Breathing new life: The graphic languages, translanguaging, and metaphoric language with young children in multilingual contexts (Chapter 3 from Affirming the Rights of Emergent Bilingual and Multilingual Children and Families: Interweaving Research and Practice through the Reggio Emilia Approach)

Breathing new life: The graphic languages, translanguaging, and metaphoric language with young children in multilingual contexts (Chapter 3 from Affirming the Rights of Emergent Bilingual and Multilingual Children and Families: Interweaving Research and Practice through the Reggio Emilia Approach)

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Brenda Fyfe, Yim Lam Lee-Johnson, Juana Reyes, Geralyn (Gigi) Schroeder Yu

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In this chapter, the authors focus on the theoretical aspects of graphic languages within the Reggio Emilia Approach and multilingual contexts of Reggio Emilia infant-toddler centers and preschools and U.S. Reggio-inspired schools. A brief historical overview describes the value of drawing cultivated by Loris Malaguzzi and the Reggio Emilia educators over decades. The theories of the hundred languages, languaging , and translanguaging pedagogy present an invitation to consider a broader interpretation of what language can become. The relationship between drawing and verbal language as action processes to create meaning within the bi-, multilingual context strengthens the potentialities of translanguaging. The concept of small group learning within Reggio Emilia pedagogies parallels the translanguaging space as generating new possibilities and co-constructed meanings and realities. The authors advocate for more research on drawing in bilingual and multilingual settings, including serious studies of the drawing-as-language phenomenon . While drawing is usually in service to language learning as an add-on activity, the authors propose that it should be considered essential in translanguaging and interwoven within the linguistic repertoire of bi-and multilingual children as an opportunity to construct robust and complex meanings.

ISBN

9781032267340

Publication Date

7-6-2023

Publisher

Routledge

City

Abingdon, UK

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Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education | Early Childhood Education

Breathing new life: The graphic languages, translanguaging, and metaphoric language with young children in multilingual contexts (Chapter 3 from Affirming the Rights of Emergent Bilingual and Multilingual Children and Families: Interweaving Research and Practice through the Reggio Emilia Approach)

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