Project 2010-2014: PErCOLATE
A Collaborative Project with the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language, and Literacy (CERCLL)

Description: This project will create, implement, and assess the effectiveness of topic-based modules for preparing the future foreign language professoriate to teach with a multiliteracies approach across the undergraduate curriculum. The modules will include:

• (1) rethinking the teaching of reading: Designing meaning
• (2) Rethinking the teaching of writing: The role of genre
• (3) Orality in the classroom: Scaffolding participation
• (4) Formulating learning goals and objectives from a literacy-oriented approach
• (5) Integrating online interaction
• (6) Designing assessment
• (7) Listening comprehension: The features of highly comprehensible aural texts
• (8) Visual literacy: Helping learners discriminate and interpret visual objects, images, and symbols.

Project Directors: Beatrice Dupuy , CERCLL, University of Arizona and Heather Allen , University of Miami
Research Associate: Karen E. Johnson, The Pennsylvania State University

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