Building on Assets and Strengthening Roots: A Netnography of Development, Implementation, and Effects of a Cross-Border, Online Biliteracy Curriculum

This innovative investigation into cross-border, online biliteracy curriculum is a timely response to Canada’s two major future challenge areas, namely, how to leverage emerging technologies to benefit Canadians and what knowledge to produce for Canada to thrive in an interconnected, evolving global landscape. Led by experienced researchers in the areas of cross-border literacy curriculum and online literacy learning programs, the current project seeks to develop and implement a cross-border, online biliteracy curriculum to build on the respective linguistic and cultural strengths of Heritage Language Learners in Canada and Chinese Mandarin Language Learners in China and create a social networking space for them to navigate multiple linguistic and cultural worlds. The project is also designed to investigate the effects of this asset-oriented biliteracy curriculum upon learners’ literacy and identity options (i.e., possibilities for learners to acquire receptive and expressive literacy skills and form notions of self in and through these literacies).

Faculty Supervisor:

Zheng Zhang

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Partner:

Beijing Normal University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Western University

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