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How about a Sixth Mode? Expanding Multimodal Pedagogy for Multilingual Students
Martorana, Christine
Composition Forum, v50 Fall 2022
This main argument this article makes is that the field of Rhetoric and Composition must expand our current multimodal framework to account for a sixth mode: the multilingual mode. Understood as the purposeful combination of multiple languages within a single composition, the multilingual mode has two distinct benefits: it allows us to more fully support multilingual students' rhetorical abilities, and it also supports the work of antiracism in the college writing classroom by challenging the racism embedded in our current five-mode framework. To show potential enactments of the multilingual mode, this article spotlights three student projects along with student reflections on their work.
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Multimedia Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Projects, Student Attitudes, Active Learning, Educational Benefits, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Native Language, Language Usage, Racism, Code Switching (Language), Foreign Countries, Minority Serving Institutions, Hispanic American Students, Undergraduate Students, Learning Management Systems, English (Second Language)
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