La langue est un instrument d'action et de pouvoir. La pluralité linguistique et culturelle se définit comme un ensemble complexe, en opposition à une perspective didactique classique qui a pour objet de simplifier pour rendre intelligible. C’est un système cohérent de relations, un objet socio-historique construit, observable selon plusieurs points de vue spatio-temporels simultanés. Cette étude aborde le rôle des langues dans l’évolution des sociétés et des systèmes éducatifs et souhaite provoquer la réflexion en articulant pratiques, observations de terrain et analyses à partir d'un cadre conceptuel pluridisciplinaire. Résumé d'après la 4ème de couverture.
Après le Précis du Plurilinguisme et du Pluriculturalisme (2008), et en continuité avec les ouvrages Didactique plurilingue et pluriculturelle : l’acteur en contexte mondialisé (2012) et Dispositifs éducatifs en contexte mondialisé et didactique plurilingue et pluriculturelle (2014), le débat didactique se poursuit avec la déconstruction et la reconfiguration des catégories habituelles de l’enseignement et de l’apprentissage des langues et des cultures. De nouvelles notions et des trames inédites ont émergé et se sont tissées. Ce nouvel ouvrage met en relation une réflexion didactique plurilingue et pluriculturelle dans un monde multilingue où se joue un processus de mondialisation multiforme. Par la variété des langues et des approches, en s’appuyant sur des contextes éducatifs et sociaux, l’ouvrage identifie les limites et les perspectives qu’offrent des dispositifs plurilingues et pluriculturels, de l’école à l’université. Il souligne également les tensions et les impacts de la mondialisation sur les contextes plurilingues et pluriculturels d’enseignement. Si les frictions de la mondialisation opposent le paradigme monolingue au paradigme plurilingue, une didactique plurilingue et pluriculturelle pose d’emblée comme principe épistémologique et heuristique la diversité, le multiple et le pluridimensionnel comme cadre d’analyse.
Cet ouvrage regroupe les textes présentés lors du colloque international « Grandes » et « petites » langues et didactique du plurilinguisme et du pluriculturalisme. Modèles et expériences qui s'est tenu à Paris, en juillet 2006 dans les locaux de la Sorbonne, à l'initiative de l'Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO). Il s'agissait de mobiliser internationalement les acteurs concernés par une réflexion sur une didactique du plurilinguisme et du pluriculturalisme en construction en Europe. En se donnant pour objet d'identifier les modèles didactiques et leur circulation d'une langue à l'autre, ces travaux interrogent, chacun selon l'angle spécifique de son terrain, de son contexte ou des pratiques analysées, ce que le sens commun désigne par « grandes » et « petites » langues. Celles-ci sont appréhendées ici en tant que représentations sociales et catégorisations qui fluctuent au gré des histoires nationales, des renversements géopolitiques et des visions du monde traversées par les profondes mutations résultant de la mondialisation.
This collection of scholarly articles is the first to address the challenges of multilingualism from a multidisciplinary perspective. The contributors to this volume examine both the beneficial and the problematic aspects of multilingualism in various dimensions, that is, they address familial, educational, academic, artistic, scientific, historical, professional, and geopolitical challenges.
This book critically engages with theoretical shifts marked by the ‘multilingual turn’ in applied linguistics, and articulates the complexities associated with naming and engaging with the everyday language practices of bi/multilingual communities. It discusses methodological approaches that enable researchers and educators to observe and interact with these communities and to understand their teaching and learning needs. It also highlights pedagogical approaches and instructional strategies involved with learning and teaching language and/or content curriculum to students across various learning and educational contexts. The book addresses recent debates on the multi/plural turn in applied linguistics and articulates the limitations of these debates - particularly the absence of discussion of social power relations and contexts in applying different theoretical lenses. It features empirical research from primarily North American classrooms to highlight how plurilingual pedagogies take shape in unique educational contexts, resisting monolingual approaches to language in education. Furthermore, it includes commentary/response pieces from established scholars in dialogue with recent plurilingual research in the field, to put the work in critical perspective within extant theories and literature.
Translingualism perceives the boundaries between languages as unstable and permeable; this creates a complex challenge for writing pedagogy. Writers shift actively among rhetorical strategies from multiple languages, sometimes importing lexical or discoursal tropes from one language into another to introduce an effect, solve a problem, or construct an identity. How to accommodate this reality while answering the charge to teach the conventions of one language can be a vexing problem for teachers. Crossing Divides offers diverse perspectives from leading scholars on the design and implementation of translingual writing pedagogies and programs. The volume is divided into four parts. Part 1 outlines methods of theorizing translinguality in writing and teaching. Part 2 offers three accounts of translingual approaches to the teaching of writing in private and public colleges and universities in China, Korea, and the United States. In Part 3, contributors from four US institutions describe the challenges and strategies involved in designing and implementing a writing curriculum with a translingual approach. Finally, in Part 4, three scholars respond to the case studies and arguments of the preceding chapters and suggest ways in which writing teachers, scholars, and program administrators can develop translingual approaches within their own pedagogical settings. Illustrated with concrete examples of teachers’ and program directors’ efforts in a variety of settings, as well as nuanced responses to these initiatives from eminent scholars of language difference in writing, Crossing Divides offers groundbreaking insight into translingual writing theory, practice, and reflection. Contributors: Sara Alvarez, Patricia Bizzell, Suresh Canagarajah, Dylan Dryer, Chris Gallagher, Juan Guerra, Asao B. Inoue, William Lalicker, Thomas Lavelle, Eunjeong Lee, Jerry Lee, Katie Malcolm, Kate Mangelsdorf, Paige Mitchell, Matt Noonan, Shakil Rabbi, Ann Shivers-McNair, Christine M. Tardy
This volume explores the relationship between language and culture while considering its implications for the teaching of modern foreign languages in higher education. Drawing on a comparative empirical study conducted at universities both in the UK and US, this text problematises the impacts of a separation of language and content in German degree programmes. Illustrating the need for a curriculum which fosters the development of intercultural competence and criticality, Parks reconceptualises established models of criticality (Barnett) and intercultural communicative competence (Byram). The chapters in this volume discuss a range of important topics including; language graduates with deep translingual and transcultural competence, observed differences and similarities between British and American universities and faculty and student voices: developing intercultural competence and criticality. Aimed at scholars with research interests in intercultural communication, language education and applied linguistics, this volume provides a thorough discussion for the ways in which modern language programmes in higher education can be improved. Additionally, those carrying out research in the fields of language teaching and language policy in higher education will find Developing Critical Cultural Awareness in Modern Languages to be of great relevance.
This wide-ranging survey of issues in intercultural language teaching and learning covers everything from core concepts to program evaluation, and advocates a fluid, responsive approach to teaching language that reflects its central role in fostering intercultural understanding. Includes coverage of theoretical issues defining language, culture, and communication, as well as practice-driven issues such as classroom interactions, technologies, programs, and language assessment Examines systematically the components of language teaching: language itself, meaning, culture, learning, communicating, and assessments, and puts them in social and cultural context Features numerous examples throughout, drawn from various languages, international contexts, and frameworks Incorporates a decade of in-depth research and detailed documentation from the authors’ collaborative work with practicing teachers Provides a much-needed addition to the sparse literature on intercultural aspects of language education
This edited research volume explores the development of what can be described as the ‘critical turn’ in intercultural communication pedagogy, with a particular focus on modern/foreign language education. The main aim is to trace the realisations of this critical turn against a background of unequal power relations, and to illuminate the role that radical culture educators can play in the making of a more democratic and egalitarian social order. The volume takes as a starting point the idea that criticality draws on a number of intellectual traditions, which do not always focus on social and political critique, and argues that because ideological hegemony impacts on the meanings that people create and share, intercultural communication pedagogy ought to locate itself within wider socio-political contexts. With reference points drawn from critical and transnational social theory, critical pedagogy and intercultural theory, contributors to this volume provide readers with powerful ways that show how this can be achieved, and together assess the impact that their understanding of criticality can make on modern/foreign language education. The volume is divided into three major parts, namely: ‘theorising critically’, ‘researching critically’ and ‘teaching critically’.
