Originally developed as a language awareness exercise in education, the Language Portrait is now increasingly used as a research tool investigating how speakers themselves experience and interpret their heteroglossic practices and repertoires (Busch 2018). It allows a multimodal approach as it combines discursive and presentational forms of symbolization (Langer 1948). By providing a body […]
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A reading pen for multilingual families
When Joie shared with me her project of creating a tool for multilingual families that would make reading to their children easier, I was hooked. For parents to record their own voices while reading their children’s books in all their languages was something I wished existed when my children were toddlers! Especially the possibility for […]
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Good reads for Multilingual Families
Here are some of the books I read and use for my workshops, trainings and consultations.
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