154 Pages
29 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
154 Pages
29 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
154 Pages
29 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Over the past three decades, our conceptualizations of literacy and what it means to be literate have expanded to include recognition that there is a qualitative difference in how we communicate through modalities such as the visual, audio, spatial, and linguistic and that different modes are combined in complex ways to make meaning. The field of multimodality is concerned with how human... Read more
Introduction 1. "Thinking Like a Child": Synaesthesia, Multimodality and Multilingualism 2. When Multimodality Meets Play 3. Drawings as an Alternative Way of Understanding Young Children’s Constructions of Literacy with Roberta McKay 4. The Affordances and Challenges of Visual Methodologies in Literacy Studies 5. "Taking It Personally": Advenience as Reflexivity in Multimodal Research 6. Final Thoughts and Perspective
Biography
Maureen Kendrick is Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
