioning” (Davies & Ha...
Source: Linguistics and Education - September 12, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
