MULTIMODALITY, MASS MIGRATION AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

• Autor(a) principal: Zacchi, Vanderlei J.
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Lingüística Aplicada (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://www.periodicos.letras.ufmg.br/index.php/rbla/article/view/9877
• topic: multimodality; ELT; migration; the four-resources model

This paper aims at discussing the use of multimodality in English language teaching. The corpus is constituted of activities based on a series of pictures related to the seizure of two trucks carrying US-bound migrants in 2011. Two different groups, comprised of pre-service and in-service English language teachers, took part in the research. The first part of the activity involved loose interpretations of the pictures and a discussion about migration nowadays. Afterwards, other activities were carried out based on Luke and Freebody's four-resources model (1990). Some preliminary analyses lead us to conclude that the reading of images is very much culturally sensitive, and that multimodal ways of meaning making are becoming more powerful in the globalized, digital era, turning into an important means for English teaching nowadays.