Multiliteracies in World Language Education (Language, Culture, and Teaching Series)

Synopsis

Putting a multiliteracies framework at the center of the world language curriculum, this volume brings together college-level curricular innovations and classroom projects that address differences in meaning and worldviews expressed in learners’ primary and target languages. Offering a rich understanding of languages, genres, and modalities as socioculturally situated semiotic systems, it advocates an effective pedagogy for developing learners’ abilities to operate between languages. Chapters showcase curricula that draw on a multiliteracies framework and present various classroom projects that develop aspects of multiliteracies for language learners. A discussion of the theoretical background and historical development of the pedagogy of multiliteracies and its relevance to the field of world language education positions this book within the broader literature on foreign language education. As developments in globalization, accountability, and austerity challenge contemporary academia and the current structure of world language programs, this book shows how the implementation of a multiliteracies-based approach brings coherence to language programs, and how the framework can help to accomplish the goals of higher education in general and of language education in particular.

Copyright:

2016

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

244 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781317566090

Related ISBNs:

9781315736143, 9781138832190, 9781138832190, 9781138832183, 9781138832183, 9781138832183, 9781315736143, 9781138832190

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

04/22/19

Copyrighted By:

N/A

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Education, Language Arts, Foreign Language Study

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Yuri Kumagai

Edited by:

Ana López-Sánchez

Edited by:

Sujane Wu