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“From the Koran and Family Guy ”: Expressions of Identity in English Learners’ Digital Podcasts
Author(s) -
Wilson Amy Alexandra,
Chavez Kathryn,
Anders Patricia L.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of adolescent and adult literacy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.73
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1936-2706
pISSN - 1081-3004
DOI - 10.1002/jaal.00046
Subject(s) - mathematics education , transcription (linguistics) , class (philosophy) , reading (process) , unit (ring theory) , identity (music) , pedagogy , multimodality , psychology , computer science , linguistics , world wide web , philosophy , physics , artificial intelligence , acoustics
Framed in theories of social semiotics, this teacher research describes the implementation of a five‐month unit on student identity in an eighth‐grade reading/writing class for English learners. After learning about principles for multimodal design, students made their own digital podcasts in response to unit questions such as “Who am I?” and “Where do I come from?” The authors analyzed six students’ podcasts using a multimodal transcription chart, comparing these podcasts to students’ assignments throughout the unit and to student interviews about the podcasts. The authors’ analysis suggests that the podcasts promoted language development and enabled the students to simultaneously use multiple cultural and communicative resources in synergistic ways to express hybrid identities.