Book chapter · 2024 · Critical digital literacies

Literacidades digitales

Boris Vazquez-Calvo, Germán Canale

The Routledge Handbook of Multiliteracies for Spanish Language Teaching: multimodalidad e interdisciplinariedad · 2024

A conceptual chapter on digital literacies for Spanish as a second language, bringing sociocultural, multilingual and multimodal perspectives into language education.

Approach

A review of concepts, epistemological and methodological approaches, with illustrative studies and didactic suggestions.

Main ideas

  • Digital literacy is approached as a dynamic, situated set of discourse practices.
  • Connections between practices inside and outside classrooms inform ways of approaching digitally mediated communication in L2 education.

A conceptual and pedagogical chapter, with examples to consider in relation to local teaching contexts.

How this work can be used

Use this chapter to frame research on digital literacies or to develop teaching that attends to audience, context, multilingual resources and multimodal meaning.

Cite this chapter

Vazquez-Calvo, B. & Canale, G. (2024). Literacidades digitales. In E. Gironzetti & M. Lacorte (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Multiliteracies for Spanish Language Teaching: multimodalidad e interdisciplinariedad (pp. 299–313). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003190615-24

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