There has been an increasing interest in using multimodal composition as a crucial part of English language teaching for the digital era (Kessler, 2023). This article explores one implementation of digital multimodal composition in a course in English for teachers at a university in Japan. The study's goal was to learn about students' perspectives on using Book Creator, an IT tool to construct digital, multimodal books, which were to be used for their micro lesson. From the analysis of the author's classroom observation and the students' comments in online questionnaires, by and large, students had a favorable perception of Book Creator. However, some challenges were also reported by students regarding incorporating multimodal communication in the English classroom. To conclude, this paper gives recommendations for teachers wishing to embrace multimodal composition in their English language teaching.
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