Multiliteracies, Multimodality, and Learning by Design in Second Language Learning and Teacher Education

Agustin Reyes-Torres is an associate professor in the Department of Languages and Literature Education at the Universitat de Valencia, Spain. He has lectured on an extensive range of courses and conducted research fellowships at the University of Virginia, Boston College, Middlebury Language Schools, and Columbia University. His current lines of research focus on the teaching of English and Spanish as additional languages and on teacher education. He is the principal investigator of the research group Lit(T)erart.

Maria Estela Brisk, a native of Argentina, is Professor Emerita of Education, Boston College, USA. She received her PhD in linguistics and education from the University of New Mexico. Her research and teaching interests include writing instruction, genre pedagogy, bilingual education, bilingual language, and literacy acquisition. She is the author of numerous articles and several books. She has received numerous awards, including the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Scholars of Color Distinguished Career, and AERA, Bilingual Research SIG, Lifetime achievement.

Manel Lacorte is a professor of applied Spanish linguistics at the University of Maryland, USA. His research explores pedagogical and sociopolitical issues in the teaching of Spanish as L2 and LH, teacher training, and general issues in applied linguistics. His most recent works as co-author and editor are The Routledge Handbook of Multiliteracies for Spanish Language Teaching: multimodalidad e interdisciplinariedad (2024), Didactica del espanol como 2/L en el siglo XXI (2021), and Introduction to Current Hispanic Linguistics: Theory and Practice (2017).