As part of the ECRIF Translanguaging and multimodality in the classroom project we experimented with language portraits in the Reception class involving a group of multilingual parents and children (the idea for the language portraits activity was repurposed from the wonderful Multilingual approaches through art project here). The teacher (where possible) grouped parents and children… Continue reading Deterritorialising language portraits in the Reception classroom
Author: Ester Ehiyazaryan-White
Semiotic assemblages at the poolside
I sat in the swimming pool viewing area observing my child’s swimming lesson progress, in the far corner of the pool; he is now on blue caps and in the deep end. Nearer to me in my peripheral vision a swim teacher was leading a class of slightly younger children, in the shallower end of… Continue reading Semiotic assemblages at the poolside
Reflections on oracy, dialogic teaching and the UKLA conference 2024
This summer (5-7 July 2024) I had the pleasure of attending the UK Literacy Association conference in Brighton, ‘Making a Difference’. The conference has a broad focus going beyond traditional literacies of reading and writing and acknowledging embodied, neurodiverse and multiliteracies. As the conference attracts a hybrid teacher, practitioner and academic audience, I was very… Continue reading Reflections on oracy, dialogic teaching and the UKLA conference 2024