EDU5SGT Sociolinguistics And Language Teaching Assignment Help

Assessment Task 1: Redesigning linguistic landscapes

Word Count: 6000 words (60% of your final grade)

Your task for Assessment 1 is to write a project brief that includes a set of recommendations for redesigning the linguistic landscape (visual, linguistic, aural and oral). You will need to think about the existing language use in this setting, how existing language uses shape the existing linguistic landscape and the changes needed to redesign the linguistic landscape to achieve a specific objective (e.g. to increase plurilingual behaviours) in this setting.

ASSESSMENT 1: PRE-TASK:

1. Visit your chosen locale.
2. Explore the locale multiple times (once every few days). Take 3-4 pictures during each visit.
3. Keep a diary entry about how you visualise this locale during each visit.
4. Supplement your observations with commentary from the literature in the field to help you draw connections between the locale and the literature. Start with the subject reading list, and expand your readings from there.
5. Think about the primary purpose of the locale, and its clientele.
6. Think about how power comes into play into this landscape.
7. Think about how temporality, activities and people affect this locale.
8. Think about the multilingual vs multicultural nature of this locale.
This pre-task is for your planning purposes. You do not need to submit all the evidence of this activity in your assessment.

ASSESSMENT 1: YOUR WRITTEN PROJECT BRIEF.

The project brief will have these parts.
1. A clear statement of the purpose of the redesign of the linguistic landscape of your chosen setting.
2. A clear description of the historical and present day context of the setting. In this section, compare your setting with similar settings in the literature (e.g. research on the language of shops/school contexts/communities that have a similar purpose or evoke a similar sense of place). Use one or two images from your visits to support your claims. These should be labelled Figure 1, Figure 2 with an appropriate caption.
3. A clear description of current research (current issues in linguistic landscapes, language policy, language in society, literacy, and/or language-in-interaction) that inform your understanding of language use in this type of locale.
4. Five KEY recommendations for change to embrace diversity, multiculturalism and multilingualism in your research site. Your recommendations should be based on your analysis of the research site and relevant literature in the field. Each recommendation should be supported by a detailed explanation (2-3 paragraphs in length)
5. The references that you have cited (following APA 6th format).
In planning your assessment, please be aware that marks will be deducted for a (a) lack of clarity of ideas and writing (b) insufficient detail (c) unsupported claims (d) unclear argumentation (e) inadequate referencing. Your research sites will be selected from those available from the list presented to you in the first class.