Tala Michelle Karkar-Esperat

Teaching Multilingual Students Through Culture and Language

An Elementary Teacher's Guide to Self-Discovery Using Semiotics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a professional development guide designed for elementary school teachers to help them center multilingual and bilingual studentsâ language and culture in the classroom by recognizing and harnessing their studentsâ assets through semiotics (the study of signs using multiliteracies) and self-discovery.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9781041066927
• ISBN-10: 1041066929
• Artikelnr.: 75457164

Autorenporträt

Tala Michelle Karkar-Esperat is Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education and Technology at Eastern New Mexico University. Her research is focused on preservice teachers' literacies, online literacies, coaching of teachers, and pedagogical literacy practices through multiliteracies, new literacies, and semiotics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. A New Day for Education: A Guide Toward Self
Discovery 2. Self
Discovery Through the Linguistic Mode: Idioms, Identity Text, and Storytelling 3. Self
Discovery Through the Visual Mode: Examining Customs and Traditions and Visual Knowledge 4. Self
Discovery Through the Audio Mode: Examining Language Using Music Genres 5. Self
Discovery Through the Spatial Mode: Connecting Local to Global 6. Self
Discovery Through the Gestural Mode: Examining Gestures in the Classroom 7. Self
Discovery Through the Synesthesia Mode: Examining Culture Through Local Historical Figures