1st Edition

Foreign Language Learning in the Digital Age Theory and Pedagogy for Developing Literacies

Edited By Christiane Lütge Copyright 2022
284 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Foreign Language Learning in the Digital Age addresses the growing significance of diversifying media in contemporary society and expands on current discourses that have formulated media and a multitude of literacies as integral objectives in 21 st -century education. The book engages with epistemological and critical foundations of multiliteracies and related pedagogies for foreign... Read more

Introduction

Christiane Lütge

Part I: Foundational concerns on literacies and media in language education

1. The Changing Dynamics of Online Education: Five Theses on the Future of Learning

    Bill Cope & Mary Kalantzis

2. After Language: A Grammar of Multiform Transposition

    Mary Kalantzis & Bill Cope

    Part II: Everything old is new again: Digitalization, transmediality, and remix

3. Everyday technology-mediatized language learning: New opportunities and challenges

          Jonathan Reinhardt

4. The hero’s journey as a narrative template across the media in EFL teaching

    Michael C. Prusse

5. Triangulating novel, film, and critique: Reading Forster’s Maurice

    Amos Paran

    Part III: Explorations into the digital medium

6. Digital literacies, digital games: Language, learning. and play

    Catherine Beavis

7. Creating an interactive documentary with foreign language students

    Isabel Rivero-Vilá

8. Virtual exchange: Offering 21st century skills training through interactive online collaboration in Higher Education

    Regina C. Brautlacht, Maria Lurdes Martins & Franca Poppi

    Part IV: Media and technology in the language classroom: Focus on skills and acquisition

9. Effects of watching subtitled TV series on foreign language vocabulary learning: Does learners’ proficiency level matter?

    Ferran Gesa & Imma Miralpeix

10. L2 writing through wiki-mediated collaborative tasks: A study in a Vietnamese EFL setting

    Vu Van Duong & Erhan Aslan

11. Technologies in second-language classes: Knowledge synthesis of digital writing skills acquisition

          Maria-Lourdes Lira-Gonzales & Pascal Grégoire 

    Part V: Multiliteracies and media pedagogy in teacher education

12. Edu apps in EFL teaching

    Maria Eisenmann

13. Transmodalities in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan: Transformative Teaching Approach for Multilingual Early Learning

    Nettie Boivin & Assem Amantay

14. The LearnWeb project for multiliteracies practices in higher education

    Ivana Marenzi, Maria Bortoluzzi, Francesca Bianchi

Conclusion Trajectories for Multiliteracies in Foreign Language Education: An Inclusive Paradigm for Challenging Times

           Christiane Lütge & Michelle Stannard

 

Biography

Christiane Lütge holds the Chair for Teaching English as a Foreign Language at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich, Germany.