Abstract. The increasingly digital and multicultural 21st-century society requires future teachers to be prepared for the changes and challenges they may encounter. Not only language and digital competences, but critical-thinking and problem-solving skills are needed. Moreover, well developed socio-affective abilities, empathy among them, are also key when dealing with others. This is even more relevant when teachers are to work with a non-mainstream population, such as adult migrants with low literacy levels, and to design student-centered curricula or activities. Empathy is a multifaceted process involving, among others, perception, intellection, affect and other sensory aspects of the lived experience. It has been argued that the first-person perspective-taking involved in empathic engagement must necessarily involve rational computation and cognitively mediated processing. Training future teachers in the Pedagogy of Multiliteracies is a means to integrate multimodal digital instruction and aggregate cognitive as well as socio-emotional features to the education of future language teachers.
How to cite. Fernández-Corbacho, A., Cores-Bilbao, E., & Flor-Arasil, P. (2024). Ethnocultural empathy development of future language teachers through digital multiliteracy resources for low-literacy adult migrants. Front. Psychol. Sec Educational Psychology, 15:1398457. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1398457
