Videos in language classrooms: A social semiotic perspective 

Abstract

The value of using videos in language teaching is well documented. Yet language teachers‘ instructional use of videos remains undertheorized. Given that contemporary language learners are increasingly exposed to videos and that language teachers play a critical role in actualizing the benefits of videos for learners, there is a critical need to understand the nature of video use in language classrooms. In this talk, I will present a social semiotic examination of video use in language teaching and call for developing language teachers’ multimodal awareness and social semiotic competences for more productive use of videos in language and literacy education.  

About the Speaker

Prof. Lianjiang Jiang (George) is Assistant Professor of English Language Education at Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong. His expertise is in multimodality and multiliteracies, with a focus on digital multimodal composing, multimodal assessment/feedback, and digital pedagogies. He is Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator of research grants funded by Research Grants Council in Hong Kong. He is on the editorial board for many journals such as TESOL Quarterly, Journal of Second Language Writing, Assessing Writing, and Linguistics