Multiliteracies Framework for Collegiate Foreign Language Teaching, A (Theory and Practice in Second Language Classroom Instructions - a Pearson Education Series) - Softcover

Paesani, Kate; Dupuy, Beatrice; Liskin-Gasparro, Judith; Lacorte, Manel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205954049 ISBN 13: 9780205954049

Publisher: Pearson, 2015

Synopsis

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.

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From the Back Cover

In a time when collegiate foreign language education is changing dramatically, A Multiliteracies Framework for Collegiate Foreign Language Teaching serves as a tool to help educators transform both what is taught in their courses and how it is taught. To meet this end, the authors outline a coherent approach for reconsidering foreign language curriculum, instruction, and assessment that attends to the simultaneous development of language competencies and engagement with authentic texts in a manner accessible for a wide range of readers.

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Language Program Direction: Theory and Practice

A Pearson Education Series

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Series Editors:

Judith Liskin-Gasparro, University of Iowa

Manel Lacorte, University of Maryland

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Intended for current and future foreign language teaching professionals, titles in the Theory and Practice in Second Language Classroom Instruction series examine issues in teaching and learning in language classrooms. The topics selected and the discussions of them draw in principled ways on theory and practice in a range of fields, including second language acquisition, foreign language education, education policy, language policy, linguistics, and other areas of applied linguistics.

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Other volumes in the series:

Technology in the L2 Curriculum, Stayc DuBravac

Language at Play: Digital Games in Second and Foreign Language Teaching and Learning, Julie Sykes and Jonathon Reinhardt

Double Talk, Virginia M. Scott

Teaching Literature in the Languages, Kimberly A. Nance

Language Program Direction: Theory and Practice, Gillian Lord

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0205954049
• ISBN 13: 9780205954049
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320