Identity, Multilingualism and CALL - Responding to New Global Realities - Liudmila Klimanova
The Effects of Multimodal Communication on the Development of New Types of Learner Imagination
Identity, Multilingualism and CALL - Responding to New Global Realities - Liudmila Klimanova
Borbala Gaspar [+]
University of Arizona
Borbala Gaspar is a Lecturer of Italian at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on how (underrepresented) language learners maneuver through social and symbolic power as they gain agency, use imagination and engage in pedagogies such as project-based learning, task-based learning and (multi)literacies.
Description
This qualitative study explores how four foreign language learners of Italian, with the use of a language exchange app called Hellotalk, a means of multimodal communication, construct different forms of imagination that is co-constructed. Findings demonstrate how learners, temporarily and instantaneously imagined being and living in Italy as locals.