Description
Identity texts can be used to support the development of language and identity and embrace and confirm students' home language and identity. An identity text is a multimodal, oral or written text that draws on an individual’s experiences and linguistic resources (Cummins, 1981;Cummins & Early, 2011). Cummins, Markus & Montero (2015) draw attention to ‘essential aspects of the link between identity affirmation, societal power relations, and literacy engagement’ (p. 556). We argue that identity texts is a way of engaging students and supporting literacy development. This paper reports on the Identity Texts Project which began when some proactive secondary teachers from English faculty and the executive wanted to further improve the literacy and language outcomes of their students. The school had a large population of students who could be defined as having a Language Background Other Than English (LBOTE) or of speaking English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) and therefore speaking one or more languages other than English. The project has now been developing over several years, and as colleagues and mentors we have been working with this school and a similar primary school supporting their professional learning around the teaching of English, language and literacy.Period | 10 Jul 2018 |
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Event title | 2018 ALEA/AATE National Conferenc: The Art of English |
Event type | Conference |
Location | Perth, Australia, Western AustraliaShow on map |
Degree of Recognition | National |
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Activities
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Creativity, Identity and Literacy
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NSW Equity Consortium Workshop 2: Year 7 'Imagined futures' literacy initiative
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‘Without my language, I’m a broken tree’: Nurturing ‘thirdpace’ translanguaging pedagogy in low SES, culturally diverse classrooms
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Challenging the dominant culture by developing a creative pedagogy in subject English: Building students' cultural capital and linguistic and cultural resources
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Without my language, I’m a broken tree’: Nurturing thirdspace translanguaging pedagogy in culturally diverse classrooms
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Representing language and identity: Translanguaging poetry pedagogy
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Confirming Identity and engaging writers in the middle years
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Poetry, Literacy and confirming student identity
Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation
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Creative English Pedagogy in the Translanguaging Space
Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation
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Developing Literacy in Diverse Settings
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Research Outputs
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Confirming identity using drama pedagogy: English teachers' creative response to high-stakes literacy testing
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Using the translanguaging space to facilitate poetic representation of language and identity
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Tell me your story: confirming identity and engaging writers in the middle years
Research output: Book/Report › Book