Alexandra Krasova, Ph.D. Candidate in Composition and Applied Linguistics, DRC Fellows 2023-24 This study focused on multilingual ESL students living in different countries and having different proficiency in English. This research describes arts-based practices of multilingual students through digital storytelling and examines their influence on global understanding and multicultural communication. Despite academic popularity of art-based approaches in some fields, they received limited attention in education. Moreover, there is some resistance to adopt them as teaching recourses, namely the concern of incorporating these practices into curriculum and assessment. With this project I argue that educators should overcome this resistance and envisage…
Author: Sarah Akomoh
Second Year graduate student in Literature at The University of South Florida. My research interest is centered around the rhetoric of voicer, trauma and visibility for Black women in Africa and the diaspora.
“Digital Narratives” Project for Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Fellowship 2022-2023, University of Michigan English performs a dominant (Daniel & Zybina, 2019) and colonial (Alim & Paris, 2017) force in multilingual classrooms across the world. Given English’s global supremacy, I offer a transformative pedagogy and decolonial approach across contexts in language classrooms that promote the use of all students’ repertoires beyond monolingual prescriptive. To support transformative pedagogy, decolonial approach, and multilingualism in language classrooms, I created this project to encourage students to draw upon their full linguistic repertoires and assets. My research project “Digital Narratives” examines digital stories created by multilingual writers.…
My earliest memory of interacting with digital technology goes back to 2002 when I started attending IT classes at school. It was a fascinating experience. When I received my first computer two years later, I already knew how to use some of the programs, type text, create presentations. The technology was developing rapidly, and I, being a non-digital native, was behind. However, everything changed when I started my Ph.D., because we used a lot of digital tools in the classroom. I started using them for my online classes as well. Now I call myself digital literate. As a DRC fellow,…