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Bezemer, Jeff; Kress, Gunther – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2020
This review is on Lilian Pozzer and Wolff-Michael Roth's "A cultural-historical perspective on the multimodal development of concepts in science lectures." We offer some brief observations from within the paradigm of social semiotics, more specifically from our own attempts to produce multimodal accounts of learning in and beyond the…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Science Education, Teacher Role, Learning Modalities
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Brett Criswell; Kadir Demir; Michelle Zoss – Science Education, 2025
This qualitative case study delved into students' understanding and positioning while they participated in solving an authentic, conceptually-based problem in a high-school chemistry class. Verbal and nonverbal cues, particularly gestures, offered broader awareness of students' engagement in sensemaking during the learning experience. The…
Descriptors: High School Students, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Student Attitudes
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Oliveira, Alandeom W.; Rivera, Seema; Glass, Rory; Mastroianni, Michael; Wizner, Francine; Amodeo, Vincent – Research in Science Education, 2014
This study examines elementary teachers reading children's science books aloud to students in the US. Our findings show that science read-aloud semiosis (meaning-making) extends beyond text delivery. In addition to making a written text orally available to students, teachers also deploy different types of gestures (pointing and iconic…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction, Reading Aloud to Others
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Zhang, Ying – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2016
This article reports the results of an ethnographic research about the multimodal science discourse in a sixth-grade sheltered classroom involving English Language Learners (ELLs) only. Drawing from the perspective of multimodality, this study examines how science learning is constructed in science lectures through multiple semiotic resources,…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Middle School Students, Grade 6, Ethnography
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Shanahan, Lynn E.; Flury-Kashmanian, Caroline – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2014
Research and pedagogical information provided to teachers on implementing explicit strategy instruction has primarily focused on teachers' speech, with limited attention to other modes of communication, such as gesture and artefacts. This interpretive case study investigates two teachers' use of different semiotic resources when introducing…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies, Elementary School Students
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Shanahan, Lynn E.; Roof, Lisa M. – Literacy, 2013
Research on implementing reading strategy instruction has primarily focused on teachers' verbal communication with limited attention to other semiotic resources such as gesture and artefacts. In this paper, we construct a "telling case" on the basis of how one primary teacher from the United States used speech, gesture and artefacts…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Nonverbal Communication
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Wilson, Amy Alexandra – Science Education, 2013
Framed in theories of social semiotics, this multiple case study describes and categorizes the actional-operational modes used by three middle school earth science teachers throughout the course of one school year. Data included fieldnotes, photographs, and video recordings of classroom instructions as well as periodic interviews with the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Earth Science, Middle School Teachers, Secondary School Science
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Selfe, Cynthia L. – College Composition and Communication, 2009
Rhetoric and composition's increasing attention to multimodal composing involves challenges that go beyond issues of access to digital technologies and electronic composing environments. As a specific case study, this article explores the history of aural composing modalities (speech, music, sound) and examines how they have been understood and…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Semiotics, Learning Modalities, Aural Learning
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Codreanu, Tatiana; Celik, Christelle Combe – Research-publishing.net, 2012
The aim of the study is to describe and analyze webcam pedagogical communication between a French Foreign Language tutor and two students during seven online classes. It tries to answer the following question: how does the tutor in a multimodal learning environment change her semio-discursive behavior from the first to the last session? We analyze…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Second Language Learning, French
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Pramling, Niklas; Wallerstedt, Cecilia – Music Education Research, 2009
The present study concerns the multimodal nature of music education. How children (aged 4-8 years) respond when faced with the challenge of talking about what they hear in pieces of music is studied. The semiotic tools children and their teachers use in these situations and how they transduce between modalities (verbal, sound, colours and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Music, Intermode Differences