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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"multimodal social semiotics"”.
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Argument as design: a multimodal approach to academic argument in a digital age
… the potentials and constraints of adopting a multimodal approach to constructing academic argument. The research is situated within a seminar, in a second year Media course. Within this context, the study identifies the semiotic resources that students draw on and examines how they are …
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The integration of multimodality in English teaching in Indonesian junior high schools
This study elaborates the integration of multimodality in English teaching in Indonesian junior high schools as recommended in the School Literacy Movement (SLM) policy. The policy expects the teachers to expand the concept of literacy from language-based literacy into multimodal-based literacy in …
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Children's meaning-making with narrative apps in early years: investigating the interplay between young readers, teachers, and app design
… and shape these reading practices. Grounded in multimodal social semiotics, particularly Gunther Kress' (2003) concept of reading-as-design, this study proposes an expansion of this theoretical framework to better reflect the active role of digital media and app developers in contemporary …
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Embodiment and agency in digital reading: Preschoolers making meaning with literary apps
… Meaning-making is understood through a multimodal social semiotics perspective, which considers that meaning is realised in the dynamic transaction between reader, text and social context. Therefore, the dissertation integrates the analysis of the apps and of the children’s responses to …
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“All these wonderful things”: the place of digital resources in newly qualified English language and literacy teachers' practices, from higher education to high schools
… New Literacy Studies and recent theories from multimodal social semiotics and discourse studies. The data analysis framework consists of three lenses: recognisable activities, multimodal ensembles and assemblages-as-tensions. The analysis of recognisable activities in lesson plans and high …
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How do two-year-olds construct outdoor play as part of the two-year-olds offer? A multimodal ethnographic study of an inner London nursery during the global pandemic
This research employed a multimodal, ethnographic approach to explore how a group of two-year-olds, who received ‘the two-year-olds offer’, experienced outdoor play in a London nursery playground during the pandemic. The two-year-olds offer is an education policy initiative in England, introduced …