Language use in today’s world is vastly multimodal, not least because of technological advancements. For example, while watching TV or YouTube, we may simultaneously be listening to speakers, see their body language, look at the video footage and visuals, read captions, and then text a friend about what we saw. Essentially, effective communication in social, educational and professional contexts nowadays requires multimodal literacy. It is therefore important that language learners are given opportunities to develop their multimodal literacy and that teachers can evaluate learners’ progress and abilities in this area.

In this workshop, Prof. Tineke Brunfaut will showcase examples of multimodal tasks that can be used to evaluate English language learners’ multimodal abilities. You will have the opportunity to try out tasks and learn how to score students’ performances on such tasks. Prof. Brunfaut will also share some insights she gained from research on the tasks, and provide tips on how to make such tasks yourselves. All materials will be freely available to workshop participants for later use in their own contexts.