عنوان

Designing Meaning and Identity in Multiliteracies Pedagogy:

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LA12j31789

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Designing Meaning and Identity in Multiliteracies Pedagogy:

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[Article]

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Blyth, Carl

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From Multilingual Subjects to Authentic Speakers

Text of Note

This essay examines textual engagement of two students during a Multiliteracies lesson on a French poem (Liberté, Paul Eluard) in terms of the multilingual subject (Kramsch, 2009) and the authentic speaker (Van Compernolle, 2016). The case studies are based on personal data: (1) the students' autobiographies written on the first day of the course; (2) the transcript of their annotated comments about the poem; (3) their essays comparing the French poem to an English translation; and (4) their retrospective analysis about the effects of the multiliteracies lesson and course. The essay begins with a review of the Multiliteracies Framework, and the concepts of the multilingual subject and the authentic speaker. Next, the essay turns to a description of the subjective experiences of the two learners. Finally, the essay illustrates how the two students filtered the poem through their own subjectivities to arrive at a new sense of multilingual authenticity.

Date of Publication

2018

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UC Berkeley

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[Article]

275578

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