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This two-part series of workshops on multiliteracies pedagogy for postsecondary language educators is jointly sponsored by the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The workshops are led by Kate Paesani, University of Minnesota, and Heather Willis Allen, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Participants are encouraged to attend both workshops but are not required to do so.
Workshop 1: A Multiliteracies Approach to Target Language Texts: Analyzing and Creating Interpretive Lessons
Friday, March 5, 2:00 – 3:30 pm central
Description: This workshop builds on the conceptual foundation established in Rethinking Interpretative Communication: A Multiliteracies Approach by allowing participants to apply their knowledge of multiliteracies pedagogy. Participants will work with existing text-based instructional materials to evaluate their effectiveness and to adapt them following multiliteracies principles. To facilitate this work, participants should identify one or two reading, listening, or viewing activities from their current textbook (or a text-based activity of their own creation) that they wish to refresh and retool during the workshop.
Objectives: Participants will be able to define and discuss their understandings of multiliteracies concepts; evaluate existing text-based instructional materials in relation to multiliteracies pedagogy; and adapt existing text-based instructional materials to reflect multiliteracies pedagogy.
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Workshop 2: Rethinking Interpretative Communication: A Multiliteracies Approach
Friday, February 19, 2:00 -3:30 pm central
Description: This workshop will provide a conceptual foundation for teaching target language texts and interpretive communication using multiliteracies pedagogy. Taking communicative language teaching as a point of departure, participants will reflect on their understandings of concepts such as communicative competence, input, comprehension, and language functions and situate these understandings in relation to multiliteracies concepts. This work will provide a foundation for designing lessons that encourage both the comprehension and interpretation of target language texts. It will also prepare participants for part 2 of this workshop series, “A Multiliteracies Approach to Target Language Texts: Analyzing and Creating Interpretive Lessons.”
Objectives: Participants will be able to identify their approach to teaching target language texts and interpretive communication; discuss and compare concepts from communicative language teaching and multiliteracies pedagogy; and construct a multiliteracies-oriented definition of interpretive communication.
Sponsors: Language Institute and Second Language Acquisition Doctoral Program, with funding through the Anonymous Fund, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Language Center, University of Minnesota
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