School is changing. Nowadays there are more possibilities in the classroom concerning the material dealt with in class, for example, texts are not only textbooks or print anymore. There are far more than two possibilities to deal with the material in class like audio, visual and oral material. Over time …
Technology is a central part of everyday life in the 21st century. This is due to the fact that technology develops very quickly and that we depend on it. We use digital media today which did not exist 20 years ago. As technology develops, we have to develop ourselves as …
From Mono- to Multi – 21st century language learning The main goal of education should be to provide every student independent from cultural and economic background with a learning opportunity they can benefit from in their lives. With the technological and societal developments in the 21st century this constitutes a …
What role do multiliteracies play for writing in the 21st century?When I first heard the term “multiliteracy”, I had no idea about its meaning. I simply figured that it wasjust another one of the concepts that sound great in theory but are hardly applicable in an actualclassroom or that are …
Multiliteracies ae not only fundamental for communication but also for languagelearning. Since we live in a globalized world that increasingly becomes digitized, one is requiredto expand his or her communicative as well as technological skills even more. However, literacyhabits and skills that are taught in school do not necessarily reflect …
Recent definitions of competences students should acquire in the EFL classroom include three receptiveskills – reading, listening, viewing – and three productive skills – speaking, writing and mediating(Surkamp/Yearwood 2018; Kirchhoff 2018). Writing, one of the productive skills, plays a huge role in theELF classroom, as it is used by the …
Digitization has changed our lives a lot over the past few decades. Therefore, education has to be adapted. The pedagogy of multiliteracies becomes more important to prepare students for all areas of life in this modern world. Writing in the EFL classroom always played an important role in teaching. Nowadays …
Writing is a part of our daily life. In fact, people write every day: They write a messaged, shopping lists or even work on their upcoming bestseller-book.In these three examples, people use different media to write. One uses hissmartphone, another one his notebook and another one his computer. Throughtechnology, writing …
The “Pedagogy of Multiliteracies” is a new approach of teaching and learning English that was developed by the New London Group in 1996. The two main ideas of this new approach are linguistic diversity and multimodal forms of linguistic expression and representation. The question is in which way writing is …
Reading the newspaper in the morning, chatting with friends in the afternoon, and watching a show in the evening seem to have nothing in common except for being a part of our daily routine. But they share an important quality: They are all a part of multiliteracies. Although we are …