Taking cues from the policy document of the TML project, Reframing Language Education for a Global Future, LSiL targets key issues such as the development of cultural literacy in language education, the over-reliance on the association of language and nation, and the lack of visibility of linguistic diversity already present in the local community. This gears the language curriculum to reflect the transnational dimension of the languages and cultures taught at the University of Liverpool.
In the video below, a group of students interviewed peers on the presence and visibility of the Portuguese language and cultures in Liverpool. The video was produced and edited by the students who later submitted a reflection on the experience as part of their assessed coursework for the language module.
Outputs
All student outputs (2019 iteration) were published on this digital platform and in a special issue of the magazine Fala Aí.
Conference papers
Reimão, A. (2024). ‘Language Stories in Liverpool: the case of PLE in a multilingual and transnational project’, paper delivered at the III TROPO UK Conference, University of Newcastle
Biasini, R. & Reimao A. (September 2020). ‘Language Stories in Liverpool: From a Transnational to a Decolonial approach to Language Teaching’, paper delivered at the Decolonising Modern Languages Conference, University of Birmingham.
Biasini, R. & Reimao A. (July 2019) 'Language Stories in Liverpool: Engaging with Transnational Research Through a Multilingual and Multimedia Activity’, paper delivered at the Liverpool Learning & Teaching Conference 2019, University of Liverpool.
Biasini, R., Reimao A., & & Spadaro, B. (April 2019) ‘Language Stories in Liverpool: Engaging Multilingually with Transnational Research’, paper delivered at the UK Lingua Conference 2019, University of Durham.
Publications
Spadaro, B., Biasini, R., Reimao, A., & Saccomani, J. (Eds.) (2019). Fala Aí Language Stories in Liverpool (Vol. July, special issue).
Digital presence
https://www.facebook.com/LangStories
References
Transnationalizing Modern Languages (TML), part of AHRC’s ‘Translating Cultures’ theme: https://www.transnationalmodernlanguages.ac.uk/
‘Transnational Modern Languages’ book series, Liverpool University Press: https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/topic/collections/transnational-modern-languages-digital-collection?target=titleSearch
Transnationalizing Modern Languages (TML) Policy Document: (Reframing Language Education for a Global Future
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