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Liddicoat, Anthony (2018) Language teaching and learning as a transdisciplinary endeavour : multilingualism and epistemological diversity. AILA Review, 31 (1). pp. 14-28. doi:10.1075/aila.00011.lid ISSN 1461-0213.
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Abstract
Language teaching and learning is commonly considered as a research discipline that resides within the field of 'applied linguistics', at least in the way the field is conceptualized by English-speaking academia. However, if we considerlanguage teaching and learning as practice, this fit is not as neat as it at first might appear. Teaching, learning and using anadditional language is complex and multifaceted; it involves languages, cultures, learning, communication, identities, etc., whichin turn are situated academically within a host of disciplines. Research in language teaching and learning is thereforetransdisciplinary in the sense that multiple disciplines can provide different lenses through which to understand the samephenomena and to build new understandings of the object of interest. Moreover, as a field in which languages and cultures areinherently brought into contact, language teaching and learning is also at an intersection between disciplines that areconceptualized and developed differently in different languages and academic traditions. For example, 'language teaching'; as adisciplinary area does not map well onto its French translation equivalent 'didactique des langues'. Theseinteractions across academic traditions therefore represent an often-unacknowledged form of transdisciplinarity. This contributionwill examine how language teaching and learning can be informed by a transdisciplinary perspective in both these senses. Inparticular, it will focus on the idea of language learning from an intercultural perspective to examine how multiple disciplinesand different disciplinary traditions contribute to shaping understanding of the field; it will also consider some of thechallenges of bringing multiple disciplines to bear on this understanding.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Applied linguistics, Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- Philosophy, Interdisciplinary research | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | AILA Review | ||||||||
| Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1461-0213 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | December 2018 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 31 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 14-28 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1075/aila.00011.lid | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | © John Benjamins Publishing Company. This work is licensed under a license. Publisher should be contacted for permission to re-use or reprint the material in any form | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 15 March 2019 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 March 2019 |
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