From the Back Cover
This book offers a comprehensive view of multimodal composing and literacies in multilingual contexts for ESL and EFL education in United States of America and globally. It illustrates the current state of multimodal composing and literacies, with an emphasis on English learners' language and literacy development.
The book addresses issues concerning multilinguals' multimodal composing and reflects on what the nexus of multimodality, writing development, and multilingual education entails for future research. It provides research-driven and practice-oriented perspectives of multilinguals' multimodal composing, drawing on empirical data from classroom contexts to elucidate aspects of multimodal composing from a range of theoretical perspectives such as multiliteracies, systemic functional linguistics, and social semiotics.
This book bridges the gap among theory, research, and practice in TESOL and applied linguistics. It serves as a useful resource for scholars and teacher educators in the areas of applied linguistics, second language studies, TESOL, and language education.
Dong-shin Shin is an assistant professor in the literacy and second language studies program of the University of Cincinnati. She has been pursuing research into digital literacies, multimodal composing, academic literacy in content areas, and online language teacher education. Her work has appeared in an edited volume and in numerous journals, including Computers and Composition, Language and Education, Language Learning & Technology, CALICO Journal, Written Communication, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, and others. She co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Second Language Writing on multimodal composing in multilingual learning and teaching contexts in 2020.
Tony Cimasko is the ESL Composition coordinator in the Department of English at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA, teaching courses on L2 writing theory and pedagogy as well as various writing courses. His ongoing research interests include multimodal composition, professional and pedagogical genres, and feedback practices. His work has been published in the Journal of Second Language Writing, Computers and Composition, English for Specific Purposes, Written Communication, and others. He was the co-editor of Foreign Language Writing Instruction: Principles and Practices.
Youngjoo Yi is an associate professor in Second, Foreign, and Multilingual Language Education at the Ohio State University. She is a co-editor of TESOL Journal, guest-edited a special issue on multimodal composing for the Journal of Second Language Writing, and has served on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Second Language Writing, TESOL Quarterly, and Literacy Research and Instruction. As a former English teacher in public middle schools in South Korea, Yi has extensive experience working with English learners, pre-service teachers, and in-service teachers in the USA and Korea. Her research has been published in various journals including Applied Linguistics, TESOL Quarterly, Journal of Second Language Writing, CALICO, Foreign Language Annals, Canadian Modern Language Journal, and others.
