scholarly journals Meaning-making in fifth-graders’ multimodal texts

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofia Jusslin ◽  
Ulrika Magnusson ◽  
Katarina Rejman ◽  
Ria Heilä-Ylikallio ◽  
Siv Björklund
Keyword(s):  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Fifth Grade ◽  
Multimodal Literacy ◽  
Multimodal Texts ◽  
Fifth Grade Students ◽  
Writing Research ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Research Questions

Despite a growing body of research on multimodal writing, scholars still express a need for formal frameworks for discussing multimodal literacy practices and call for  research on multimodality in education that develops a vocabulary to approach multimodal texts in teaching. This study answers this call by presenting an analysis that adds to the field of  multimodal writing research, and thus furthers the knowledge of different semiotic potentials of modes in student-produced texts. Drawing on a social semiotic approach to multimodality, a total of 299 texts, written by fifth-grade students from three schools in Sweden and Finland, are analyzed. The aim is to explore semiotic modes used in the student-produced written texts. The guiding research questions are: (1) What modes are used in the texts, and (2) what meanings are realized through the different modes in the texts. Results showed that six different modes were used to realize meanings in five categories: create representative meaning; visualize phenomena and assignments; foreground important areas; design the text; and decorate the paper. These categories offer a vocabulary that can describe semiotic potentials of the modes and how they realize different meanings in multimodal texts. Such a vocabulary can aid teachers in cultivating, supporting, and assessing students’ multimodal writings that contain multiple modes. From these results, we suggest that acknowledging the diversity of the modes and their meanings in student texts can help raise the awareness of how students also make meaning in modes beyond writing and image.

Multimodal Literacy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathy A. Mills ◽  
Len Unsworth
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Digital Images ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Language And Literacy ◽  
Multimodal Literacy ◽  
Multimodal Texts ◽  
Making Meaning

Multimodal literacy is a term that originates in social semiotics, and refers to the study of language that combines two or more modes of meaning. The related term, multimodality, refers to the constitution of multiple modes in semiosis or meaning making. Modes are defined differently across schools of thought, and the classification of modes is somewhat contested. However, from a social semiotic approach, modes are the socially and culturally shaped resources or semiotic structure for making meaning. Specific examples of modes from a social semiotic perspective include speech, gesture, written language, music, mathematical notation, drawings, photographic images, or moving digital images. Language and literacy practices have always been multimodal, because communication requires attending to diverse kinds of meanings, whether of spoken or written words, visual images, gestures, posture, movement, sound, or silence. Yet, undeniably, the affordances of people-driven digital media and textual production have given rise to an exponential increase in the circulation of multimodal texts in networked digital environments. Multimodal text production has become a central part of everyday life for many people throughout the life course, and across cultures and societies. This has been enabled by the ease of producing and sharing digital images, music, video games, apps, and other digital media via the Internet and mobile technologies. The increasing significance of multimodal literacy for communication has led to a growing body of research and theory to address the differing potentials of modes and their intermodality for making meaning. The study of multimodal literacy learning in schools and society is an emergent field of research, which begins with the important recognition that reading and writing are rarely practiced as discrete skills, but are intimately connected to the use of multimodal texts, often in digital contexts of use. The implications of multimodal literacy for pedagogy, curriculum, and assessment in education is an expanding field of multimodal research. In addition, there is a growing attention to multimodal literacy practices that are practiced in informal social contexts, from early childhood to adolescence and adulthood, such as in homes, recreational sites, communities, and workplaces.

Access, Opportunity, and Curriculum Making Through Multimodal Meaning-Making and Technology Integration in Teacher Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 188-213
Author(s):  
Christi U. Edge
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Technology Integration ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Teacher Educator ◽  
Multimodal Literacy ◽  
Multimodal Texts ◽  
Secondary Reading ◽  
Critical Friends ◽  
Curriculum Making

This chapter describes an investigation into exploring meaning making through multimodal literacy practices and technology integration for teacher education within the context of an online, secondary reading course for K-12 teachers. Through the use of a collaborative conference protocol, discourse with cross-disciplinary critical friends, and visual thinking data analysis strategies, a teacher educator examined existing multimodal literacy practices and then studied course redesign and technology integration. Results include recognizing opportunities for diverse learners to access and use prior knowledge in the construction of new knowledge, reframing the course delivery platform as a multimodal “text,” increasing opportunity for learners to construct and communicate complex understandings through multimodal texts and technology-infused assessments, and learners' curriculum making through transmediation mediated by technology.

Creating Access, Opportunity, and Ownership Through Cross-Cultural Meaning-Making in Academically Diverse Online Courses

2019 ◽  
pp. 42-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christi U. Edge ◽  
Abby Cameron-Standerford ◽  
Bethney Bergh
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Multimodal Literacy ◽  
Multimodal Texts ◽  
Self Study ◽  
Relationship Of

As a group of three teacher educators representing reading, special education, and educational leadership, the authors conducted a self-study of their online teaching practices with the guiding question of “How can we use multimodal literacies to re-see our practices and to empower others to construct and to communicate meaning?” The purpose was to explore the pedagogic potentials of multimodal literacy by acting upon recent findings from their longitudinal, collaborative self-study into how they use and learn through visual literacy. They sought to extend their line of inquiry and to more inclusively empower learners to negotiate and to make meaning through multimodal literacy practices. Findings document how using protocols to critically “read,” discuss, and collaboratively make meaning from their online teaching practices illuminated the relationship of multimodal texts, visuals and literacy practices in fostering access, opportunity, and ownership for learners in online courses.

scholarly journals Applications of multimodal concordances

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (41) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Anthony Baldry ◽  
Paul J. Thibault
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Multimodal Literacy ◽  
Multimodal Texts ◽  
Multimodal Discourse ◽  
Language Tests ◽  
Multimodal Corpora ◽  
Multimodal Corpus ◽  
Textual Organization

Multimodal corpus linguistics has so far been a theoretical rather than an applicative discipline. This paper sketches out proposals that attempt to bridge between these two perspectives. It does so with particular reference to the development of the conceptual and software tools required to create and concordance multimodal corpora from the applicative standpoint and as such is designed to underpin the study of texts at universities in foreign-language teaching and testing cycles. One branch of this work relates to multimedia language tests which, as illustrated in Section 2, use concordancing techniques to analyze multimodal texts in relation to students’ understanding of oral and written forms of discourse in English. Another branch is the exploration of multimodal tests concerned with the explicit assessment of students’ knowledge of the principles and/or models of textual organization of multimodal texts. The two types of test are not mutually exclusive. A third branch of research thus relates to the development of hybrid tests which, for example, combine a capacity to analyze multimodal texts with an assessment of students’ language skills, such as fluency in speaking and writing in English or which ascertain the multimodal literacy competencies of students and the differing orientations to meaning-making styles that individuals manifest. The paper considers these different applicative perspectives by describing the different categories of concordance achievable with the MCA online concordancer (Section 2) and by defining their relevance to multimodal discourse analysis (Section 3). It also illustrates the use of meaning-oriented multimodal concordances in the creation and implementation of multimodal tests (Sections 4). It concludes by suggesting that the re-interpretation of the nature and functions of concordances is long overdue and that the exploration of new types of concordance is salutary for linguistics and semiotics in general.

scholarly journals Multimodal Literacy through Children’s Drawings in a Romani Community

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 90-104
Author(s):  
Hsiao‐Chin Kuo
Keyword(s):  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Funds Of Knowledge ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Multimodal Literacy ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Multimodal Texts ◽  
Children’S Drawings ◽  
Future Research Directions

Being part of an ethnographic research project, which investigated the funds of knowledge and literacy practices of a Romani community in northwestern Romania, this paper presents an exploratory examination, seeking ways to understand drawings and sketches as multimodal texts produced by five Romani children in this community. In general, Romani people, living on the margins of society, have often been labeled illiterate and been discriminated against. The examination of these Romani children’s drawings and sketches illuminated two features of their multimodal literacy practices— intertextuality and design—and scrutinized the stereotype of illiteracy thrust upon the Romani people. Based on the examination of the multimodal literacy practices of these Romani children, implications are drawn, including pedagogical applications, and future research directions are suggested.

scholarly journals IMAGE-TEXT RELATION INTERPRETATION: TEACHERS’ VISUAL-VERBAL COMPETENCE IN TEACHING TEXTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 208-217
Author(s):  
Yustika Nur Fajriah ◽  
Fuad Abdul Hamied ◽  
Wawan Gunawan
Keyword(s):  
High School Teachers ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Multimodal Literacy ◽  
Multimodal Texts ◽  
Construction Of Knowledge ◽  
Online Test ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Relation Interpretation ◽  
Verbal Relations

Multimodal literacy instruction is such a new shift of the literacy in which the construction of knowledge is led to be more socially and contextually bounded. Due to the urgency that teachers have to own multimodal competencies, this study aimed to investigate EFL teachers’ competence in interpreting visual-verbal relations to teach multimodal texts. To collect the data, an online test through the Google form platform was distributed. As many as 43 responses were collected from junior and senior high school teachers in one of the cities in Indonesia. A semi-structured interview was also conducted with six purposive participants. The data in this research were then analysed based on Royce’s criteria of image-text relation. The analysis found that the teachers only partially possessed multimodal competencies. It means that that they had used images to help them teach the texts but had insufficient knowledge on how to utilize the images as meaning-making sources. Then, based on the finding, it is suggested that the teachers should improve their competences in interpreting multimodal meanings in texts, so images are used not only for making learning materials interesting but also for making more meanings from the texts.   

Critical multimodal literacy with moving-image texts

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shin-ying Huang
Keyword(s):  
Language Learners ◽  
Text Comprehension ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Teacher Inquiry ◽  
Multimodal Literacy ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Multimodal Texts ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Language Classrooms

Purpose This paper aims to examine language learners’ critical multimodal literacy practices with a moving-image text, focusing on text comprehension and interpretation rather than text production. It takes a critical perspective towards multimodality and proposes the simultaneous emphasis on critical and multimodal literacies. Design/methodology/approach This qualitative teacher-inquiry adopts critical multimodal literacy as the framework for understanding learners’ literacy practices. The course implementation highlights images, sounds and words as encompassing the five modes of visual, aural, linguistic, gestural and spatial (Arola et al., 2014) in emphasizing the multimodal in critical multimodal literacy, and the purposeful organization of the images, sounds and words as reflecting the critical in critical multimodal literacy. The analysis also adopts Serafini’s (2010) concentric perceptual, structural and ideological perspectives as the tenets of critical multimodal literacy. Findings The findings show that focusing on images, sounds, words and their purposeful organization enabled the students to critically examine a moving-image text through considerations for the multiple modes and arriving at the structural and ideological interpretive perspectives. Originality/value This study fills a gap in the literature, as very little research has been done to investigate the ways in which language learners engage with, that is, comprehend and interpret, moving-image multimodal texts. In addition, it presents a critical multimodal literacy framework based on Serafini’s (2010) tripartite perspectives and offers pedagogical suggestions for incorporating critical multimodal literacy in language classrooms.

scholarly journals USING GEOSEMIOTIC APPROACH, LEARNERS CREATE FOR DEVELOPING MULTIMODAL COMPETENCIES: TASK-BASED

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Siusana Kweldju
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Linguistic Landscape ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Multimodal Literacy ◽  
Multimodal Texts ◽  
Verbal Language ◽  
Multimodal Representations ◽  
Collaborative Skills

In the digital age, the notion of text has broadened to include digitally constructed multimodal texts. Meaning-making in everyday life is not only based on verbal language as the only mode, but also visual images. Students need more learning assignments and activities to develop their multimodal communication skills. To meet this need, a project utilizing linguistic landscape as a learning context is created for its rich multimodal representations. Task-based approach is adopted to facilitate a triple-track solution: improving students’ general English and display English proficiency, raising the students’ multimodal literacy, and developing their collaborative skill. The reason to employ task-based approach is because it strengthens the learners’ opportunity to do real-world-relevant projects to promote both their language acquisition and their collaborative skills. The project is completed when learners in teams give their presentations as their learning out comes.

scholarly journals English Learning with Powtoon Animation Video

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Megawati N.M.S ◽  
Utami I.G.A.L.P
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Fifth Grade ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
Fifth Grade Students ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
The Media ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Addie Model

The use of technology media for teaching young learners was really needed. In daily teaching, teacher rarely use the technology based on media. This happened because it was quite difficult to find the media which was appropriate with the syllabus. Therefore, the aim of this research was to develop PowToon Animation Video on fifth grade students of SD N 3 Banjar Jawa. This research used Design and Development as the method with ADDIE model as the research procedures. This research answered the research questions related to the development of the product. Some steps were conducted to develop the product. In developing the product, it needed analysis, designed the blueprint, asked for expert judgments before the product was developed, evaluated and revised the product. The result of this research was categorized as the best media based on the expert judgment rubrics. So it could be said that PowToon media was effective applied in elementary school, this would directly able to enrich the existing media technology in learning English.

PENERAPAN MODEL PEMBELAJARAN ROLE PLAYING UNTUK MENINGKATKAN HASIL BELAJAR BAHASA INDONESIA SISWA KELAS V SDN 032 KUALU KECAMATAN TAMBANG

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Hasan Basri
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Action Observation ◽  
Action Planning ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Fifth Grade ◽  
Learning Models ◽  
Student Activity ◽  
Fifth Grade Students ◽  
Average Activity ◽  
Increased Activity

The problem in this research is found in Indonesian subjects that of the 30 students with KKM 75, which has already reached KKM as many as 15 people (41.7%), while that has not reached the KKM as many as 21 students (58.3%). The situation was caused by the teacher in explaining the lesson Indonesian still using a model of lectures and familiarize students to memorize, so that students can develop their ideas. The problems of this study as follows: Is the learning model application role playing can improve learning outcomes Indonesian fifth grade students of SDN 032 Kualu Kecamatan Tambang? This study aims to improve learning outcomes Indonesian grade students of SDN 032 Kualu Kecamatan Tambang through the application of learning models role playing. This research was conducted one month from the month of April 2015. The research was conducted 2 cycles, with each cycle consisting of two meetings as well as twice daily tests. Classroom action research in order to succeed, the researchers set the stage that action planning, action, observation and reflection. Based on the research results, it could be concluded that the activity of teachers in learning implementation role playing, in the first cycle average teacher activity amounted to 62.50% in the category of less pretty, and the activities of teachers in the second cycle of 84.72% in both categories once. Thus there is increased activity of teachers by 22.22% from the first cycle to the second cycle. The average activity of students in the first cycle the percentage of student activity in learning tends to increase. At the first meeting with the average student activity that is 61.25% with the category enough. At the second meeting increased by an average of student activity that is 81.25% with the category enough. The average increase in the activity of the students from the first cycle to the second cycle of 20.00%. The class classically considered complete when a class has achieved a score of 85% of the amount due or to KKM 75 then the class is said to be completed (90.00%). From the above shows that the application of learning models can improve outcomes role playing learning Indonesian grade students of SDN 032 Kualu Kecamatan Tambang, it can be concluded that the hypothesis is accepted as true action.

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