Expanding Literacy Practices Across Multiple Modes and Languages for Multilingu…

Expanding Literacy Practices Across Multiple Modes and Languages for Multilingual StudentsAuthor(s): Luciana C. Oliveira, Blaine E. Smith\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Emerald Publishing Inc, United States\nImprint: Information Age Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781641134811, 978-1641134811\nSynopsis\nLiteracy practices have changed over the past several years to incorporate modes of representation much broader than language alone, in which the textual is also related to the visual, the audio, the spatial, etc. This book focuses on research and instructional practices necessary for integrating an expanded view of literacy in the classroom that offers multiple points of entry for all students. Projects highlighted in this book incorporate multiple modes of communication ([url] visual, aural, textual) through various digital and print-based written formats. In addition, this book particularly focuses on the possibilities that this expanded view of literacy holds for emergent to advanced bilingu.