The ELTRA project that my colleague, Dr. Sally Zacharias, and I are currently conducting is now entering its second stage. After interviewing our participants on their language practices, we have also collected work that our students developed over the course of their Master's studies at the University of Glasgow, in the TESOL Programme. Sally and I have also had conversations with our participants about translanguaging and other ideological frameworks that our teaching practices are built on.
Last week we met with some of our participants and had the pleasure to share some of our preliminary findings with them. It was interesting for the whole team to reflect on the metaphors we use to talk about our languages. Do you think about languages as "tools", "containers", or "fluids"? This is one of the questions that we pondered on and, as we move forward, the research team hopes to develop a rich repertoire of metaphors that teachers can reflect on to strengthen, revise and change their practices. When working with multilingual pupils and students, these metaphors are important because they can convey important messages about how we value different linguistic backgrounds in our classrooms and the wider communities we all engage with.
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