New Materialist Explorations into Language Education

Johanna Ennser Kananen Taina Saarinen Editors New Materialist Explorations into Language Education New Materialist Explorations into Language Education Johanna Ennser Kananen • Taina Saarinen Editors.

Johanna Ennser-Kananen Taina Saarinen   Editors New Materialist Explorations into Language Education New Materialist Explorations into Language Education Johanna Ennser-Kananen  •  Taina Saarinen Editors New Materialist Explorations into Language Education Editors Johanna Ennser-Kananen Department of Language and Communication Studies University of Jyväskylä Jyväskylä, Finland Taina Saarinen Finnish Institute for Educational Research University of Jyväskylä Jyväskylä, Finland This work was supported by University of Jyväskylä ISBN 978-3-031-13846-1    ISBN 978-3-031-13847-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13847-8 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023 This book is an open access publication Open Access  This book is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made The images or other third party material in this book are included in the book’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material If material is not included in the book’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use The publisher, the authors, and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland Acknowledgments Like with many lengthy commitments, you never quite know what is expected of you when you agree to edit a book The making of this one was special to us because many of the people who contributed to it were our institutional colleagues or friends, and all of them have or had ties to our university A locally rooted long-term project bears certain risks but also many opportunities, including the possibilities to meet (unless there is a pandemic) and talk through, over a hot beverage or meal, the dense literature we delved into, the nonlinearity of writing processes, or the struggles and joys of unlearning To all of you, who offered your work to this volume, engaged in the meetings, reflections, discussions, and revisions: We know this was not an easy process nor is new materialism an easily digestible topic (at least to us) Kiitos kun jaksoitte! Kiitos kärsivällisyydestä, sinnikkyydestä, huumorista, inspiraatiosta, rohkeudesta, uteliaisuudesta ja solidaarisuudesta! When Applied Language Studies received funding through the profiling initiative RECLAS (Research Collegium for Language in Changing Society), a lot of possible scenarios opened up for using this money and shaping the direction of the field Co-directors Anne Pitkänen-Huhta and Tarja Nikula decided to put a lot of resources and trust in ideas that could be something (or not) This book is a result of this funding and this trust Kiitos RECLAS! We thank our editors at Springer, who guided us through the process with empathy and expertise Although we would at times have preferred to stick with the same person for a bit longer, each of them made their own important contributions to this book becoming real, and with each editor change, we found a more compelling way to narrate the book into existence Thank you, Helen van der Stelt, Natalie Rieborn, Evelien Bakker, Anita van der Linden-Rachmat and Aarthi Padmanaban, for all your work at different stages of the process, as well as Sugapriya Jaganathan from Straive for the final production steps We also thank Francis M. Hult, who did not see the book as a good fit for Springer’s Educational Linguistics series but had valuable and appreciative comments about our first draft In retrospect, this gave us the productive limbo we needed to complete it Thank you to our reviewers, whose comments brisked up our thinking and writing Thank you Sofia Kotilainen for the v vi Acknowledgments careful and thoughtful editing of the manuscript You did so much work in so little time! It is our fundamental belief that academic work should be easily and freely accessible Our gratitude goes to the units and people at the University of Jyväskylä who made it possible to publish this volume open access: The Finnish Institute for Educational Research, the profiling initiative MultiILEAP (Multiliteracies for social participation and in learning across the life span), the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Open Science Centre We have produced a considerable amount of academic work together, but this one has been our longest and most time-intensive piece to date A large part of thinking through the topic, literature, chapters, feedback, and production happened over the phone, while walking our dogs We therefore dedicate this book to Janosch, Kaisla, Lars, Etti, Harri, and Itta, who, together, know the whole story Jyväskylä, Finland  Johanna Ennser-Kananen June 2022 Taina Saarinen Contents Part I Introduction Towards Socio-material Research Approaches in Language Education����������������������������������������������������������������������������    3 Johanna Ennser-Kananen and Taina Saarinen Part II Material Agency Telepresent Agency: Remote Participation in Hybrid Language Classrooms via a Telepresence Robot ����������������   21 Teppo Jakonen and Heidi Jauni Changes in Language Assessment Through the Lens of New Materialism������������������������������������������������������������������   39 Ari Huhta and Nettie Boivin “I Have Karelia in My Soul” – Intra-action of Students, Seniors and Artefacts in a Community-Engaged Service-­Learning Collaboration ������������������������������������������������������������   57 Anu Muhonen and Heidi Vaarala Part III Spatial and Embodied Materiality The Personal Repertoire and Its Materiality: Resources, Means and Modalities of Languaging��������������������������������   75 Hannele Dufva  Material Change: The Case of Co-located Schools������������������������������   93 Petteri Laihonen and Tamás Péter Szabó The Socio-Material Value of Language Choices in Mozambique and Finland ������������������������������������������������������������������  111 Feliciano Chimbutane, Johanna Ennser-Kananen, and Sonja Kosunen vii viii Contents Part IV Assemblages of Human and Non-human Rhizoanalysis of Sociomaterial Entanglements in Teacher Interviews������������������������������������������������������������������������������  135 Tarja Nikula, Anne Pitkänen-Huhta, Sari Sulkunen, and Johanna Saario The Ideal Learner as Envisioned by Can Do Statements and Grammar Revisions: How Textbook Agency Is Constructed ��������������������������������������������������  151 Taina Saarinen and Ari Huhta Part V Epilogue 10 A Diffractive Reading������������������������������������������������������������������������������  175 Mel Engman, Johanna Ennser-Kananen, and Taina Saarinen Index������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������  187 Part I Introduction Chapter Towards Socio-material Research Approaches in Language Education Johanna Ennser-Kananen and Taina Saarinen Abstract  This chapter outlines the socio-material framing of the book that it opens We situate this volume materially not only in the discipline of applied linguistics and language education, but also in the long tradition of applied language studies at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland and the community there In doing so, the book builds on the authors’ roots in social constructionist thought and explicates why an orientation towards new materialism may be useful for a consideration of equity issues in language education Socio-materialism fosters a critical, transformative perspective and encourages an ontological ethical grounding of research, thus providing a starting point for research that implicates (but yet decenters) the role of the researchers Having conducted the work presented in this book in a community of applied linguists has also made us aware of the material role of the community and its scholars in the process; not just as a vessel of knowledge, but as a part of an assemblage Keywords  New materialism · Socio-materiality · Social constructionism · Equity · Ethics · Negotiability Social Constructionism as a Starting Point This book analyzes language education in society in a frame that acknowledges the ways in which humans socially construct reality on the one hand (Pennycook, 2018) and act in a dynamic relationship with the material world on the other (Bennett, J Ennser-Kananen Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland e-mail: johanna.f.ennser-kananen@jyu.fi T Saarinen (*) Finnish Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland e-mail: taina.m.saarinen@jyu.fi © The Author(s) 2023 J Ennser-Kananen, T Saarinen (eds.), New Materialist Explorations into Language Education, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13847-8_1 .. .New Materialist Explorations into Language Education Johanna Ennser-Kananen  •  Taina Saarinen Editors New Materialist Explorations into Language Education Editors Johanna... taina.m.saarinen@jyu.fi © The Author(s) 2023 J Ennser-Kananen, T Saarinen (eds.), New Materialist Explorations into Language Education, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13847-8_1 J Ennser-Kananen and... further, particularly in the areas and intersections of language education and assessment, language policies and social structures, and discourses of language, diversity and (in)equity The goal of the