This symposium focuses on multilingualism as lived or as subjectively experienced- and accessed by visual means. More specifically, it addresses aspects of becoming or being multilingual subjects in different contexts, be they learners, teachers or users of more than one language: what sense do they themselves make of aspects of their lives or worlds where they find themselves in, including identities, emotions and future aspirations. These issues are studied by collecting visual data, e.g., by asking participants in studies to produce drawings (or self-portraits) or to take photos. The pools of visual data of various kinds may be complemented by other types data and are analysed for their form and/or content. The symposium is a response to the recently launched turn in applied language studies (i.e., the multilingual turn) and to the criticism against "lingualism" in addressing multilingualism as lived- and is different in its focus from an objective approach to multilingualism and from describing linguistic landscapes or schoolscapes. Invited speakers include Professors Brigitta Busch, University of Vienna, Austria, and Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer, University of Hamburg, Germany.
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This symposium focuses on multilingualism as lived or as subjectively experienced- and accessed by visual means. More specifically, it addresses aspects of becoming or being multilingual subjects in different contexts, be they learners, teachers or users of more than one language: what sense do they themselves make of aspects of their lives or worlds where they find themselves in, including identities, emotions and future aspirations. These issues are studied by collecting visual data, e.g., by asking participants in studies to produce drawings (or self-portraits) or to take photos. The pools of visual data of various kinds may be complemented by other types data and are analysed for their form and/or content. The symposium is a response to the recently launched turn in applied language studies (i.e., the multilingual turn) and to the criticism against "lingualism" in addressing multilingualism as lived- and is different in its focus from an objective approach to multilingualism and from describing linguistic landscapes or schoolscapes. Invited speakers include Professors Brigitta Busch, University of Vienna, Austria, and Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer, University of Hamburg, Germany.Click here to find the detailed program
Room 1 AILA 2021 aila2021@gcb.nl
Nayr Ibrahim
Karita Mård-Miettinen
Siv Björklund
So-Yeon Ahn
Åsta Haukås
Brigitta BuschTechnical Issues?
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