This book argues for an approach to linguistic ethnography which departs from the perspective of the academic researcher, to amplify instead the voices of participants, researchers and collaborators. ...It reflects on ways of reporting research which add multiple perspectives and represent ambiguity more meaningfully than traditional academic prose.
This article reports on research that questions commonsense understandings of a bilingual pedagogy predicated on what Cummins (2005, 2008) refers to as the "two solitudes" assumption (2008, p. 65). ...It sets out to describe a flexible bilingual approach to language teaching and learning in Chinese and Gujarati community language schools in the United Kingdom. We argue for a release from monolingual instructional approaches and advocate teaching bilingual children by means of bilingual instructional strategies, in which two or more languages are used alongside each other. In developing this argument, the article takes a language ecology perspective and seeks to describe the interdependence of skills and knowledge across languages.
This ethnographic drama script is adapted from observations conducted in a large city centre library in the UK. The action focuses on the staff room in the library, where the fictionalised characters ...of four customer experience assistants, threatened with redundancy, take their lunch and tea breaks. The ethnographic drama is a creative curation of field notes, transcripts, audio recordings, video recordings, conversations and observations. It tells a story of political tension in everyday life at a time of austerity.
This book is both research report and performance piece. Here is a team of researchers as they study communication on the volleyball court. And here are the voices and actions of the volleyball coach ...and his players as they practise and play. Research in process and research findings are represented in a play script which bringsvividly to lifeboth ethnographic research methods and communication in the world of sport. This highly original book adds innovation and imagination to the representation of language in social life.
This highly original book brings compelling narratives of migration and social diversity vividly to life. At once a play script and an outcome of ethnographic research, this book is a rich resource ...for the interpretation and representation of life in the multilingual city.
Inhalt: Introduction -- Theoretical and methodological frameworks -- Policy into practice -- Teachers in multilingual mainstream classrooms: enacting inclusion -- Teachers talking. the discourses of ...collaborating teachers -- The discursive positionings of teachers in collaboration -- Teacher collaboration in support and withdrawal modes -- Teaching partnerships -- Content based language learning and language based content learning. learning a secondary language in the mainstream -- Bilingual teachers and students in secondary school classrooms. using Turkish for curriculum learning -- Mediating allegations of racism. bilingual EAL teachers in action -- Conclusion.
This book breaks new ground in its representation of the voices of people in a superdiverse city as they go about their everyday lives. Poetic, polyphonic, and compelling, it places the reader at the ...heart of the market hall, surrounded by the translanguaging voices of people from all over the world. Based on four years of ethnographic research, the book is a gift to the senses, evoking the smells, sights, and sounds of the multilingual city. This is a book that reimagines the conventions of both ethnographic writing and academic discourse.
This article reviews recent scholarship in language, identity, and education. It critically reflects on developments in sociolinguistics as researchers have engaged with the dynamics and complexity ...of communication in superdiverse societies where people from an increased number of territories come into contact with one another, and where people have access to an increased range of online resources for communication. The authors focus in particular on recent scholarship on “translanguaging,” examining research that has viewed identities as socially constructed in interaction and considering the relationship between language and identities in contexts where communication is mobile and complex. This article offers a critical summary of the implications of these developments for education in the 21st century. In order to illustrate these theoretical points, the authors present an empirical example of the performance of language and identity in education from their recent research.
Translanguaging and the body Blackledge, Adrian; Creese, Angela
International journal of multilingualism,
07/2017, Letnik:
14, Številka:
3
Journal Article
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This article reports communicative interactions with a focus on the body as a dimension of the semiotic repertoire. The research context is a four-year, multi-site linguistic ethnography which ...investigates how people communicate in superdiverse cities in the UK. In the setting of a butcher's stall in a city market we consider three interactions at a particular market stall between butchers and their customers. In the first, gesture is deployed as a resource by both an English butcher's assistant and his customer. In the second, we examine the body as a resource in the semiotic repertoire of a Chinese butcher as he negotiates a faux haggling interaction with East European customers. In the third example, also recorded as field notes, a Chinese woman employs a 'Chinese' gesture to represent the number of pieces of offal she wishes to purchase from an English butcher's assistant. Each of the examples was recorded during an extended period of ethnographic field work in Birmingham Bull Ring market. Through detailed analysis of these interactions we argue that when people's biographical and linguistic histories barely overlap, they translanguage through the deployment of wide-ranging semiotic repertoires.
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