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How Can Language Education Contribute to Securing a Livable Planet?
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Melina Porto – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
The aim of this study was to test the notion of ecological citizenship empirically in the English language classroom in an underrepresented region, Latin America. A pedagogic project aimed at the development of students as ecological citizens was designed and implemented in 2019 in four English language classrooms in a public secondary school in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Social Media, Intercultural Communication
The Interplay of Text and Image on the Meaning-Making Processes of Adult L2 Learners with Emerging Literacy: Implications for Test Design and Evaluation Frameworks
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Altherr Flores, Jenna A. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
This study investigates meaning-making processes in language and literacy assessments. Using a social semiotic perspective, it examines how adult second language learners with emerging literacy self-articulate their understanding of multimodal elements and components utilized in low-stakes assessments, and the strategies they use to make meaning…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Adult Literacy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Geosemiotics as a Multiperspectivist Lens: Theorizing L2 Use of Semiotic Resources in Negotiation of Meaning with Mobiles from outside the Classroom
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Lee, Helen; Hampel, Regine – Language Learning & Technology, 2023
The theorization of how multimodal learning intersects with online teaching environments has emerged as a key research area in relationship to the creation of opportunities for L2 online interaction. However, there are few studies which have examined how cross-cultural dyads harness and orchestrate semiotic resources across mobile technologies…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Handheld Devices, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Assessing Refugee-Background Adult Second Language Learners with Emerging Literacy: How a Social Semiotic Analysis Reveals Hidden Assumptions of Test Design
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Jenna A. Altherr Flores – Educational Linguistics, 2021
This study is a critical analysis of a low-stakes in-house English as a Second Language (ESL) and English literacy test from a local program in a large city in the southwestern United States. From a critical multimodal social semiotic perspective (Kress G. Multimodality: A social semiotic approach to contemporary communication. Routledge, 2010;…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Refugees, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Teachers' Reflections on the Visual Resources in English Textbooks for Vietnamese Lower Secondary Schools
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Vu, Thao; Febrianti, Yusnita – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2018
The prominent role of visual resources in language classrooms has long been advocated, as many argued that images could go beyond providing students with a visual background of the context or arousing motivation (Unsworth & Ngo, 2014). This article explores the roles of the visual resources drawn from an English textbook series used in…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Implications of Genre Pedagogy for Refugee Youth with Limited or Interrupted Formal Schooling
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Kathryn Accurso; Meg Gebhard; Grace Harris; Jennie Schuetz – Educational Linguistics, 2021
This chapter explores how systemic functional linguistics (SFL) can contribute to secondary teachers' effectiveness for teaching disciplinary literacies to refugee youth in the United States. The chapter describes the Milltown Multimodal/Multiliteracies (MMM) Collaborative, an SFL-based professional development partnership between a large public…
Descriptors: Refugees, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
On the Use of Visual and Graphic Codes in the Production of Verbal Utterances.
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Brown, James W. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1980
Discusses the use of visual materials in second language instruction to produce verbal utterances. (AM)
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Semiotics, Speech Communication, Speech Skills
Postage Stamps as Pedagogical Instruments in the Italian Curriculum.
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Nuessel, Frank; Cicogna, Caterina – Italica, 1992
Examination of several interrelated topics on postage stamps, including their multiple functions and significance as semiotic artifacts, precedes suggestions for incorporating them into the Italian language curriculum in such activities as reading, writing, speaking, listening, and cultural understanding. (CB)
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Italian, Listening Comprehension, Second Language Instruction