Multimodal Literacy for Teenage EFL Students- NOTES

7/27/2019 Multimodal Literacy for Teenage EFL Students- NOTES

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Sections of the article

1. *as an important skill for ESL/EFL students to

develop, in order for them to interact more

effectively with members of English-speakingdiscourse communities.

3.*as found in video games and advertisements,

drawing attention to pedagogical, task-based

activities which can be incorporated in the EFL

syllabus.


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Multiliteracy: the new literacy

Englishes *The way people communicate is

changing due to new technologies.

Technology *Usage of English changing dialects

and subcultures (Englishes)


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Is it possible to say that all the images contained in

this excerpt do not communicate a message ?

*Literacy practices

nowadays incorporatethese semiotic meanings,

which ESL/EFL learners

should be familiar with.


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Multimodal communicative competence

appropriate language forms *(lexis, grammar, syntax)

Halliday any communication. *any language use serves

simultaneously to construct some aspect of experience

[related to the ideational metafunction], to negotiate

relationships [related to the interpersonal metafunction]

and to organize the language successfully so that it realizes

a satisfactory message [related to the textual

metafunction].

MCC involves including computer-mediated-communication. *the contextual

nature of reading and writing and the way literacy is

intimately bound up with particular sociocultural contexts,

institutions, and social relationships.

* similarly,


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Expanding Hallidays metafunctions

*Heberle explains that with Kress and van Leeuwen's visual grammar,

Usage of language

We use language to talk about our experience of the world, to describe

events and states and the entities involved in them (the ideationalmetafunction).

We also use language to interact with other people, to establish andmaintain social relations with them, to influence their behavior, toexpressour own viewpointon things in the world, and to elicit or change

theirs (the interpersonalmetafunction).

Finally, we organizeour messages in ways which indicate how they fit inwith other messages around them and with the wider context in whichwe are talking or writing (the textualmetafunction)


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Instruction that emphasizes

cooperative learning;

Substantive content that is learned

both as a vehicle for language

development and for its inherent value.

The relevance of multimodality inESL/EFL teaching and learning

*such as group and pair work

*often school subject matterfrom nonlanguage disciplines,

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