Abstract
This paper investigates pedagogical practices to enhance language learning based on a translingual and multimodal framework involving digital tools and peer engagement. More broadly, this study addresses the ways in which, by incorporating digital tools in learning, the digital literacy of students is extended, as well as their language proficiency. In these ways, this study explores human-technology interaction as an integral part of the contemporary communicative repertoire. Students in this context are encouraged to use digital tools effectively to facilitate multilingual communication in digitally mediated, peer language learning contexts and by extension to facilitate multimodal meaning-making capacities in their everyday lives. The paper proposes a teaching and learning design grounded in the efficient integration of innovative digital tools, in a rich setting of peer language learning based on a translingual/multimodal theoretical framework. The findings from this study support the work of second/foreign language learning teachers, educational technology providers, and governments to develop more advanced and real-life digital solutions, policies, and instructional schemes with the goal of preparing students to become independent digital learners while also supporting multilingual and multicultural education.
Presenters
Anastasia-Olga (Olnancy) TziridesAcademic Researcher & Instructional Designer , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
Translanguaging, Digital Tools, Peer Engagement, Multimodality, Transpositions
