Livi Yoshioka-Maxwell (St. Olaf College)
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At home, in community, and in the classroom, multiple languages mingle through creative ways of languaging. This roundtable panel invites papers from a wide range of disciplinary approaches to pedagogy and research in order to promote reflection on the relationship between classroom practices and research methodologies, as well as to encourage cross-pollination among studies in linguistics, literature, visual culture, and multimodal storytelling, among other fields.
How does your pedagogy influence your research? How does your research inform your pedagogy? What are the multilingual texts, discourses, methodologies, and practices that we, our students, our community members, our family members, and others employ? How can juxtaposing a variety of narratives (ethnographic, fictional, autobiographical, visual, multimodal) featuring the linguistic practices of multilingual speakers create learning opportunities in and out of the classroom? How can applied and sociolinguistics methodologies help illuminate the political and cultural stakes of multilingual practices among fictional characters in literary texts? How can theoretical approaches traditionally applied to fictional narratives provide insight into storytelling by real-world multilingual speakers about their lived experiences and identities? These questions and others animate this proposed session as a means to promote dialogue across disciplinary divides and a vision of academic activity that refuses artificial boundaries between teaching practice and research.