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Digital Stories in a Language Classroom: Engaging Students through a Meaningful Multimodal Task
by Polina Vinogradova
July 1, 2014

Language educators have been in search of new technologies and pedagogical approaches that can assist us in bringing engaging student-centered practices into the language curriculum. Digital stories have the potential to meet this demand. In addition, language educators have been extensively discussing and advocating for the urgent need to introduce multiliteracies and multimodal materials to the process of learning second, foreign, and heritage languages. These discussions are triggered by the increasing sociocultural diversity of our language learners, our recognition of the value of multilingual and translingual practices, and deepened understanding of multimodal communication.

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