TY - JOUR
T1 - ‘I feel unbalanced’
T2 - bridging emotions, creativity, and translingual pedagogy with EMI students
AU - Hillman, Sara
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Association for Language Learning.
PY - 2023/9/3
Y1 - 2023/9/3
N2 - Recent research on stakeholders’ emotions in English-medium instruction (EMI) higher education settings has demonstrated the importance of engaging students with their emotions about the impact of EMI on their lives. This article presents a pedagogical intervention bridging emotions, creativity, and translingual pedagogy with EMI students in Qatar. Through a semester-long project, students engaged with translingual mentor texts, which served as models for ways of sharing perspectives and emotions about different named languages and through translingual practice. Students then crafted their own translingual literacy narratives, drawing upon their full linguistic and semiotic repertoires to explore their emotions about their relationship with English and Arabic. Lastly, they transformed their written narratives into a multimodal, multilingual video. This project enabled students to actively explore and understand how their emotions are influenced by broader sociohistorical discourses. Given the shifts in Qatar’s educational language policies and discourse surrounding language and identity, students expressed a complex array of emotions, especially pride and shame, which led to feelings of both belonging and alienation. This article contributes to a deeper understanding of the emotional landscape and tensions surrounding EMI and demonstrates how emotions research can be effectively applied in EMI higher education settings through pedagogical interventions.
AB - Recent research on stakeholders’ emotions in English-medium instruction (EMI) higher education settings has demonstrated the importance of engaging students with their emotions about the impact of EMI on their lives. This article presents a pedagogical intervention bridging emotions, creativity, and translingual pedagogy with EMI students in Qatar. Through a semester-long project, students engaged with translingual mentor texts, which served as models for ways of sharing perspectives and emotions about different named languages and through translingual practice. Students then crafted their own translingual literacy narratives, drawing upon their full linguistic and semiotic repertoires to explore their emotions about their relationship with English and Arabic. Lastly, they transformed their written narratives into a multimodal, multilingual video. This project enabled students to actively explore and understand how their emotions are influenced by broader sociohistorical discourses. Given the shifts in Qatar’s educational language policies and discourse surrounding language and identity, students expressed a complex array of emotions, especially pride and shame, which led to feelings of both belonging and alienation. This article contributes to a deeper understanding of the emotional landscape and tensions surrounding EMI and demonstrates how emotions research can be effectively applied in EMI higher education settings through pedagogical interventions.
KW - Emotions
KW - English language teaching
KW - English medium instruction
KW - creativity
KW - translingual pedagogy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85166616319&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09571736.2023.2239861
DO - 10.1080/09571736.2023.2239861
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85166616319
SN - 0957-1736
VL - 51
SP - 591
EP - 606
JO - Language Learning Journal
JF - Language Learning Journal
IS - 5
ER -