Challenging discourses of deficit: Understanding the vibrancy and complexity of multilingualism through language trajectory grids.

Autor/inn/en	Choi, Julie; Slaughter, Yvette
Titel	Challenging discourses of deficit: Understanding the vibrancy and complexity of multilingualism through language trajectory grids.
Quelle	In: Language teaching research, 25 (2021) 1, S. 81-104Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Abbildungen 10; Anmerkungen 5; Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1362-1688; 1477-0954
Schlagwörter	Empirische Forschung; Lernprozess; Methodik; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Mehrsprachigkeit; Englischunterricht
Abstract	The 'multilingual turn' has opened up a variety of creative, participatory methods for researchers and educators to explore language learners' linguistic repertoires, language practices and resources, and linguistic experiences. In this article, the authors draw on data from the English as an additional language (EAL) secondary school classroom context where they use what they call 'language trajectory grids' to make visible EAL students' English language learning experiences. The grid activity involves plotting learners' emotions, practices, relationships, and life circumstances with their resources, practices and historical events onto a chronological grid. Using a narrative structure to make sense of learners' grids and the 'small stories' (Barkhuizen, 2009) participants shared during the activity, the authors discuss the affordances of such devices in opening up space for teachers and learners to critically reflect on the complexities and vibrancy of contemporary multilingual language journeys; to recognize situational factors that influence dispositions towards language, language learning and identity; and as a powerful starting point for students and teachers to engage in 'collaborative relations of power'. (Verlag, adapt.).
Erfasst von	Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg
Update	2022/2