Conference Highlight
In a globalized 21st century when digitalized media, with tempting instant access round the clock defying time and borders, opens new and exciting ways of being in the world, the content, form and skills presented in the literacy classroom must rise to the challenge. To confront it head-on ELLTAS, together with the Singapore Press Holdings Foundation, is organizing a seminar for teachers. The objectives are to:

• Raise language teachers’ knowledge of different modalities which can be used in the classroom
• Demonstrate the use of multiliteracies to enhance students’ critical thinking skills
• Show teachers how to engage students actively with the world through informed access
• Provide a platform for language teachers to understand the use of multiliteracies
• Empower teachers through raising awareness of the role of semiotics in literacy practices

What will the Seminar cover?
To achieve the stated objectives, the seminar will provide teachers interesting ideas on using the new media to enrich students’ linguistic and socio-cultural knowledge in order to create informed and engaged individuals. Practical applications in the face of challenging technologies will be presented by informed and enthusiastic practitioners. Teachers will get the opportunity to acquire knowledge of new literacies as well as gather valuable tips on the teaching of new multiliteracies in the classroom.

Come join us to find out:

• What new technologies students engage with and what the implications are for the EL teacher
• How you can teach multiliteracies? What skills and strategies might students need as they access new technologies?
• How multiliteracies spawned by new technologies change the face of English Language teaching.

These and many other questions will be answered by leading practitioners at the seminar.

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