Abstract

AREIZA, Hugo; BERDUGO, Martha  and  TEJADA, Harvey. A Selfperception of Multiliteracy of a Group of Foreign Language Teachers and Students from a Public University in Colombia. Folios [online]. 2014, n.40, pp.153-173. ISSN 0123-4870.

This article presents the results of a self-perception survey of the multiliteracy levels to a group of foreign language teachers and students at Universidad del Valle. The statistics and interpretative analysis showed that both groups rated themselves as having high levels of functional literacy enough to work at the computer and on the web. However, both groups self-reported lower levels of more complex aspects of functional literacy necessary for teaching and learning a foreign language in virtual environments. Both, teachers and students, self-reported favorable feelings towards computers and work on the web and their levels of critical literacy were lower than those of their functional literacy. In addition, the teachers perceived themselves as having a mid-level of pedagogical skills to integrate ICT in their teaching, but self-reported difficulties especially in material design within virtual environments. Similarly, teachers rated fair levels of critical approaches mediated by ICT and expressed difficulties especially at enhancing students' elaboration and dissemination of digital material that arises reflection on social sensitive issues. The analysis of the survey also showed no outstanding incidence of socio-demographic variables in the participants' self-perceptions.

Keywords : Multiliteracy; critical pedagogical approach; language learning and teaching; ICT; self-perception.

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