Creative Language Practices through a Translingual Lens

We would like to invite you to an afternoon of creative ideas, strategies and resources for multilingual contexts! If you work with pupils in a school context or language learners in a community context, you are welcome to join us!

A team of researchers from the University of Glasgow together with a team of creative artists and a group of teachers in Glasgow’s EAL Service have joined forces to develop activities and pedagogical ideas for working with languages through a translingual lens. With the support of the Glasgow’s EAL Service, we have developed a series of workshops where we exchanged ideas, created activities and trialled strategies in our own contexts. We are now happy to share these resources with you and we hope you will enjoy learning about our projects. The event will include a series of short presentations where you will be introduced to our free Language Kit and the creative resources that teachers in our group have developed as part of this project. Since the presentations will be practice-oriented, we hope that by the end of the event you will leave with many ideas to try in your own context. We also hope to learn from your own experiences and continue the conversation on how we can use our language resources creatively.

Details of this free event are as follows:

Date:  Thursday 16 May

Time:  4pm – 6pm

Venue:  Kelvin Hall Lecture Theatre

If you would like to attend please email UnitHeadEAL@gdss.glasgow.sch.uk or call 0141 582 0217

We look forward to seeing you there.

Translanguaging in Schools

Our subsequent two workshops were devoted to the work developed in schools by teachers who worked with us as part of the project.  Inspired by the activities and discussions of translanguaging covered in the workshops they developed their own projects in schools.

During those two workshops, our absolutely fabulous team of EAL teachers presented their work-in-progress. They took us onto the amazing journey: along Victoria Road where students displayed their posters promoting healthy linguistic diet in shops, cafes and a library,  through the world of mythical creatures from various cultures and languages, in and out the spoken and written, multilingual and action-based storytelling in several schools to the digital performance of multilingual poems created,  performed and video-recorded  by students. It was a real treat!

 

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