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Macken-Horarik, Mary – English in Australia, 2016
English is an already crowded curriculum and the incursion of multimodal literature puts it under increased pressure. How do teachers and students learn to understand and deploy tools of analysis that shed light on verbiage and images without becoming entangled in a complex and crowded analytical language? Is it possible to develop a metalanguage…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, English Curriculum, Literary Criticism, Semiotics
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Ravelli, Louise – English in Australia, 2016
Multimodal texts are now part of the curriculum for school English, but they are by their nature inherently complex, and pose many challenges for the classroom. Not least is finding a way to manage the technical complexity of accounting for these texts, as well as finding a way to move students beyond simple observation and description to critical…
Descriptors: Secondary School Curriculum, English Curriculum, Visual Literacy, Learning Modalities
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Boerman-Cornell, William – Reading Teacher, 2016
This study analyzes how second, third, and fourth graders in a racially integrated suburban school engaged in multimodal meaning making in the context of a book club discussing Ben Hatke's graphic novel "Zita the Spacegirl." Qualitative analysis of field notes and assessments indicated three overall findings: First, students responded to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4
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Winters, Kari-Lynn – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2012
Case illustrations of a six-year-old boy's adventures with a missing tooth are used in this paper to re-define a broader notion of authorship. Drawing on theories of social semiotics, New Literacy Studies (NLS), and critical positioning, this notion of authorship not only interweaves the boy's preferred modes of meaning-making and communication,…
Descriptors: Authors, Childrens Literature, Childrens Writing, Semiotics
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Honeyford, Michelle A. – Literacy, 2013
This paper explores how students, as multimodal storytellers, can weave powerful narratives blending modes, genres, artefacts and literary conventions to represent the real and imagined in their lives. Part of a larger ethnographic case study of student writing in a middle years class for immigrant students learning English as an additional…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Literary Criticism, Realism, Discourse Analysis