More than Words: ESP learners’ perceptions on the implementation of multiliteracies pedagogy

DOI

10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.262How to use a DOI?

Keywords

ESP; implementation; multimodal; multiliteracies pedagogy; technology

Abstract

Acknowledging learners’ growing engagement with emergence technologies and multimodal practices in and outside of school, teachers are required to reconceptualize their pedagogical frameworks to assist learners in the learning and knowledge constructions using digital multimodal devices. In the field of English literacy education, multiliteracies pedagogy was offered as a promising solution to align with these educational demands. From the pedagogical perspectives of multiliteracies, learners are given ample opportunities to acquire multiple sets of literacy skills and knowledge including multimodal literacy, critical literacy and digital literacy. This study explores students’ perceptions on the implementation of multiliteracies pedagogy in an ESP classroom. To this end, a qualitative inquiry was conducted with interview and students’ reflective journals as the main sources of data collection. The research was undertaken in an Informatics Engineering Study Program of a state polytechnic in Banjarmasin involving 30 semesters one students as participants. The interview data and students’ personal narratives were transcribed, coded, and thematically put into categories to achieve the set research objective. The results indicate that the students perceived the integration of multiliteracies pedagogies in their ESP learning positively because they felt the lesson was insightful, engaging, motivating, yet challenging. It can be concluded that the multiliteracies framework can be implemented in ESP contexts as an alternative approach to facilitate students’ learning in this digital and multimodal era.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Siti Kustini
AU  - Didi Suherdi
AU  - Bachrudin Musthafa
PY  - 2019/06
DA  - 2019/06
TI  - More than Words: ESP learners’ perceptions on the implementation of multiliteracies pedagogy
BT  - Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 244
SN  - 2352-5398
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