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McLean, Cheryl A.; Rowsell, Jennifer; Lapp, Diane – English in Australia, 2011
This article argues that theoretical understandings of multimodality have enormous potential for assessment purposes in secondary school contexts. Informed by the work of three researchers in three North American high schools, the article offers vignettes of the effective assessment of communicative competence in English classrooms that draws on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, North Americans, English Instruction, Learning Modalities
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Ryan, Josephine; Scott, Anne; Walsh, Maureen – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2010
Contemporary commentary notes that students are frequently ahead of their teachers in their ability to manipulate and be creative with the internet, digital programs, and mobile technology. In this context it is important to ask, "What knowledge do teachers need to teach in the contemporary context where texts are elaborately multimodal,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Multimedia Instruction
Tan Lee Wee, Lynde – New Horizons in Education, 2010
Background: In response to the changing demands of new times, media literacy has been incorporated into the current English Language Syllabus 2010 in Singapore. Although media literacy is mentioned in the syllabus, what this term means needs more clarification. What is clear from the current English Language Syllabus 2010 in Singapore is the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Media Literacy, Literacy Education, Secondary School Students