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From http://carla.umn.edu/literacies/index.html

The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition's Foreign Language Literacies project gives teachers tools, resources, and experiences that help them effectively apply literacies pedagogy and engage students with authentic texts in secondary and post-secondary classrooms. The project includes a research component that looks at teacher understandings and applications of literacies pedagogy. Results from this research inform creation of professional development resources teachers can use in their own classrooms.

The new Foreign Language Literacies website includes a bibliography with research and scholarly articles, chapters, and books organized around four main subject areas: theoretical and pedagogical perspectives; curricular and pedagogical applications of literacies-based approaches; student learning outcomes, perceptions, and experiences in literacies-oriented classrooms; and teacher understandings and applications of literacies pedagogy. The bibliography is available at http://carla.umn.edu/literacies/bibliography.html

Here is a video recording of a recent presentation given by Kate Paesani and Mandy Menke on their study that documents the process of implementing a tool for analyzing literacies-based teaching materials: http://carla.umn.edu/presentations/recordings.html#paesani_menke

The Foreign Language Literacies website is available at http://carla.umn.edu/literacies/index.html