Open AccessThe Three Robbers in Three Languages: Exploring a Multilingual Picturebook with Bilingual Student Teachers
Author(s) -
Esa Christine Hartmann,
Christine Hélot
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of literary education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2659-3149
DOI - 10.7203/jle.4.21023
Subject(s) - affordance , context (archaeology) , literacy , multilingualism , pedagogy , linguistics , multilingual education , reading (process) , multimodality , bilingual education , sociology , mathematics education , psychology , history , philosophy , archaeology , cognitive psychology
This study investigates translingual and multimodal teaching strategies in the context of multilingual literacy acquisition within a bilingual education program in France. It is based on a research project carried out at the Graduate School of Education of the University of Strasbourg, during the academic year 2017-2018. The purpose of our research is to analyze the student teachers’ representations and attitudes towards multilingual picturebooks, and to lead them to explore the pedagogical affordances of interlingual and intersemiotic mediation in the context of a multilingual reading project, built around the trilingual edition of Tomi Ungerer’s The Three Robbers. The qualitative analysis of the student teachers’ discourses allows us to discuss how translingual and multimodal activities give rise to a new pedagogical approach to literacy with young readers, specifically in a bilingual education context, and explain how picturebooks can foster integrated, multimodal, and translingual learning, as well as the development of biliteracy and metalinguistic awareness.