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Examples: familiar storylines, narrative structures, modes of storytelling

Las narrativas transmedia a partir de un cuento de hadas

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Lesson Title: Las narrativas transmedia a partir de un cuento de hadas [ Transmedia Storytelling with a Fairytale ]
Lesson Author: Maybel Mesa Morales
Instructional Language: Spanish
Level of Activities: College / 1. year, 2. year / Intermediate, Advanced
Text Title: Transmedia Storytelling
Text Language: Spanish
FLLITE Form: Culture Play, Genre Play, Narrative Play, Pragmatic Play, Symbolic Play, Visual Play

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Text

Text Title: Transmedia Storytelling
Text Language: Spanish
Text Author: Elpublicista Revista
Genre: Social Media
Topic: Media and Technology

Lesson

Lesson Title: Las narrativas transmedia a partir de un cuento de hadas [ Transmedia Storytelling with a Fairytale ]
Instructional Language: Spanish
Lesson Author: Maybel Mesa Morales
Level of Activities: College / 1. year, 2. year / Intermediate, Advanced
Pedagogical Practices: Writing / Speaking / Listening / Viewing
Grammar Focus: Pretérito/Imperfecto
Main Objectives:

Learners will be able to recount and expand a story or story experience across multiple platforms through transmedia practices using current digital technologies.

Texts, Genres & Practices
  • Analyzing and interpreting an infographic to elaborate a definition of transmedia storytelling.
  • Analyzing, understanding, and explaining a video about transmedia storytelling.
  • Expanding and writing a new end for the (comic) through personal creative intervention
Cultural Knowledge & Perspectives
  • Telling stories across multiple media allows content to form a larger, cohesive, and rewarding experience.
  • Telling stories across multiple media increases the author’s and reader’s awareness of the characteristics of each medium and genre, promoting digital literacy.
  • Transmedia practices may expand the potential reach of storytelling by creating different adaptations for different audience segments.
Language Use & Language Play
  • Preterite and Imperfect
  • Vocabulary about technology and social media
FLLITE Form: Culture Play, Genre Play, Narrative Play, Pragmatic Play, Symbolic Play, Visual Play

Un journal intime

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Lesson Title: Un journal intime [ A Personal Journal ]
Lesson Author: Jim Law
Instructional Language: French / English
Level of Activities: College / 1. year / Novice
Text Title: Journal d’une étudiante
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: Culture Play, Narrative Play, Perspective Play, Word Play

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Text Title: Journal d’une étudiante
Text Language: French
Text Author: Anonymous
Genre: Personal Blogs and Journals
Topic: Family, Friendships, and Relationships / School and University

Lesson

Lesson Title: Un journal intime [ A Personal Journal ]
Instructional Language: French / English
Lesson Author: Jim Law
Level of Activities: College / 1. year / Novice
Pedagogical Practices: Reading / Writing / Cultural Understanding
Grammar Focus: Past tense
Main Objectives:

Students read excerpts from the anonymous diary of a Parisian high school student. They will be able to analyse the effect of anonymity and privacy on content, perspective, and grammatical form in the personal journal genre. They will also identify patterns in the structuring of quotidian narratives. Students will then be able to employ these narrative structures in their own journaling and reflect on their experience playing with this genre in the target language.

Texts, Genres & Practices
  • Reading journal entries and recognizing layers of meaning
  • Reflecting on the effect of audience design and privacy on genre
  • Writing journal entries reflecting personal values and experiences
Cultural Knowledge & Perspectives
  • Inferring authorial identity and social relationships from textual evidence
  • Connecting texts to cultural systems and practices
  • Reflecting on the experience of private writing from a bilingual perspective
Language Use & Language Play
  • Identifying nonstandard language
  • Analyzing the use of tense in narrative structure
  • Examining the use of codeswitching and wordplay in informal registers
  • Manipulating tense to structure narrative in writing
  • Exploring nonstandard forms through private writing
FLLITE Form: Culture Play, Narrative Play, Perspective Play, Word Play

Se mettre en colère

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Lesson Title: Se mettre en colère [ Getting Angry ]
Lesson Author: Tracey Adams (The University of Texas at Austin)
Instructional Language: English / French
Level of Activities: College / 2. year / Intermediate
Text Title: La langue française
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: Culture Play, Narrative Play, Pragmatic Play, Symbolic Play

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Text

Text Title: La langue française
Text Language: French
Text Author: Sebastian Marx
Genre: Narratives / TV and Film
Topic: Personalities and Physical Attributes / Family, Friendships, and Relationships

Lesson

Lesson Title: Se mettre en colère [ Getting Angry ]
Instructional Language: English / French
Lesson Author: Tracey Adams (The University of Texas at Austin)
Level of Activities: College / 2. year / Intermediate
Pedagogical Practices: Speaking / Listening / Viewing / Cultural Understanding
Grammar Focus: Argumentation, Vocabulary, Cultural Competence, Grammatical Gender
Main Objectives:

Students watch a stand-up routine given by second-language user of French on learning French insults.  They will be able to analyze the (in)appropriateness of these terms in various contexts.  They will also discuss the cultural relevance of these terms in comparison with similar terms in their native language (English).  Students will then be able to construct narratives expressing anger in ways that are less formal and allow for an expanding of their L2 identity and multilingual self.

Texts, Genres & Practices
  • Viewing personal narrative of an L2 French user
  • Reflecting on how personal narratives are constructed and how other characters factor into our stories
  • Developing a narrative and how to respond to a frustrating person in this narrative
Cultural Knowledge & Perspectives
  • Comparing layers of meaning between insults in French and English
  • Assessing the appropriateness of insults in various contexts
  • Reflecting on usage of insults in students’ L1 vs. L2
Language Use & Language Play
  • Identifying insults used by the author
  • Analyze why the topic and insults used are funny to the audience
  • Explore uses of insults in different contexts
FLLITE Form: Culture Play, Narrative Play, Pragmatic Play, Symbolic Play

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