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Archer, Arlene Hillary. "A Multimodal Approach to Academic Literacy Practices." International Journal of Learning: Annual Review 12, no. 3 (2006): 213–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1447-9494/cgp/v12i03/46800.
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Cappello, Marva, Angela M. Wiseman, and Jennifer D. Turner. "Framing Equitable Classroom Practices: Potentials of Critical Multimodal Literacy Research." Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice 68, no. 1 (August 22, 2019): 205–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2381336919870274.
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This article presents an illustrative case study to explore the classroom potentials of critical multimodal literacy. We feature Marcela’s multimodal response to demonstrate how she engaged with visual and textual tools for learning. Illustrative cases are especially useful to explore a particular issue and often involve in-depth analysis of qualitative data that represents theoretical constructs or significant findings. Critical multimodal literacy is a framework that we developed from a synthesis of the research literature to describe the ways that children use tools (e.g., sketches, videos) for personal meaning-making, critique, and agentive learning in classrooms. Findings from the critical analysis of a young Latina fourth-grader’s multimodal production illuminate our framework, which consists of the following four components: communicate and learn with multimodal tools; restory, represent, and redesign; acknowledge and shift power relationships; and leverage multimodal resources to critique and transform sociopolitical realities all seen through an equity lens. We conclude with implications for how this critical multimodal literacy framework can promote equitable classroom practices that expand the literacy learning of all students.
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Huang, Shin-ying. "Critical multimodal literacy with moving-image texts." English Teaching: Practice & Critique 16, no. 2 (September 4, 2017): 194–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/etpc-02-2017-0018.
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Purpose This paper aims to examine language learners’ critical multimodal literacy practices with a moving-image text, focusing on text comprehension and interpretation rather than text production. It takes a critical perspective towards multimodality and proposes the simultaneous emphasis on critical and multimodal literacies. Design/methodology/approach This qualitative teacher-inquiry adopts critical multimodal literacy as the framework for understanding learners’ literacy practices. The course implementation highlights images, sounds and words as encompassing the five modes of visual, aural, linguistic, gestural and spatial (Arola et al., 2014) in emphasizing the multimodal in critical multimodal literacy, and the purposeful organization of the images, sounds and words as reflecting the critical in critical multimodal literacy. The analysis also adopts Serafini’s (2010) concentric perceptual, structural and ideological perspectives as the tenets of critical multimodal literacy. Findings The findings show that focusing on images, sounds, words and their purposeful organization enabled the students to critically examine a moving-image text through considerations for the multiple modes and arriving at the structural and ideological interpretive perspectives. Originality/value This study fills a gap in the literature, as very little research has been done to investigate the ways in which language learners engage with, that is, comprehend and interpret, moving-image multimodal texts. In addition, it presents a critical multimodal literacy framework based on Serafini’s (2010) tripartite perspectives and offers pedagogical suggestions for incorporating critical multimodal literacy in language classrooms.
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Kuo, Hsiao‐Chin. "Multimodal Literacy through Children’s Drawings in a Romani Community." International Journal of Literacy, Culture, and Language Education 4 (August 1, 2015): 90–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.14434/ijlcle.v4i0.26918.
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Being part of an ethnographic research project, which investigated the funds of knowledge and literacy practices of a Romani community in northwestern Romania, this paper presents an exploratory examination, seeking ways to understand drawings and sketches as multimodal texts produced by five Romani children in this community. In general, Romani people, living on the margins of society, have often been labeled illiterate and been discriminated against. The examination of these Romani children’s drawings and sketches illuminated two features of their multimodal literacy practices— intertextuality and design—and scrutinized the stereotype of illiteracy thrust upon the Romani people. Based on the examination of the multimodal literacy practices of these Romani children, implications are drawn, including pedagogical applications, and future research directions are suggested.
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Almusharraf, Norah, and Joseph Engemann. "Postsecondary Instructors’ Perspectives on Teaching English as a Foreign Language by Means of a Multimodal Digital Literacy Approach." International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) 15, no. 18 (September 25, 2020): 86. http://dx.doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v15i18.15451.
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It can be argued that multimodal digital literacy practices promote the development of literacy skills needed for today’s world without being constrained to one mode of learning. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the employment of multimodal practices during instruction within EFL classrooms in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is minimal and fraught with obstacles to its effective utilization. It is, therefore, essential to determine whether this is the case and, if so, to develop strategies that would ameliorate this situation. This study, therefore, sought to identify KSA postsecondary EFL instructors’ self-reporting of their use of various types of technology, computer software, and online software; the different teaching/learning and assessment strategies that they employ; the obstacles they face with the use of technology in their classrooms; and their beliefs about the use of multimodal digital literacy practices for teaching and learning. The study, which was based on the premises of social semiotic theory, utilized a mixed-methods design from which survey and focus group interview data were triangulated. The findings demonstrated that while most postsecondary EFL instructors have a strong positive attitude towards multimodal digital literacy practices and make robust use of specific types of technology and software programs, obstacles prevent these practices from being more widely and frequently deployed in the KSA. Suggestions for how to make a transformation to a more pronounced use of multimodal practices happen, and the limitations to the study are also presented.
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Kitsiou, Roula, and Marianna Kondyli. "Intersections of Multimodal and Critical Literacy in Teacher Education: Multimodal Literacy Practices to Reconstrue Ideologically Charged Texts." International Journal of Literacies 27, no. 2 (2020): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/2327-0136/cgp/v27i02/1-16.
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McGlynn-Stewart, Monica, Leah Brathwaite, Lisa Hobman, Nicola Maguire, and Emma Mogyorodi. "Open-Ended Apps in Kindergarten: Identity Exploration Through Digital Role-Play." Language and Literacy 20, no. 4 (January 7, 2019): 40–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.20360/langandlit29439.
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This 2-year research study followed 14 kindergarten classrooms in Ontario as they used open-ended tablet applications to support literacy learning. Through multimodal slideshows the children explored identities such as reporter, teacher, and architect during self-initiated role-play. The slideshows they created demonstrated multimodal productions that were longer, more complex, and more varied than their literacy production with traditional literacy tools and practices. Rather than supplanting traditional kindergarten meaning-making practices such as role-play, children folded digital affordances into their play in ways that expanded the range of identities they explored and the tools and practices with which they explored them.
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Moses, Lindsey, and Stephanie Reid. "Supporting Literacy and Positive Identity Negotiations with Multimodal Comic Composing." Language and Literacy 23, no. 1 (February 22, 2021): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.20360/langandlit29502.
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This study explores how an alternative writing unit with a focus on comics, choice, and publishing supported positive identity development in a fourth-grade classroom. Many traditional literacy practices with an emphasis on skills marginalize students from under-represented populations. This study reports literacy practices that countered the production of previously established unequal relationships and instead supported bilingual students’ negotiation of positive identities. We conducted an analysis of two bilingual case studies to examine the ways in which the shift from traditional literacy skills/practices to multimodal formats provided opportunities for students who were traditionally marginalized to renegotiate identities as experts and authors.
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Flewitt, Rosie, Melanie Nind, and Jane Payler. "`If she's left with books she'll just eat them': Considering inclusive multimodal literacy practices." Journal of Early Childhood Literacy 9, no. 2 (July 30, 2009): 211–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468798409105587.
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This article reports on aspects of a small-scale study conducted in the south of England that explored the learning experiences of three four-year-old children with identified special educational needs, who attended a combination of early education settings — one `more special' and one `more inclusive' (Nind et al., 2007). The article reflects on the concept of inclusive literacy, and proposes that a model of literacy as social practice can provide an enabling framework for understanding how young children with learning difficulties interpret and use a range of shared sign systems. Drawing on an ethnographic, video case study of one girl, Mandy,1 the article gives an overview of her observed literacy experiences at home and in the two educational settings she attended, and then focuses on the collaborative, multimodal nature of the literacy events and practices she encountered. Detailed multimodal analysis of a selected literacy event highlights the salience of embodied action and the shapes of inclusive learning spaces, and points to the importance of valuing individuals' idiosyncratic and multimodal meaning-making. The article concludes with discussion of how opportunities for literacy learning can be generated effectively in an inclusive learning environment for young children with learning difficulties. The study was funded by Rix Thompson Rothenberg Foundation (RTR).
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Mills, Kathy A. "Shrek Meets Vygotsky: Rethinking Adolescents' Multimodal Literacy Practices in Schools." Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 54, no. 1 (September 2010): 35–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1598/jaal.54.1.4.
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Murray-Orr, Anne, and Jennifer Mitton. "Middle Years Teachers’ Critical Literacy Practices as Cornerstones of Their Culturally Relevant Pedagogies." LEARNing Landscapes 14, no. 1 (June 24, 2021): 249–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.36510/learnland.v14i1.1047.
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Critical literacy is widely accepted as an important element of culturally relevant pedagogy. In this article, we detail results of a study into how six teachers in rural Eastern Canada purposefully incorporated critical literacy into teaching and learning activities in their classrooms from a culturally relevant pedagogical stance. Findings highlight teachers’ intentional planning that embeds critical literacy, critical literacy in the wider community, and use of multimodal practices in teaching for critical literacy. The critical literacy practices of these teachers reflect their thinking about knowledge and knowledge construction as one key aspect of their culturally relevant pedagogy.
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Nabhan, Salim, and Rahmad Hidayat. "Investigating Literacy Practices in a University EFL Context from Multiliteracies and Multimodal Perspective: A Case Study." Advances in Language and Literary Studies 9, no. 6 (December 28, 2018): 192. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.9n.6p.192.
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This study attempts to investigate the literacy practices of EFL teaching and learning in higher education level from multiliteracies and multimodal perspective. Mixed methods were used: questionaires to the students, interviews with both teachers and students, focus group discussion with students, observation, and documents. The study was focused on the English reading and writing classroom activities. The results of the study revealed that most participating students frequently utilized on screen text and digital devices instead of printed paper in their reading and writing activities. In addition, despite the fact that teachers still used print-based literacy, they supported the adoption of digital and multimodal literacy in their teaching. The findings also indicated that there was mostly misconception of English literacy skills limited to the only targeted skills of English language, and yet the nature of reading and writing practices has developed towards incorportion of printed based texts with multimodal texts. Nevertheless, some challenges occured in integrating multimodality into practices including curriculum design and different learners’ qualification. Findings collected from the this study might have implications for the curriculum development within the framework of multiliteracies and multimodality in the contemporary teaching and learning English language particularly in response to the emergence of technology.
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Blummer, Barbara. "Digital literacy practices among youth populations: A review of the literature." Education Libraries 31, no. 3 (September 5, 2017): 38. http://dx.doi.org/10.26443/el.v31i3.261.
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Digital literacy includes a range of abilities from basic computing skills to the creation of multimodal texts. This literature review examines eleven articles that track the digital literacy practices of youth populations or individualsbetween the ages of 12 and 17. It describes the practices of these individuals through three perspectives, including: studies centered on general youth populations, research discussing innovative programs targeting students from low income families, and articles tracking digital literacy competencies among young immigrant learners. Foremost, the articles highlight young people’s efforts to express themselves through their own online literacy. To this end it remains essential that educators correlate students’ digital literacy habits in their personal lives to instructional practices in school.
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Anderson, Kate T., Olivia G. Stewart, and Dani Kachorsky. "Seeing Academically Marginalized Students’ Multimodal Designs From a Position of Strength." Written Communication 34, no. 2 (April 2017): 104–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0741088317699897.
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This article examines multimodal texts created by a cohort of academically marginalized secondary school students in Singapore as part of a language arts unit on persuasive composition. Using an interpretivist qualitative approach, we examine students’ multimodal designs to highlight opportunities taken up for expanding literacy practices traditionally not available to lower tracked students. Findings examine the authorial stances and rhetorical force that students enacted in their multimodal designs, despite lack of regular opportunities to author complex texts and a schooling history of low expectations. We extend arguments for the importance of providing all students with opportunities to take positions as designers and creators while acknowledging systematic barriers to such opportunities for academically marginalized students. This study thus counters deficit views of academically marginalized students’ literacy practices by demonstrating their authoritative stance taking and enacting of layered positionalities through multimodal designs in which they renegotiated ways of knowing and doing in their classroom.
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Wolfe, Sylvia, and Rosie Flewitt. "New technologies, new multimodal literacy practices and young children's metacognitive development." Cambridge Journal of Education 40, no. 4 (December 2010): 387–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0305764x.2010.526589.
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Unsworth, Len. "Multimodal reading comprehension: curriculum expectations and large-scale literacy testing practices." Pedagogies: An International Journal 9, no. 1 (January 2, 2014): 26–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1554480x.2014.878968.
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Shariman, Tenku Putri Norishah Tenku, Norizan Abdul Razak, and Nor Fariza Mohd Noor. "The Multimodal Literacy Practices of Malaysian Youths in a Digital Environment." Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 141 (August 2014): 1171–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.05.199.
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Mills, Kathy A., and Len Unsworth. "iPad Animations: Powerful Multimodal Practices for Adolescent Literacy and Emotional Language." Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 61, no. 6 (November 13, 2017): 609–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jaal.717.
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Wong, Suzanna So-har. "Mobile Digital Devices and Preschoolers’ Home Multiliteracy Practices." Language and Literacy 17, no. 2 (June 9, 2015): 75. http://dx.doi.org/10.20360/g2cp49.
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The increased use of digital devices such as touchscreen tablets in the home for work, communication, entertainment, and information searching makes them naturally attractive to toddlers and preschoolers who learn to communicate by observing and interacting with parents and older siblings. This paper presents one of the major findings from a study in Canada and Australia that examined preschoolers’ (ages 3 to 5) home multiliteracy practices. By focusing on data from one of the participants in this study, this paper discusses how the use of iPad engages children in multimodal literacy practices, motivates literacy learning and provides opportunities for independent exploration and creation. This study is informed by complexity science and the data collected were analyzed using Green’s (1988, 2012) three-dimensional model of literacy. The findings shed light on technology’s evolving influence on society and contribute to insights in preschoolers’ home literacy practices.
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Butler, Eliza D., Tori K. Flint, and Ana Christina da Silva Iddings. "The liberatory potentials of multimodality: Collaborative Reggaeton music video production in Habana, Cuba." Media, Culture & Society 43, no. 5 (January 18, 2021): 842–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0163443720987747.
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This study took place in Habana, Cuba over approximately 1 year, wherein the researcher collaborated with Reggaeton artists. While scholarship in multimodality has explored its potentials for literacy pedagogy, developing new literacies, and expanding identity possibilities, less research has focused on the creation of the spaces, tools, and resources required for composing multimodal products and on the liberatory dimensions of multimodality. This study highlights the backstories of these production processes, including the innovative use(s) of spaces and tools, the resources leveraged in order to construct and distribute multimodal media, and the ways artists made meaning together. The findings elucidate the ways the artists leveraged their ingenuity, collaboratively developed digital literacy practices, and produced multimodal texts to create new possibilities.
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Vasudevan, Lalitha M. "Looking for Angels: Knowing Adolescents by Engaging With Their Multimodal Literacy Practices." Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 50, no. 4 (December 1, 2006): 252–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1598/jaal.50.4.1.
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Kennedy, Laura M., Rae L. Oviatt, and Peter I. De Costa. "Refugee Youth’s Identity Expressions and Multimodal Literacy Practices in a Third Space." Journal of Research in Childhood Education 33, no. 1 (January 2, 2019): 56–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02568543.2018.1531446.
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Hess, Juliet, Vaughn W. M. Watson, and Matthew R. Deroo. "“Show Some Love”: Youth and Teaching Artists Enacting Literary Presence and Musical Presence in an After-School Literacy-and-Songwriting Class." Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 121, no. 5 (May 2019): 1–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016146811912100502.
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Background/Context Youth's multiliteracies and musical practices are increasingly considered as taking place beyond school and including community-based educational contexts. Literacy scholars increasingly seek to understand the social and cultural contexts of literacy practices, underscoring youths’ identities as present and future civic participants. Moreover, Small's concept of musicking reframes academic understandings of music to acknowledge the multiplicity of ways youth are inherently musical. Yet less is known about social and cultural contexts of multiliteracies practices and musicking activities of youth of color in community-based education settings. Moreover, less is understood about how youth demonstrate academic literacies and musicking activities, already present and informed by their lived experiences, and the formal curriculum of community-based educational contexts. This article examines the multiliteracies practices and musicking activities of youth of color during open mic at The Verses Project, a community-based literacy-and-songwriting class, to explore how youth demonstrate what Tatum and Muhammad referred to as “literary presence” and what we extend as youth's literary presence and musical presence. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study This study1 details ways in which youth of color extended their literary and musical presence as active civic participants through engagement in open mic, in the context of a 15-week community-based literacy-and-songwriting class. In examining experiences of youth participants and teaching artists across open mic, we ask: What academic literacy practices and multifaceted musical activities already-present in youth's lived experiences do youth demonstrate during open-mic? And how do youth demonstrate literary presence and musical presence across literacy practices and musical activities? Setting Data for this study were collected at the Community Music School—Detroit (CMS-D) during an after-school literacy-and-songwriting class for youth age 9 to 15. Research Design Data for this 15-week qualitative study, informed by critical ethnography, were collected using videotaped observations, field notes, focus-group interviews, curriculum-planning meetings, multimodal artifacts, and researcher memos. Conclusions/Recommendations This article shows how youth demonstrated uses of open mic, reflecting sharing as an act of bravery; teaching artists across open mic scaffolded youth's development of literary and musical presence; and youth, in words and music, across open mic, enacted already-present academic literacies and musicking activities. We discuss possibilities for using open mic in formal, school-based, English and music classrooms and extend the possibilities of theory, research, and teaching in literacy studies and music education that attend to the lived experiences of youths’ literate and musical lives.
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Kang, Joohoon. "Adolescent English language learners’ digitally mediated multimodal compositions: multimodal enactment across different genres of writing in the EFL context." English Teaching: Practice & Critique 20, no. 2 (February 4, 2021): 196–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/etpc-07-2020-0069.
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Purpose This paper aims to investigate adolescent English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ digitally mediated multimodal compositions across different genres of writing. Design/methodology/approach Three Korean high school students participated in the study and created multiple multimodal texts over the course of one academic semester. These texts and other materials were the basis for this study’s qualitative case studies. Multiple sources of data (e.g. class observations, demographic surveys, interviews, field notes and students’ artifacts) were collected. Drawing upon the inductive approach, a coding-oriented analysis was used for the collected data. In addition, a multimodal text analysis was conducted for the students’ multimodal texts and their storyboards. Findings The study participants’ perceptions of multimodal composing practices seemed to be positively reshaped as a result of them creating multimodal texts. Some participants created multimodal products in phases (e.g. selecting or changing a topic, constructing a storyboard and editing). Especially, although the students’ creative processes had a similarly fixed and linear flow from print-based writing to other modalities, their creative processes proved to be flexible, recursive and/or circular. Originality/value This study contributes to the understanding of adolescent English language learners’ multimodal composing practices in the EFL context, which has been underexplored in the literature. It also presents the students’ perspectives on these practices. In short, it provides theoretical and methodological grounds for future L2 literacy researchers to conduct empirical studies on multimodal composing practices.
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Bernstein, Katie A. "Writing their way into talk: Emergent bilinguals’ emergent literacy practices as pathways to peer interaction and oral language growth." Journal of Early Childhood Literacy 17, no. 4 (April 18, 2016): 485–521. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468798416638138.
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This paper explores the idea that young children’s emergent literacy practices can be tools for mediating peer interaction, and that, therefore, literacy, even in its earliest stages, can support oral language development, particularly for emergent bilinguals. The paper draws on data collected during a year-long ethnographic study of 11 Nepali- and Turkish-speaking three- and four-year-olds learning English in their first year of school. Using neo-Vygotskian activity theory as a guide, this paper examines the children’s classroom literacy practices, particularly around writing and the alphabet, in order to understand, first, how literacy functioned as a socially embedded activity for these students (sometimes in ways that contrasted with the official literacy practices of the classroom), and second, how that activity facilitated students’ interaction across language backgrounds. Finally, this paper offers a genetic analysis, or an analysis across time, of how students’ interactions with multimodal composing functioned as contexts for emergent bilinguals’ oral language development, and in particular, vocabulary acquisition.
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Misiou, Vasiliki. "Navigating a Multisemiotic Labyrinth: Reflections on the Translation of Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves." Punctum. International Journal of Semiotics 06, no. 01 (October 16, 2020): 243–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.18680/hss.2020.0012.
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Multimodal literature is not a new phenomenon. However, thanks to today’s technological advances, authors are further enabled to orchestrate and blend various available modes and resources to achieve cohesion and coherence within highly complex texts. By looking at the intersection of semiotics and translation studies, this paper focuses on the Greek translation of Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves. This novel incorporates multimodal and ergodic features that contribute to meaning creation and engage readers physically and mentally. In such a context, a literary translator has to traverse not only linguistic and cultural boundaries, but other modes and media employed for representation and meaning production, as well. Thus, one wonders whether the translator has to adopt new strategies when translating a multisemiotic text. Is the translation part of meaning-making? In an age of a plethora of means and forms of expression, what constitutes writing and reading, and by extension translation, is challenged, and literary texts –now often multimodal semiotic ensembles– invite all parties involved in an interpretive game. Through the prism of multimodal social semiotics, translation, and literary studies, and with a focus on their interaction and interconnectedness, this paper attempts to explore the new practices and forms of literary translation and the impact of the use of semiotic resources as meaning-making tools on the translation decisions made and the role of the translator. Is multimodal literacy just the tip of the iceberg of the changes brought to the field of translation studies?
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Flewitt, Rosie. "Bringing ethnography to a multimodal investigation of early literacy in a digital age." Qualitative Research 11, no. 3 (June 2011): 293–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468794111399838.
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In this article I reflect on the insights that the well established traditions of ethnography can bring to the more recent analytic tools of multimodality in the investigation of early literacy practices. First, I consider the intersection between ethnography and multimodality, their compatibility and the tensions and ambivalences that arise from their potentially conflicting epistemological framings. Drawing on ESRC-funded case studies of three and four-year-old children’s experiences of literacy with printed and digital media,1 I then illustrate how an ethnographic toolkit that incorporates a social semiotic approach to multimodality can produce richly situated insights into the complexities of early literacy development in a digital age, and can inform socially and culturally sensitive theories of literacy as social practice (Street, 1984, 2008).
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Guichot-Muñoz, Elena, María Jesús Balbás-Ortega, and Eduardo García-Jiménez. "Literacy, power, and affective (dis)encounter: An ethnographic study on a low-income community in Spain." PLOS ONE 16, no. 6 (June 4, 2021): e0252782. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252782.
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In areas of social exclusion, there are greater risks of facing discrimination at school. The teaching-learning processes may contribute toward the perpetuation of this inequality. This research analyzes a literacy event that takes place in a low-income school in Southern Spain. The new literacy studies have come to examine how power relationships and affective bonds work in such literacy practices. An ethnographic method was followed to facilitate a deeper understanding of multimodal literacy. Further, a social semiotics multimodal approach was adopted to analyze the meaning-making social process that takes place in the classroom. The participants comprised two teachers and 17 children, whose ages range from 5 to 7 years. Data were collected in the form of reports, audio recordings, video recordings, and photographs over a two-years period. The results obtained have revealed that the children have been taught writing and reading through a dominant orthodox model that fails to consider the community’s and families’ cultural capitals. They also show that the literacy process does not grant any affective quality. Neither is there an authentic dialogic space created between the school and the community. This lack of dialogue generates an inequality in the actual acquisition of comprehensive reading and writing skills at school, with instances of groups exclusion, owing to the anti-hegemonic practices of knowledge acquisition.
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Morrell, Ernest. "Toward Equity and Diversity in Literacy Research, Policy, and Practice: A Critical, Global Approach." Journal of Literacy Research 49, no. 3 (August 17, 2017): 454–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1086296x17720963.
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Can growing inequities between rich and poor and massive manifestations of hatred and intolerance amid rising tides of global populism inspire a focus on equity and diversity in literacy research, policy, and practice? Can such calls for change be collaborative rather than competitive? Can we envision self-love, wellness, and intercultural understanding as compelling ends of a reimagined literacy pedagogy? Toward these ends, this essay offers demographic, moral, and economic imperatives for fundamentally reconsidering literacy policy and practice. It then presents five “big” ideas. We must ask different questions, we must identify and problematize our notions of success, we must advocate for the equitable distribution of material resources, we must fight for bottom-up accountability practices, and we must envision new literacy practices that reflect our new global reality. Finally it advocates a global postcolonial critical literacies framework where teachers are positioned as intellectuals and agents of change, where students have opportunities to collaboratively produce and distribute multimodal compositions, where children have access to a wider array of literary texts that enable them to become powerful, reflexive readers of the word and the world, and where parents and communities are partners in the project of nurturing powerful readers, authors, and speaker.
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Bakó, Rozália Klára, and Gyöngyvér Erika Tőkés. "Strangers in Digiland." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae Communicatio 4, no. 1 (December 1, 2017): 109–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/auscom-2017-0006.
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AbstractWith the growing importance of digital practices in young children’s everyday routines, parents and educators often face frustration and confusion. They find it difficult to guide children when it comes to playing and learning online. This research note proposes an insight into parents’ and educators’ concerns related to children’s and their own digital literacy, based on two exploratory qualitative inquiries carried out from March 2015 to August 2017 among 30 children aged 4 to 8 from Romania, their parents and educators. The research projectDigital and Multimodal Practices of Young Children from Romania(2015–2016) and its continuationThe Role of Digital Competence in the Everyday Lives of Children Aged 4–8(2017–2018, ongoing) are part of a broader effort within the Europe-wide COST network IS1410 –The Digital and Multimodal Practices of Young Children(2014–2018). Parents and educators are disconnected from young children’s universe, our research has found. The factors enabling adults’ access to “Digiland” and ways of coping with the steep learning curve of digital literacy are explored through parents’ and teachers’ narratives, guided observation of children’s digital practices, and expert testimonies.
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Smirnov, Natalia, and Wan Shun Eva Lam. "“Presenting Our Perspective”: Recontextualizing Youths’ Experiences of Hypercriminalization Through Media Production." Written Communication 36, no. 2 (February 18, 2019): 296–344. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0741088319827594.
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In this study, we examine how youth use media production to represent, (de)legitimate, and reimagine their experiences of hypercriminalization—the pervasive complex of social practices such as racial profiling that position young men of color as “always-already criminal.” We analyze two clips from a youth-produced news show called POPPYN, specifically a 2014 episode focusing on youth and the criminal justice system, using tools from recontextualization analysis and multimodal semiotics, which together allow us to index the substitutions, deletions, rearrangements, and additions of component elements of social practices. Through investigation of linguistic and multimodal processes that represent social actors, actions, and constructions of their legitimacy, this study demonstrates ways that media making can serve as a tool for youth of color to process and rewrite persistent hypercriminalizing positionings in more agentive and hopeful ways. We end by proposing implications for multimodal literacy practices and pedagogies.
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백혜선 and 이규만. "Exploring Multimodal Literacy Practices through Observing Designing Slides for Presentation by Korean Adolescents." korean language education research ll, no. 46 (April 2013): 389–413. http://dx.doi.org/10.20880/kler.2013..46.389.
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Coleman, Lynn. "Digital and Multimodal: Shifts in Vocational Higher Education Academic Literacy and Textual Practices." International Journal of Literacies 23, no. 4 (2016): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/2327-0136/cgp/v23i04/1-16.
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Zhang, Zheng. "Canadian Literacy Curricula in Macau, China: Students’ Lived Curriculum." Beijing International Review of Education 1, no. 2-3 (June 29, 2019): 401–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/25902539-00102010.
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This ethnographic case study documents students’ lived experience at a Canadian offshore school in Macau through students’ multimodal artifacts, interviews, and teacher-student interactions in English and Mandarin literacy classes. Undergirded by the theory of cosmopolitan literacies, this study revealed the opportunities at mcs for difference negotiation and fluid identity formation that were enabled by mcs’s curricular emphasis on celebrating multiculturalism and multimodality. However, interview and observation data showed that literacy practices in the English literacy classes also centered around pen to paper meaning-making. This study identified human and non-human actors that enabled and constrained students’ literacy and identity options in the unique cross-border education context in Macau, such as mcs’s multicultural reality, school’s curricular emphasis on celebrating multiculturalism and multimodality, individual teachers’ preferences in literacy practices, and the expectations of the standardized Alberta test. The paper discusses the pedagogical potentials of cosmopolitan literacies to expand transnational education students’ literacy and identity options.
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Park, Jennifer C. "Cultivating STEAM Literacy: Emphasizing the Implementation of the Arts through Reading Practices Supporting the Asian Diaspora." Asia-Pacific Science Education 7, no. 2 (November 18, 2021): 586–614. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/23641177-bja10034.
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Abstract This paper explores the cultivation of STEAM literacy through the employment of practices derived from traditional reading strategies. This teaching and learning framework focuses on utilizing multimodal texts to increase exposure and opportunities for students to creatively explore diverse realms of STEM through the arts. Featuring student-centered endeavors through self-selected texts and in-class reading practices followed by tiered scaffolded discourse engagements, this framework initiates greater interest, autonomy, and culturally and linguistically authentic practices enhancing STEAM literacy. Embedded in the implications is the deconstruction of frequently aggregated STEM data that “overrepresents” the Asian demographic. Using the lens of the model minority myth, this paper attempts to disaggregate the Asian category, illuminating the actual diaspora that makes up the Asian and Asian American communities, many of which are not represented in STEM fields. Through more reading opportunities and fostering discourse practices, the arts contribute greater inclusion, cultivating STEAM literacy for all students.
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Dillard-Paltrineri, Elizabeth. "Intersecting Flows of Language and Literacy: A Case Study of One Transnational Youth in the Cloud and in the Classroom." LETRAS, no. 52 (August 30, 2012): 179–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.15359/rl.2-52.11.
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What youth do online is often dismissed as solely social and superficial a waste of time and certainly not academic. Many transnational youth use sophisticated, multimodal, and multilingual literacy skills to navigate these physical and virtual spaces. Calling on concepts of flows and scapes, as well as sociocultural notions of mediation, this case study investigates the digital literacy practices of transnational youth. A description is provided of see how these practices flow between (and simultaneously mediate further participation in) official and unofficial spaces of learning.
Las actividades en línea de los jóvenes se consideran pasatiempos, y no actividades académicas. Muchos jóvenes transnacionales navegan los espacios físicos y virtuales usando destrezas de alfabetización complejas, multimodales y multilingües. Mediante los conceptos de flujos y scapes, mediación y teorías socioculturales, este estudio de caso investiga las prácticas de alfabetización digital de jóvenes transnacionales. Describe las formas en que éstas destrezas fluyen (y, simultáneamente, median más participación) entre espacios de aprendizaje oficiales y no oficiales.
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Mclean, Cheryl A. "Racialized Tensions in the Multimodal Literacies of Black Immigrant Youth." Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 122, no. 13 (April 2020): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016146812012201303.
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Background The chapter explores the intersection of multimodal and digital literacies and racial identities of Black Caribbean immigrant youth in the United States (U.S.). Drawing on ethnographic research on the ways in which adolescent students embody their identities online, the chapter details some of the tensions that arise when these adolescents attempt to navigate a new home country that racializes their cultural and national identities and literacy practices. Context The chapter offers a meta-analysis of case studies five Black Caribbean immigrant adolescents’ multimodal and digital literacy practices in response to the racialized category “Black.” Looking across four ethnographic case studies, and through the thematic meta-analysis of data, the chapter presents data snapshots of pivotal events that refect issues of race. These events highlight the dialogic ways that these youth make use of literacy practices to understand what it means to be Black and immigrant, and to challenge these dominant, racialized representations that negate their cultural identities. Purpose The purpose of the chapter is to explore the tensions that arise when these adolescents attempt to navigate a new home country that racializes their cultural and national identities and literacy practices. In the case of Black Caribbean immigrant youth, part of this newcomer experience involves negotiating what “race” and “blackness” mean in terms of their academic, social, and personal lives. Thus, the chapter illustrates how young people use their modally and digitally mediated practices to negotiate racialized positionings across physical and virtual spaces, affinity groups, and the school and social contexts of their adopted U.S. homes. Findings As Black Caribbean immigrants, these young persons engage in emotional identity work in their talk about and/or experiences of race. The adolescents’ emotional response to racialized categories was defined by contesting feelings of pride, shame, and resilience. Two salient themes that characterized these tensions are the conflicting sense of 1) national pride versus the racial prejudice, and 2) deficit versus worthy. Their feelings of self-worth were intrinsically connected to racialized identity labels “Black” and “immigrant.” However, the modal tools and spaces they used and created serve as sites of resilience and identity (re)framing. Conclusions Adolescents developed their own personal and/or public voice that allowed them to reevaluate their self-worth, importance of social status, opportunities for advocacy, and their redefinitions of identity labels. Modal spaces and tools offered these adolescents alternative frames of reference within which they could evaluate and reposition Self. The intentional responses of these Black immigrant youth offered positive ways to see and present themselves while challenging deficit narratives of persons of color. Recommendation Explore immigrant adolescents’ use of modal and digital tools and literacies as spaces for socially reconstructing notions of race and identity. Consider modal and virtual digital spaces and tools (e.g., social networks, blogs, photographs/images, talk/stories) as a way to create opportunities for youth to air and share their experiences and ideas, as well as have their stories and positionalities become a part of the broader educational and societal narrative.
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Wiseman, Angela M., Jennifer D. Turner, and Marva Cappello. "“I Drew Myself Right There”: third grade girls restorying for visual justice." English Teaching: Practice & Critique 20, no. 4 (September 30, 2021): 549–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/etpc-07-2020-0071.
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Purpose This paper aims to present three girls’ visual annotations and digital responses that restory a scene in the picturebook I’m New Here. The authors focus on how children use multimodal tools to reflect their critical knowledge of the world by illuminating how this group of girls responded to and incorporated broader social issues. Design/methodology/approach This study takes place in a third-grade classroom. Using qualitative methods that build on critical multimodal literacy, the authors documented and analyzed children’s visual and digital interpretations. Data were generated from classroom sessions that incorporated interactive readalouds, as well as students’ annotated visual images, sketches, video and digital responses. The collaborative analytic process involved multiple passes to interpret visual, textual and multimodal elements. Findings The analyses revealed how Aliyah, Tiana and Carissa used multimodal tools to engage in the process of restorying. Through their multimodal composition, they designed images that illuminated their solidarity with the young female character wearing the hijab; their desire to disrupt xenophobic bullying; and their hope for a respectful and inclusive climate in their own classroom. Originality/value In this paper, the authors examine how three girls in a third-grade classroom restory using critical multimodal literacy methods. These girls’ multimodal responses reflected how they disrupted dominant storylines of exclusionary practices. Their authentic acts of visual advocacy give us hope for the future.
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Curiel, Lucía Cárdenas, and Christina M. Ponzio. "Imagining Multimodal and Translanguaging Possibilities for Authentic Cultural Writing Experiences." Journal of Multilingual Education Research 11 (November 30, 2021): 79–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/jmer.2021.v11.79-102.
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This article proposes ways to authentically amplify writer’s workshop for emergent bilinguals. Through the study of one bilingual teacher’s mediation in teaching, we examined the affordances that translanguaging and transmodal practices have for emergent bilingual students’ writing processes. In this case study, we focused on a writing sequence associated with the well-known Latin American holiday of the Day of the Dead, in which 3rd grade emergent bilinguals wrote “calaveras,” or literary poems, as part of an interdisciplinary language arts and social studies lesson. Our work is framed by sociocultural theories of mediation, literacy, and language. Under a multiliteracies pedagogy, we observed how a bilingual teacher and emergent bilinguals negotiate meaning through a variety of linguistic and multimodal resources. In our interactional analysis of talk, we found how the teacher mediated background knowledge and vocabulary as a part of the writing process; we also identified ways in which her mediation included extensive scaffolding as she provided linguistic and disciplinary knowledge needed to write calaveras. Through integrating the tenets of mediation with biliteracy, multiliteracies, and translanguaging pedagogies, this study offers a promising example of how teachers can build a culturally-sustaining writers’ workshop to support emergent bilingual learners’ language development and writing practices.
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Incelli, Ersilia Amedea. "Engaging students in multimodal literacy practices in a university ESP context: towards understanding identity and ideology in government debates." Multimodal Communication 11, no. 1 (November 29, 2021): 49–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/mc-2021-0004.
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Abstract This paper focuses on issues of multimodal literacy practices in ESP higher education settings. In particular, the research explores how students become engaged in various literacy activities aimed at enhancing their critical-thinking skills and interpretation of images. For this purpose, two datasets consisting of video clips were extracted from a larger multimodal corpus and developed for teaching applications: one involved a UK live parliament debate and the other a US House of Representatives debate. The main objective is to identify the key verbal strategies reflecting persuasive, argumentative rhetoric and the non-verbal features accompanying these verbal utterances such as prosodic stress, body/head movements, gaze, gesture. Thus, the focus of the analysis is on how different semiotic modes of communication construct meaning, especially in terms of how they reinforce the construction of identity and ideological stance. The results were systematically categorized and applied on a practical level to a teaching unit on ‘identity and ideology’.
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Fastrez, Pierre, Nathalie Lacelle, Julia Bihl, Eve Gladu, Eric Delamotte, Catherine Delarue-Breton, Christophe Ronveaux, and Denise Sutter Widmer. "The The Media Literacy of Teenagers." Educare - vetenskapliga skrifter, no. 1 (February 24, 2022): 71–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.24834/educare.2022.1.4.
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IIn this paper, we present the conceptual framework, objectives, and methodology of an interdisciplinary research program (2018–2022) on the media literacy competence of teenagers in French-speaking Belgium, Quebec, France, and Switzerland. The program is undertaken by researchers in four universities, one in each national context. Focusing on information search and multimodal production as core media literacy activities, this program develops a multi-level assessment method to measure media literacy competence at varying levels of complexity. Additionally, we relate task-based measures of competence with self-reported competence and practices and seek to document the influence of the students’ interpretation of the tasks contexts and purposes, their motivation and feeling of empowerment, and their collaborative practices on the exercise of their media literacy. Preliminary results reveal that students report substantially higher levels of competence in information search than in web production; however, this difference is reduced when students assess their ability to perform specific search-related or production-related actions. These results are discussed in light of the potential usefulness of the program for teachers and for curricular design.
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Shimek, Courtney. "Recursive readings and reckonings: kindergarteners’ multimodal transactions with a nonfiction picturebook." English Teaching: Practice & Critique 20, no. 2 (February 22, 2021): 149–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/etpc-07-2020-0068.
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Purpose Our world had always been multimodal, but studying how young children enact and embody literacy practices, especially reading, has often been overlooked. The purpose of this study was to examine how young children respond to nonfiction picturebooks in multimodal ways. This paper aims to answer the question: What multimodal resources do readers use to respond to and construct meaning from nonfiction picturebooks? Design/methodology/approach Undergirded by Rosenblatt’s transactional theory of reading and social semiotic multimodality, a 9-min video clip of three boys making sense of one nonfiction picturebook during reading workshop was analyzed using Norris’ approach to multimodal data analysis. This research stemmed from a five-month-long case study of one kindergarten class’s multimodal and collective responses to nonfiction picturebooks. Findings Findings demonstrate how readers use gesture, gaze and proxemics in addition to language to signal agreement with one another, explain new ideas or concepts to one another and incorporate their background knowledge. In addition to reading images, the children learned to read each other. Originality/value This research indicates that reading is inherently multimodal, recursive and complex and provides implications for teachers to reconsider what kinds of responses they prioritize in their classrooms. Additionally, this research establishes the need to better understand how readers respond to nonfiction books and a broader examination of multimodality in the literacy curriculum.
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Tílio, Rogério, Thaís Sampaio, and Gabriel Martins. "Critical literacy and social agency." Revista da Anpoll 52, no. 2 (November 18, 2021): 90–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.18309/ranpoll.v52i2.1549.
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Upon the understanding of Applied Linguistics as an indisciplinary field of inquiry that aims to create intelligibility regarding language-centered social problems (MOITA LOPES, 2006), this article introduces a pedagogical instrument, a Critical Multiliteracies Thematic Project, as a means to develop learners’ critical social agency. The nature of this educational project derives from the pedagogy of critical sociointeractional literacy (TILIO, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2015), whose understanding of language teaching permeates notions of citizenship that defy hegemonic discourses by prompting the analysis of themes and language, and the adoption of a constant critical stance. As the pedagogical project in focus situates its practices through alternative Brazilian female voices, students of an extension English course are led to respond to the multiple discourses on gender-imbricated matters that dwells their social horizons (VOLÓCHINOV, 2017 [1929]). Hence, by investigating the dialogue established between the project and a student, this article intends to contribute to the production of knowledge on social life. In order to do so, we selected a task that integrates the project and a multimodal digital text produced by a student in response to the project. We close off the article by framing the relevance of ethically committed language education in promoting learners’ transforming practices.
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Martínez-Álvarez, Patricia, María Paula Ghiso, and Isabel Martínez. "Creative Literacies and Learning With Latino Emergent Bilinguals." LEARNing Landscapes 6, no. 1 (June 1, 2012): 273–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.36510/learnland.v6i1.587.
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Research documents the benefits of implementing pedagogical practices that foster creativity in order to prepare students for a changing future and to meet the needs of emergent bilingual learners. Designing pedagogical invitations that make room for creativity is especially urgent given educational policies in the United States which privilege decontextualized, standardized learning aimed at "testable" skills, often in opposition to more expansive multilingual and multimodal learning opportunities. The current study explores how multimodal literacy experiences grounded in bilingual learners’ sociocultural realities stimulated creativity and allowed students to demonstrate and practice their creative abilities.
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Buchholz, Beth. "“Actually, that’s not really how I imagined it”: Children’s divergent dispositions, identities, and practices in digital production." International Journal of Literacy, Culture, and Language Education 3 (April 1, 2014): 25–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.14434/ijlcle.v3i0.26907.
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This case study explores the range of social and digital literacy practices in which a group of 4th to 6th grade students engaged while collaboratively creating digital book trailers—one‐ to two-minute digital videos designed to entice classmates to read a particular book. The research question framing this work is how do these children’s ways of knowing and being in the world impact their multimodal production processes? Fine‐grained multimodal analysis was combined with retrospective think‐alouds and ethnographic fieldwork to uncover traces of practice that were sedimented in their digital texts. The analysis highlights the importance of developing methodological tools for studying digital composition processes, given that much of the research in this area has focused on analyzing the final products using multimodal content analysis. The findings reveal divergent practices around image selection and representation that suggest contrasting ethea of remixing culture. Implications include considering the visual arts as a potential entry point for supporting students’ critical engagement in the digital world.
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Bickford, Crystal. "Digitalization and the Writing Classroom: A Reflection on Clasroom Practices." Journal of Academic Writing 10, no. 1 (December 18, 2020): 146–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.18552/joaw.v10i1.593.
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This paper outlines the educational benefits of creating digital stories for a variety of academic purposes as well as the professional need for students to develop and showcase digital proficiency. Digital stories fall under the category of multimodal composition and new media studies, and they encourage students to expand their digital literacy skills while reconceptualizing ways in which traditional writing projects can appeal to a broader audience. The article also addresses some of the classroom challenges teachers may face when trying to implement the practice and some practical resources that might assist teachers to integrate digital stories into their classrooms.
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Hong, Ang Leng, and Tan Kim Hua. "A Review of Theories and Practices of Multiliteracies in Classroom: Issues and Trends." International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research 19, no. 11 (November 30, 2020): 41–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.19.11.3.
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This paper aims to review the concepts of literacy, multiliteracies, and multimodality in educational settings and their relevance in classroom practice. Literacy has emerged in recent years as an essential concept in the classroom teaching and learning process. With literacy views beyond the conventional print medium, it is important for teachers, educators, and learners to be given a new understanding of multiliteracies pedagogies. This paper also reflects on the development of multiliteracies paradigms. Specifically, it discusses the relevance and potentials of multimodal teaching and learning in dealing with the multiliteracies school learners bring into the classrooms including digital literacies and online literacies. This paper adopted a systematic literature review approach exploring issues and trends related to multiliteracies in the classroom context. The findings indicate that past studies often consider both the multimodality of meaning-making and meaning-recreating as well as different multiliteracies skills learners bring to the classroom. The review presented here addresses multiliteracies pedagogy in classroom teaching that benefits teachers, educators, and learners. Recommendations are made for future multiliteracies studies to strengthen the pedagogical practices in the emerging digital classroom.
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Kalir, Jeremiah H., and Antero Garcia. "Civic Writing on Digital Walls." Journal of Literacy Research 51, no. 4 (October 3, 2019): 420–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1086296x19877208.
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Civic writing has appeared on walls over centuries, across cultures, and in response to political concerns. This article advances a civic interrogation of how civic writing is publicly authored, read, and discussed as openly accessible and multimodal texts on digital walls. Drawing upon critical literacy perspectives, we examine how a repertoire of 10 civic writing practices associated with open web annotation (OWA) helped educators develop critical literacy. We introduce a social design experiment in which educators leveraged OWA to discuss educational equity across sociopolitical texts and contexts. We then describe a single case of OWA conversation among educators and use discourse analysis to examine shifting situated meanings and political expressions present in educators’ civic writing practices. We conclude by considering implications for theorizing the marginality of critical literacy, designing learning environments that foster educators’ civic writing, and facilitating learning opportunities that encourage educators’ civic writing across digital walls.
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Mihalis, Athanasios. "Καλλιέργεια πρακτικών ψηφιακού γραμματισμού: δημιουργική πρόκληση για το νέο σχολείο." Preschool and Primary Education 4, no. 1 (May 12, 2016): 165. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/ppej.242.
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<p> </p><p><span> </span>This paper concerns digital literacy as a main dimension of social literacy in general, and especially as an important aspect of multimodal literacy. The main purpos-es of the paper (on a theoretical level) are the following: a) the definition of the nature and the main aspects and principles of digital literacy, which is regarded as not explicitly and sufficiently defined in an era of information and advanced technology; b) the presentation and analysis of students’ cognitive schemata (formal and content), which are a prerequisite for the cultivation of digital literacy practices, the social and linguistic aspects of digital literacy and the cultural dimension of this kind of literacy; c) the inves-tigation of ways to connect digital literacy and multimodality; d) the description of se-miotic resources and semiotic modes which are the main means for meaning making and meaning making transformation and redesigning, considered within the frame of social semiotic theory; e) finally, the discussion of some dimensions of critical digital literacy in </p><p>educational systems. Additionally, the main aims of the present paper, as a contribution to scientific research in the literacy field, are: a) to investigate the ways digital literacy practices are cultivated in Greek primary and secondary education through content analysis of the Greek language curricula and course books in secondary education and through the critical analysis of educational discourse; b) to present Greek language teachers’ attitudes towards the term and the aspects of multimodality and its location in the Greek educational system (the data about teachers’ attitudes are collected through interviews). The results of the research show that, in Greek education, digital literacy practices are considered to be an intentional process and a system of knowledge and skills (according the autonomous model of literacy) without being viewed in their social and ideological aspects within a communicative and cultural community. The considera-tion of semiotic resources and digital tools as isolated from their social context is in con-trast to language as semiotic mode, which is examined and studied in its social and cul-tural context. Also, language teachers are confused as far as the notion and the aspects of multimodality are concerned. Finally an example is provided of analysing a multimodal text positing an argument, so as to highlight the construction of meaning through a vari-ety of semiotic modes.Using this example, the content and practice of Greek language as an educational subject could be rejuvenated.</p>
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Howard, Patrick. "Affinity Spaces and Ecologies of Practice: Digital Composing Processes of Pre-service English Teachers." Language and Literacy 16, no. 1 (May 23, 2014): 34. http://dx.doi.org/10.20360/g2s010.
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English educators are responsible for preparing pre-service and in-service teachers to consider the ways in which people engage in meaning making by using a variety of representation, interpretive and communication systems. Today new technologies are radically changing the types of texts people create and interpret even as they are influencing the social, political and cultural contexts in which texts are shared. This research project was designed to immerse pre-service English education students in the creation of multimodal, multimedia texts as part of a digital composing workshop. For the purposes of this paper, three student experiences were drawn from a group of twelve pre-service English education students participating in the project. Each student represents a unique experience from which we may draw insight and direction as English educators. Despite the ever present barriers to integrating afterschool (Prensky, 2010) literacy practices into traditional schools and to ensure what we are teaching has the important element of “life validity” ( Mills, 2010) and reflects the evolving socio cultural literacy practices of contemporary society, English educators must provide authentic, engaging opportunities for pre-service teachers to learn about and through multimedia, multimodal digital technologies.