The importance of promoting multimodal teaching in the foreign language classroom for the acquisition of social competences: practical examples

This article analyses the way in which the subject English Language V of the degree English Studies (English Language and Literature) combines the development of the five skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing and interacting) with the use of multimodal activities and resources in the teaching-learning process so that students increase their motivation and acquire different social competences that will be useful for the labour market such as communication, cooperation, leadership or conflict management. This study highlights the use of multimodal materials (texts, videos, etc.) on social topics to introduce cultural aspects in a language subject and to deepen into the different social competences university students can acquire when they work with them. The study was guided by the following research questions: how can multimodal texts and resources contribute to the development of the five skills in a foreign language classroom? What are the main social competences that students acquire when the teaching-learning process is multimodal? The results of a survey prepared at the end of the academic year 2015-2016 point out the main competences that university students develop thanks to multimodal teaching. For its framework of analysis, the study draws on the main principles of visual grammar (Kress & van Leeuwen, 2006) where students learn how to analyse the main aspects in multimodal texts. The analysis of the different multimodal activities described in the article and the survey reveal that multimodality is useful for developing critical thinking, for bringing cultural aspects into the classroom and for working on social competences. This article will explain the successes and challenges of using multimodal texts with social content so that students can acquire social competences while learning content. Moreover, the implications of using multimodal resources in a language classroom to develop multiliteracies will be observed.

European Citizenship at the Crossroads: Enhancing European Cooperation on Acquisition and Loss of Nationality. CEPS Liberty and Security in Europe No. 73/December 2014

This paper was prepared as a Policy Brief for discussion at the final conference of the project on Involuntary Loss of European Citizenship: Exchanging Knowledge and Identifying Guidelines for Europe, 11-12 December 2014. Co-funded by the European Commission’s DG for Justice, Citizenship and Fundamental Rights, the ILEC project has aimed to establish a framework for debate on international norms on involuntary loss of nationality. For more information visit: www.ilecproject.eu.

L’insegnamento dell’italiano come L2 ai bambini stranieri in Italia: quadro generale e studio di un caso particolare, tra teoria e pratica a confronto

Il presente lavoro vuole sensibilizzare al problema socio-linguistico dell’insegnamento dell’italiano come lingua seconda: si mostra un panorama della situazione, partendo dall’insegnamento in sé, presentando le tecniche ed i metodi non finalizzati al mero insegnamento, ma anche all’accoglienza della famiglia e alla crescita serena del bambino appena arrivato; si passa, poi, alla descrizione del contesto in cui opera la didattica interculturale, un contesto che presenta varie problematicità, dal sofferto arrivo in una terra straniera, alla necessità di adattamento nel gruppo dei pari e nel sistema scolastico, sia dal punto sociale che dal punto di vista linguistico. Il soggetto di questa tesina sono i bambini, perché un mondo che funzioni bene deve saper ruotare attorno a loro. I protagonisti del "caso particolare" di cui si parla nel titolo sono due bambini cinesi arrivati in Italia da poco e dei quali viene raccontata la loro prima esperienza di studio dell'italiano nel loro nuovo Paese.

Jesup-Wayne County Airport land acquisition and runway improvements : environmental impact statement.

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The road to successful ITS software acquisition: software acquisition process reference guide.

Federal Highway Administration, Arlington, Va.

Weapons acquisition policy and procedures : curbing cost growth : report of the Special Panel on Defense Procurement Procedures of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session.

Mode of access: Internet.

Desert tortoise habitat conservation : hearing before the Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session, on H.R. 880, to provide for the acquisition of property in Washington County, Utah, for implementation of a desert tortoise habitat conservation plan, May 10, 2001.

Shipping list no.: 2001-0272-P.

Acquisition reform : DOD's efforts to streamline its acquisition system and reduce personnel : report to the Honorable William Roth, Jr., U.S. Senate /

"B-221205"--p. 1.

Acquisition reform : defense management report savings initiatives : report to the Honorable William V. Roth, Jr., U.S. Senate /

"B-241756"--p.1