Emerging Bilingual Students and Digital Multimodal Composing: A Systematic Review of Research in Secondary Classrooms

• In Event: 67.035 - Multimodality in Bilingual Learners' Practices

Abstract

With the growing linguistic diversity in today's classrooms, recent scholarship has begun to explore how emerging bilingual students can use the full range of their meaning-making repertoires when composing. At the same time, conceptions of writing have expanded to include multiple modes within digital environments. To understand the current landscape of research, this systematic review synthesizes and critically interprets the empirical research on emerging bilingual adolescents' multimodal composing practices in secondary classrooms. We present main themes in empirical findings across 80 studies. At a time when notions of composition are extending in today's schools to include multiple modes and languages, this review offers a comprehensive look at what has been learned thus far and suggests future areas for exploration.

Authors

• Blaine E. Smith, University of Arizona

• Mark Barba Pacheco, University of Florida

• Mariia Khorosheva, University of Arizona