Donnerstag, 15. Oktober 2015, 16:00 - 18:00 iCal

Heteroglossia, indexicality and marginalisation in a second language mathematics classroom

Richard Barwell (University of Ottawa)

Zentrum für LehrerInnenbildung, Seminarraum ZLB
Porzellangasse 4, Stiege 2, 3. Stock, 1090 Wien

Vortrag

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Research on language diversity in mathematics classrooms is heavily focused on code-switching, although there is a growing awareness that multiple language resources are valuable. Based on my earlier work on interaction from mathematics classrooms in four different second language settings, in this presentation I focus on a class in which the majority of students were Cree, one of the first peoples of Canada. My analysis draws on Busch’s (2014) characterisation of heteroglossia as multiple languages, multidiscursivity and multivoicedness; and Blommaert’s (2010) orders of indexicality.

I will show how the heteroglossia of the classroom displays an “order of indexicality” that marginalises the students. For example, the content of word problems indexes particular ways of seeing the world, of doing mathematics and even national ideologies. Meanwhile, the students’ languaging in mathematics, framed by these institutional language practices, is produced as different and less valuable, resulting in the marginalisation of the students.

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Kontakt

Harald Edlinger
Zentrum für LehrerInnenbildung
60201
harald.edlinger@univie.ac.at

Erstellt am Dienstag, 22. September 2015, 11:25
Letzte Änderung am Dienstag, 22. September 2015, 11:48