1st Edition

Multiliteracies in World Language Education

Edited By Yuri Kumagai, Ana López-Sánchez, Sujane Wu Copyright 2016
262 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

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.