Movable Type Translingual Composition: "Being Multilingual Is Like Having Many Friends"

Transnational youth use digital media to affiliate with diverse cultural and linguistic practices, as demonstrated through the use of multiple languages and hybrid linguistic codes, media genres and multimodal expressions in the youths' online communication and writing (Black, 2009; Domingo, 20...

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Main Authors Martin, Kit, Lam, Eva
Format Report
LanguageEnglish
Published 2020
Subjects
Audiences
Code Switching (Language)
College Students
Computer Mediated Communication
Computer Software
Creative Writing
Grammar
Information Technology
Intercultural Communication
Language Usage
Learning Activities
Multilingualism
Multiple Literacies
Native Language
Open Source Technology
Second Language Learning
Teaching Methods
Workshops
Writing (Composition)
Writing Instruction
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Summary:Transnational youth use digital media to affiliate with diverse cultural and linguistic practices, as demonstrated through the use of multiple languages and hybrid linguistic codes, media genres and multimodal expressions in the youths' online communication and writing (Black, 2009; Domingo, 2014; Kim, 2016). This study introduces a learning activity, the multimodal writing design "Movable Type." With "Movable Type," we investigate how multi-lingual college students use different languages in their composition in the context of 7-week creative writing curriculum, to construct multilingual narratives. The workshop was a constructionist learning activity. We find youth engage with the tool to communicate across multiple audiences.