Abstract
Our interactions with Modern Languages and Cultures have become increasingly digital mediated over the last few years and this has led to various responses in different sectors according to research focus (linguistics, computer-mediated language learning or cultural studies, to name just three). This section aims to bring some of the debates these mediations provoke into closer dialogue and to expose common interests (and disparities), between the way each sector responds critically to digital disruptions, limitations, and opportunities.
In so doing, we contemplate digital workflows, teaching methods and research practices from school-level education to higher education level, and stretching from foundational digital competences to computationally advanced project-based learning in the digital humanities. The section explores: general challenges for the wider Modern Languages community in acquiring digital competences in resource-limited contexts; the use of Virtual Exchange environments to develop digital multimodal and semiotic competences in language learning; the impact ‘digital’ has on the shape and dynamics of Modern Languages as a field; and the experimental, multilingual and dialogic possibilities of the digital humanities ‘laboratory’ in cultivating linguistic-cultural proficiency.
Curated and introduced by Paul Spence and Renata Brandao.
In so doing, we contemplate digital workflows, teaching methods and research practices from school-level education to higher education level, and stretching from foundational digital competences to computationally advanced project-based learning in the digital humanities. The section explores: general challenges for the wider Modern Languages community in acquiring digital competences in resource-limited contexts; the use of Virtual Exchange environments to develop digital multimodal and semiotic competences in language learning; the impact ‘digital’ has on the shape and dynamics of Modern Languages as a field; and the experimental, multilingual and dialogic possibilities of the digital humanities ‘laboratory’ in cultivating linguistic-cultural proficiency.
Curated and introduced by Paul Spence and Renata Brandao.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Language Debates: Theory and Reality in Language Learning, Teaching and Research (Language Acts and Worldmaking |
| Editors | Ana de Medeiros, Debra Kelly |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | John Murray |
| Pages | 237-256 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781529372250 |
| Publication status | Published - 2021 |