
Digital L2 Writing Literacies
Directions for Classroom Practice
Equinox Publishing Ltd
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 15. September 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
300 pages
978-1-78179-693-1 (ISBN)
Description
Digital L2 Writing Literacies offers an up-to-date overview of digital writing in L2 contexts and illustrates how digital media have expanded the options for research and teaching language and writing in particular. Written by two of the leading educators and researchers in the field, this volume offers a comprehensive review of the literature along with cutting-edge theoretical perspectives on multilingual and multimodal composing for those conducting research and practical ideas for curriculum and instruction for those working with multilingual students in second language, foreign language, and heritage language classrooms. The main chapters provide the necessary background of definitions, key research findings and descriptions of practices, along with detailed sample learning projects and ideas for reflection and discussion that those involved in L2 writing should find interesting and relevant. The authors begin with a wide-ranging review of digital tools and environments and how these are influencing communicative practices and written genres. They address how those tools and environments encourage interactive and collaborative writing in online environments, present innovative multimodal forms of composing such as digital storytelling, and provide new avenues and modes for expression of multilingual writer voice and identity. They further discuss how feedback, revision, and assessment practices for L2 writing must change to reflect the changing processes and products of digital composing. At the end of the book, the authors provide a model of theoretical and pedagogical factors that impact digital L2 writing and include a future-oriented discussion of L2 writing and digital practices in the 21st century, making for a stimulating set of implications and take-away messages to ponder. As the most comprehensive and current state-of-the-art treatment of its subject matter, Digital L2 Writing Literacies: Directions for Classroom Practice is simply the must-read book for all those with an interest in L2 digital writing and language teaching.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78179-693-1 (9781781796931)
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Persons
Ana Oskoz is Professor of Spanish at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), USA. Idoia Elola is Associate Professor of Spanish and Applied Linguistics at Texas Tech University, USA.
Content
Series Editor's Preface Introduction Chapter 1 Digital Literacies: Definitions, Theoretical and Pedagogical Frameworks Chapter 2 Transforming L2 Writing: New Writing Tools, New Genres, New Ways of Writing Chapter 3 Collaborative Writing in the L2 Classroom: Making the Most of Digital Social Tools Chapter 4 Developing L2 and Multilingual Students' Identities as Writers: Acquiring a Voice Chapter 5 Becoming Digitally Literate: Rethinking Feedback and Revision Chapter 6 Assessing Digital L2 Writing: Challenges with New Tools and New Genres Chapter 7 Coming to Terms with 21st Century L2 Writing and Digital Literacy Concluding Remarks