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With the continued growth of research on linguistic landscape in fields such as sociolinguistics and language policy, interest in the possibilities of linguistic landscape for fostering language development as well as culture and literacy learning has also been on the rise.

However, as global flows and superdiverse conditions have come to redefine relationships of people, place, and language there is an imperative for L2 educators and learners to answer Leander and Sheehy’s (2004) call for the “spatialization” of language/literacy education, and to engage with notions of geographical locations as culturally charged and contested spaces of top-down and bottom-up meaning-making practices.

This edited volume seeks to take up this call for a spatialized approach, both illuminating the potential of the linguistic landscape to address long-standing challenges in language and literacy pedagogy, and mobilizing research on teaching and learning to expand the theoretical and methodological repertoires of linguistic landscape research. The editors invite chapter proposals grounded in teaching and learning practice that address the aforementioned aspects of the topic.

The editors welcome proposal submissions by December 1, 2016.

View the full call for chapters at http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-4095.html