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Rowsell, Jennifer; Pahl, Kate – Reading Research Quarterly, 2007
The commentary argues for an understanding of how texts are put together that accounts for multimodality and draws on children's ways of being and doing in the home, their "habitus". It focuses on identities as socially situated. It argues that it is important to trace the process of sedimenting identities during text production. This offers a way…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Learning Modalities, Intermode Differences, Case Studies
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Kavale, Kenneth A.; Forness, Steven R. – Exceptional Children, 1987
A literature search identified 39 studies assessing modality preferences and modality teaching. The studies, involving 3,087 disabled and nondisabled elementary/secondary level subjects, were quantitatively synthesized. Subjects receiving differential instruction based on modality preferences exhibited only modest gains. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Diagnostic Teaching, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Koester, Lynne Sanford; Spencer, Patricia E. – 1992
This study investigated associations between infants' prelinguistic communicative behaviors at 9 months and their communication and language performance at 12 and 18 months. The inclusion of both hearing (N=19) and deaf (N=16) infants in the study allowed identification of effects related to the receptive communication modality (vision versus…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Communication Skills, Deafness, Early Experience