Justyna Legutko

Justyna Legutko is a PhD student in multilingualism and her research project concerns writing pedagogy in (foreign) language classrooms at secondary schools in Berlin, Germany.

Research

The aim of the PhD study is to support the development of the students' emerging multilingual writing skills through cross-curricular collaboration between teachers of different languages (German, English, French and Spanish). 

Even though teachers of the language of schooling and of foreign languages all teach writing in their respective language classrooms, few cross-curricular connections are made in their teaching practices. My research attends to this gap, aiming at (1) gaining a deeper understanding of how teachers of different languages teach writing, and (2) exploring the extent to which teachers of different languages can align their teaching approaches to writing and make cross-curricular connections explicit.

Data were collected at two secondary schools in Berlin, Germany, where German is the language of schooling, English the first foreign language and French or Spanish the second foreign language.

More information can be found on the following project website:

Language teacher collaboration on a cross-curricular writing pedagogy in language of schooling and foreign language classrooms

NEXUS ANALYSIS NETWORK

I initiated and am co-facilitating a research network for researchers who use Nexus Analysis (Scollon & Scollon, 2004). We organise a monthly online study circle and book club to discuss ongoing research and questions that researchers who use nexus analysis deal with. We also organise symposia at conferences and work on joint publications. Anyone is welcome to join!

More information can be found on our website: https://nexusanalysisnetwork.wordpress.com/

CONFERENCES

11-13 September 2024: Poster presentation entitled "Nexus-analytical perspectives on change" at Educational Linguistics 2024: Language(s) from Childhood to Adult Age” in Kalmar, Sweden.

11-13 September 2024: Presentation entitled "Teaching materials
mediating a teacher-researcher collaboration on a multilingual writing pedagogy" at Educational Linguistics 2024: Language(s) from Childhood to Adult Age Conference in Kalmar, Sweden.

29-31 August 2024: Presentation entitled "Writing pedagogy in the second foreign language – a collaborative project between language of schooling and foreign language teachers" at the 13th International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism in Groningen, Netherlands.

21-22 March 2024: Presentation entitled "Teaching materials as mediators of a language teacher collaboration on writing pedagogy" at Multilingualism on my mind Conference at University of Bergen, Norway.

21-24 November 2023: Presentation entitled "Análisis de un nexo:
Hacia enfoques interdisciplinarios de enseñanza para la redacción de textos en clases de idiomas" at IV International ALES conference in Concepción, Chile.

17-21 July 2023: Presentation entitled "Nexus analysis as a change-oriented methodology – toward cross-curricular teaching approaches to writing in language classrooms" at AILA 2023 in Lyon, France.

12-14 June 2023: Presentation entitled "An ethnography of classroom practice: exploring common ground between writing pedagogies in three language subjects" at Translanguaging in the Age of (Im)mobility Conference at Dalarna University, Sweden.

7-10 June 2023: Presentation entitled "A nexus analytical approach to developing a cross-curricular writing pedagogy among three language subjects" at Plurensa-2023 Conference in Montpellier, France. 

17-23 February 2023: Presentation entitled "A nexus analysis of writing activities in language of schooling as well as foreign language classrooms: potential for teacher collaboration" at Writing Research Across Borders Conference in Trondheim, Norway.

27-29 October 2022: Presentation entitled "A nexus analysis of writing activities in language classrooms: toward cross-curricular teaching approaches" at the Finnish Association of Applied Linguistics Conference in Helsinki, Finland.

22-23 September 2022: Presentation entitled "Toward cross-curricular approaches to writing in language classrooms" at Multilingual Education in Linguistically Diverse Contexts Conference.

22-23 September 2022: Presentation entitled "Cross-curricular writing pedagogy - the potential for teacher collaboration within current language syllabi" at Multilingual and Multicultural Learning: Policies and Practices (MLPP) Conference.

20-21 November 2021: Presentation entitled "Cross-curricular writing pedagogy - the potential for teacher collaboration within current language syllabi " at New Approaches to Bilingualism and Multilingualism and Language Learning/Teaching Conference

SYMPOSIA

16-18 May 2024: Presentation entitled "The influence of educational and professional experiences on writing a doctoral research proposal in educational linguistics: An autoethnographic study" at Psychology of Language Learning Conference in Madrid, Spain.

27-29 October 2022: Co-chaired a symposium entitled "Nexus analytic perspectives on language, participation and change" at Applied Linguistics Conference in Helsinki, Finland.