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The Covid-19 pandemic has posed
great challenges to higher education (HE)
and, in particular, to foreign language (FL)
teaching. If, on the one hand, the lockdown
and remote learning measures have brought
constraints to teaching and research activities,
on the other hand, they have fostered resilience,
promoted creativity, and accelerated the use of
technologies and digital transformation. The
use of the Korsakow platform and the creation
of non-linear storytelling are the strategies
underlying an innovative methodology
concerning the learning process of French
and English as FL, in HE in Portugal. The
JASM project (Open window onto the world:
foreign languages, multimodal creativity, and
pedagogical innovation in higher education)
involves a group of students attending the
bachelor’s course in Media Studies of the
School of Education in Viseu. Students develop
their assignments based on data analysis,
related to diverse cultural and linguistic
contexts within the city of Viseu, including
interviews, photographs, and narratives
centred on a migrant’s tradition. Digital art
and online tools ensure greater motivation in
acquiring multilingual skills and developing
multilingual awareness. In this way, the various
dimensions of language (aesthetic, emotional,
and cognitive) are reinforced, in a remote
teaching scenario/context, which is creative
and collaborative while also mobilizing
interdisciplinary skills. Such a reflection
appears to be particularly relevant at a time
when one needs clearly to adapt teaching and
learning to the needs of society and rely upon
pedagogical innovation, with students whose
HE training has specific objectives other than
the ones of those enrolled in language courses.
The methodology is discussed, and the results
of this project-based learning are presented.
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Keywords
Pedagogical innovation Higher Education Foreign languages and linguistic and cultural diversity Online tools Multilingual and multimodal artistic creativity
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Atena Editora