Integrating Performance Studies into the Foreign Language Curriculum via Digital Media: New Adventures in Multiliteracies

Drawing on the idea of multiliteracies, this paper focuses on how aspects of the field of Performance Studies can be integrated into the foreign language curriculum via contemporary digital media so as to foster a wider sense of what it means to be ‘literate’ in a foreign language. More specifically, it examines three applications for achieving this goal: 1) digital performance analysis, 2) digital performance projects, and 3) the foreign language student-produced film festival. It is hoped that this study will inspire foreign language educators to re-examine contemporary pedagogical practices and embrace new possibilities for developing students’ language proficiency.