Webinar – Multimodal Pedagogies in the L2 Classroom: Moving from Language to a Communication Paradigm

When: November 18, 2020 10:00am to 11:30am
José Aldemar Alvarez Valencia

Presented by José Aldemar Álvarez Valencia, professor of applied linguistics in the School of Language Sciences at Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.

The current communication landscape shows that communication is multimodal by nature. This new perspective on language and communication impacts directly second language acquisition and pedagogical practices. Multimodal pedagogies intend to bring this perspective into second/foreign language classrooms by highlighting the centrality of modes of communication and transmodal practices in the design of tasks that engage learners in processes of language/communication appropriation. By looking at language as one more semiotic resource among many others that make up communication ecologies, multimodal pedagogies recognize and look for ways to articulate and rearticulate students' cultural semiotic resources, including their languages, embodied communicative practices and identity affiliations.

In this webinar, participants will be introduced to the main concepts of multimodal pedagogies such as design, modes, semiotic resources, and transmodality. Likewise, the presenter will discuss the main principles of this new approach, followed by some examples on how it can be implemented in a language/communication classroom.

This event is one in a three-part webinar series exploring literacy-based lesson planning in the language classroom. The others are presented by Cherice Montgomery and Heather Willis Allen.


Audience: All
Audience size: Large (101-500)

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United States
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Contacts

Xochitl Coronado-Vargas Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL)

Requests for disability-related accommodations should be directed to the event's primary contact: Xochitl Coronado-Vargas