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Multimodal Concept Drawings: Engaging EAL Learners in Brainstorming About Course Terms
Author(s) -
Amicucci Ann N.,
Lassiter Tracy
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
tesol journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.468
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1949-3533
pISSN - 1056-7941
DOI - 10.1002/tesj.161
Subject(s) - brainstorming , construct (python library) , mathematics education , psychology , course (navigation) , rubric , computer science , linguistics , pedagogy , artificial intelligence , philosophy , physics , astronomy , programming language
The authors describe a multimodal concept drawing activity designed to facilitate students' understanding of terms used within an assignment in a first‐year college writing course. In this activity, students write ideas, read definitions, study images, and create multimodal representations of a term in groups of classroom peers. The activity allows students of English as an additional language ( EAL ) with varying levels of English proficiency to engage with course terms and gives multilingual and monolingual students the opportunity to co‐construct knowledge.