ERIC Number: EJ1274573
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 14
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1017-7108
EISSN: N/A
Available Date: N/A
Digital Multimodal Composing: How to Address Multimodal Communication Forms in ELT
Hafner, Christoph A.
English Teaching, v75 n3 p133-146 Aut 2020
Digital media play an undeniably influential role in contemporary communication, facilitating new kinds of multimodal forms of representation. However, ELT pedagogy does not always take these multimodal aspects of communication into account in a systematic way. One pedagogical approach that has been developed for this purpose is 'multimodal composing' or 'digital multimodal composing'. This approach caters to the needs of English language learners in the digital age by engaging with multimodal forms of communication in digital media which are 'embedded' alongside the reading and writing tasks that make up the core of traditional approaches to ELT. In this article, I provide an overview of scholarly work that has been done in developing this approach. Drawing on a case study of English language learners in Hong Kong, I demonstrate what the approach looks like in practice and suggest how it might be implemented in other contexts, balancing multimodal forms of communication with the traditional demands of the English language curriculum.
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods, Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Video Technology, English for Special Purposes, Science Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Student Projects, Active Learning, Literacy Education
Korea Association of Teachers of English. 6105 English Education Department, Chinju National University of Education, 369beon-gil 3, Jinyangho-ro, Jinju, Gyeongsangnam-do, 52673, Republic of Korea. Tel: +82-42-629-7381; Fax: +82-42-629-7320; e-mail: katejournal29@gmail.com; Web site: http://journal.kate.or.kr/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: Hong Kong
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A
Author Affiliations: N/A