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Translanguaging and Language Creativity in Drama Staging

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Translanguaging as Everyday Practice

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This chapter presents a performative approach to translanguaging that draws on and fosters language creativity of bilingual adolescents from mixed French-Russian families living in France. Through staging scenes, the learners interact autonomously in both of their languages and co-create a fictional world. This provides learning situations that allow them to embody meaning: they improvise creatively, mixing all of the repertoires available to them, i.e. verbal, non-verbal, emotional, sensory, cultural and intellectual. The authors outline their theoretical framework, taking up Francisco Varela’s enactive perspective, which posits that languaging is a lived, i.e. embodied, dynamic and emergent, experience and they show how their approach includes the features of an enactive teaching method.

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Notes

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    “Zones de potentialisation” in French.

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    Executive functions include basic cognitive processes like for example attention, inhibition, memory and flexibility.

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    Notes taken during a symposium: statement by neurologist Bérangère Thirioux at the International Conference on Empathy in Education, 19–21 May 2017, University of Le Mans, France.

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    For a definition of micro-phenomenology see: https://www.microphenomenology.com/home

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    As summed up by the teenagers in their own words: “Doing theatre involves creating together. Creating together involves appreciating other peoples’ skills which might be different from mine.”

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    In Hélène Trocmé-Fabre’s cognitive reference frame (2003), the most accomplished stage is “knowing-communicating”, which corresponds to the capacity to “construct together”.

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  1. School of Social Sciences & Humanities, Paris-Est-Créteil University, IMAGER EA3958, Créteil, France

    Joëlle Aden

  2. Doctoral school “Cultures et Sociétés” of Paris-Est-Créteil University, IMAGER EA3958, Créteil, France

    Maria Pavlovskaya

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Aden, J., Pavlovskaya, M. (2018). Translanguaging and Language Creativity in Drama Staging. In: Mazzaferro, G. (eds) Translanguaging as Everyday Practice. Multilingual Education, vol 28. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94851-5_12

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