Language Awareness and Identity: Insights via Dominant Language Constellation Approach

by Larissa Aronin (Editor), Sïlvia Melo-Pfeifer (Editor)

Overview

This volume offers a unique insight into multilingualism and sociolinguistic diversity employing the dominant language constellation (DLC) approach. How can novel research inform teaching practices? How do current theories account for multilingual reality in settings as diverse as countries of Western and Eastern Europe and Tunisia and Maghreb?  The volume deals with issues of plurilingual identity of teachers and multilingual learners and examines the issues of foreign language teaching both in contexts perceived as monolingual and multilingual Drawing on the intersection of analytic categories such as language repertoire, translanguaging, visuality and narratives, it particularly emphasizes the connections between DLCs, language awareness and identity. The contributors demonstrate how formal language teaching can capitalize on the DLC paradigm and how teacher education programs can use it both as a framework to discuss and as a tool to enhance teacher education and professionaldevelopment.

This volume on DLC as an approach to exploring facets of language awareness and identity presents a very welcome contribution to the study of multilingualism as a complex and dynamic phenomenon. The studies stemming from a range of mainly educational settings in different countries will definitely enhance our thinking perspectives in an area of research with increasing interest.

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Jessner, University of Innsbruck (Austria) and University of Pannonia (Hungary)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031370274
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	07/29/2023
Series:	Multilingual Education , #45
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	18 MB
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About the Author

Larissa Aronin is an author and co-author of textbooks on multilingualism, such as An Advanced Guide to Multilingualism 2022, Twelve Lectures on Multilingualism 2019 and co-edited the Springer volumes on Dominant Language Constellations. Aronin served as a Secretary of the International Association of Multilingualism. She is a Board Member of Language Teaching (CUP) and an Editorial Board member of a number of international peer-reviewed journals.

Sílva Melo-Pfeifer holds a PhD in foreign language education and is Full Professor at the University of Hamburg (Germany) in the field of language teacher education. Her research interests include pluralistic approaches to foreign language learning and teaching and in teacher education, heritage language, multilingual interaction, and arts-based approaches to education and research.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction: Understanding Identity and Language(s) Awareness by dint of DLC.- Part I: DLC, Identity, Awareness, and Language Policy.- Chapter 2: Dominant Language Constellations and Language Policy and Planning in Two Settings: Perspectives from Tunisia.- Chapter 3: Digital DLC models as instruments for raising awareness and better understanding of current multilingualism in HEI.- Part II: DLC-Identity-Awareness triad in formal language education: from primary to higher education.- Chapter 4: Applying DLC to the study and discussion of early multicompetence in a trilingual minority context in Northern Italy.- Chapter 5: (En)Countering the ‘White’ Gaze: Native-speakerist Rhetorics and the Raciolinguistics of Hegemony.- Chapter 6: Language repertoires or individual dominant language constellations: the reality of instructed educational settings in a (mostly) monolingual context.- Chapter 7: Dominant Language Constellation and plurilingual awareness:  The case of Student Language Teachers in Greece.- Chapter 8: Are teachers developing strategies to enhance the use of DLC in the learning of Portuguese as a foreign language in English-dominant Classrooms?.- Chapter 9: DLC of consecutive multilinguals studying languages in an officially monolingual environment.- Part III: DLC-Identity-Awareness triad in teacher education and professional development.- Chapter 10: ‘Speaking about my languages promotes my language awareness’: Student Teacher Beliefs about Language Awareness and Their Dominant Language Constellations.- Chapter 11: Pre-service Teachers’ Professional Identity and Representations of English as a Foreign Language: toward a Dominant Language (Teaching) Constellation?.- Chapter 12: The dynamics of Dominant Language Constellations: Moments of linguistic ecological transition as portrayed by pre-service foreign language teachers.- Chapter 13: ‘We Can Do More With It’: Dominant Language Constellations of Teachers in Multilingual Frisian Primary Schools.- Chapter 14: Dominant Language Constellations, Identity, and Awareness: a posse ad esse.