Brief Description
Language-space-creativity: Linguistic schoolscaping as a multimodal concept for visualizing linguistic and cultural diversity and developing multilingualism
Innovative pedagogical approaches rarely harmonize with the architecture of learning spaces, meaning that interactive language learning experiences are restricted. The monolingual habitus of language policies leads to the invisibility of the enormous linguistic resources learners bring to the school and university context. Hence, it is important to strengthen cross-lingual forms of teaching and the creative use of language mixing and switching.
The study of linguistic landscapes in the educational context has revealed how a multilingual configuration of the learning environment can reenforce language awareness and the linguistic-cultural identity of the learning community while at the same time supporting the creative acquisition of linguistic competencies.
This project result area (PR3) is therefore dedicated to researching, designing and testing a multilingual learning environment. It focuses on the multimodal acquisition of multilingualism and multilingual literacy by including creative spatial design as a medium for multilingual experimentation and by opening spaces for the expression of linguistic diversity.
The aim of this project is the spatial-creative visualization of linguistic diversity through multimodal forms of expression. The key is to strengthen the learners’ perception of the linguistic diversity in their learning environment (perceiving); to use the learners’ creative participation in the multilingual design of their learning environment to develop language skills (conceiving); to implement the designed learning architecture linguistically and physically (constructing); to fill the learning environment with language and culture through aesthetic-performative approaches (inhabiting).
The project is made possible through a collaboration with multilingual artists from the fields of architecture, creative writing and storytelling, music and theater performance; we also intend to transfer the four project steps into the digital space.
