EDU 340 - Multiple Literacies and Multilingualism in Education

4 Hour(s)
This course will prepare pre-service teachers to connect their classroom literacy practices to critical theories of multiculturalism and dynamic language use. The course begins with an overview of teaching and learning through multicultural children’s literature, and then shifts to focus on new technologies to support emergent bilingual students’ multilingual learning. Multimodal storytelling-different combinations of writing, speech, images (still and moving), gestures, and spatial arrangements to convey narrative messages-serves as a common thread throughout the course.

Prerequisite(s): Admittance into the Teacher Education Program (TEP).
Pre-or Co-requisite: Concurrent enrollment or completion of EDU 220 .