Multiliteracy Play

Designs and Desires in the Second Language Classroom

Dr Chantelle Warner

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Bloomsbury Academic
04 April 2024

Literacy; Teachers' classroom resources & material; Educational: English language & literacy; Educational: English language: reading & writing skills

This book proposes to expand multiliteracies frameworks in second language education, by recognizing that learning a new language and culture involves both designs and desires, the affects and emotions that feed our responses to particular ways of making meaning.

Over the past two decades, multiliteracies approaches to second language education have brought attention to the diversity of modes, media, language varieties, and discourses involved in what we often shorthand as language learning. A core concept in these discussions is the idea of meaning design, the idea that languages are dynamic, culturally-shaped systems of resources for engaging with and making sense of the world.

Building on these discussions and drawing inspiration and practical examples from a variety of modern language classes in higher education in the USA, the book demonstrates how poetic and playful language can be embedded in multiliteracies pedagogy in ways that foster learners’ and teachers’ awareness of designs, while also making space for desires that are harder to script or plan for. In addition to building a conceptual map around poetics and play for researchers and teachers in language education, the book offers concrete examples of what a multiliteracies approach emphasizing designs and desires can look like in classrooms and curricula.

By: Dr Chantelle Warner
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781350338371
ISBN 10: 1350338370
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 04 April 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chantelle Warner is Professor of German and Second Language Acquisition and Teaching at the University of Arizona, USA, where she also co-directs the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL).

Reviews for Multiliteracy Play: Designs and Desires in the Second Language Classroom

Warner takes us into an exciting journey aimed to ‘de-anaesthetize’ language learning and teaching practices as she navigates through the affective and aesthetic entanglements of multiliteracy frameworks. This journey, expertly mapped against complementary streams of scholarly literature also includes fascinating, practical examples which foreground the power of play in the development of learners’ multiliteracies. -- Adriana Díaz, University of Queensland, Australia