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Teaching Multimodal and Digital Literacy in L2 Settings: New Literacies, New Basics, New Pedagogies
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The authors reviewed and reported on innovative pedagogical approaches to multimodal literacies involving L2 learners, which utilize diverse media to represent visual, audio, gestural, spatial, and tactile dimensions of communication in addition to traditional written and oral forms.Abstract:
Globalization and digitization have reshaped the communication landscape, affecting how and with whom we communicate, and deeply altering the terrain of language and literacy education. As children in urban contexts become socialized into communities of increasing cultural and communicational connectivity, complexity, and convergence (Jenkins, 2004), and funding for specialist second language (L2) support declines, classrooms have become linguistically heterogeneous spaces where every teacher is a teacher of L2 learners.This article has two purposes: The first is to give an overview of the concept of multimodal literacies, which utilize diverse media to represent visual, audio, gestural, spatial, and tactile dimensions of communication in addition to traditional written and oral forms (Cope & Kalantzis, 2009a). Since the New London Group's manifesto on multiliteracies in 1996, which merged language and literacy education agendas in L2 teaching, language arts, media literacy, and cultural studies, new basics have developed that apply to all classrooms and all learners. Second, this article reviews and reports on innovative pedagogical approaches to multimodal literacies involving L2 learners. These are grounded theoretically (Cope & Kalantzis, 2009a, 2009b; Kress, 2003, 2010; New London Group, 1996) and epistemologically (de Castell & Jenson, 2003; Gee, 2009, 2010; Kellner, 2004; Lankshear & Knobel, 2003, 2006).read more
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"That Sounds So Cooool": Entanglements of Children, Digital Tools, and Literacy Practices
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TL;DR: This paper examined a specific case in which English language learners (ELLs) made short videos about sustainability and social justice, to determine the diverse literacy practices such activities entailed, and they found that children produced storyboards and scripts, and videos with titles, and engaged in several other literacy activities, discussing what "made sense" in sequencing in a documentary story, what sustainability, social justice meant, how to report on information they had gathered, and so on.
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Informal learning on YouTube: exploring digital literacy in independent online learning
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the use of YouTube in the classroom and found that the role of YouTube video content plays in community formation and supporting informal peer learning, and how the students interacted with each other in these informal spaces.
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Multimodality: Out From the Margins of English Language Teaching
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Teachers' Integration of Multimodality Into Classroom Practices for English Language Learners
Jayoung Choi,Youngjoo Yi +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examined how two teachers who had limited experience with ELLs employed multimodality to teach ELL in their content area classes and found that employing multiple modes for instructional supports to enhance linguistic text gave teachers opportunities to help ELL learners gain nuanced understanding of subject-matter content knowledge, powerfully express what they learned, and discover a psychological refuge.
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