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Publication details [#58032]

Rowland, Luke. 2013. The pedagogical benefits of a linguistic landscape project in Japan. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 16 (4) : 494–505.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language proficiency | foreign language teaching | geolinguistics | literacy | sign

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper suggests that Japanese pedagogical linguistic landscape projects -e.g. examining pictures of English employed on publicly displayed signs in Japan- benefits EFL students especially in their symbolic competence and literacy ability development.