‘A pencil for your thoughts’: uncovering learners’ multilingual experiences using visual mapping

Liz is a CLIL and language teacher educator, senior lecturer, author, and researcher. Her publications include CLIL Skills, CLIL Activities, a doctoral thesis on the role of English teachers in bilingual streams and articles on multilingualism. She also chairs audit panels for bilingual streams in vocational and academic tracks.

You will be introduced to a visual methodology as a way of uncovering learners’ multilingual experiences. Language mapping is a technique that helps learners uncover their own lived multilingual experiences and to represent and talk about these using their own words and descriptions. Liz Dale will show you how and why language mapping works and how you can integrate this exercise in a lesson. Of course, you will try your hand at creating your own language map!