FLLITE Webinar 1: Introduction to Foreign Languages and the Literary in the Everyday (FLLITE)
Channel: COERLL
Date: 2016-03-02

Presented by Joanna G. Luks

This webinar introduces FLLITE (http://fllite.org/), an initiative that seeks to develop a transdisciplinary approach to foreign language study. The central concept of this approach - the literary in the everyday - is closely associated with the popular multiliteracies framework. In this project, "the literary" refers to the range of playful, metaphorical, and non-conventional ways of making meaning. 

The goal of this webinar is to help FL teachers understand different types of language play, in order to create engaging classroom activities that exploit the linguistic, literary and ethnographic dimensions of a target-language text. Joanna Luks (Cornell University) and Carl Blyth (COERLL, UT Austin) lead the discussion.

About the FLLITE project

This project, a joint initiative of COERLL and the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language, and Literacy (CERCLL) aims to create an educational community of practice whose teacher-members will generate crowdsourced literacy materials for the L2 classroom. The materials will refine and extend the pedagogical principles of “the literary in the everyday”, in which “the literary” refers to the range of playful, metaphorical, and non-conventional ways of making meaning.