A Literacy Memoir: Multilingualism and Modality
Note: This literacy memoir is coupled with Ligia Mihut’s blog post as part of our “Beyond a Single…
Browsing: multilingualism
The Lure of Translanguaging
Translingual activism for a language always in translation such as English presents many challenges but also many possibilities…
Chinese Zombies in the American English Composition Classroom
After I graduated with a BA in English in 2005, I decided to take one year “off” to…
Checking in with Blog Carnival #5: Beyond a “Single Language/Single Modality” Approach to Writing
This year, our blog carnival seeks to highlight the affordances of connecting multilingual and multimodal approaches to writing.…
Globally Distributed Knotworks: Towards a Multilingual and Multimodal Framework
Within composition there have been calls to locate the teaching of writing in relation to other languages and…
Creating Digital Spaces for Linguistic Diversity
I’ve just returned to North Carolina from a trip to Montreal where I was greeted everywhere with the…
Multimodality for Multilinguals: It’s Not Only Multimodal Composing
This semester I’m teaching one section of first-year composition for multilingual students. The first-year composition curriculum at Miami…
Born
Title: Born Type: Digital magazine Publication Launch: 1996 Publication Retirement: 2011 Link: http://archive.bornmagazine.org/ I was introduced to this…
First-year Composition Students Uptake Multilingual Writing: How to be a Boundary Crosser if you are a “Monolingual” Writer
What would do you if you had to read a text with lots of unknown words? Student A:…
Revisit Last Night’s #DRCchat
(As of 2/2/2018 this storify has been archived and shared below) Last night's Twitter #DRCchat turned out out…
We’re taking our blog carnival to Twitter! Join us!
Day: Monday, October 27th Time: 7:30 to 8:30 ET Moderators: DRC Fellows Heather Lang (as @SweetlandDRC) & Lindsey…
Branching out and Staying in: Inviting a Transmedia Approach
In 2011, I was very excited to read Bruce Horner, Min-Zhan Lu, Jacqueline Jones Royster, and John Trimbur’s…
Translanguaging Literacies and Community Ethnographies
The photo above exemplifies how bilinguals communicate with hybrid sense-making strategies. I collected the image during my fieldwork…
Writing at the Crossroads: Multilingual Research and Multimodal Formats in a Study Abroad Classroom
My post will reflect on multimodal composition outside of a FYC classroom, in a senior-level study abroad course sequence…
Thinking about Multi (or Trans-) Modality, and Trans (or Multi-) Linguality: Power, Ideology, and Emerging Questions
A potential synergy arises from the confluence of multi- (or trans-) modality, and trans- (or multi-) linguality. These…