Purpose This study aimed to explore how educational technology influenced a preparatory teacher education program using heteroglossic and global approaches.Design/Approach/Methods The researchers drew upon the theoret...Purpose This study aimed to explore how educational technology influenced a preparatory teacher education program using heteroglossic and global approaches.Design/Approach/Methods The researchers drew upon the theoretical framework of multilingual digital storytelling(MDST),which emphasizes the intercultural awareness attributes of multilingual learners(MLs)and takes a heteroglossic perspective in linguistic pedagogy.This qualitative case study examined the experiences of 11 U.S.-based preservice teachers(PSTs)and 12 MLs elementary students in Korea in the MDST project of a TESOL methods course.Findings The findings showed that PSTs and MLs enhanced their appreciation for educational technology,multilingualism,and intercultural awareness.Although the project aimed to decenter English as a hegemonic language,both PSTs and MLs maintained traditional discourses that privileged English over MLs’home language and targeted literacy correctness in written English only,moving away from the heterogeneous goals of the course project.PSTs and MLs also faced challenges in navigating technological tools,which negatively affected their perception of the project.Originality/Value This study contributes to heteroglossic approaches in preparatory TESOL teacher education programs and improves the understanding of challenges in educational technology use for global multilingual exchanges to promote global citizenship.展开更多
Story Theme has been one of the major concepts in both literary criticism study and stylistic study.The essential characteristics of story theme might be summarized as being subjective and inter-subjective,social and ...Story Theme has been one of the major concepts in both literary criticism study and stylistic study.The essential characteristics of story theme might be summarized as being subjective and inter-subjective,social and generalized,pervasive throughout the whole text but covered,conventional and recoverable,and multi-faceted.This paper mainly discusses two stylistic approaches to story theme study.Literary stylistic approach focuses on the covert side and multi-levelness of story theme;while functional stylistics attaches much importance to the mechanisms that function to realize story theme.展开更多
文摘Purpose This study aimed to explore how educational technology influenced a preparatory teacher education program using heteroglossic and global approaches.Design/Approach/Methods The researchers drew upon the theoretical framework of multilingual digital storytelling(MDST),which emphasizes the intercultural awareness attributes of multilingual learners(MLs)and takes a heteroglossic perspective in linguistic pedagogy.This qualitative case study examined the experiences of 11 U.S.-based preservice teachers(PSTs)and 12 MLs elementary students in Korea in the MDST project of a TESOL methods course.Findings The findings showed that PSTs and MLs enhanced their appreciation for educational technology,multilingualism,and intercultural awareness.Although the project aimed to decenter English as a hegemonic language,both PSTs and MLs maintained traditional discourses that privileged English over MLs’home language and targeted literacy correctness in written English only,moving away from the heterogeneous goals of the course project.PSTs and MLs also faced challenges in navigating technological tools,which negatively affected their perception of the project.Originality/Value This study contributes to heteroglossic approaches in preparatory TESOL teacher education programs and improves the understanding of challenges in educational technology use for global multilingual exchanges to promote global citizenship.
文摘Story Theme has been one of the major concepts in both literary criticism study and stylistic study.The essential characteristics of story theme might be summarized as being subjective and inter-subjective,social and generalized,pervasive throughout the whole text but covered,conventional and recoverable,and multi-faceted.This paper mainly discusses two stylistic approaches to story theme study.Literary stylistic approach focuses on the covert side and multi-levelness of story theme;while functional stylistics attaches much importance to the mechanisms that function to realize story theme.
