ERIC Number: EJ850058
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009
Pages: 32
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ISSN: ISSN-1468-7984
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Multimodality, Literacy and Texts: Developing a Discourse
Bearne, Eve
Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, v9 n2 p156-187 2009
This article argues for the development of a framework through which to describe children's multimodal texts. Such a shared discourse should be capable of including different modes and media and the ways in which children integrate and combine them for their own meaning-making purposes. It should also acknowledge that multimodal texts are not always or only screen-based. In addition, it is argued that current definitions of literacy do not readily answer to the variety of semiotic resources deployed in the design of multimodal texts. In revisiting the author's previous tentative thoughts about "the rhetoric of design" the article develops this theme further through offering a possible framework and using this to analyse three different types of multimodal texts created by seven-year-old children. The framework is, however, a "work in progress", which it is hoped, will open up debate. (Contains 3 tables, 2 figures and 1 note.)
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Foreign Countries, Childrens Literature, Young Children, Computers, Computer Mediated Communication, Information Technology, Multimedia Instruction, Rhetoric, Reading Materials, Educational Technology, Computer Software, Auditory Stimuli, Eye Movements, Nonverbal Communication, Human Posture, Story Telling, Teaching Methods, Picture Books, Syntax, Elementary School Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England)
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