Full Description
Learn how to harness artificial intelligence to create inclusive learning environments where multilingual learners thrive (K-12).
This book invites educators to reimagine literacy instruction at the intersection of language, culture, and technology. Through vivid classroom stories, practical frameworks, and adaptable lesson designs, the authors demonstrate how AI can serve as a thinking partner to help students translate, analyze, and express ideas across languages and modes. Rather than viewing multilingualism as a challenge, this book positions it as brilliance—a source of creativity, insight, and connection. From multimodal micropaths and strategic text sets to AI-powered feedback and assessment, readers will find tools that honor students' full linguistic and cultural repertoires while deepening critical and creative thinking. AI-Supported Teaching for Multilingual Learners offers a hopeful vision for how teachers can combine human artistry and technological innovation to make literacy instruction more inclusive, dynamic, and human.
Book Features:
Brings together insights from multiliteracies pedagogy and emerging research on AI in education, offering practice-based models for how these fields can inform each other in meaningful, student-centered ways.
Positions multilingual students as designers of meaning and knowledge, highlighting their full linguistic and cultural repertoires as assets in every classroom.
Shows how AI can serve as a creative and critical partner that supports translation, feedback, and design, yet keeps human relationships and judgment at the center of teaching and learning.
Contents
Contents
Introduction: Working at the Intersection of Multiple Literacies to Embrace Critical Competencies and Full Personhood 1
Key Learning Theories That Support Multilingual and Multimodal Teaching 2
From Traditional Literacy to Multiliteracies 3
Why Multiliteracies Matter for Multilingual Learners 4
Integrating AI Modalities and Literacies in Teaching and Learning 9
How This Book Is Organized 11
Conclusion : Shifting Paradigms With Colleagues in Educational Settings 14
1. Multimodal Implementation: Classroom Narratives 15
Introducing Multimodal Literacies and Vocabulary 16
Creating Learning Pathways and Extending Peer Discussion 24
Pathways That Meet Students Where They Are: Contemporary Cultural Texts 28
Increasing Criticality With Strategic Text Pairings and Close Reading Lenses 32
Teaching at the Intersection of Theory and Practice 40
2. Expanding Student Response: Multimodality and AI Innovations 43
Leveraging Visual-Spatial Responses: Infographics, Sketchnoting, and Concept Mapping 44
Exploring Audio-Digital Responses: Podcasts, Videos, and Interactive Media 55
Coaching Learners Using EdTech AI When Concepts Get Lost in Translation 60
3. Creating Strategic Multimodal Learning Pathways: Text Sets and Critical Lenses 65
Choosing Multimodal Texts for Accessibility and Complexity 67
AI-Powered Identity Affirmation Through Multimodal Pathways 73
Pairing and Sequencing Texts Strategically for Different Purposes 75
Creating Text Sets as Learning Pathways 80
Multimodal Micropath 1. Experiencing: Awakening Curiosity 81
Multimodal Micropath 2. Conceptualizing: Building Collective Meaning 83
Multimodal Micropath 3. Analyzing: Deepening Interpretation and Critical Reflection 84
Multimodal Micropath 4. Applying: Expressing and Creating New Meanings 87
Designing the Learning Pathway and Connecting Multimodal Texts 89
Why Multimodal Learning Pathways Matter, and Why It Matters to Harness AI 90
4. Liberatory Digital Multilingualism 92
Reconceptualizing Ideas of Competencies and Capital 93
Bolstering Peer Perspectives and Interactions 97
Developing Students' Internalized Esteem, Confidence, and Adeptness 112
5. From Deficit to Asset: AI-Powered Assessment for Multilingual Brilliance 115
Figuring Out What You Value 117
Designing Assessment Systems That Honor Multilingual Competencies 118
Design Elements for AI-Partnered Assessment Models 127
Addressing Bias in AI (and Human) Assessment Systems 132
Conclusion: Shifting Paradigms With Colleagues in Educational Settings 136
Starting Where You Are 137
Building Communities of Practice 138
Embracing an Inquiry Stance 138
Aim to Create Ripple Effects 139
Let's Get Started 139
Resources for Continuing the Journey 142
References 143
Index 149
About the Authors 155
