Abstract This study addresses the urgent need to develop innovative pedagogies that build upon and enhance digital literacies representational practices of culturally linguistically diverse youth from refugee backgrounds. In Canadian high schools, this population students enter school with varying levels literacy in their first language(s), as well potentially difficult experiences due forced migration. For many, learning English, may become a formidable challenge. A growing corpus case...

This randomized controlled experiment (N = 707) is the first to examine role of video, source and user attributes in credibility assessment online science news videos, impact web-search on this role. We created a YouTube video 12 versions (3 × 2 for source, quality popularity). Each participant was randomly assigned one version asked rate scientific information presented video. found that perceived positively associated with quality, as well users' experience. For those participants who did...

This ethnographic, qualitative case study empirically explores how six youth from refugee backgrounds positioned their identities through design choices in producing reaction videos—a popular YouTube genre—at school settlement context. Through reflexive thematic analysis, we identified three ways which took ownership of they were to be perceived by classmates and teachers, establishing the classroom through: (a) knowledge brokering; (b) navigating gaze; (c) playfully disrupting cohesion. The...

Abstract Israel's Education Ministry invited proposals for the development of a new multilingual policy country's education system. We submitted proposal an ‘engaged language policy’ approach, which helps schools to conceptualize and develop that best fits them ideologically demographically. This study aimed map teachers’ students’ attitudes toward various principles practices in order gather baseline data policy. It consisted mixed method design included 2,157 Jewish Arab teachers students....

Research has shown ways in which digital multimodal composing (DMC), defined as the use of tools to make meaning with multiple modes (e.g. languages, visuals, sounds, gestures), including video production, can empower adolescent newcomers from refugee backgrounds school settings. However, few studies have examined teachers' challenges these pedagogies, particularly involving ­refugee-background learners, some whom may experienced ­significantly interrupted formal education. Comprehensively...

As Canada is increasingly committing to refugee resettlement, there a critical need understand how youth from backgrounds can be supported achieve their full potential in Canadian schools. This multi-year qualitative ethnographic case study explores the affordances of in-school video production for one plurilingual adolescent learner with significantly interrupted formal education and experiences. Youth have been shown utilize digital multimodal composing (DMC), defined as use tools make...

This qualitative case study methodically explores ethical tensions that arose in the Research-based Theatre (RbT) project, Alone Ring (AitR), as a case. We borrowed Elliot Eisner’s set of Arts-Based Research (ABR), exploring extent to which they manifested AitR. Following analysis in-depth interviews with key project members, we identified five areas tension AitR, adapting framework account for dimensions tensions, their generative quality, and temporal social dimensions, Complicating...

Abstract This multi‐year, ethnographic, qualitative case study in English Language Learning classrooms contributes a unique analysis of nine adolescent newcomer students' investment digital multimodal composing (DMC) project as social drama. Using reflexive thematic analysis, it explores the following possibilities afforded by in‐school, dramaturgically structured DMC processes for classroom learning: (1) changing definition situation, (2) supporting impression management to gain and...

This case study explores how two 16-year-old newcomer youth in a Canadian secondary school navigated the digital multimodal composition process through role-play their first video production at school. Employing qualitative, case-study design, shows playfully accentuated collaborative over coercive power relations, as well repositioned and represented imagined identities they played different assigned roles filmmaking process. The implications of these findings are discussed for educators...

Abstract This article examines how eliciting metaphors from multimodal commercials can facilitate a critical interpretation of advertising media, which is ubiquitous in the LL and highly manipulative. Adolescent students, population particularly vulnerable to advertising’s influence, utilized analytic tool metaphor elicitation abstract away vast information that characterizes commercials, simplify this linguistic formulation (e.g., super-pharm circus ). The contrived link between given brand...

Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis (CAQDAS) is becoming increasingly prevalent in the social and health sciences an expected skill for many researchers. CAQDAS much less structured than use of quantitative analysis software. However, actual practices challenges have been insufficiently studied, especially among graduate students. The study addresses this gap through 15 semi-structured interviews with students from different fields a Canadian university. was guided by concepts...

PurposeIn the 'Post-Truth' era, education may empower individuals to evaluate credibility of information on social media (Lazer et al., 2018).Paramount this endeavor is an adequate understanding how users assess credibility.Research assessment science news videos networking sites (SNSs) scant, despite their heavy consumption by users.The purpose current experimental study (N=565) fill gap examining role perceived video quality and popularity, source, user attributes in a YouTube video....