Knowledge Café: Language as “home”

Language as “Home”: Lived student stories from the L’IMAGE Project
In this session of Knowledge Café, Professor Ai Taniguchi discusses findings from her Language, Identity, Multiculturalism and Global Empowerment (L’IMAGE) Project. She interviewed multilingual students at U of T to identify their needs as they find a sense of self in the university community. In this session, you will learn how students view language as their “home” and an anchor of their identities, especially when they have been displaced from their physical “home” or otherwise have a difficult relationship with it. You will also learn how comics can be a useful tool for amplifying the voices of the community, and how the public education of linguistics can help marginalized community members thrive as their full linguistic self.
To learn more about the L'IMAGE project, please visit www.uoftlimage...