Films, Graphic Novels and Visuals Developing Multiliteracies in Foreign Language Education - an Interdisciplinary Approach |
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Editor:
| Elsner, Daniela Helff, Sissy Viebrock, Britta |
Series title: | Fremdsprachendidaktik in Globaler Perspektive Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-3-643-90390-7 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2013 |
Publisher: | Lit Verlag
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $39.95 |
Book Description:
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This book brings together two main disciplines, namely cultural studies and language education - both of which share a long standing interest in films, multimodal text-forms, and visuals. It highlights the increasing impact of visuals and multimodal texts on our perception of the world, our discourse behavior, and how this calls for a change in methodologies and media to be used in foreign language classrooms. The book helps to orientate educators in schools and teachers at...
More DescriptionThis book brings together two main disciplines, namely cultural studies and language education - both of which share a long standing interest in films, multimodal text-forms, and visuals. It highlights the increasing impact of visuals and multimodal texts on our perception of the world, our discourse behavior, and how this calls for a change in methodologies and media to be used in foreign language classrooms. The book helps to orientate educators in schools and teachers at universities within the broad concept of a multiliteracies approach and to contextualize it with regard to teaching and learning English as a foreign language. (Series: Foreign Language Teaching in Global Perspective / Fremdsprachendidaktik in Globaler Perspektive - Vol. 2)