From the Migration Experience to its Visual Narration in International Mobility

Muriel Molinie (1)

1 DILTEC - DILTEC - Didactique des langues, des textes et des cultures - EA 2288

These chapter introduces a way for international students studyinh in universities in France to reflect on their lives and envision their future in termes of social mobility. With this in mind, they were instructed to produce a drawing describing their background and visualising their mobility in the years to come in Europe or beyond. The process of viusual narratives allows individuals to describe and confront not only objective conditions but also their feelings and subjective points of view of their past, present and future (im)mobilities. This allows them to access and undestanding of international mobility as a contemporaray experience, this understanding being both objective and subjective on psychological, emotional and social levels.

Mots clés: International Mobility; Visual narration; Reflective drawing; Lived Multilingualism; Sociobiographical drawings; Multimodal Language Learning; Language Learner Identity Construction; Life-story Research

Domaines: Education

Muriel Molinie. From the Migration Experience to its Visual Narration in International Mobility. Visualising Multilingual Lives. More than word, Multilingual Matters, 2019, 9781788922593. ⟨hal-03320968⟩