A Multiliteracies Framework for Collegiate Foreign Language Teaching

by Paesani, Kate W; Allen, Heather Willis; Dupuy, Beatrice; Liskin-Gasparro, Judith E.; Lacorte, Manel E

• ISBN13: 9780205954049
• ISBN10: 0205954049
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-01-12
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

At a time when collegiate foreign language education is changing dramatically, A Multiliteracies Framework for Collegiate Foreign Language Teaching helps educators transform both the material taught in their courses and how it is taught.   In response to this shifting institution, this text develops broader and more comprehensivecurricula, evaluates objectives and assessments, and presents the material in a coherent manner for educators.

Author Biography

Kate Paesani is Associate Professor of French and Director of Beginning French Courses at Wayne State University.  Her current research interests include literacy-based foreign language curriculum and instruction, literature across the curriculum, and foreign language teacher development.

 

Heather Willis Allen is Assistant Professor of French and French 101 Course Chair at University of Wisconsin, Madison.  She earned her Ph.D. at Emory University and specializes in L2 motivation, L2 teacher development, and literacy-based approaches to L2 instruction 

 

Beatrice Dupuy is Professor of French and Director of the Basic French Language Program at University of Arizona and  serves as Chair of the SLAT Pedagogy Curriculum Sub-committee and Co-Director of  CERCLL . She holds a Maîtrise (in English literature) from the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), a MS (in TESOL) and Ph.D. (in Education in Language, Literacy and Learning) from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

.  Understanding the Multiliteracies Framework

2.  Reconsidering Goals, Objectives, and Assessment from a Multiliteracies 

3.  Reconceptualizing Grammar and Vocabulary as Meaning-Making Resources

4.  Scaffolding Oral Language Use in the Classroom

5.  Teaching Reading as Constructing Meaning from Texts 

6  Teaching Writing as Designing Meaning through Texts

7  Teaching Video-Mediated Listening as Constructing Meaning from Texts

8.  Teaching New Literacies: Constructing Meaning in Web 2.0 and Beyond