katerina maroniti

In this article, we present a program designed for and carried out with young children, which was based on the four-stage multiliteracies model: experiencing, conceptualizing, analyzing and applying creatively. The main purpose of the study was to develop children’s critical awareness of linguistic diversity through popular culture texts in a collaborative, creative and multimodal educational environment. The program was carried out for two school years: a) in the first school year, an intervention was implemented to 2nd grade children of a Greek primary school, and b) in the second school year, a similar intervention was applied to children of the 1st grade. In this article, we report on the results of the first school year’s intervention. The results revealed the positive impact of the program on children’s ability to easily distinguish between different types of speech styles due to geographical, age and socio-economic factors. The children understood – at least to some extent – that the texts of popular culture tend to display language diversity in a distorted and stigmatized way. The results of those implementations were very encouraging; a fact that stimulates our interest in continuing respective ventures by involving a wider sample of students and incorporating a greater range of popular culture texts.

Μαρωνίτη, Κ., Στάμου, Α., Γρίβα, Ε. & Ντίνας, Κ. 2016. Αναπαραστάσεις της γλωσσικής ποικιλότητας στον τηλεοπτικό λόγο: Εφαρμόζοντας ένα πρόγραμμα κριτικού γραμματισμού σε παιδιά πρωτοσχολικής ηλικίας. Στο: Στάμου Α.Γ., Πολίτης Π., Αρχάκης Α. (2016) (επιμ.). Γλωσσική Ποικιλότητα και Κριτικοί Γραμματισμοί στον Λόγο της Μαζικής Κουλτούρας: Εκπαιδευτικές Προτάσεις για το Γλωσσικό Μάθημα. Καβάλα: Εκδόσεις Σαΐτα, σσ. 57-94
Several studies have acknowledged the central role of popular cultural texts in the shaping of young children’s out-of-school literacy experiences and how these texts represent linguistic variation through the lens of ideologies, reproducing established perceptions of the linguistic practices of social groups. In this context, it is necessary to promote students’ critical stance towards the representations of sociolinguistic diversity constructed in those texts, in order for them to become aware of the ideological function of these representations, and of the stereotypes probably reproduced.
In this study, we present a critical literacy project designed for and implemented to primary school children of Grade 1 and 2, with the aim to develop their critical awareness of television representations of linguistic variation. The approach adopted for the design of the learning material and the implementation of the critical literacy project was the task-based learning. The results of the assessment of the project revealed that students’ sociolinguistic awareness was enhanced. In particular, they were able to realize that the different linguistic varieties which are contrasted in television discourse often provoke misunderstandings, as well as that sociolinguistic differences usually co-exist with semiotic (e.g. dress code, appearance) and with ideological differences among TV characters. On the other hand, they seemed to have realized in a more systematic way that there is a divergence between the speech of TV characters and their own sociolinguistic experience, through a critical discussion on specific samples of television discourse. However, some difficulties were observed in the interventions, especially during Critical Recontextualization, in which children could not avoid reproducing stereotypical depictions of sociolinguistic diversity. Evaluating the results of our small- scale project as encouraging, the design and implementation of similar critical literacy projects on a more systematic basis is deemed necessary, in order to eliminate established perceptions about social and sociolinguistic reality.

In the present paper, we analyze how a popular Greek TV series mediates the urban vs. rural dipole through the construction of contrasting female identities. Despite the wealth of sociolinguistic studies on gender identity construction in interpersonal settings, limited ...

Ο παρών Τόμος αποτυπώνει τις εργασίες της διημερίδας «Γλώσσα, μαζική κουλτούρα και κριτικός γραμματισμός» που πραγματοποιήθηκε τον Ιούνιο του 2015 στη Φλώρινα, στην Παιδαγωγική Σχολή του Πανεπιστημίου Δυτικής Μακεδονίας. Η διημερίδα διοργανώθηκε από το Παιδαγωγικό Τμήμα Νηπιαγωγών του Πανεπιστημίου Δυτικής Μακεδονίας, στο
πλαίσιο της διάχυσης των αποτελεσμάτων του ερευνητικού προγράμματος Θαλής (2011- 2015) με τίτλο: «Γλωσσική ποικιλότητα και γλωσσικές ιδεολογίες στα κείμενα μαζικής
κουλτούρας: Σχεδιασμός, ανάπτυξη και αξιολόγηση παιδαγωγικού υλικού για την ανάπτυξη της κριτικής γλωσσικής επίγνωσης» (Επιστημονικά Υπεύθυνη: Αναστασία
Στάμου, Φορέας Χρηματοδότησης: Υπουργείο Παιδείας, Έρευνας & Θρησκευμάτων, Επιχειρησιακό Πρόγραμμα «Εκπαίδευση και Δια Βίου Μάθηση», Κωδικός ID: MIS 375599).