La "silhouette des langues": dessiner et représenter les identités plurielles

Abstract

The “Silhouette des Langues” workshop offers an opportunity to reflect on representations of linguistic repositories in order to produce a personal ‘linguistic repository’. Taking as a starting point: the inherent complexity and the recognition of multilingualism (Castellotti: 2010); the educational value of learners’ storytelling (Perregaux: 2002); the effect on the learning of a foreign language of the ‘word’ learners draw from the ‘ritual’ procedures of classroom interaction (Moore and Simon: 2002), we employ the methods applied both during our teaching activities (University of Pavia and University of Insubria) and our lessons to teachers of foreign languages. At the same time, this ‘silhouette’ allows us entry into the ‘body’ of the range of individual language repositories and to recount the processes of contact (learning); teaching with the foreign languages that make up these repositories as well as the languages themselves.