Multimodal Composing in K-16 ESL and EFL Education: Multilingual Perspectives

Prologue.- Part I Multilingual writers' engagement with multimodal composing.- 1 Multimodal and multilingual co-authoring in high school social studies ESL classrooms.- 2 Writing as multi-semiotic inquiry: Multilingual high school learners engage in immigration and globalization problem solving.- 3 "Composing multimodally"" Connecting college L2/multilingual writers in freshman composition courses in a US university and their influence on evnisioned sense of future selves.- Part II Affordances and constraints of multimodal composing in multilingual contexts.- 4 Multimodal composing with multilingual elementary students in integrated content areas.- 5 "It made me think of things in a different way" Multilingual adolescents' perspectives on multimodal prokects in the English langauge arts classroom.- 6 What do multilingual college students say about their experiences with multimodal symbolic systems?.- Part III Theoretical and methodological issues in researching multimodal composing.- 7 Multiliteracies and social semiotics perspectives in L2 multimodal compositions: Theoretical and practical considerations.- 8 Multimodality in L2 writing: Intellectual roots and contemporary developments.- 9 Methodological approaches to examining multimodal composing.- Part IV Pedagogical issues concerning employing multimodal composition pedagogy.- 10 Designing a better place: Multimodal multilingual composition.- 11 Development of literacies through multimodal writing in L2 classrooms: Challenges and prospects for teachers.- 12 Exploring the pre-service EFL teachers' learning of reflective writing from a multimodal composing perspective: Learning transfer of genre features and pedagogic knowledge.- 13 Blogging and talking: Multimodal compositing activities support text structure development by EFL university students.- Epilogue.