Words and images of multilingualism: A case study of two North Korean refugees
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Noelle Nayoun Park Salo
Noelle Nayoun Park Salo is a PhD candidate at the Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. In her doctoral research project she explores multilingual self construction throughout life trajectories of young multilingual research participants. In this, she uses a combination of verbal in-depth interviews with visual artworks such as language learning timeline, self-portraits and human figure drawings.
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Hannele Dufva
Hannele Dufva is a Professor of Language Learning and Education at the Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. In her research, she draws particularly on dialogism and the work of the Bakhtin Circle. She has published widely on issues of applied linguistics, particularly language learning and teaching, and has collaborated in several studies using visual research methods.
Abstract
The article analyses the experience of multilingualism in the South Korean context, focusing on the experiences of North Korean refugees. The research participants (N=2) are originally from North Korea, but now live in South Korea, where they face challenges in their adaptation to the new society, its linguistic landscape and its practices and positions with regard to language issues in society and in education. By combining verbal and visual means of data collection, we aim to analyse the multilingual trajectory of the research participants, their experiences of different languages and language learning and, further, the emotions that are attached to these. Our approach is socio-cognitive in that we seek to show how individual experiences intertwine with and refract the particular societal contexts and their ideologies.
About the authors
Noelle Nayoun Park Salo is a PhD candidate at the Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. In her doctoral research project she explores multilingual self construction throughout life trajectories of young multilingual research participants. In this, she uses a combination of verbal in-depth interviews with visual artworks such as language learning timeline, self-portraits and human figure drawings.
Hannele Dufva is a Professor of Language Learning and Education at the Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. In her research, she draws particularly on dialogism and the work of the Bakhtin Circle. She has published widely on issues of applied linguistics, particularly language learning and teaching, and has collaborated in several studies using visual research methods.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- ALR special issue: Visual methods in Applied Language Studies
- Drawings are talking: Exploring language learners’ beliefs through visual narratives
- Children’s drawings as part of School Language Profiles: Heteroglossic realities in families and schools
- Young learners’ portrayals of ‘good English teacher’ identities in South Korea
- Visualizing EFL teacher identity (re)construction in materials design and implementation
- What does it mean to be an English teacher in Brazil? Student teachers’ beliefs through narratives in a distance education programme
- Beliefs and practices of foreign language learning: A visual analysis
- Visual accounts of Finnish and Greek teenagers’ perceptions of their multilingual language and literacy practices
- Children’s images of HIV/AIDS in Uganda: What visual methodologies can tell us about their knowledge and life circumstances
- ‘If I didn’t know you what would you want me to see?’: Poetic mappings in neo-materialist research with young asylum seekers and refugees
- Words and images of multilingualism: A case study of two North Korean refugees
- Timeline analysis of complex language learning trajectories: Data visualisation as conceptual tool and method
