Widespread monolingual practices have often overlooked the plurilingual and pluricultural skills of superdiverse children -- skills such as their ability to draw on linguistic and cultural competencies -- in both formal and informal educational settings. However, arts-based multimodal activities can help reveal children's "invisible"…

This paper reports on a multimodal teaching approach delivered to grade 5 elementary students in a bilingual school in Hong Kong, as part of a larger research study aimed at supporting English Language Learners (ELLs) in science class. As language demands of reading, writing and talking science place additional challenges on ELLs, there is much…

The paper examined expert literature teachers' coping with a novel textbook, integrating literature with visual arts, which is a particular interdisciplinary case of text-image relations in textbooks. Examination was performed within the framework of teachers' responses to curricular changes and of theory regarding strategies of interdisciplinary…