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Foreign Language Education in Multilingual ClassroomsEdited by Andreas Bonnet and Peter Siemund
[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity 7] 2018
► pp. 281–304
Affordances of multilingual learning situations – Possibilities and constraints for foreign language classrooms
Judith Buendgens-Kosten | Goethe-University Frankfurt
Daniela Elsner | Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany
Against the background of technological development and linguistic diversity in our society, a multilingual software application for classroom usage, including digital picture-books in different languages, has been developed in the context of an EU-funded project called MuViT. This product has been adapted for a research study called LIKE (Elsner, Buendgens-Kosten & Hardy 2014) which focuses on the question how mono- and multilingual learners of English at primary and early secondary school level make use of different languages (L1, L2, L3) while working with a computer-based story in pairs. So far 50 dyads have been tested and observed during their work with the stories. In this paper, the relevant design decisions regarding the use of the multilingual digital storybooks and its implementation in a quasi-experimental setting will be discussed, focusing on the affordances they provide from the perspective of the researchers. In a second step, the focus will move to how pupils make use of the multilingual affordances offered by the learning environment (software and peer to peer situation). Case analyses drawn from the sample will be presented with regard to pupils’ receptive code-switching behavior. On the basis of a sequential qualitative analysis, we will describe in which way the use of different languages may contribute to or rather interfere with processes of foreign language learning. This analysis will point out the potential and limits of multilingual language learning environments (learning material and multilingual pair-/group work) with regard to foreign language learning and allow for methodological implications for the use of multilingual learning material and pair-/group work arrangements.
Keywords: language acquisition, language awareness, multilingualism, multilingual picture books, computer-assisted language learning
Published online: 24 October 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/hsld.7.13bue
https://doi.org/10.1075/hsld.7.13bue
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