Hi TeachLingers,
This list has been somewhat quiet of late, and likely to become quieter over the
summer! There is something I wanted to ask everyone at this point, when you might be
making travel plans....
I've been thinking for a while now that it could be useful to develop a global map of
interesting lingustic landscapes, for the purposes of teaching. My immediate interest
is for one of my classes on the use of English around the world, but plenty of other
teaching purposes come to mind, in relation to other languages and other linguistic
topics.
I've begun a map:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1CkKOE6PAbuNEdffeJg12p0B-AQKDJN24
It has only three locations right now, and only one section, selfishly named after my
particular teaching interest mentioned above (English around the world). These are
just three interesting examples I found of English on display in parts of the world
that students in my teaching context (Finland) may typically consider somewhat
far-flung, and may find it interesting to see English fulfilling such central
functions. On the map, I've tried to develop a kind of structure to how I've labelled
these map points.
Frustratingly, unlike Google Docs etc., it seems that these personalised Google Maps
can only be shared with specific people; they can't be made publicly editable. So if
this was to grow, it would need editors adding one by one. It's also a bit tricky to
work out how to add places, so that's another limiting factor.
Anyway, instead of leaping in and suggesting a specific way forward for this, I
thought I would just invite list members to respond with ideas for how to grow such a
resource, bearing in mind its potential to serve multiple teaching purposes as I
mentioned.
I hope you are otherwise all approaching the end of teaching/marking and looking
forward... eventually... to some much earned rest!
Dave
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Dr. Dave Sayers, ORCID no. 0000-0003-1124-7132
Senior Lecturer, Dept Language & Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä,
Finland | www.jyu.fi
Communications Secretary, BAAL Language Policy group | www.langpol.ac.uk
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