Reading Images, Visualizing Texts: Teaching Visual Analysis through Manga

Texts, Images, Knowledge: Visualizing Cervantes and Picasso

In this paper we present two cases of the application of information technology to the humanities. The collections we are working with incorporate linked image-text collections, and tools to explore and analyze their contents. The first case is the Cervantes Project [1], which includes a digital collection of copies of the first edition of Don Quixote published in 1605, as well as texts of othe...

Facilitating EfL Reading by Teaching Rehetorical Organization of Texts

Teaching writing through reading:

The aim of this article is to establish the relevance of teaching reading and writing skills to students at Madrid Polytechnic University, and to show the relationship and interdependence of these activities in EAP courses. The skills involved in reading and writing processes for academic purposes for L2 students are compared and commented on from a rhetorical point of view. Learning tasks base...

Visual Images Interpretive Strategies in Multimodal Texts

A wide range of semiotic resources has been used to construct meaning. Visual systems of meaning offer different resources and potentials for meaning making. Readers need to familiarize themselves with a variety of ways to make sense and read visual images. This paper, drawing on the theories of semiotics, art and visual communication grammar, presents a framework of interpretive strategies to ...

Intervention Analysis in Teaching Reading Comprehension through Dynamic Assessment: Heron’s Perspective

Teachers’ verbal behavior is a key contributor to provision of appropriate indirect intervention in language learning contexts; however, it is surprising that professionals in ELT, to date, have not proposed a structured oral/verbal framework to deliver intervention and assistance in language learning contexts. To help redress this gap, Heron’s Six-Category Intervention Analysis was adapted to ...