1st Edition

Approaching Multiliteracies: Digitally Mediated Second and Foreign Language Teacher Education

Edited By Carolyn Blume Copyright 2026
244 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Approaching Multiliteracies: Digitally Mediated Second and Foreign Language Teacher Education provides practical insights into developing the multiliteracies pedagogy competencies for pre-service teachers. It highlights how multiliteracies pedagogy can be not just a goal of teacher education, but also a means to prepare future language teachers for this task. Capitalizing on parallels between... Read more

1 Approaching Multiliteracies: Digitally Mediated Second and Foreign Language Teacher Education

CAROLYN BLUME

2 Critical Digital Literacy in Language Teaching: A Scoping Review

XIAOYUE ZHANG AND LIANJIANG JIANG

3 The Role of Identity and Habitus in Digitally Mediated Second and Foreign Language Teacher Education

DAVID GERLACH

4 Multiliteracies, Third Space Theory, and the Educational Spiral: A Model for Student–Teacher Growth

LUIS S. VILLACAÑAS DE CASTRO

5 To Challenge and to Change: A Critical Media Literacy Approach to Tertiary Multiliteracies Pedagogy in Language Education

FRAUKE MATZ AND JEFF SHARE

6 “To me, authenticity means credibility and correctness”: Encouraging Pre-Service Teachers to Re-Evaluate Their Understanding of “Authentic English” Using Data-Driven Learning

ELEN LE FOLL

7 Preparing Pre-Service Language Teachers to Teach Multiliteracies in Singapore

FEI VICTOR LIM

8 “Like a Shell Without Actual Content”: Large Language Models as a Topic in EFL Teacher Education

JULES BUENDGENS-KOSTEN

9 Developing Gameful Literacies and Identities Among Language Teachers

JONATHON REINHARDT

10 Preparing Student Teachers to Foster Social Media Literacies in EFL Education through Multiliteracies Pedagogy

OSMAN SOLMAZ

11 Multiliteracies Pedagogy for Language Teacher Training: Multimodal Writing, Virtual Exchange, and Semiotic Awareness

MÜGE SATAR AND WALA ALMIJIWL

Biography

Carolyn Blume is Professor of English Language, Literature and Culture at the Heidelberg University of Education in Germany.

"Featuring contributions from experts across Europe, Asia, and the US, this collection offers a truly global perspective on digitally mediated second and foreign language teacher education. Essential reading for teacher educators, researchers, and practitioners, it provides invaluable insights into preparing teachers for an increasingly multilingual digital world."

Kenan DikilitasProfessor at the Department of Education, University of Bergen, Norway

"This book is a critical, situated, research-informed ode to the potential and practice of multiliteracies and digitality in/for language teacher education. If we want to imagine and build the best possible future in language education, this volume must be part of the conversation." 

Darío Luis BanegasSenior Lecturer in Language Education, University of Edinburgh, UK