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Linking Language & Literary-Cultural Content: A Multiliteracies Approach To Advanced Undergraduate Fl Teaching, Heather W. Allen

Heather Willis Allen

This workshop will focus on linking linguistic and literary-cultural content in the advanced undergraduate curriculum through a multiliteracies approach. The morning session (10 a.m. - noon) will provide an overview of what a pedagogy of multiliteracies (Kern, 2002; New London Group, 1996) entails and will define related concepts such as the dimensions and principles of literacy, available designs, and the four curricular components. The afternoon session (1-3 p.m.) will entail hands-on activities wherein workshop participants will consider how multiliteracies concepts might help them meet an instructional challenge faced in an advanced undergraduate foreign language course of their choosing (literature, cultural …