Spatializing Language Studies. Pedagogical Approaches in the Linguistic Landscape

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As the assemblage  of visible, audible, and otherwise textualized languages of public space, the linguistic landscape forms a rich context for understanding how material and environmental affordances affect language learning, and how language teachers can bring their L2 curricula to life. Whether it is within the four walls of a school, in a nearby neighborhood, or in virtual telecollaborative environments, the chapters of this volume illustrate how such diverse confgurations of space lend themselves to language and literacy learning, while also contributing to learners? critical cultural and historical awareness. Before inviting the reader to the volume?s nine chapters, this introduction outlines the history and signifcance of ?space? in language teaching and learning research, a topic of signifcant interest and innovation in L2 education today. It then offers a framework for the spatialization of language teaching, that is, a pedagogy that is linguistically and culturally complex, geographically situated, historically informed, dialogically realized, and socially engaged. Whether one endeavors to teach  in a traditional classroom, or immersed in the sights and sounds of outdoor spaces, or even from one's desktop at home, language teaching with the linguistic landscape is evaluated for its potential to extend the human, symbolic, and critical dimensions of L2 learning.

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Introduction: Spatializing Language Studies in the Linguistic Landscape
David Malinowski, Hiram H. Maxim, Sébastien Dubreil

Part I
Building the Politeness Repertoire Through the Linguistic Landscape
Elyse Ritchey

Exploring Language and Culture in the Novice Chinese Classroom Through the Linguistic Landscape
Fei Yu, Aleidine J. Moeller, Jia Lu

Multilingual Landscapes in Telecollaboration: A Spanish-American Exchange
Margarita Vinagre, Reyes Llopis-García

Part II
Agency and Policy: Who Controls the Linguistic Landscape of a School?
Robert A. Troyer

Uncovering Spanish Harlem: Ethnographic Linguistic Landscape Projects in an Advanced Content-Based Spanish Course
Juan Pablo Jiménez-Caicedo

A Collaborative Asset Mapping Approach to the Linguistic Landscape: Learning from the community?s Linguistic Capital in an L2 College-Writing Course
Christian Ruvalcaba, Michelle Aguilera

Part III
An Educational Perspective on Community Languages in Linguistic Landscapes: Russian and Arabic
Olga Bever, Mahmoud Azaz

Multilingual Linguistic Landscapes of New York City as a Pedagogical Tool in a Psychology Classroom
Irina A. Sekerina, Patricia J. Brooks

Indigenous Conceptual Cartographies and Landscape Pedagogy: Vibrant Modalities Across Semiotic Domains
Michael Zimmerman Jr, Margaret O?Donnell Noodin, Patricia Mayes, Bernard C. Perley