TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nickolas Komninos
AU  - Sonja Starc
PY  - 2024
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2192-7170
SN  - 9783631925423
TI  - Multimodal Literacy in Education
T2  - Perspectives from Global Practices
DO  - 10.3726/b22250
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1521840
N2  - This multilingual volume delves into multimodal literacy within educational contexts, exploring its significance across diverse cultural settings. From Singapore’s integration of multimodal meaning-making into the English language syllabus to Slovenia’s reevaluation of pictorial semiotic sources in primary school textbooks, each chapter offers nuanced perspectives on implementation and impact. Contributors illuminate methods to enhance students’ understanding of multimodality and genre, advocate for audio description in language education, and explore multimodal texts’ role in historical education. Through theoretical discourse and practical illustrations, the book elucidates how multimodal texts foster student agency and enrich learning experiences. Offering insights into methodologies and pedagogical approaches, it equips educators to integrate multimodal practices effectively. By highlighting the transformative potential of multimodal literacy, this work contributes to ongoing scholarly conversations in education, prompting a reevaluation of traditional literacy in the digital era.
KW  - Literacy, Multiliteracies, Multimodality, Design-based Research, Schemata activation, Content analysis, Picture books, Genre analysis, Agency, CFRIDiL, Audio Description, Easy reading, computation linguistics, pedagogical research
LA  - English
ER  -