Translanguaging space and creative activity: theorising collaborative arts-based learning. (2nd January 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bradley, Jessica; Moore, Emilee; Simpson, James; Atkinson, Louise
• Is Part Of: Language & intercultural communication. Volume 18:Number 1(2018)
• Page Start: 54
• Page End: 73
• Publication Date: 2018-01-02
• Subjects: Linguistic landscape -- collaborative ethnography -- arts-based methods -- translanguaging -- superdiversity; Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; Intercultural communication -- Periodicals; 306.4405
• DOI: 10.1080/14708477.2017.1401120
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1470-8477

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This paper focuses on an innovative transdisciplinary educational arts-based learning project, LangScape Curators, which links to and leads from research conducted for the AHRC-funded 'Translation and Translanguaging' project. Here, we describe how we work collaboratively with creative practitioners to use a variety of creative arts methods with young people to explore the linguistic landscapes of Leeds. We propose a theoretical framework for collaborative research activity of this nature, and we use one of the creative arts activities – collage – to exemplify visual understandings of how communicative repertoires and linguistic landscapes are explored through co-produced pedagogical workshops. The programme and its associated research make an original contribution to linguistic landscape-based collaborative ethnographic research. We conclude by setting out directions for the future of these activities and their application in applied linguistics research and practice.