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Peer-Reviews and AI Feedback Compared: University Students’ Preferences (2024)
Working Paper
Zapata, G. C., Saini, A. K., Cope, B., Kalantzis, M., & Searsmith, D. Peer-Reviews and AI Feedback Compared: University Students’ Preferences

This article seeks to contribute to the existing literature on peer review by comparing human with machine reviews based on the implementation of a chatbot responding with reference to a large language model for the review of open-ended student work.... Read More about Peer-Reviews and AI Feedback Compared: University Students’ Preferences.

Digital Multimodal Composing in Beginning L2 Spanish Classes: Student-Created Children’s Books (2024)
Journal Article
Mesa Morales, M., & Zapata, G. C. (2024). Digital Multimodal Composing in Beginning L2 Spanish Classes: Student-Created Children’s Books. International Journal of Literacies, 31(2), 57-76. https://doi.org/10.18848/2327-0136/cgp/v31i02/57-76

This work explores the incorporation of children’s books into university second language (L2) Spanish instruction for the development of students’ critical multimodal literacies and meaning making. Twenty-three learners’ collaborative analysis of aut... Read More about Digital Multimodal Composing in Beginning L2 Spanish Classes: Student-Created Children’s Books.

Grammar as concept: The implementation of the PACE model in Beginning Spanish classes (2023)
Journal Article
Ewurama, O., & Zapata, G. C. (2023). Grammar as concept: The implementation of the PACE model in Beginning Spanish classes. Applied Language Learning, 33, 58-70

This study investigates the effectiveness of the PACE approach (Adair-Hauck & Donato, 2002) for grammar teaching in beginning (novice mid/high) second language (L2) Spanish classes. Even though research has reported instructional benefits for PACE in... Read More about Grammar as concept: The implementation of the PACE model in Beginning Spanish classes.

Multiliteracies, OER, and Inclusive L2 Pedagogical Practices (2023)
Book Chapter
Zapata, G. C. (2023). Multiliteracies, OER, and Inclusive L2 Pedagogical Practices. In G. C. Zapata, M. Kalantzis, & B. Cope (Eds.), Multiliteracies in International Educational Contexts: Towards Education Justice (76-96). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003349662-3

The benefits of undergraduate research for students from traditionally underrepresented groups are well documented in STEMM. However, few studies have focused on similar programs in the humanities. The objective of this chapter is to do so by describ... Read More about Multiliteracies, OER, and Inclusive L2 Pedagogical Practices.

Multiliteracies in International Educational Contexts: Towards Education Justice (2023)
Book
Zapata, G. C., Kalantzis, M., & Cope, B. (Eds.). (2023). Multiliteracies in International Educational Contexts: Towards Education Justice. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003349662

Multiliteracies in International Educational Contexts: Towards Education Justice examines how multiliteracies and Learning by Design have been taken up across international second-language instructional contexts, with a focus on inclusive practices a... Read More about Multiliteracies in International Educational Contexts: Towards Education Justice.

“PURRfection”: The Participatory Extension of Humor on YouTube (2023)
Journal Article
Zapata, G. C. (2023). “PURRfection”: The Participatory Extension of Humor on YouTube. Information, Medium, and Society: Journal of Publishing Studies, 21(2), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.18848/2691-1507/cgp/v21i02/1-15

This article explores the participatory extension of humor in social media in connection with Burn’s idea of produsage. Specifically, this work offers a discursive analysis of viewers’ comments on the viral YouTube video Kitten Zoom Filter Mishap to... Read More about “PURRfection”: The Participatory Extension of Humor on YouTube.

Generative AI: Implications and Applications for Education (2023)
Working Paper
Olga, A., Saini, A., Zapata, G., Searsmith, D., Cope, B., Kalantzis, M., …Polyxeni Kastania, N. Generative AI: Implications and Applications for Education

The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 precipitated a panic among some educators while prompting qualified enthusiasm from others. Under the umbrella term Generative AI, ChatGPT is an example of a range of technologies for the delivery of computer-ge... Read More about Generative AI: Implications and Applications for Education.

Self-Discovery and Healing in Nepantla: Multimodality and Learning by Design in a Mixed Spanish University Classroom (2023)
Journal Article
Zapata, G. C. (2023). Self-Discovery and Healing in Nepantla: Multimodality and Learning by Design in a Mixed Spanish University Classroom. International Journal of Pedagogy and Curriculum, 30(1), 17-35. https://doi.org/10.18848/2327-7963/CGP/v30i01/17-35

This article explores the enactment of inclusive pedagogical practices in an intermediate, Spanish-as-a-secondlanguage mixed writing class in an R1 university in Texas during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, this work examines how the use of auth... Read More about Self-Discovery and Healing in Nepantla: Multimodality and Learning by Design in a Mixed Spanish University Classroom.

Learning by Design and Second Language Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice (2022)
Book
Zapata, G. C. (2022). Learning by Design and Second Language Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003106258

Learning by Design and Second Language Teaching establishes theoretical, research, and practice connections between the multiliteracies framework Learning by Design and L2 teaching and learning.　　 A comprehensive introductory chapter presents th... Read More about Learning by Design and Second Language Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice.

Interprofessional learning to enhance Spanish communication skills in Latinx pharmacy students (2022)
Journal Article
Zapata, G., Moyna, M. I., & Miller, M. (2022). Interprofessional learning to enhance Spanish communication skills in Latinx pharmacy students. EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages, 9(1), 122-139. https://doi.org/10.21283/2376905x.15.1.263

This case study focuses on an interdisciplinary educational experience in which university Pharmacy and Humanities early and late Spanish-English bilinguals were paired to translate questions related to sociobehavioral aspects of medication use. This... Read More about Interprofessional learning to enhance Spanish communication skills in Latinx pharmacy students.

Lotería in the Age of COVID-19: A Social Semiotic Analysis of Two Artistic Visions (2021)
Journal Article
Zapata, G. C. (2021). Lotería in the Age of COVID-19: A Social Semiotic Analysis of Two Artistic Visions. Hispania, 104(2), 271-296. https://doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2021.0045

The purpose of this project was to compare two different COVID-19 Mexican lotería versions by Mexican-American artists Ernesto Quiñonez Curiel and Pinche Raf. Their work was inspired by the most popular traditional lotería set Don Clemente Gallo, cre... Read More about Lotería in the Age of COVID-19: A Social Semiotic Analysis of Two Artistic Visions.

Charros in Texas and Gauchos in Argentina: A Social Semiotic Analysis of Historical Artifacts (2021)
Journal Article
Zapata, G. C., Domínguez, Y., Gooch, S., & Pacheco, A. (2021). Charros in Texas and Gauchos in Argentina: A Social Semiotic Analysis of Historical Artifacts. International Journal of Design in Society, 15(1), 25-44. https://doi.org/10.18848/2325-1328/CGP/V15I01/25-44

The objective of this article is to examine media representations of charros in Texas and gauchos in Argentina from the 1930s in order to uncover any sociohistorical parallels between these two groups. Two sets of artifacts were analyzed using a soci... Read More about Charros in Texas and Gauchos in Argentina: A Social Semiotic Analysis of Historical Artifacts.

Open Educational Resources in Heritage and L2 Spanish Classrooms: Design, Development and Implementation (2021)
Book Chapter
Zapata, G. C., & Ribota, A. (2021). Open Educational Resources in Heritage and L2 Spanish Classrooms: Design, Development and Implementation. In C. S. Blyth, & J. J. Thoms (Eds.), Open Education and Second Language Learning and Teaching: The Rise of a New Knowledge Ecology (25-46). Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters. https://doi.org/10.21832/9781800411005-003

In this chapter, we examine the application of the multiliteracies pedagogy Learning by Design (Cope & Kalantzis, 2015; Kalantzis et al., 2005, 2016) to the design of open educational resources (OER) for the teaching of Spanish as a herit... Read More about Open Educational Resources in Heritage and L2 Spanish Classrooms: Design, Development and Implementation.

The instructional benefits of identity texts and learning by design for learner motivation in required second language classes (2020)
Journal Article
Zapata, G. C., & Ribota, A. (2021). The instructional benefits of identity texts and learning by design for learner motivation in required second language classes. Pedagogies: An International Journal, 16(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/1554480X.2020.1738937

This article investigates the incorporation of identity texts grounded in the multiliteracies framework Learning by Design to second language (L2) instruction in required Spanish classes at a university in the Southern United States. In particular, i... Read More about The instructional benefits of identity texts and learning by design for learner motivation in required second language classes.