New book for EAL teachers and researchers

Digital book launch: Text Creation in English Teaching

Professor of English didactics Aud Solbjørg Skulstad has recently published the book Text Creation in English Teaching.

Digital boklansering: Text Creation in English Teaching

The book emphasises that developing students' (multimodal) textual competence involves raising their awareness, reflection and critical thinking as to the power of language and other semiotic resources, such as the persuasive power of images. The global social context of educating students in the post-truth era has made this aim more urgent.

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By Mari Lund Eide and Tijana PrzuljUpdated: 21.12.2023 (First published: 04.05.2023)

POTENT is delighted to share with you a recoding of the digital book launch of Text Creation in English Teaching, written by Aud Solbjørg Skulstad, Professor of English didactics at the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Bergen.

The overall question of this newly published book is: How should writing and multimodal text creation be taught in the subject of English in Norwegian schools? This question is relevant to all EAL teachers and teacher educators.

Program:

The launch was led by Associate Professor Sigrid Ørevik. Professor Emerita Ragnhild Lund presented the book, followed by Head of Department at Sotra upper secondary school, Jaspreet Kaur Gloppen, who talked about the book from an English teacher’s perspective. The author, Professor Aud Solbjørg Skulstad, presentedt the aims of her new book and shared some of the ideas presented in the book.

The entire event was held in English.