Global books and multiliteracy practices

A road to language teachers' intercultural education

Angela Yicely Castro Garcés

• Editorial: Editorial Universidad del Cauca
• Año: 2026
• Categoría: Pedagogía
• Categoría: Teoría y práctica de la educación
• ISBN del libro electrónico:
  9789587328769

It is vital to develop contextualized proposals that contribute to teachers' training and curriculum development. Aware of the challenges that language teachers face, this textbook contains a proposal to address some conceptual, pedagogical, and didactic gaps. Language teachers are to foster intercultural practices that connect to students' lives. This book is the result of a search for these alternative meaning-making practices, which occur in contextualized pedagogical environments, and connect teachers at different educational levels with the power of global books to make intercultural practices an inseparable companion to language learning processes. This journey unfolds in four stages. First, it is conceptualized through the introduction of multiliteracy practices, global books, and intercultural communication; second, ways in which we can tell our stories are illustrated, a space where students gain subjectivity and embrace otherness (Kramsch 2009), as the first step in developing intercultural understandings; third, global books and multimodal tasks in action are described, as a didactic proposal that addresses multiliteracy practices to help teachers build more scenarios for intercultural communication; fourth, an original text design is presented, through a story of my own authorship. This exemplifies how teachers are designers (The New London Group 1996) of their own practices and influencers in their contexts, which demands social responsibility, adapted learning environments, and a localized curriculum (Kumaravadivelu 2001) that incorporates students' needs, likes, and interests. Finally, pedagogical implications for teaching are suggested, highlighting the importance of teachers inquiring, reflecting on, and transforming the curriculum. Here you will find resources to make informed decisions about essential aspects in the development of language teaching and learning processes.