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Composer du sens à travers les multilittératies et la multimodalité avec des apprenants adolescents et adultes
No full textThe research from this ongoing nationally funded study explores multiliteracies and multimodality in secondary schools and adult education settings including a museum, dance studio, and French language learning centre. There are 30 participants to date in the study. Using constructivist grounded theory methodology, the study draws upon data from face-to-face interviews, observations, document analysis, and original film footage of learning spaces. Social semiotics theory is used in this paper to articulate how a range of modes (visual, linguistic, and gestural) affect teaching and learning. The findings suggest that multiliteracies and multimodality foster creativity and criticality, engage marginalized learners, and provide greater versatility in meaning-making practices.La recherche de cette étude en cours financée à l\u27échelle nationale explore les multilittératies et la multimodalité dans les écoles secondaires et les établissements d\u27éducation des adultes, y compris un musée, un studio de danse et un centre d\u27apprentissage du français. Il y a 30 participants à ce jour dans l\u27étude. À l\u27aide d\u27une méthodologie fondée sur la théorie constructiviste, l\u27étude s\u27appuie sur des données provenant d\u27entretiens en face à face, d\u27observations, d\u27analyses de documents et de séquences filmées originales d\u27espaces d\u27apprentissage. La théorie de la sémiotique sociale est utilisée dans cet article pour expliquer comment une gamme de modes (visuels, linguistiques et gestuels) affectent l\u27enseignement et l\u27apprentissage. Les résultats suggèrent que les multilittératies et la multimodalité favorisent la créativité et la criticité,engagent les apprenants marginalisés et offrent une plus grande polyvalence dans les pratiques de création de sens.
 
Critical Literacy in Canada: A Systematic Review of Curricula and Literature
No full textCritical literacy is a pedagogy that serves to mediate social justice issues and educate for transformative social action. We present a systematic review of how critical literacy has been incorporated in Canada’s provincial/territorial curriculum documents since the late 1990s and integrated in K-12 classrooms in the last decade. Our analysis shows that critical literacy has been addressed with varying degrees of explicitness in curricula, and there is an imbalance of studies on critical literacies among provinces and territories. We discuss implications and encourage stakeholders in education to explicitly embed critical literacy into curricula and promote critical literacy practices in the classroom
ESL Writing Instruction in K-12 Settings: Pedagogical Approaches and Classroom Techniques: Pedagogical Approaches and Classroom Techniques
No full textWriting is an important literacy skill that K-12 students must develop for academic success. For young ESL students, developing writing skills entails both learning English and developing writing as a literacy skill. The need for this dual skill development underlines the challenges of teaching K-12 ESL writing, as teachers must strike a balance between teaching writing as a tool for students’ English language development and literacy skill. This paper reports on findings related to pedagogical approaches and classroom techniques that are prevalent in K-12 ESL writing instruction. Our research is based on a systematic review of 49 studies published between 2010 and 2019. Using content analysis, three pedagogical approaches were identified: (a) approaches centered on teacher perspectives, (b) approaches centered on student perspectives, and (c) approaches centered on emerging research and theories of ESL writing instruction. As well, the analysis yielded four classroom techniques: (a) adopting SFL-oriented and genre-based activities, (b) utilizing ESL-bilingual student writers’ language learning traits, (c) incorporating digital technology, and (d) adapting instructional practices in response to student needs. Critically reflecting on these pedagogical approaches and classroom techniques, the paper discusses the advantages and challenges of implementing them in the classroom. The paper provides a taxonomy of instructional practices that K-12 ESL writing teachers may find useful
Investigating Writing Instruction Practices for Students With Deafness and Hearing Loss
No full textThis case study investigated the writing instruction practices of teachers (grades 6 and 7) of students with deafness and hearing loss. The researchers focused on what classroom practices and strategies teachers employed with students, what teachers’ perspectives were about best-practices for writing instruction, students’ perspectives about writing, and scores from their end-of-unit writing samples. The authors completed qualitative interviews and classroom observations with teachers (N=2) and students (N=6; three per class observed) about writing instruction for students with deafness and hearing loss. The data resulted in four themes: the need for teacher modeling, guided practice, and developing students’ independence; students’ challenges with writing (e.g., from ASL to English prose); the need for more resources (e.g., professional development about writing); and how assessment helps define students’ strengths and weaknesses
Literacy Entanglements and Relationality, Time, Place, Space and Identity
No full textTawaw, or welcome, to this special digital edition of the Language and Literacy journal. This issue is a direct result of the scholarship shared by participants and the development and management of the 18th annual, but first digital, Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada (LLRC/ACCLL) pre-conference by the co-chairs[1] (Jing Jin, Lara Polak, Velvalee Georges, and Yina Liu). The theme, Literacy Entanglements & Relationality: Time, Space, Place, and Identity, aspires to engage researchers in moving beyond entanglement toward evolving relationality through and in the various dimensions of time, space, place, and identity. This theme was intended to create opportunities for researchers to attend to the complexities inherent in broadening and strengthening our understandings of language and literacy entanglement. We anticipated thoughtful conversation about how humans engage with literacy and language at various stages of relations, from superficial acknowledgment to exploring how our messages are transformed by identity, time, space, and place. We wondered how the course of literacy and language research might become more robust by attending to all dimensions, particularly as we move from face-to-face to virtual contexts and digital means
Culturally Relevant Model for Digital Language and Literacy Instruction
No full textOverwhelming instructional technology options leave teachers searching for efficient approaches to foster differentiated instruction. This study examined an iterative, design-based research approach of one teacher’s 10-week digital literacy and language-guided small-group instructional intervention with second-grade unidentified language learners. Students explored 15 language and literacy apps, engaged in personalized reading experiences, and created authentic artifacts reflective of their culture. Findings led to the Culturally Relevant Model for Digital Language and Literacy Instruction, a roadmap for teachers and teacher educators to plan tailored instruction to better meet the needs of identified and unidentified students’ language and literacy skills
Literacy Education in the Post-Truth Era: The Pedagogical Potential of Multiliteracies
No full textCurrent literacy curriculum often reflects an emphasis on traditions of print literacy. This focus is a concern in the post-truth era, as youth engage in diverse meaning-making practices that shape their habits as consumers and producers of information. This in-depth case study investigated the in-class and at-home online behaviors of high school students. We find that even when explicit learning about ‘research’ occurred in class, students are lacking sense-making strategies in their personal online engagements. We also find that curriculum relies on tradition with very little recognition of (multi)literacies as socially constructed and that teachers desire more professional development and guidance about how to engage these literacies more holistically
Rural Working-Class Males in Sweden and Reading: Processes for Re-appropriating Written Culture
No full textThis article explores the intersection of place-based reading practices of rural working-class males and reading practices in school. Life story interviews have been conducted with six men in different ages (age 19-63) living in a rural region in Sweden, focusing on their reflections on their own relation to reading across a life span from the standpoint of the present. The analysis shows that there is a unique combination of factors at work when rural working-class men culturally re-appropriate written culture in ways that are sympathetic, and socially acceptable to a manual working-class culture. These factors include the processes of oralising and manualising and are often related to things learned in specific ancestral heartlands
The Intersections of Student Engagement and Academic Integrity in the Emergency Remote ‘English for Academic Purposes’ Assemblage
No full textThis paper explores the disruption of space, place, and material conditions brought on by the migration of traditional on-site language teaching to emergency remote teaching (ERT) in an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) program designed to bridge international students into higher education. We focus on two aspects of language teaching considered essential to academic success: student engagement and academic integrity. Through the Deleuzian concept of assemblage and post-qualitative inquiry, data vignettes from interviews with 12 teacher participants are presented to examine the contingency and relationality between the affordances of technological tools and the absence of embodied connection brought on by the move to ERT. Data vignettes are linked to map how instructors’ perceptions of student engagement mediated through space, place, and materials, inadvertently shape/are shaped by perceptions of academic dishonesty
Librarian-Faculty Collaboration for Literacy Courses: Promoting Better Learning for Preservice Teachers
No full textThis narrative describes a collaboration between three university literacy faculty and a subject librarian undertaken to embed library instruction across the semester in three required courses--children’s literature, early literacy, and disciplinary literacy--in order to help undergraduate preservice teachers better understand and incorporate children’s literature and high interest literature into their teaching. Concrete, scaffolded, hands-on experiences for preservice teachers with teaching materials helped to build awareness of foundational concepts in literacy instruction. Librarian/faculty collaborations have the potential to improve literacy teacher preparation programs by providing designed opportunities for active, concrete engagement coupled with structured reflection.