August 2025 Featured Member Spotlight

Tala Michelle Karkar-Esperat, Assistant Professor at Eastern New Mexico University

Journal Article: Multiliteracies for Multilingual Learners: The MultiSemiotic Architecture Framework

This conceptual paper invites educators to consider bilingual and multilingual learners’ literacies by proposing a new framework for moving culture forward in the classroom, the ‘MultiSemiotic Architecture Framework.’ I explore the tenets of the framework, which are critical literacy, multiliteracies, transmultiliteracies sustaining pedagogy, new literacies, and translanguaging that facilitate justice in the classroom using semiotics. This framework aims to empower teachers, parents, communities, and schools with alternate approaches to consider their students’ literacy assets and cultural interests through a lens of opportunity.

To cite

Karkar-Esperat, T. M. (2025). Multiliteracies for multilingual learners: the MultiSemiotic Architecture Framework.  International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism , 28(2), 117-134.

 

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