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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.

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Author:   Yuri Kumagai (Smith College, USA) ,  Ana López-Sánchez ,  Sujane Wu
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.850kg
ISBN:  

9781138832190

ISBN 10:   1138832197
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   12 October 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword Hilary Janks Preface Chapter 1: Advancing Multiliteracies in World Language Education Yuri Kumagai and Ana López-Sánchez Part I: Designing Multiliteracies Curricula Chapter 2: Developing Multiliteracies through Genre in the Beginner German Classroom Mackenzie Warren and Claudia Winkler Chapter 3: Redesigning the Intermediate Level of the Spanish Curriculum through a Multiliteracies Lens Ana López-Sánchez Chapter 4: Multiliteracies and Multimodal Discourses in the Foreign Language Classroom Christine Sagnier Chpater 5: Reading Words to Read Worlds: A Genre-based Critical Multiliteracies Curriculum in Intermediate/Advanced Japanese Language Education Yuri Kumagai and Noriko Iwasaki Part II: Implementing Multiliteracies-based Projects Chapter 6: Fostering Multimodal Literacies in the Japanese Language Classrooms: Digital Video Projects Yuri Kumagai, Keiko Konoeda, Miyuki Nishimata (Fukai), and Shinji Sato Chapter 7: Implementing Multiliteracies in the Korean Classroom through Visual Media Lucien Brown, Noriko Iwasaki, and Keunyoung Lee Chapter 8: Empowering Students in the Italian Classroom to Learn Vocabulary through a Multiliteracies Framework Barbara Spinelli Chapter 9: Creating an Effective Learning Environment in an Advanced Chinese Language Course through Film, Poster Presentation, and Multiliteracies Sujane Wu Afterword Ana López-Sánchez and Yuri Kumagai List of Contributors Index

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Yuri Kumagai is Senior Lecturer of Japanese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Smith College, Massachusetts, USA. Ana López-Sánchez is Assistant Professor of Spanish, Haverford College, USA. Sujane Wu is Associate Professor of Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Smith College, Massachusetts, USA.

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