- Bridge to Academic Writing the podcast is a field guide to integrating digital multimodal composition into your second language writing classroom. Hosted by Lisa Cox, the podcast investigates this teacher’s wondering: Can English learners learn about writing from podcasting? Follow along as Lisa researches, executes, and reflects on a podcasting intervention in her beginning second language writing classroom and hear directly from her students themselves. Bridge to Academic Writing will challenge composition instructors to reconsider what counts as writing and what it means to teach writing in today’s classroom.
Episode 00: Trailer (3:33)
This is the trailer for Bridge to Academic Writing.
This is the trailer for Bridge to Academic Writing.
Episode 01: Don't Write How You Speak! Rediscovering the Connections Between Speech and Writing (13:20)
Did a teacher ever warn you: “Don’t write how you speak!” Have you repeated this same warning to your own students? In this episode of Bridge to Academic Writing, we’ll explore the intimate and historical connections between speaking and writing and challenge the age-old notion that you shouldn’t write how you speak.
Did a teacher ever warn you: “Don’t write how you speak!” Have you repeated this same warning to your own students? In this episode of Bridge to Academic Writing, we’ll explore the intimate and historical connections between speaking and writing and challenge the age-old notion that you shouldn’t write how you speak.
Mini-Episode 01: The Podcast Launch! (11:25)
How do you even begin to transform your classroom to allow for multimodal learning? Bridge to Academic Writing mini-episodes take you inside the classroom and give you an honest look at what it takes to bring multimodality to students. In mini-episode one, I walk you through the launch of my podcast unit and offer insight into beginning-level English learners’ initial reactions to and attitudes towards multimodal texts.
How do you even begin to transform your classroom to allow for multimodal learning? Bridge to Academic Writing mini-episodes take you inside the classroom and give you an honest look at what it takes to bring multimodality to students. In mini-episode one, I walk you through the launch of my podcast unit and offer insight into beginning-level English learners’ initial reactions to and attitudes towards multimodal texts.
Episode 02: Convince Me! Why Multimodal (29:48)
While time marches on outside the classroom, students continue to write the same ol’ tired essays, reports, and research papers inside the classroom. Multimodal composition refreshes curricula and prepares students to be effective and literate citizens of the 21st century. In this episode, I’ll talk with teacher and doctoral candidate Jillian Pearsall about why teachers who care about literacy should care about multimodality and multiliteracies. We’ll also explore what multimodal composition could look like in your classroom.
While time marches on outside the classroom, students continue to write the same ol’ tired essays, reports, and research papers inside the classroom. Multimodal composition refreshes curricula and prepares students to be effective and literate citizens of the 21st century. In this episode, I’ll talk with teacher and doctoral candidate Jillian Pearsall about why teachers who care about literacy should care about multimodality and multiliteracies. We’ll also explore what multimodal composition could look like in your classroom.
Mini-Episode 02: Composing Voices (12:44)
In mini-episode two, listen along as my students develop their podcasts, working through the stages of invention, composition, and revision. I’ll ask some tough questions, too, like how much can we ask our students to share? And is an authentic audience all it’s cracked up to be?
In mini-episode two, listen along as my students develop their podcasts, working through the stages of invention, composition, and revision. I’ll ask some tough questions, too, like how much can we ask our students to share? And is an authentic audience all it’s cracked up to be?
Episode 03: A Framework for Assessing Multimodal Work (37:41)
Do you love your students’ multimodal compositions? Unlike print-based texts, students’ multimodal work is rarely subject to detailed criticism or correction. In this episode, I’ll talk with researcher, author, and professor Dr. Madeleine Sorapure on the best approach to evaluating multimodal products so that we can begin to treat students’ multimodal work seriously.
Do you love your students’ multimodal compositions? Unlike print-based texts, students’ multimodal work is rarely subject to detailed criticism or correction. In this episode, I’ll talk with researcher, author, and professor Dr. Madeleine Sorapure on the best approach to evaluating multimodal products so that we can begin to treat students’ multimodal work seriously.
Mini-Episode 03: All Things Technology (15:15)
Producing a podcast is easier than you might think! In this mini-episode, I share the tools and processes my students used to create their podcasts, some general advice to help get you started, and you’ll hear from my students on their experiences with podcasting technology.
Producing a podcast is easier than you might think! In this mini-episode, I share the tools and processes my students used to create their podcasts, some general advice to help get you started, and you’ll hear from my students on their experiences with podcasting technology.
Episode 04 Part 1: Can English Learners Learn Writing from Podcasting? (16:36)
What happens when a group of beginning-level adult English learners takes on podcasting? In part one of this episode, learn about the results of my capstone research, including the many benefits of incorporating multimodal writing into the L2 composition classroom and students' perceptions of and attitudes toward podcasting.
What happens when a group of beginning-level adult English learners takes on podcasting? In part one of this episode, learn about the results of my capstone research, including the many benefits of incorporating multimodal writing into the L2 composition classroom and students' perceptions of and attitudes toward podcasting.
Episode 04 Part 2: Can English Learners Learn Writing from Podcasting? (14:51)
In continuation from part one, I’ll discuss the results of my capstone research, focusing on the potential for podcasting to impact students' traditional academic writing.
In continuation from part one, I’ll discuss the results of my capstone research, focusing on the potential for podcasting to impact students' traditional academic writing.
Episode 05: Becoming Podcasters: Jennifer, Aamina, & Teresa (14:05)
A mother surprises her daughter, a young girl loses her father, and a son and mother reunite. This episode is devoted to students’ podcasts about love and loss.
A mother surprises her daughter, a young girl loses her father, and a son and mother reunite. This episode is devoted to students’ podcasts about love and loss.