Multiliteracies and Multimodalities, Spring 2016
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ROOM 3305, Tuesdays 4:15-6:15
Schools most often value only one system of signification–– texts produced traditionally in dominant “standard” languages. But the young people who interact with texts are increasingly visibly and audibly different, the product of the deterritorialization of people and the deregulation of markets brought about by a neoliberal global political economy. At the same time, new technologies have enabled the simultaneous use of different modes of signification. These include multimodal texts that include images, videos, emojis, signed languages, and other multimodalities, as well as plurilingual/multilingual texts that contain language features not considered “standard” or dominant. This seminar explores the ways in which diverse young people today construct and make sense of multimodal/plurilingual texts outside of school, in contrast to the ways in which they interact with those texts that schools value as their “anchor” texts. By focusing on young people’s engagement with multiple ways of making meaning as a semiotic activity, the seminar explores the potential of multiliteracies, as well as reasons for the exclusion of multimodal and plurilingual texts from traditional school literacy.
This is a private group. To join you must be a registered site member and request group membership.
