Çoklu okuryazarlık sistemini benimseyen İngilizce öğretmenlerinin başarı ve mücadeleleri

Abstract

The literacy growing beyond the traditional print medium has led to the new understandings, practices and pedagogies. New London Group (1996) called these practices ‘‘multiliteracies’’ which refers to the way of combining local diversity and global connectedness together to teach through multiple forms of communicative technologies. By using technoliteracies and multimodalities, the genuine interaction is boosted for the purpose of raising socially, culturally and historically aware students. Teaching English, henceforth, is gaining importance at an unprecedented speed as it is neither spoken by only a minority nor does it belong to a single community. With respect to this, English teachers must have the necessary skills in terms of teaching cultural and linguistic diversities besides the ability to benefit from and utilize technology adequately. This research article investigates the ways to better understand the experiences of Turkish teachers who adopt multiliteracies framework in their classrooms implementing its goals. Qualitative research design was implemented to get credible results from practices of the participants. First, an open ended-questionnaire (Boche, 2014) was applied to 14 English teachers regarding their use of technology in their classrooms. The teachers were then categorized based on their answers into two groups. Secondly, the teachers who used multiliteracies framework in their classrooms were interviewed in depth about whether they teach cultural and linguistic diversities in their classrooms. The results were analyzed in a detailed way pointing to the successes and struggles with the integration of multiliteracies into the classroom in order to better inform English teachers with their practices