Technology-enhanced multiliteracies teaching towards a culturally responsive curriculum: a multiliteracies approach to ECE

Much attention has been paid to the introduction of a culturally responsive curriculum in early childhood education in our increasingly globalized society to support young children of diverse cultural and linguistic (CLD) backgrounds. With the rise of twenty-first century concepts of what literacy means in the digital age, traditional literacy practices that have relied primarily on print-based texts have been also challenged. To response to these imperatives, this qualitative case study presents a lived story of a grade one teacher who implemented multiliteracies pedagogy in her classroom for young culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) children. Our findings show that applying multiliteracies pedagogy not only motivated the teacher to value her CLD students' diverse semiotic resources as available designs but also transformed the way the teacher integrated technology in literacy teaching. We end this paper with the discussion of implications of integration of multiliteracies pedagogy to technology-enhanced literacy teaching and learning.