WERA Pre-conference Workshop: Multilingual Literacies as Resources in Educational Biographies

Workshop Leads:

Ingrid Gogolin, Senior Professor at Universität Hamburg

Irina Usanova, University of Hamburg

Description:

The workshop addresses the complex development of multiliteracies in linguistically diverse contexts. The presented research is based on the data on reading and writing in multilingual adolescents in analogous and digital modes gathered in a German longitudinal study on language development in multilingual students (MEZ). The workshop addresses the interrelation of literacies in multilingual repertoires: their role as resources in the educational biographies of immigrant students. In discussing the influence of multiliteracies on learning, innovative assessments of multilingual skills are presented, and adaptability of these assessments to different national contexts is discussed.

With this workshop, participants will

• gain an overview of the resources-oriented perspective on multiliteracies in multilingual students;
• discuss approaches to the assessment of multiliteracies in multilingual repertoires.