This online training week is offered for free but you must be registered to participate. Join in with teachers from around the world! Limited slots available.
This week-long international training is the fourth in a series of international teacher training weeks, carried out by the LoCALL project. While aimed principally at teachers, other educational stake-holders interested in knowing more about pedagogical applications of Linguistic Landscapes are very welcome.
ABOUT LOCALL TRAINING WEEK FEBRUARY 2022
February 21-25 (ONLINE)
During this week you will take part (both synchronously and ansynchronously) in an online training week that is part of the Erasmus+ LoCALL project – Locall Linguistic Landscapes for Global Language Education in the School Context. The training week will consist of talks by experts in plurilingual education and Linguistic Landscapes (LL). The talks range from discussion of materials development for the use of Linguistic Landscapes in Foreign Language Teaching and a researcher who has linked LL with football fans! You will have the chance to discuss and ask questions to teachers who have used LL in their classrooms, as well as get the chance to explore an app especially designed by the LoCALL team for gamified Linguistic Landscapes for pedagogical application. Participation is online, both synchronously and asynchronously.
INVITED SPEAKERS
GABRIELA PREGO-VÁZQUEZ
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Gabriela Prego-Vázquez is Full Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Her fields of study are critical sociolinguistic ethnography, multilingualism, and language education. She has analyzed the negotiation of local linguistic identities and ideologies in contexts of sociolinguistic change and has also worked on the study of the sociopragmatic dimension of children's language. Currently, her interests focus on multilingualism connected to migration in the educational context. She is part of the EDiSo Association in which she held the positions of vice president and member of Discourse and Social Justice. She has been lecturer at the University of California (Santa Barbara) and at the IPRA Research Center as a visiting researcher.
FRANK MONAGHAN
Open University
Dr Frank Monaghan is an Honorary Associate in the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics at The Open University (OU) in the UK. Before joining the OU he was a teacher in a large, multilingual secondary school in central London. His research focuses on linguistic landscapes, with particular interests in football fans’ banners and activism, memorialisation, and art and language. Of particular relevance to this talk is his chapter ‘F/Anfield: Banners, Tweets, and “Owning” Football’s Linguistic Landscape’ in David Malinowski and Stefania Tufi (eds.) (2020) Reterritorializing Linguistic Landscapes: Questioning Boundaries and Opening Spaces’. London: Bloomsbury.
OSMAN SOLMAZ
Dicle University
Osman Solmaz is an associate professor at the department of Foreign Language Education at Dicle University, Turkey. He received his Ph.D. degree from the interdisciplinary Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) doctoral program at the University of Arizona. His research interests include teacher education, digital literacies, linguistic landscapes, and the implementation of technology in second language teaching and learning.