Translanguaging and Trans-semiotizing in Content-based Education
Sep 19, 2019 — 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
The Canadian Centre for Studies and Research on Bilingualism and Language Planning (CCERBAL) warmly invites you to its next research forum about Translanguaging and Trans-semiotizing in Content-based Education presented by Angel Lin, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Plurilingual and Intercultural Education, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University.
Abstract:
From the 1960s to the new millennium, different terms have arisen in diverse research traditions and educational contexts where teachers and researchers are interested in exploring and researching ways of helping learners to learn language and content at the same time. These terms include content-based instruction (CBI), immersion, sheltered instruction, language across the curriculum (LAC), writing across the curriculum (WAC), content and language integrated learning (CLIL). Common to all these traditions, however, is the monoglossic and monolingual assumption about language and literacy. In this presentation, I will provide a review of these traditions and assumptions and outline recent work that leads towards translanguaging and trans-semiotizing as a breakthrough from these monoglossic/ monolingual assumptions. I will describe the philosophical shifts underpinning this intellectual movement and its educational implications.
Angel Lin
Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Plurilingual and Intercultural Education
Angel M. Y. Lin, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Plurilingual and Intercultural Education, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University
Angel M. Y. Lin received her doctoral degree from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, in 1996. Since then her research and teaching have focused on classroom discourse analysis, bilingual and multilingual education, academic literacies, language across the curriculum, Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), and language policy and planning in postcolonial contexts. She has published six research books and over 100 research articles and book chapters. She serves on the editorial boards of international research journals including Applied Linguistics, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, Language and Education. In 2018, Angel Lin moved from the University of Hong Kong to Simon Fraser University to take up the position of Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Plurilingual and Intercultural Education.