A investigadora do CIDTFF, Silvia Melo-Pfeifer dinamizará a conferência “Arts-based research on plurilingualism: a focus on initial foreign language teacher education” no dia 27 de janeiro de 2022, no âmbito do “Research Colloquium in Language and Literacies Education“.
A conferência aberta a todos os interessados, terá lugar entre as 17h00 e as 18h30, hora de Toronto (22h00 – 23h30 de Portugal), em formato online, no seguinte link: https://oise-utoronto.zoom.us/j/616398949
Resumo da comunicação:
In this talk, I will delve into the potential of adopting arts-based approaches to explore the constitution and dynamics of plurilingual repertoires in foreign language teacher education programs. I will claim that the use of arts-based approaches can give us new insights on how student teachers explore and reflect about their linguistic repertoires and the connections between those repertoires and their career choices. After presenting the epistemological and didactic foundations of current research around the use of arts-based methods as data generation tools, I will then present the potential of two methods I have been using in my teaching practices to explore plurilingualism as lived (Kalaja-Pitkänen-Huhta, 2020): the use of visual linguistic biographies and the writing of plurilingual poetry. To conclude, I will discuss how arts-based approaches can support a more responsive foreign language teacher education, offering opportunities to professional development that challenges a monolingual mind-set and recognises plurilingualism as an inescapable reality in foreign language (teacher) education (Melo-Pfeifer, 2021).
Leituras recomendadas:
Kalaja, Paula & Pitkänen-Huhta, A (2020). Raising awareness of multilingualism as lived – in the context of teaching English as a foreign language. Language and Intercultural Communication, 20 (4), 340-355. https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2020.1786918
Melo-Pfeifer, S. (2021). Exploiting foreign language student-teachers’ visual language biographies to challenge the monolingual mind-set in foreign language education. International Journal of Multilingualism, 18 (4), 601-618. https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2021.1945067
Os vídeos serão publicados no site do CERLL algum tempo após o evento.
