Recent research on science education has increasingly focused on the literacy challenges posed by multimodality. While students are required by government mandated syllabi to make a successful translation between different semiotic resources, there still remains a lack of research on the grammars and functionality of the specialized modalities to develop explicit instructions to improve literac...

learning principles) (239). Behaviorism assumes that players of a shooting video game are primarily learning to be better shooters, rather than interpreting a fictional text or playing a role within it. Conversely, the constructivists miss the fact that video games do not just teach players to be better learners in an abstract way, as Bogost describes: “constructivism risks total divestiture of...

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This edited book presents the work of eight authors from diverse backgrounds. It addresses aspects of teaching and learning that are inter-related in that they are each founded on a particular pedagogical approach. While it has clear connections with what is generally known as ‘literacy’, it covers a much broader scope than would traditionally come under the ‘literacy’ umbrella. This ranges fro...

I n recent years, there has been an increasing amount of research devoted to understanding how young people are incorporating digital media into their everyday lives and the kinds of literacy learning and socialization that take place with the use of new media (e. of literacy and socialization with new media has dealt relatively little with young people whose first language is not English or wh...

While digital multimodal composing, underpinned by a critical literacies approach, provides opportunities for students to make informed semiotic choices and voice concerns about social issues, there is limited research exploring how composing employed interrogate challenge the entanglements of language, immigration status power. This article explores 23 primary-aged English as an Additional Lan...

Watching Netflix, YouTube or TikTok videos are day-to-day activities of young people which can produce different language encounters. We argue that watching online opens opportunities for students to use their plurilingual repertoires through and combined modalities analysing these practices is useful construct the multi-situated learning in classroom. This an exploratory study aims document ho...