Linguistic Landscapes in Language and Teacher Education (eBook)

This book offers an international account of the use of linguistic landscapes to promote multilingual education, from primary school to the university, and in teacher education programs. It brings linguistic landscapes to the forefront of multilingual education in school settings and teacher education, expanding the disciplinary domains through which they have been studied. Drawing on multidisciplinarity and placing linguistic landscapes in the field of language (teacher) education, this book presents empirical studies developed in eleven countries: Australia, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Mozambique, The Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain, and The United States. The chapters illustrate how multilingual pedagogies can be enhanced using linguistic landscapes in mainstream education and are written by partners of the Erasmus Plus project LoCALL 'LOcal Linguistic Landscapes for global language education in the school context'.

Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer is Full Professor at the University of Hamburg (Germany) in the field of language teacher education (French and Spanish). Her research interests include pluralistic approaches to foreign language learning and teaching and in teacher education, heritage language, and multilingual (online) interaction. She co-edited the book 'Visualising Multilingual Lives: More Than Words,' 2018 (Multilingual Matters) and participated in numerous international projects. She coordinated the project LoCALL ('LOcal Linguistic Landscapes for global language education in the school context').