MULTILITERACIES AND STEAM: PATHWAYS FOR HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
English Language Teaching; Pedagogy of Multiliteracies; STEAM; Critical Literacy; Integrated High School.
The contemporary challenges of English language teaching require teachers to rethink and reassess their didactic and pedagogical practices to align them with students' sociocultural and technological realities. This study aims to investigate how the Pedagogy of Multiliteracies, combined with the STEAM approach (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics), can be implemented in high school English teaching to develop linguistic, cultural, and scientific competencies. The research adopts a quantitative and qualitative approach, collecting data through questionnaires applied to students from a Federal Institute. The participants include second and third year students of the technical courses integrated to the high school. As an educational product, didactic sequences based on the principles of the Pedagogy of Multiliteracies and the STEAM approach will be developed to provide teachers with didactic materials that make their classes more dynamic and engaging. It is expected that the results of this study will contribute to fostering student protagonism and, above all, the development of critical literacy in English in its various dimensions: technological, social, environmental, scientific, humanistic, and linguistic.