November 2018 – Creative Language Practices: Exploring Translanguaging in Pedagogical Contexts and Beyond

November 26, 2018May 13, 2019

All the World is Our Stage: Primary School Pupils Never Lost in Translanguaging

This project led by Eneida Garcia Villanueva (Heriot-Watt University) reflected on the multilingual, multicultural and superdiverse society represented in Glasgow today through the medium of a multilingual performance. Eneida worked with pupils from the Whinhill Primary on creating a multilingual play, which they subsequently performed in a local theatre to main language stakeholders in Scotland, families, MPs, policy makers and pupils and teachers from other schools.

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November 26, 2018May 13, 2019

Becoming ‘Translingualisters’ with Sara Pinto

In the second workshop of the Creative Practices: Exploring Translanguaging Research in Pedagogical Contexts and Beyond project we discussed various definitions of translanguaging. Subsequently, Sara Pinto introduced the team to the idea of creating a visual dictionary. I learned today that I am a ‘translingualister’! I write and illustrate – she started the workshop with a big smile. Sara pointed out that making visual collages is a very good metaphor for the practices explored by the team. Making collages is, in its essence, taking things from all places and creatively moving them around – she said, suggesting that this is what one does when translanguaging.

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November 26, 2018May 13, 2019

Dreaming in the Language of Drawing with Elina Karadzhova

The Edinburgh Multilingual Stories Festival organised by Bilingualism Matters, Theatre Sans Accents and the Polish Cultural Festival Association brought together artists, researchers, children and communities to celebrate the diversity of Scotland’s many multilingual families and communities. It offered an opportunity for bilinguals to creatively explore and express what it means to learn and speak more than one language. For monolinguals, this was a good opportunity to get a glimpse of the bilingual experience.

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