JALT2025 - Tokyo

Multimodal Retelling in Adolescent EFL: A Disciplinary Approach

Nov 2, 2025, 9:40 AM

1h

National Olympics Memorial Youth Center / 国立オリンピック記念青少年総合センター

Practice-oriented Workshop (60-minutes) Pedagogy Room 410

Speaker

Christian Libunao (Higashiomi City Board of Education in Shiga Prefecture)

Description

Retelling is a powerful EFL strategy for developing speaking, listening, and comprehension skills. This hands-on workshop introduces a multimodal, disciplinary approach, helping adolescent learners think and communicate like professionals. Participants explore step-by-step scaffolds including visuals, disciplinary personas, structured stem sentences, and oral/presentation options, all aligned with CLIL principles (Content, Cognition, Communication, Culture). Teachers learn to design retelling tasks that foster academic language, critical thinking, and disciplinary literacy, with reflection to monitor learning outcomes.

Summary

Retelling is a powerful EFL strategy for developing speaking, listening, and comprehension skills. This hands-on workshop introduces a multimodal, disciplinary approach, helping adolescent learners think and communicate like professionals. Participants explore step-by-step scaffolds including visuals, disciplinary personas, structured stem sentences, and oral/presentation options, all aligned with CLIL principles (Content, Cognition, Communication, Culture). Teachers learn to design retelling tasks that foster academic language, critical thinking, and disciplinary literacy, with reflection to monitor learning outcomes.