Once upon a time … storytelling mothers in kindergarten. Build your identities and learning through multimodality and plurilingualism.
Presenter:
Brahim Azaoui, Professeur associé de didactique des langues étrangères et secondes à la Faculté d’éducation de l’Université de Montpellier
- Date: Thursday, December 10, 2020
- Time: 12 p.m.
Presented in French
Summary
During this presentation, I will present a study conducted as part of a collaborative project carried out in partnership with teachers from a nursery school located in a priority education network, a professional storyteller and mother storytellers.
By relying on work in social and gestural semiotics, I defend a pluriliteracic perspective of learning, in the sense given to it by the New London Group, which would take into consideration the plurilingual and multimodal resources that any individual can use to make sense of the information (made) available, constructing, showing or negotiating one’s (plural) identity in context. This perspective invites us to deconstruct a homogeneous understanding of interactions, reality and learning based solely on the verbal. In reception, any interlocutor relies on a plurality of semiotic resources, made up of manual gestures, linguistic repertoires as well as material supports to develop the meaning of a statement.
My results reveal how 5-year-olds are able to mobilize piecemeal multimodal and multilingual tactics to make sense of the stories told by storytelling mothers in a foreign language, thus testifying to their ability to interact meaningfully with a diversity of plurisemiotic resources. I will show how, at the socio-academic level, the project made it possible to act positively on the students, both in terms of identity and in terms of language learning.