Performative Language Learning With Refugees and Migrants - Embodied Research and Practice in the Sorgente Project

This book investigates the use of performative language pedagogy in working with refugees and migrants, exploring performative language teaching as the application of drama, music, dance and storytelling to second language acquisition.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Performative language practice and ethical principles in the Sorgente project
Part I: Painting the shades: Methodological, pedagogical and ethical hues
Chapter 2: Arts-based methodology and embodied methods
Chapter 3: Fostering motivation to belong with performative approaches to migrant language learning: Rustling in the wind
Chapter 4: At the threshold of the ethical imagination: The 'not-a-fish'
Part II: Embodied research methods
Chapter 5: Zine-making and critical reflection: Portals of shared discovery
Chapter 6: Exploring the potential of language portraits with refugees and migrants
Chapter 7: Observational sketching as a pedagogical tool and a research method
Part III: Embodied practice
Chapter 8: Process music and performative language teaching
Chapter 9: A sensory account of learning languages performatively with refugees and migrants: Eyes, ears and voice
Chapter 10: Body-voice and improvisation to explore trauma-informed performative pedagogy: Open the door
Chapter 11: Co-presence in brave spaces: Birds of a feather flock together
Chapter 12: Conclusion: A poem and a painting

About the author

Erika Piazzoli is Assistant Professor in Arts Education, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Fiona Dalziel is Associate Professor of English Language and Translation, University of Padova, Italy.

Summary

This book investigates the use of performative language pedagogy in working with refugees and migrants, exploring performative language teaching as the application of drama, music, dance and storytelling to second language acquisition.

Product details

• Authors: Erika (Trinity College Dublin Piazzoli
• Assisted by: Fiona Dalziel (Editor), Erika Piazzoli (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.03.2024
• EAN: 9780367553357
• ISBN: 978-0-367-55335-7
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Routledge Research in Language Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; EDUCATION / Adult & Continuing Education, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, EDUCATION / Professional Development, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, teacher training, Language acquisition, Teaching of a specific subject, Language teaching theory and methods, ELT examinations & certificates, Adult education, continuous learning, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Bilingualism and multilingualism, ELT: teaching theory & methods, EDUCATION / Teacher Training & Certification, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General