Language Teachers' Investment in Digital Multimodal Composing (DMC) as a Manifold Application of Computer-Mediated Communication

Abstract

As an instructional potential for language learning purposes to integrate digital technologies, digital multimodal composing (DMC) has mushroomed as a textual practice which involves the exploitation of digital tools in order to produce texts. In doing this, multiple semiotic modes (e.g., word, image, soundtrack etc.) are combined, and involved in the process of text production. This chapter is assumed to envision the changes in the educational landscape as a result of the age of digitization, and to understand the potential contributions of digital technologies and novel literacies to language learning and teaching. Specifically, DMC-oriented language learning and teaching will be scrutinized in order to maximize the potentials of language teachers, and thereof language learners, by investing in a post-pandemic virtual technology as an application of computer-mediated communication.