This book offers a comprehensive view of multimodal composing and
literacies in multilingual contexts for ESL and EFL education in United
States of America and globally. It illustrates the current state of
multimodal composing and literacies, with an emphasis on English
learners' language and literacy development.
The book addresses issues concerning multilinguals' multimodal composing
and reflects on what the nexus of multimodality, writing development,
and multilingual education entails for future research. It provides
research-driven and practice-oriented perspectives of multilinguals'
multimodal composing, drawing on empirical data from classroom contexts
to elucidate aspects of multimodal composing from a range of theoretical
perspectives such as multiliteracies, systemic functional linguistics,
and social semiotics.
This book bridges the gap among theory, research, and practice in TESOL
and applied linguistics. It serves as a useful resource for scholars and
teacher educators in the areas of applied linguistics, second language
studies, TESOL, and language education.