8 Visual Art in Arabic Foreign and Heritage Languageand- Culture Learning: Expanding the Scope for Meaning-Making

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors ix
4. Introduction: Why Liberating Language Education? 1
5. Part 1: Policies, Discourses and Ideologies
6. 1 ‘I Don’t Think We Encourage the Use of their Home Language …’: Exploring ‘Multilingualism Light’ in a London Primary School 21
7. 2 Recognising the Creole Community: Discursive Constructions of Enslavement and the Enslaved in Kreol Textbooks in Mauritius 40
8. 3 Appropriating Portuguese Language Policies in England 55
9. 4 Making Sense of the Internal Diversities of Greek Schools Abroad: Exploring the Purposeful Use of Translation as Communicative Resource for Language Learning and Identity Construction 72
10. Commentary for Part 1 91
11. Part 2: Language-Living: Materialities, Affectivities and Becomings
12. 5 Languaging in Language Cafés: Emotion Work, Creating Alternative Worlds and Metalanguaging 97
13. 6 Language Studies as Transcultural Becoming and Participation: Undoing Language Boundaries across the Danube Region 118
14. 7 The Textures of Language: An Autoethnography of a Gloves Collection 143
15. Commentary for Part 2 159
16. Part 3: Transcultural Journeying and Aesthetics
17. 8 Visual Art in Arabic Foreign and Heritage Languageand- Culture Learning: Expanding the Scope for Meaning-Making 165
18. 9 Creating Pedagogical Spaces for Translingual and Transcultural Meaning-Making and Student Agency in a London Greek Complementary School 186
19. 10 Opening Spaces of Learning: A Sociomaterial Investigation of Object-Based Approaches with Migrant Youth in and beyond the Heritage Language Classroom 205
20. 11 Translanguaging Art: Exploring the Transformative Potential of Contemporary Art for Language Teaching in the Multilingual Context 226
21. Commentary for Part 3: Liberating Language Learning through Art: The Imperative of Cultural Justice 248
22. Part 4: Voices, Identities and Citizenship
23. 12 How Weird is Weird? Young People, Activist Citizenship and Multivoiced Digital Stories 253
24. 13 ‘Animating Objects’: Co-Creation in Digital Story Making between Planning and Play 277
25. 14 Visual Representations of Multilingualism: Exploring Aesthetic Approaches to Communication in a Fine Art Context 297
26. Commentary for Part 4 318
27. Conclusion: Language Education Collages 321
28. Index 331