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Schlindwein, Ana Flora – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
Adopting the multiliteracy concept and embracing the challenge of developing meaningful and captivating classes for Portuguese as Foreign Language in Brazil, this paper proposes an approach which includes the use of different technologies to learn and teach Portuguese, the reading of graphic novel adaptations of Brazilian literature classics and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Portuguese, Multiple Literacies, Teaching Methods
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Fogle, Lyn Wright – Language Policy, 2013
Family language policy refers to explicit and overt decisions parents make about language use and language learning as well as implicit processes that legitimize certain language and literacy practices over others in the home. Studies in family language policy have emphasized the ways in which family-internal processes are shaped by and shape…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Multiple Literacies, Language Usage, Interviews
Jordan, Ethan T. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Students are now involved in a vastly different textual landscape than many English scholars, one that relies on the "reading" and interpretation of multiple channels of simultaneous information. As a response to these new kinds of literate practices, my dissertation adds to the growing body of research on multimodal literacies, narratology in new…
Descriptors: Video Games, Literacy, Rhetorical Theory, English Instruction
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Boche, Benjamin – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2014
With conceptions of literacy growing beyond the traditional print medium, new understandings of multiliteracy practices and pedagogies are needed to better inform the preparation of secondary English teachers. This article presents the findings of a study examining five first year teachers' understandings of and experiences with multiliteracies.…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Secondary School Teachers, English Teachers, Language Arts
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Carpenter, Russell; Apostel, Shawn; Hyndman, June Overton – International Journal of ePortfolio, 2012
After developing and testing a model for integrative collaboration at Eastern Kentucky University's Noel Studio for Academic Creativity, we offer results that highlight the potential for peer review to significantly and positively impact the ePortfolio design process for students. The results of this classroom/studio collaboration suggest that…
Descriptors: Models, Portfolios (Background Materials), Electronic Publishing, Creativity
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Ruiz, Marisol; Valverde, Michelle – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2012
Schools serve as antidemocratic spaces where teacher, parent, community member, and student voices are typically disregarded. Instead, philanthropists and businesses are allowed to drive school and district agendas. An exploration of 3 local efforts that connect a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) with prekindergarten to Grade 12 students and…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Social Justice, Educational Change, Theory Practice Relationship
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Angay-Crowder, Tuba; Choi, Jayoung; Yi, Youngjoo – TESL Canada Journal, 2013
In this article we demonstrate how we created a context in which digital storytelling was designed and implemented to teach multilingual middle school students in the summer program sponsored by a local nonprofit organization, the Latin American Association, in a city in the southeastern United States. While implementing the notion of…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Multiple Literacies, Summer Programs, Middle School Students
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Cooper, Natalie; Lockyer, Lori; Brown, Ian – Educational Media International, 2013
Evolving technologies and globalisation presents educators with the challenge of creating learning experiences to help students develop competencies to enable them to function successfully in a dynamic society. Today's learner is expected to be multiliterate--able to analyse and construct multi-modal texts. A qualitative embedded multi-case study…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, English Curriculum, Multiple Literacies, Learning Experience
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Castaneda, Martha E. – CALICO Journal, 2013
This case study examines students' experiences regarding the infusion of digital storytelling in their high school fourth-year Spanish class. The aim of this case study is to determine if digital storytelling can be an effective tool for language learners to communicate emotion and present information to an audience. Sources of information for…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Writing Processes, Reflection, Second Language Learning
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Avila, JuliAnna – Teaching Education, 2013
This paper is a course description of a Digital Literacies class offered to both undergraduate and graduate students at an American university. The purpose of this paper is: (1) to describe the pedagogical bones of this course, drawing upon theories of learning in a participatory culture, including a discussion of how, and where, the course fell…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Graduate Students, Course Descriptions, Reflection
New Mexico Public Education Department, 2017
The Bilingual Multicultural Education Bureau (BMEB) strives to serve all students participating in BMEPs so that all students achieve the program goals as outlined by New Mexico statute and education code, these are: (1) students become bilingual and biliterate in English and a second language; and (2) students meet all academic content standards…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Multicultural Education, Annual Reports, Student Educational Objectives
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Ganapathy, Malina; Seetharam, Saundravalli A/P – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
In today's globalised digital era, students are inevitably engaged in various multimodal texts due to their active participation in social media and frequent usage of mobile devices on a daily basis. Such daily activities advocate the need for a transformation in the teaching and learning of ESL lessons in order to promote students' capabilities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Private Schools
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Ibrahim, Nayr – Education Inquiry, 2016
Where adults go, children follow. The reality of a globalized, interconnected world, characterised by the mobility of people, goods and knowledge, across physical and virtual spaces and time, has had a significant impact on children's early experiences of language, literacy and identity. Children are not peripheral to, but constitute an integral…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Second Languages, Literacy, Multilingualism
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Inoa, Rafael; Weltsek, Gustave; Tabone, Carmine – Journal for Learning through the Arts, 2014
Past studies have shown positive correlations between the arts and academic achievement when the arts were integrated into the literature curriculum. Other studies have shown positive associations between the arts and other areas of the curriculum, such as mathematics and science. Considering the Theory of Change, which employs understandings in…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Language Arts, Drama, Mathematics Achievement
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Mills, Kathy A.; Exley, Beryl – Written Communication, 2014
Theorists of multiliteracies, social semiotics, and the New Literacy Studies have drawn attention to the potential changing nature of writing and literacy in the context of networked communications. This article reports findings from a design-based research project in Year 4 classrooms (students aged 8.5-10 years) in a low socioeconomic status…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Multiple Literacies, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
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