Multimodal text work

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Staffan SelanderStockholm University

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Danielsson, K. & Selander, S. (In prep.) Reading Multimodal Texts for Learning – A Model for Cultivating Multimodal Literacy

  - Thematic orientation and sequencing (What is the text about and how is the content arranged?) - Textual representation (What graphic resources are used? Pictures, headings, introductional paragraph, etc.)

General structure – setting 

    - Proximity (closeness) and coherence (between

verbal and other representational means) - Processes and causes/consequences in verbal text and illustrations

Interaction between textual parts    Pictorial language (verbal)

- What analogies and metaphors are used?

    - What is valued explicitly in verbal language

- What is said/shown implicitly in verbal language and illustrations

Evaluations 

MODEL FOR ANALYSIS OF MULTIMODAL TEXTS (from Danielsson & Selander in progress)

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● Papunya Schoolbook of Country and History (2003). Crows Nest, NSW, Australia.

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Multimodal text focus Didactic focus

  - Thematic orientation and sequencing - Textual representation

Make the students aware of the various parts of the text and how to approach the text (modelled reading)

General structure – setting 

     - Proximity and

coherence - Processes and causes/ consequences in verbal text and illustrations

 

Interaction between textual parts 

Scaffold the students in formulating and reflecting over what is said in the verbal text and in pictorial illustrations

   

MODEL FOR ANALYSIS OF MULTIMODAL TEXTS (from Danielsson & Selander in progress)

Multimodal text focus Didactic focus

   

Pictorial language (verbal)

- Analogies and metaphors

”Unpack” the content of analogies and metaphors. What aspects of the content do (and don’t) they embrace?

   

  - Explicit in verbal language - Implicit in verbal language and illustrations

 Values Discuss perspectives on social

categories (we/them, right/wrong, given/ presupposed, whose perspective?)

   

MODEL FOR ANALYSIS OF MULTIMODAL TEXTS (from Danielsson & Selander in progress)

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