Plurilingual Production as Creative Reflexive Practice
"Negotiating My Identities" (2009) Gail Prasad's "identity Text" created for Arts-Informed Research Methods course at OISE/UT with Dr. Ardra Cole in Fall 2009 A personal exploration of Cummins' (2006) notion of "identity text" as a research methodology for exploring the representation of plurilingual identities through creative reflexion |
"Daddy's Secret Surprise" (2012)
A plurilingual story written in English, French, Hindi and Japanese as an initial exploration of creative plurilingual production "Plurilingual Reflexions" (2012)
How does it look and feel to be plurilingual? Gail Prasad's creative reflexion on her own plurilingualism through collage and conversation "10 Numbers About Me à la Piet Mondrian" (2014)
An cross-curricular "All about me"activity to allow students to introduce themselves to their classmates using visual arts, mathematics and language arts. One of the number prompts asks students to share how many languages are part of their lives. The 10 prompts are intended to scaffold students' narrative auto-biography writing and to foster in-class discussion. |