Multimodal Practices in Higher Education Analyzing and Teaching Diverse Genres

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Chapter 1:

Introduction: Multimodal genres in higher education

Matt Kessler, J. Elliott Casal, Francesca Marino

Part 1: Researching Multimodal Genres

Chapter 2:

Macro-moves, gestures, and questions: Multimodal engagement in three-minute thesis presentations

Christine M. Tardy, Dilara Avcı

Chapter 3:

A genre analysis of tweetorials for medical education: Harnessing the interactive and multimodal features of Twitter/X for pedagogical purposes

María-José Luzón, María-Ángeles Velilla Sánchez

Chapter 4:

Communicating Chinese culture through student-led digital multimodal composing: A social semiotic and phenomenological interpretive approach

Jie Bao, Dezheng (William) Feng

Chapter 5:

Assessing L2 interaction: Gaze, preference, and word searches

Stephen Daniel Looney

Part 2: Teaching Multimodal Genres

Chapter 6:

Students’ emotional changes in image-GenAI-assisted picture book making: A qualitative case study

Lanxuan Xie, Baoyi Ou, Lianjiang Jiang

Chapter 7:

Collaborative construction and assessment of infographics in the French as a foreign language classroom: Students’ perceptions

Miriam Akoto, Mimi Li

Chapter 8:

From page to podcast: Cultivating critical thinking through multimodal composition

Xiao Tan

Chapter 9:

A coaching model to raise teachers’ multimodal interactional competence awareness in live online lectures

Mercedes Querol-Julián, Alexandra Santamaría-Urbieta

Chapter 10:

Multimodal and digital literacy in EMI: The case of a business administration course

Julia Valeiras-Jurado, Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez

Chapter 11:

Researching multimodal genres in higher education: Future directions

Francesca Marino, J. Elliott Casal, Matt Kessler

Index

Biography

Matt Kessler is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of South Florida.

J. Elliott Casal is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics and an affiliate faculty with the Institute for Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis.

Francesca Marino is Visiting Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at Ohio University.