Multimodal social-semiotic approaches with English language learners

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USC professor Christian Chun delivers the keynote address to the recent graduates, current students, and faculty at the Facultad de Idiomas, Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, Mexico on August 14, 2012. His talk, entitled “Critical literacies in action: Multimodal approaches with English language learners,” explores how teachers can facilitate more active student engagement in their encounters with multimodal texts in the classroom and everyday life. Teaching students how to deconstruct specific meanings made via social-semiotic resources can help them connect their classroom texts to texts outside the classroom in powerful and meaningful ways. Faculty members Angeles Clemente, Bill Sughrua, and Mario Lopez-Gopar participated in the Q&A.