Discovering beauty beyond appearance: meaning making in the english language through multiliteracies pedagogy

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Pedagogy of Multiliteracies, Multimodality, Critical Literacy, English Language Teaching, English Literature

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This paper aims to report the experience of planning and conducting a teaching project at a Full-Time Public Education School in João Pessoa. This experience took place during the authors' participation in the Pibid Letras Inglês program at UFPB, where they developed the project "Discovering Beauty Beyond Appearance: An Approach to The Picture of Dorian Gray." This initiative aimed to explore notions related to the Pedagogy of Multiliteracies (Cazden et al., 1996; Cope; Kalantzis, 2015; Martins, 2021) in the context of English language teaching with 2nd-year high school students. Therefore, this paper focuses on the development of the teaching project’s final product, unveiling the processes of meaning-making by students in English language classes. Thus, we seek to contribute to critical learning, as well as to explore how multimodal resources stimulate language reading and meaningful learning (Jewitt; Kress, 2010). The results foster a discussion about the "gaps" for exercising Critical Literacy (Duboc, 2014).

Author Biographies

Wilfrid Albuquerque , Federal University of Paraíba

Wilfrid Albuquerque is an undergraduate student in the English Language Teaching program at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB). He is a member of the LEADING study group (Studies in Literacy, Teaching, and Teaching Action in English - CNPq/UFPB). Currently, he is a scholarship holder in the Institutional Program for Initiation to Teaching Scholarship (PIBID/UFPB). 

Francieli Freudenberger, Federal University of Paraíba

Francieli Freudenberger holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from UFPB and is a professor in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at this University, where she participates in coordinating the Studies in Literacy, Teaching, and Teaching Action Group - LEADING (UFPB/CNPq). She has been involved in teaching initiation programs, such as Pibid - Institutional Program for Teaching Initiation Scholarships - and Prolicen - Incentive Program for Teaching Degrees, as well as university extension projects, such as EFOPLI - Spaces for the Training of English Language Teachers. 

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2024-04-21

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Albuquerque de Souza, W., & Freudenberger Martiny, F. (2024). Discovering beauty beyond appearance: meaning making in the english language through multiliteracies pedagogy. DISCURSIVITIES, 14(1), e–1412407. Retrieved from https://revista.uepb.edu.br/REDISC/article/view/2975

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