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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"multimodal texts"”.
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How to use Multimodal Texts to Teach Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in Elementary Classrooms
… research is a content analysis of a variety of multimodal literacy texts for their potential to engage students in interventions that connect to the SEL benchmarks. While there are lesson plans specific to targeting SEL already created, the significance of this study is to evaluate the …
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"It's just part of what we do": Adolescent interactions with multimodal texts across social spaces
… range of social, academic, print, and digital contexts. The intent of the study is to help articulate the boundedness and fluidity of multiple discourses, and to better clarify how teens maneuver across these boundaries successfully. My research approach incorporates ethnographic methodology with …
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An Exploration of Meaning-Making and Engagement with Multimodal Texts Involving 14-15-Year-Old Students in a Virtual Reading Group
… group of St Lucian adolescents engaging with multimodal texts within a virtual reading group. Over a period of five months, twelve students participated in the reading group via Zoom. Leveraging a case-study design with ethnographic elements, the study utilised unstructured interviews, digital …
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Image analysis for translating English multimodal texts into Greek : a multimodal semiotics approach to translation training in a Greek higher education context
… provided the conceptual framework for this multimodal semiotics approach to translation training, which guided my examination of the way the trainees described semiotic resources, how they used verbal and visual elements of Cl. translation task, and the extent to which they focused on the …
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Choreographing Memory: Performance and Embodiment in Multimodal Narrative
… inherent performativity of writing and reading multimodal texts situated in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century remix culture. Multimodal texts use multiple modes—textual, aural, linguistic, spatial, visual, etc.—to produce a single composition. Analysis of performance and embodiment in …
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From Manuscript to Multimedia: Illuminating Memory and Re[image]ning Composition
… practices in both medieval and 21st century multimodal texts. Rather than further widening the schism between textual and visual rhetorics and compositional practices, I argue that these modes cannot be theorized independently. Following claims by several new media theorists that multimodal …
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A Study on multimodal affordances and the interpretative perspectives of level 300 Media Studies Students
Multimodal representation is a pervasive feature characterising contemporary communication practice. Immersed in a visual culture, contemporary students and digital natives are as a result inundated with a plethora of texts that come with peculiar semiotic designs and unique affordances. This may …
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TOWARD A VISUAL PAIDEIA: VISUAL RHETORIC IN UNDERGRADUATE WRITING PROGRAMS
New media and digital texts of the twenty-first century are generally characterized as rich and dynamic combinations of verbal, visual, and aural elements. Instruction in visual rhetoric in the writing classroom, however, has tended to focus on analysis with far less emphasis on teaching students …
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A multimodal analysis of selected National Lovelife HIV/AIDS prevention campaign texts
… investigates the ever-changing trends in visual texts and images used during HIV-prevention campaigns in South Africa. The aim is to evaluate and analyse the effect of multimodal texts used in HIV/AIDS campaigns on the understanding and interpretation by the target group, and thus gauge their …
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Designing the Teacher: Applying 'Design Thinking' to Improve Composition Pedagogy and Practice
… communication practices are increasingly multimodal and media-based (Palmeri, 2012; Yancey, 2011). While many teachers and scholars advocate that students benefit from engaging in the production of multimodal texts, fewer educators create digital and new media products themselves. Through …
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Volunteering literacies : an ethnographic approach to exploring the literacy practices of adult volunteers on a vocational further education programme and a social media networking site in an aviation-centred uniformed youth group
… qualification programme – and various types of texts in the volunteering context. Another aim is to explore how these volunteers’ self-generated literacy practices are shaped by new technologies, with a particular focus on a social networking site, Facebook. The study is grounded in the …
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Quiet on the Set!: Writing Socially in an Elementary After-School Video Club
… understand how students socially read and write multimodal texts with video as a subset. The study was approached from sociocultural approach to literacy that recognizes videomaking as a new literacies practice. As a literacy practice, videomaking incorporates multiple authors, multiple …
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Their eyes were watching Zora: storientation, black girl magic, and Afrofuturistic implications for educators
… Her: Mentor Text as Storyteller, using multimodal texts that highlight Black girls’ experiences; They: Black Girls as Storyteller Apprentices, providing Black girls opportunities to express their identities; and We: Educators and Black Girls as Participant Observers, promoting a …
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Exploring the pedagogical potential of graphic novels in developing Grade 7 students’ multiliteracy skills in St. Vincent and the Grenadines
… the pedagogical potential of graphic novel texts through a case study of their use to develop 98 Grade 7 students’ multiliteracy skills in three classrooms in one school in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Pedagogical practices in these classrooms had not previously included multimodal texts …
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Visual Metaphor and Drawn Narratives
… the application of metaphor theory to drawn multimodal texts. The challenges it proposes to the Lakoffian model of metaphorical cognition are in keeping with contemporary scholarship, and contribute to the ongoing work in understanding metaphor’s central role in cognition.
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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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Towards a Decolonial Haole Rhetoric
… Hawaiian articulation of whiteness, in two multimodal texts related to the proposed construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna-a-Wākea in Hawai'i. Specifically, I analyze the Aloha 'Aima mural at the University of Hawai'i and the 'Imiloa web interface, as two examples of delinking …
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Investigation of the presentation of Ainu identity in British museums and exhibitions
… through qualitative analysis of displays as multimodal texts, focusing particularly on labels. I also conducted semi-structured interviews with curators to discern if and how Ainu collaboration impacted displays. I found that decolonisation across institutions was uneven and incomplete. While …
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Organizational Identity-Power in Practice: The Rhetorics of University Identity
… and analysis of various visual, verbal, and multimodal texts related to each case study, this project explores these many rhetorics of organizational identity as they struggle for the power to shape the institution. This dissertation encourages researchers, teachers, and practitioners of …
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Patient-centred communication and patient education: a multimodal social semiotic approach
… communication and patient education: a multimodal social semiotic approach This study explores the phenomenon of patient-centred communication within the South African health context. Patient-centred communication involves several distinct but interlinked elements, namely, taking a …
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