It is a teaching strategy that mixes storytelling and multimodality. It relies on different ways to present a story by integrating modes, such as: gestures, audio, videos, images, labels, words, textures, or smells to create meaning, in this case, the story. While traditional storytelling mainly requires the usage of hearing and sight senses, multimodal storytelling involves five senses to decode the message of the story and foster multisensory perception ( López-Ladino, 2017 ).
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Toward a Participatory View of Early Literacies in Second Language Contexts: A Reflection on Research From Colombia
Claudia Cañas (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia), Ángela Patricia Ocampo (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia), Ana Karina Rodríguez (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia), Mónica López-Ladino (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia), and Raúl Alberto Mora (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia)
Copyright: © 2018
|Pages: 25
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3955-1.ch015
Abstract
This chapter will introduce a pedagogical framework to engage with literacy practices in early childhood contexts and English language learners (ELLs), based on the commonalities across three research studies carried out in three schools in Medellín, Colombia. In this chapter, we argue that developing strong pedagogical proposals for PreK-5 spaces entails breaking the traditional compartmentalization of children's practices between in or out of school and carefully integrating multimodality and critical literacy in our curricula. Besides the explanation of our pedagogical framework and its link to our current research, the chapter also provides some insights for early childhood teachers working with ELLs around the world to draw from these frameworks and transform their curricula. Although language context may differ, there are developmental commonalities across the board that practitioners and teacher educators can draw from, regardless of whether the children are in English-speaking contexts or not.