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Playful Designs: Multiliteracies and Literariness in the Beginning Language Classroom
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Warner, Chantelle – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
Over the past two decades, many scholars and practitioners in foreign language teaching have advocated for multiliteracies approaches, which envision language learning as the development of an expanding repertoire of linguistic and other semiotic resources for making meaning. Despite the attention to the role of learners as active designers of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Multiple Literacies, College Students
Beyond Accuracy: The Development of Syntactic Complexity in Middle School Spanish Immersion
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Mandy R. Menke – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
Language immersion programs seek to develop multilingual, multiliterate individuals able to engage with academic content. Studies of immersion students' language development provide details regarding language proficiency and accuracy, yet they generally do not address how features of written, academic language, for example, syntactic and lexical…
Descriptors: Spanish, Immersion Programs, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Moving toward Multiliteracies in Foreign Language Teaching: Past and Present Perspectives … and Beyond
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Warner, Chantelle; Dupuy, Beatrice – Foreign Language Annals, 2018
In recent years, literacy has emerged as a key critical term in foreign language (FL) teaching and learning. This essay reflects on the history of literacy and on current developments, in particular those related to the development of multiliteracies paradigms. The article concludes with a discussion of emergent topics related to literacy and…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Literacy "en Français" and "à la Française": Socializing Students to Academic Literacy Practices in a Foreign Language
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Linares, Emily; Blocker, Déborah – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
Research on academic socialization has predominately focused on the L2 educational experiences of international students. While foreign language (FL) research has explored "multiliteracies" and "intercultural learning," literacy in a FL continues to be understood as the use of foreign words and grammar combined with culturally…
Descriptors: Socialization, Academic Language, French, Second Language Learning
Global Simulation as a Mediating Tool for Teaching and Learning Language and Culture as Discourse
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Michelson, Kristen – Foreign Language Annals, 2019
This article reports on a multiliteracies-based experiential learning curriculum designed for intermediate French built upon the framework of a global simulation pedagogy. Students adopted the roles of fictitious characters living together in an apartment building in Paris and carried out written and spoken tasks through the voice of their…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Experiential Learning, Curriculum Design, French
Expanding Discourse Options through Computer-Mediated Communication: Guiding Learners toward Autonomy
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Abraham, Lee B.; Williams, Lawrence – Foreign Language Annals, 2011
This article proposes a multiliteracies-based pedagogical framework for the analysis of computer-mediated discourse (CMD) in order to give students increased access to expanded discourse options that are available in online communication environments and communities (i.e., beyond the classroom). Through the analysis of excerpts and a corpus of…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, National Standards, Multiple Literacies, Guidelines