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What isthis new writing??Shedding light on Multimodality
Lucia Bodeman
III Encontro de Traducao UFPE - Grupo TIBRA
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There is no greater agony than
bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou
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What exactly is multimodality? The 21st century is awash with ever more
mixed and remixed images, writing, layout,sound, gesture, speech, and 3D objects.
Multimodalitylooks beyond language andexamines these multiple modes of
communication and meaning making.
Source: http://routledge.customgateway.com/routledge-linguistics/multimodality/multimodality.html
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The old writing
Image appeared
subject to the text
Language,
through wordsand sentences,
was predominant
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Cohesion
involved a
linear process
Headlines
and titles at
the top of the
page.
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Welcome to the
era of the
screenagers!
Do you
netspeak?
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The new writing
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Multimodality in action
Why
black
andwhite?
Why
gestures
?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4dzzv81X9w7/27/2019 Braz Tesol_ III Etp
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Create
innovators!
Present
provocative
tasks
Activate critical
thinking skills!
Invite learners
to explore,
empower andplay!
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In the
dominance ofthe screen,
writing appears
(...) subject to
the logic of the
image.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SVFdp30SCs7/27/2019 Braz Tesol_ III Etp
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Global sharing:
Join global projects
where ss can share infotheyre familiar with
with ss from otherlands, contexts.
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Re-formulating information: rewriting Wikipedia
entries about famous people so that they are aboutfamous achievementsinstead.
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Create a class blog, where students can upload
videos (speaking homework) and other things theyhave created. Other Ss provide written feedback.
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Create a class Twitter account, and schedule periodicchats with your students on a given topic (current
events).
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Playing with genres: from song to letter, from written ad to video poem,from dictionary entry to a personal message, using a particular languagestructure from lessons, adding a background song, image or gesture
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Literacy in the New Media Age. Kress, G. ( 2003 ) Routledge Publishing
Multimodality. Kress, G. ( 2010) Routledge Publishing
New Literacies: Changing Knowledge and Classroom Learning. Lankshear, C. and Knobel, M. (2003) OpenUniversity Press.
Thornbury, Scott. Beyond the Sentence (2005) MacMillan Publishers
Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World by Tony Wagner ( 2012, Scribner:New York, NY
Videos:
Mode. Kress, G.: YouTube series:, Institute of Education, London University.
My Valentine. McCartney, Paul. YouTube
References
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