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Direct linkMacken-Horarik, Mary – English in Australia, 2016
English is an already crowded curriculum and the incursion of multimodal literature puts it under increased pressure. How do teachers and students learn to understand and deploy tools of analysis that shed light on verbiage and images without becoming entangled in a complex and crowded analytical language? Is it possible to develop a metalanguage…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, English Curriculum, Literary Criticism, Semiotics
Pantaleo, Sylvia – English in Australia, 2014
During a classroom-based study that explored the teaching and learning of visual elements of art and design, Grade 7 students had the opportunity to read four graphic novels. Theoretically, the research was informed by social semiotics, visual literacy, sociocultural theory, and Rosenblatt's transactional theory of reading. The instructional unit…
Descriptors: Novels, Picture Books, Cartoons, Grade 7
Exley, Beryl; Cottrell, Amber – English in Australia, 2012
The recently introduced "Australian Curriculum: English" (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), 2012) requires students to "read" multimodal text and describe the effects of structure and organisation. We begin this article by tracing the variable understandings of what reading multimodal text might…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intermode Differences, Learning Modalities, Multimedia Instruction
