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View and download resources: Garcia Villanueva, Eneida (2019): All the World is Our Stage: primary pupils never lost in translanguaging. FigShare Collection: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4520597.v3
This Creative Multilingualism project has the chief goal of giving visibility to heritage languages – traditionally not included in the curriculum – and raising awareness about multilingualism. Suggested activities adopt a translanguaging pedagogy inviting reflection on the theme ‘language and identity’. Materials supporting the design and delivery of this multilingual performance can be used or adapted as required.
Embedding translanguaging in your teaching practice, teachers, pupils and researcher work collaboratively towards the creation of a multilingual performance to be showcased at the end of term. I have designed two didactic units for the First (P2–P4) and Second (P5–P7) Levels of the CfE which I will introduce to teaching staff. I will visit your school virtually or in person and deliver a workshop on translanguaging and introduce the teaching materials. The project is divided into three stages.
Stage I — Prep. Activities with carefully planned translanguaging activities on the theme ‘Language and Identity’. Pupils deepen their understanding of culture both locally and in the wider world trough interacting with two non-gendered outer space characters who invite them to use and share their home language and aspects of their heritage and culture with teachers and peers.
In Stage II — Working collaboratively, pupils, teachers and researcher take aaction research approach to create a multilingual performance piece showcasing the home languages present in the classroom and with a strong focus on the embodiment of the language and the employment of semiotic resources for communicative purposes.
Finally, Stage III is the creation of your own Multilingual Performance.
Pack Contents
Preparatory activities – Lower Primary (P2–P4)
- Teachers’ notes for entire project
- PPT AlltheWorldisOurStageI with suggested translanguaging activities on ‘Language and Identity’
- Worksheet to complete activities contained on PPT
Preparatory activities – Upper Primary (P5–P7)
- Teachers’ notes for entire project
- PPT AlltheWorldisOurStageII with suggested translanguaging activities on ‘Language and Identity'
- Worksheet to complete activities contained on PPT
P2–P4 Multilingual Performance
- Twinkle PPT for learning and singing with lyrics, phonetic transcriptions and both spoken and sung audio files
- Printable cards to practice
- Practice-on-YouTube song-resource bank
- Old MacDonald PPT for learning and singing with lyrics, phonetic transcriptions and both spoken and sung audio files
- Printable cards to practice
- Practice-on-YouTube song-resource bank
P5–P7 Multilingual Performance
- The Three Wee Piggies PPT with text and audio files to learn and practice script
- Printable cards to practice
- My Story Logbook
Calendar Sample
Citation
Garcia Villanueva, Eneida (2019): All the World is Our Stage: primary pupils never lost in translanguaging. figshare. Collection. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4520597.v3
AHRC award reference AH/N004701/1. © 2018 Eneida Garcia Villanueva, All Rights Reserved. Funded by Creative Multilingualism as part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Open World Research Initiative (OWRI).