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- Title
Advancing English Language Learning in China through Multimodal Content Area Teaching.
- Authors
North, Cheryl; Shelton, Nancy Rankie
- Abstract
During a ten-day teaching abroad experience in China, eight teachers from the United States implemented an interactive curriculum focusing on disciplinary literacy and authentic tasks. Employing multiliteracies and kidwatching, teachers encouraged Chinese students to compose while focusing primarily on communicating ideas rather than grammatical correctness. This article provides a one-student case study that serves as a representative example of the growth of 50 elementary-level students involved in the experience. Initially, Paul focused on writing correctness in response to prompts; his compositions were short and provided little detail. After we provided multimodal and interactive authentic experiences and encouraged risk-taking, Paul's representative compositions became more detailed and complex. The implications for engaging in this type of teaching experience underscore the benefits of providing students with authentic experiences that are multimodal and interactive while simultaneously encouraging risk-taking. The pedagogical growth that teachers made working with ELL students is also discussed.
- Subjects
TEACHING methods; MULTIMODAL user interfaces; FUNCTION words (Grammar); GRAMMATICALIZATION; ENGLISH composition education; FOREIGN elements in the English language; CHINESE people
- Publication
Journal of Curriculum & Instruction, 2014, Vol 8, Issue 2, p68
- ISSN
1937-3929
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3776/joci.2014.v8n2p68-88