Shifts in Environmental Literacy in Multilingual Contexts: The Lebanese Case.

Abstract

This paper draws attention to the print environment in streets and \nshops in multilingual contexts. It applies a cultural framework to examine \nmultilingual signs in Lebanon to show that they reflect a number of global and \nlocal changes in environmental literacy. It argues that these are important to \neducators because they are part of wider notions of literacy from which students \nmay learn, even peripherally. The paper gives examples of slips and slides \nbetween Arabic, French and English to show that potentially environmental \nliteracy can be a double-edged visible model of languages in relatively permanent \npublic forms; it suggests the validity of multilingualism but presents erroneous or \ninappropriate examples -to learners. However. teachers can encourage learners \nto observe such language processes in scripts and signs in the local street \nenvironment as part of raising critical language awareness.

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