New literacies and the English curriculum : multimodal perspectives
In an age where the use of electronic media is expanding and replacing traditional text-based learning, literacies are becoming important in the school classroom. This volume examines how literacies can be used in the English curriculum, and presents a series of research-based studies applied to var...
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New York :
Continuum ,
c2008
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Negotiating new literacies in English teaching
- 2. The designs of culture, knowledge, and interaction in the reading of language and image
- 3. Multimodal texts and emergent literacy in early childhood
- 4. Anthropocentrism and the haecceitas of nature in multimodal ecological discourses for children
- 5. The role of colour in children's picture books : choices in ambience
- 6. Intermodal reconciliation : mates in arms
- 7. Savvy Sambo : appraising an icon
- 8. Machinima : composing 3D multimedia narratives
- 9. Comparing and composing digital re-presentations of literature : multimedia authoring and meta-communicative knowledge
- 10. Senior secondary English and its goals : making sense of The Journey
- 11. Appreciation and interpretation of prose fiction online
- 12. The influence of images in reading comprehension assessment in group tests
- 13. Multiliteracies and "basic skills" accountability
- 14. Secondary school English, literacy examinations and attitude : utilizing appraisal to interpret values in image/text relations
- 15. Assessing digital literacies : can assessment ever be the same?