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Zusatztext This exciting volume takes the reader on a fascinating tour across a myriad of spaces outside the classroom to illustrate how one can learn language and culture from the linguistic landscape. An important contribution to the growing literature on linguistic landscapes and inspirational input for both teachers and learners! Informationen zum Autor Greg Niedt is Lecturer in Liberal Arts at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, USA. Corinne A. Seals is a Senior Lecturer of Applied Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Klappentext Linguistic landscapes can play an important role in educating individuals beyond formal pedagogical environments. This book argues that anywhere can be a space for people to learn from displayed texts, images, and other communicated signs, and consequently a space where teachable cultural moments are created. Following language learning trajectories that 'exit through the language classroom' into city streets, public offices, museums and monuments, this volume presents innovative work demonstrating that anyone can learn from the linguistic landscape that surrounds them. Offering a bridge between theoretical research and practical application, chapters consider how we make sense of places by understanding how the landscape is used to express, claim and contest identities and ideologies. In this way, Linguistic Landscapes Beyond the Language Classroom highlights the unexpected potential of the informal settings for learning and for teachers to expand their students' intercultural experience. Zusammenfassung Linguistic landscapes can play an important role in educating individuals beyond formal pedagogical environments. This book argues that anywhere can be a space for people to learn from displayed texts, images, and other communicated signs, and consequently a space where teachable cultural moments are created. Following language learning trajectories that 'exit through the language classroom' into city streets, public offices, museums and monuments, this volume presents innovative work demonstrating that anyone can learn from the linguistic landscape that surrounds them. Offering a bridge between theoretical research and practical application, chapters consider how we make sense of places by understanding how the landscape is used to express, claim and contest identities and ideologies. In this way, Linguistic Landscapes Beyond the Language Classroom highlights the unexpected potential of the informal settings for learning and for teachers to expand their students' intercultural experience. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction, Greg Niedt and Corinne A. Seals Part I: Other Forms of Language Classroom 1. From Part of the Scenery to Curricular Resources: Authentic Signs as Portals to Cultural Practices within a Residential German Language Immersion Program, Justin Quam and Heidi E. Hamilton 2. Unveiling Sign Languages in the Linguistic Landscape: Representations of Sign Languages in Nonsigning and Signing Milieux, Jami Fisher, Donna Jo Napoli, and Gene Mirus 3. New Caledonia: A Semiotic Analysis of the Landscape as an Opportunity for Learning, Diane de Saint Léger and Kerry Mullan Part II: Structured Spaces Becoming Classrooms 4. The Linguistic Landscape of Public Health Institutions in Tanzania, Paschal Mdukula 5. Information, Education and Language Policy in...
