Multiliteracies in the teaching of English for academic purposes: evaluating and (re)designing plurilinguistic and transcultural practices

• Grant number: 12/19809-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: January 21, 2013
• End date: February 20, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Modern Foreign Languages
• Principal Investigator: Claudia Hilsdorf Rocha
• Grantee: Claudia Hilsdorf Rocha
• Host Investigator: Diana Lee Brydon
• Host Institution: Centro de Ensino de Línguas (CEL). Pró-Reitoria de Graduação (PRG). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of Manitoba, Canada

Abstract

Guided by the bakhtinian theories on language, combined with the Pedagogy of Multiliteracies/New Literacies, this study is based on the Interdisciplinary Higher Education Program implemented by the University of Campinas in 2011. The main objective of this work is to validate the didactic material made for the disciplines of English Language, under the scope of the critical and formative approach. (AU)