scholarly journals 13 Beyond single modes and media: Writing as an ongoing multimodal text production

Author(s):  
Troy Hicks ◽  
Daniel Perrin
Author(s):  
Nicholas E. Husbye ◽  
Julie Rust

Technology continues to change the possibilities for text creation within the classroom, promoting student engagement in multimodal text production. Such a shift requires corresponding shifts in assessment discourses, from a justification for assigning a particular grade to a reflection of both the students’ learning and intention. This chapter presents insights from classroom researchers as they engage in multimodal text creation with both elementary and secondary students, highlighting the tensions present in attempting multimodal text creation with students while attempting to adapt print-centric assessment models. This work suggests a needed move away from traditional assessment tools, such as rubrics, and an increased awareness on behalf of teachers in regards to the intentions of students within the multimodal text creation process.


Author(s):  
Daranee Lehtonen

Tässä tutkimuksessa tarkasteltiin 1. ja 4. luokan matematiikan oppikirjojen multimodaalista tekstiympäristöä eli moninaisten semioottisten resurssien käyttöä, joka on keskeistä matematiikan oppimisessa. Tavoitteena oli selvittää, 1) millaisia semioottisia resursseja oppikirjoissa on sekä luettavaksi annettuna (ts. tekstien tulkinnassa) että tehtäviksi annettuna (ts. tehtävien tekstien tuottamisessa), 2) miten niitä hyödynnetään merkitysten luomisessa ja 3) kuinka monipuolisesti semioottisia resursseja hyödynnetään oppikirjoissa. Tutkimuksen lähestymistapana on monimenetelmä (mixed-methods). Aluksi tarkastelin aineistojen diskurssia yleisellä tasolla soveltaen metafunktiota ja aikaisempia tutkimuksia. Sen jälkeen erittelin aineiston sisältöjä määrällisesti: onko kyseessä tekstien tulkinta vai tuottaminen ja mitä semioottisia resursseja käytetään. Lopuksi tarkastelin eriteltyjen aineistojen diskurssia. Tutkimustulokset osoittavat, että multimodaalisuuden näkökulmasta monipuolisia tekstiympäristöjä huomioidaan hyvin vähän tutkituissa oppikirjoissa. Matematiikan symbolikieli on selkeästi dominoiva erityisesti tekstien tuottamisessa. Kaikissa oppikirjoissa erilaisia semioottisia resursseja hyödynnetään enimmäkseen vain oppilaan luku- ja laskutaitojen perusteella sekä matematiikan opetettavien sisältöalueiden kannalta. Oppilaan monilukutaidon kannalta matematiikan oppikirjojen tekstiympäristö voisi olla monipuolisempi: oppilaalle voitaisiin tarjota enemmän multimodaalista luettavaa ja tuotettavaa. In English This study investigated first- and fourth-grade mathematics textbooks’ multimodal text environment. It aimed to discover 1) what semiotic resources are utilised for interpreting and producing texts, 2) how they are used for meaning-making and 3) how diversely. The inquiry strategy was mixed-methods. First, I analysed discourse of the research data generally using metafunction and previous research. Then, I quantified each semiotic resource’s distribution in terms of text interpretation and production and types of semiotic resources. Finally, I analysed discourse of each quantified data. Research findings demonstrate that from a multimodal perspective, diverse textual environment is barely paid attention to. The symbolic language is dominant, especially to text production. In all textbooks, semiotic resources are used mainly on the basis of student’s literacy and numeracy and to-be-leant mathematics contents. In favour of a student’s multiliteracies, mathematics textbooks’ text environment should be more diverse: offer more multimodal text interpretation and production. FULL TEXT IN FINNISH.


2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 511-552
Author(s):  
Soo-Hyun Seo ◽  
Sanghee Ryu ◽  
Ji-Youn Kim ◽  
Heedong Kim ◽  
Hyounjin Ok

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-211
Author(s):  
Morten Pilegaard ◽  
Hanne Berg Ravn

Regional research ethics committee (REC) members have voiced a need for the linguistic improvement of informed consent documents to ensure duly informed consent and to ease committee deliberation. We have little knowledge of what elements of language use hamper comprehension, or of the extent of medical researchers’ appreciation of this problem and their willingness to accept intervention. This qualitative, explorative study proposes an intervention design and tests its feasibility and acceptability. Semi-structured interviews with potential REC applicants informed a linguistic intervention benchmarked against existing guidelines, mandated locally and nationally, and then evaluated quantitatively in a semi-controlled set-up and qualitatively via questionnaires. Potential applicants professed the psychological acceptability of linguistic intervention. The intervention comprised a downloadable Microsoft Word template outlining information structure, a detailed guideline offering advice for each move and self-selected linguistic screening. It was used by 14 applicants and had a measurable effect on REC deliberation time and approval rates. The intervention instruments overall made it easier for applicants to produce informed consent documents meeting prescribed ethical standards concerning lay-friendliness. In conclusion, it was found that linguistic intervention is relevant, feasible and psychologically acceptable to REC applicants; it aids their text production process and seems to enhance the lay-friendliness of these texts.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Siti Sarah Fitriani ◽  
Nira Erdiana ◽  
Iskandar Abdul Samad

Visualisation has been used for decades as a strategy to help readers construct meaning from reading passages. Teachers across the globe have introduced visualisation mostly to primary students with native language background. They used the strategy to understand their own language. Little is known how this strategy works for university students who learn foreign language. Visualisation can be done internally (by creating mental imagery) and externally (by drawing visual representation). The product of visualising texts by using both models can be further investigated to find out if the meaning represented is appropriate to the meaning written in the text. This study therefore aims at exploring meaning by analysing the visual representations drawn by 26 English Education Department students of Syiah Kuala University after they read a narrative text. The exploration was conducted by looking at the image-word relations in the drawings. To do so, we consulted Chan and Unsworth (2011), Chan (2010) and Unsworth and Chan (2009) on the image-language interaction in multimodal text. The results of the analysis have found that the equivalence, additive and interdependent relations are mostly involved in their visual representations; and these relations really help in representing meanings. Meanwhile, the other three relations which are word-specific, picture specific and parallel are rarely used by the students. In addition, most students created the representations in a form of a design which is relevant to represent a narrative text. Further discussion of the relation between image-word relations, types of design and students’ comprehension is also presented in this paper.


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