Integrating the Digital Humanities into the Second Language Classroom

A Practical Guide

Integrating the Digital Humanities into the Second Language Classroom
Melinda A Cro
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2 Mar 2020 US
9781626167766
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Second language classrooms provide unique opportunities for intellectual growth, cognitive skill development, and cultural exchange. In Integrating the Digital Humanities into the Second Language Classroom, Melinda A. Cro makes the case for bringing the digital humanities (DH) into that sphere, strengthening students' language skills while furthering their critical thinking and research abilities. Written as a practical guide for language instructors new to DH, Cro addresses practitioners' most common questions: What are the benefits of DH for language learning in particular? How can DH be used at different levels of instruction? What types of DH tools are out there, and what kinds of knowledge must students and teachers bring to the table? Integrating the Digital Humanities into the Second Language Classroom is filled with real-world examples and concrete recommendations, making it an ideal introduction for language teachers intrigued by the potential of DH.

Cro explores the overlaps between the fields of digital humanities and modern languages, highlighting how the pedagogical edge of DH methodology, with its emphasis on project-based, participatory, and collaborative learning-by-making, can complement second-language instruction, promote multimodal literacy, and provide students with a range of transferable digital, interpretive and linguistic skills.

--Clarissa Clo, professor of Italian, Department of European Studies, San Diego State University

In this Practical Guide, Melinda A. Cro explores the overlaps between the fields of Digital Humanities and Modern Languages, highlighting how the pedagogical edge of DH methodology, with its emphasis on project-based, participatory and collaborative learning-by-making, can complement second-language instruction, promote multimodal literacy and provide students with a range of transferable digital, interpretive and linguistic skills.

--Clarissa Clo, Professor of Italian, Department of European Studies, San Diego State University

The brilliance of this slim volume lies in the way in which Dr. Cro concisely maps out the points of similarity between digital humanities approaches and communicative, task-based L2 learning, so that a digital humanities approach emerges as not merely a natural fit with the L2 classroom, but a logical enhancement of current approaches.

--Necia Chronister, Kansas State University

This book contains useful advice and practical resources for implementing low-cost and low-barrier-to-entry projects in the language classroom. The readability of the work and its practical applicability, combined with the reflection questions and activities suggested at the end of each chapter, would make this an ideal resource for pedagogy classes as well as personal use.

--Kathleen Antonioli, associate professor of French, Department of Modern Languages, Kansas State University
Melinda A. Cro is an associate professor of French at Kansas State University, where she has served as French language program coordinator and as Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Modern Languages. She is the founder of the Early Modern Humanities Lab, an initiative for working one-on-one with researchers on projects that combine digital humanities, pedagogy, and early modern literature.
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ISBN-13: 9781626167766
Published: 2 Mar 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: Georgetown University Press
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Weight: 136g
Pages: 90

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