Multimodality, Language, and Race: The Academic Trajectories of Latin American International Students in Canadian Higher Education

• In Event: AERA Poster Session 3
  In Poster Session: Multimodality, Embodiment, and Emerging Identities (San Diego)

Abstract

This paper reports on the findings of an ongoing doctoral research that examines the narratives of lived experiences of international students speakers of English as an additional language from Latin America in a Canadian institution. I use a process-oriented framework to analyse the perceptions of international students on their academic trajectories using theories and analytical lenses in social semiotics, applied linguistics and language education. In this paper, I focus the analysis on one of the cases and discuss the role of multimodality in her academic trajectories and her perception on the intersection between language, identity and race. Analysis demonstrates that the participant perceives her trajectories in Canadian postsecondary education as a critical, dynamic, whole-body sense-making process of becoming.

Author

• Pedro L dos Santos, Simon Fraser University