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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Multimodal Literacies"”.
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Supporting Multimodal Literacies in Early Learning Settings: A Case Study of Two Child Care Centres in Alberta
… young children convey meaning. These modes, or multimodal literacies, include signs, images, gestures, sounds, speech, movements, and actions. In this doctoral research, I explored how early learning and childcare educators support multimodal literacies in young children. Using a multiple case …
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Post-Literacy: Designing Writing Curricula around Emerging Literate Activities
… focuses on the integration of digital and multimodal literacies in first-year writing curricula. This dissertation situates itself among other scholarship in new literacies, such as the work of Gee, Selfe and Hawisher. Particularly focusing on digital and multimodal literacies, I utilize …
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Multimodality in the Art & Media Arts Classroom: A Qualitative Study of Multimodal Literacies as They Appear in Art & Media Educator Classroom Curriculum and Practice
… practices in developing greater applications for multimodal literacy theory, defined by the National Council of the Teachers of English as “Integration of multiple modes of communication and expression that can enhance or transform the meaning of the work beyond illustration or decoration” (2005). …
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Multimodality And The Sociality Of Literacies: Shaping First-Year Writing Students’ Literacies Through Multimodal Approaches
… here focuses on approaches to developing multimodal literacies through social semiotics, digital modes of communication, and multiliteracies. Intentionally developing these literacies opens the door for first-year writing students to build upon social discourses in which they already …
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Increasing multimedia literacy in composition for multilingual writers: a case study of art analysis
… at EWU in order to explore ways to foster multimodal literacies in English Language Learners (ELL's). "Digital composing environments force writers, readers, and texts to change .... Today, more than ever before, attention is being given to the role of the arts, multi-modality, and new …
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English Literacy Curricula in a Sino-Canadian Transnational Education Program: Teachers’ Implemented Curriculum
… by nested pedagogical orientations and critical multimodal literacies, this study focuses on how the BC English literacy curricula were implemented in three English literacy teachers’ classes. Data show that two pedagogical orientations (i.e., transmission and social constructivist) were used by …
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An Autoethnography of a Novice ESL Teacher: Plato’s Cave and English Language Teaching in Japan
… of English is detailed. The importance of multimodal literacies in English learning is highlighted. Autoethnography is discussed afterwards. Chapter 3 is a literacy narrative and an autoethnography describing the author’s experiences living in rural Japan and teaching at three elementary …
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Living Pedagogies of Voice: Co-Creating a Decolonial Project to Reimagine Special Education
… practice was reoriented around inquiry, multimodal expression, and dialogic accountability. Students engaged texts as structural critics—reframing institutional labels and articulating new self-concepts while navigating inherited schooling language.</p> <p>I advanced a fundamental …