Teaching Literacy in the Twenty-First Century Classroom by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030478216
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Context of Graduate Education in Colombia and the MA Literacies Seminar

Graduate education in Colombia is still a work in progress. Although the first MA program in the field appeared in 1991 in Bogotá, most of the MA programs in the country have surfaced since 2000, typically in the major capital cities of the country (Bogotá, Cali, Medellín) with a few scattered across other regions of Colombia. Most programs seem to focus on English Language Teaching, Foreign Language Education, or Applied Linguistics as main topics. In the case of literacy in general, most MA programs in Colombia have focused primarily on the traditional views of literacy-as-reading (Lankshear & Knobel, 2011), with a few venturing into issues of critical literacy (Gutiérrez, 2015) and multimodal literacies (Álvarez Valencia, 2016).

However, the most systematic effort to infuse literacies research into an MA program is that of the MA in Learning and Teaching Processes in Second Languages (ML2; Mora & Golovátina-Mora, 2017) at our university. This program features a graduate seminar unprecedented in Colombia. ML2 seminar, “English Language II: Literacies in Second Languages” (Cañas, 2018; Mora, 2013) features a counter-proposal to the traditional ideas of literacy-as-reading and the focus on learning to help students read and write in a second language. Therefore, and building from Raúl’s own doctoral work (Mora, 2010, 2011), this seminar talks about, Literacies in Second Languages (Mora, 2015, 2017a), which, as Mora (2017a) explained, takes a dual approach toward literacies:On the one hand, literacies in second languages explore the new language ecologies and literacy practices that emerge in different physical and virtual spaces where second-language users dwell and operate. On the other hand, this notion studies how to incorporate and adapt contemporary concepts and frameworks in literacies research, such as critical literacy, multiliteracies, multimodality, or gaming literacies, to name a few, to today’s learning and teaching of languages. (Mora, 2017a; Defining the Term, paragraph 1)

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