Literacies in Language Education: A Guide for Teachers and Teacher Educators

Literacies in Language Education offers a practical and innovative guide to emphasizing literacies development when teaching world languages, focusing on critical engagement with texts, intercultural understanding, and language proficiency development. It defines multiliteracies pedagogy, its benefits, and how to create curricula grounded in it, and offers ideas for teacher professional development. The book embraces an expanded understanding of literacy to capture the dynamism of language and its contexts of use, the importance of preparing students to interact with the range of texts they will encounter, and the multicultural and multilingual landscape of secondary and postsecondary language classrooms.

Format: Hardback
Length: 210 pages
Publication date: 01 April 2023
Publisher: Georgetown University Press

Literacies in Language Education is a practical and innovative guide to emphasizing literacies development when teaching world languages. It introduces multiliteracies pedagogy, which focuses on critical engagement with texts, intercultural understanding, and language proficiency development. Kate Paesani and Mandy Menke, seasoned workshop leaders and multiliteracies scholars, define what the approach is, its benefits, and how to create curricula grounded in it. They also explain how to use the approach at all levels of language education and offer ideas for teacher professional development. Melding text- and language-oriented learning goals, the authors embrace an expanded understanding of literacy to capture the dynamism of language and its contexts of use, the importance of preparing students to interact with the range of texts they will encounter in their academic, workplace, and personal lives, and the multicultural and multilingual landscape of secondary and postsecondary language classrooms.

Literacies in Language Education provides teachers with a tested approach for increasing learners' proficiency and cultural awareness, as well as practical implementation methods. This book provides teachers and program administrators with immediate steps to take toward designing and implementing a literacies approach in any language class and curriculum. Published in partnership with CARLA, this book offers a comprehensive and practical guide to enhancing literacies development in world languages.

Weight: 466g
Dimension: 159 x 237 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781647123338