“Linguistic landscape” is a new area of research between sociolinguistics, language policy and other fields, analyzing cultural and social change in diverse societies through the visual evidence of multilingualism in shop signs, billboards, public transportation, and other public spaces. As a community-based site of discourse that is authentic and contextually situated, the linguistic landscape has also begun to attract attention as a unique resource for language learning.
This Brown Bag event builds upon last semester’s introduction to the theory and pedagogical applications of linguistic landscape (LL) research (*see URL #1 below) by inviting participants to go out into the field, testing principles and developing applications for LL approaches in their own teaching. We will go on a short walking tour of several New Haven city blocks, observing, documenting, and reflecting on diversity in language use in our immediate vicinity.
This event will take place outside. Please meet at the front steps of the CLS (370 Temple Street) by 12:30, and bring a small note pad and camera phone or digital camera, if possible. If you arrive late, please contact Dave (510-978-5628) or a colleague so that you can catch up with the group. We will return to the CLS by 1:30.
Before and after this event, you are invited to explore resources and contribute to a collaborative map of the LL in your neighborhoods. Please visit URL #2 for this (below).
Please contact Dave Malinowski (david.malinowski@yale.edu) with any questions and to RSVP.
URL #1: http://www.slideshare.net/daveski/language-learning-in-the-linguistic-la…
URL #2: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zZ75sRxHz8_kGbIVMUi_jlTfHZtW75zUMC2x…