Ponencia: Fostering Sensitivity to Linguistic Diversity Through Literature, Culture and Film
This interactive session will discuss strategies for fostering cultural awareness and sensitivity to multilingualism and linguistic diversity through the teaching of literature, culture and film, with a focus on heritage, minority and indigenous languages. We will examine how the curated selection and analysis of a multilingual range of literary, artistic and audiovisual texts can enrich student learning, facilitate intercultural dialogue and provoke curiosity about diverse languages and cultures. Another key aspect for consideration is the potential of translation as a means to bring different languages, texts and cultures into contact in the classroom. Particular themes explored include migration, coloniality, globalization, intersectionality and identity, with reference to specific case studies in Latin American and Iberian contexts, such as Galician-language poetry, translingual migration novels and Guatemalan film. The session will demonstrate how embedding sensitivity to linguistic diversity in literary and cultural studies pedagogy can serve as an important step towards the decolonization of languages and cultural studies curricula.