MULTIMODAL LITERACY FOR TEENAGE EFL STUDENTS

given the importance of visually displayed information in so many significant social contexts, there is an urgent need
for developing adequate ways of talking and thinking about the visual (KRESS and van LEEUWEN, 1996, p. 33)
1. Digital Literacy

It allows to be a
creative person

It is the ability to use, understand,

create and evaluate digital tools.
To be critical thinker

2. Multimodality
Involves the knowledge and use of
language concerning about:

UNDERSTAND - INTERPRET -ANALYZE

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4. Visual Literacy
is the ability to interpret, the idea that pictures can be
read and that meaning can be through a process of
reading.

Skills to develop:
-representational/ideational
-Interactive/interpersonal
-compositional/ Textual

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Goals:
- interaction among students
- Non-pedagogical text (real world)
-Learners background (Design Activities)
- Motivation to participate

interaction

elements of multimodality

3. Multiliteracy
is a complex set of reading, writing and technological
skills which joins verbal, visual and other
meaning-making resources.

The objective is that students understand

and produce oral and written texts.

Taken from: Viviane Heberle (2010)

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Date: Wed, April 6th 2016