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Brinkmann, Lisa Marie; Duarte, Joana; Melo-Pfeifer, Sílvia – TESL Canada Journal, 2022
This article investigates how linguistic landscapes (LLs) can foster critical thinking about linguistic power relations and tensions in multilingual areas by acting as stimuli to reflect on the ethnolinguistic vitality of languages in a given region. We examine the pedagogical use of LLs as resources for the implementation of plurilingual…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Multilingualism, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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Heller, Vivien – Classroom Discourse, 2016
The article examines how diverse semiotic resources are made available for explaining mathematical terms in a fifth-grade classroom. Situated within the methodological framework developed by conversation analysis and the analysis of embodiment-in-interaction, the study deals with two instances of a classroom episode in each of which participants…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Semiotics, Grade 5, Comparative Analysis
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Melo-Pfeifer, Sílvia – Language Awareness, 2015
In this article, we analyse visual narratives of multilingual children, in order to acknowledge their self-perception as multilingual selves. Through the analysis of drawings produced by children enrolled in Portuguese as heritage language (PHL) classes in Germany, we analyse how bi-/multilingual children perceive their multilingual repertoires…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Metalinguistics, Freehand Drawing, Code Switching (Language)