Month: <span>May 2020</span>

Writing – a skill that has become irrelevant for language learners?!

Writing a poem or an analysis of Shakespeare’s Orthello (1603) seem to be very conservative tasksin our digitalized world. You might even think that writing an analysis is no longer part of the competencies students need to have in the 21st century, so why then still teach writing in class? …

Are you a multiliterate person? What role did education play in your development?

By definition, “a multiliterate person has ideally developed functional, multimodal, visual anddigital literacies, is able to critically reflect about and evaluate texts, and displays multilingualand transcultural awareness” (Elsner and Viebrock 28). But does this apply to you? Did yourteachers support your development to become a multiliterate person?To gain these abilities, …

Multiliteracies – Is it Boon or Bane?

Based on trends of sophisticated technology, increasing globalization and digitization the way our society is communicating, teaching and learning has changed dramatically (Zapata & Lacorte, 2018). Especially the extremely limited definition of text which only referred to written pieces of work has altered tremendously (The New London Group, 1996). Nowadays, …