From paper to transmedia reading: A didactic proposal for EFL courses at university level
Keywords:
multimodality, transmedia reading, EF, research articles, higher educationAbstract
The courses of English for Specific Purposes in undergraduate programs of the School of Health at the National University of San Luis are oriented around the work around three fundamental points: 1) reading tasks; 2) linguistic contents; and 3) digital reading strategies. These are addressed simultaneously as spirally structured content, favoring a student-centered approach and focused on the development of multiple reading comprehension competencies. In this paper, we present a didactic proposal to approach digital disciplinary texts in English as Foreign Language from a multimodal reading perspective. Following institutional curricula, the focus of these ESP courses is on the development of reading comprehension, for which the research article has been selected as a prototypical genre to address the proposed objectives. Working with online texts implies the development of search, access and text selection skills, as well as hypertext reading skills, that is, the reading of interactive and dynamic texts as digital objects. This promotes a form of reading that is not linear but transmedia and which has potential for the development of cognitive and metacognitive skills for interaction in multidimensionality. As digital ecosystems of foreign language teaching and learning are increasingly more and more complex, so are teachers’ challenges as mediators between multimodal texts and learners, hence the need to promote reflection on new ways of reading.
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